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Post by Debbie on Oct 1, 2014 2:13:13 GMT -1
 Tonight I was poking around on YouTube and came across a John Denver song that instantly transported me to childhood: www.youtube.com/watch?v=eOB4VdlkzO4 My parents had an 8 track *gasp! Do I feel old now LOL. But seriously, Mom had John Denver playing a lot when I was a child, and of course he featured on the Muppets when I was a child, and I remember a 'magical' getaway where my Aunt (aka, the next door neighbor) took care of my brother and I so my parents could fly out to Denver Colorado to see John Denver in concert. Are there any tunes that transport you back to childhood? I admit, I was shocked at how fast I could simply go *poof! into a kid again just hearing this song  ...and because I can't resist this one as well: www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ZonmQZG0GQYes, another John Denver, and Helen and any other marine biologist should share in the joy of this song *special nod to Legs  Does anyone know the whale species that's breaching in this video?
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Post by Blackshadow Dales on Oct 1, 2014 4:12:37 GMT -1
Debbie, I too heard John Denver as a kid! My young children still listen and especially like to sing Grandma's Feather Bed and the one Take Me Home!! We have all the Muppet movies, and I've seen the one where the Muppets vacation in the mountains with JD about a million times.
My children and I also listen to alot of Van Morrison songs. And the Glen Miller Orchestra that my grandparents played when we were kids. We even took my grandfather and daughter when she was younger to see the Glenn Miller Orchestra in concert..one of the best memories ever.
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Post by cadeby on Oct 1, 2014 7:25:45 GMT -1
I have John Denver and Simon & Garfunkel to thank for my love of travel and the States in particular. When I was 18 I set off with my best female friend to tour the States pre-uni. We sang S&G's New York as we flew in to JFK, I saw my first bear in the wild whilst hiking through Rocky Mountain National Park, and I was singing John Denver's Colorado Rocky Mountain High at the time Take me Home Country Roads takes me straight back to my military days - it was always the homecoming song of choice, and is still a favourite for long road trips now. Even Martin is a convert! Don't get me started on Jacques Cousteau. I could sing his praises to eternity! He, David Attenborough and Neil Armstrong are the 3 most influential non-relatives in my life. Cousteau brought the previously obscure science of marine biology to the wider public, and it is mainly down to him that I chose to study Marine Biology at Uni. I am privileged to have travelled the World and seen each and every one of the animals in that video, except for the Sperm Whale, but that's on my Bucket List, and the Azores aren't too far away, lol. Debbie - the breeching whale is a Humpback. A smallish one, so probably a juvenile male showing off. Probably filmed in American or Canadian waters too Thanks for making my morning Debbie xx |
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Post by zeldalithgow on Oct 1, 2014 7:55:32 GMT -1
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Post by Debbie on Oct 1, 2014 14:45:27 GMT -1
Oh my stars, Grandma's Feather Bed! www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2nHGlE06y0 that song could have truly been about my visits to my Grandmother's, however she would have had our heads if we'd snuck a pig in. We did try unsuccessfully to get the hound dogs in and that bed was just like the Muppet one. I was so scared of falling off it. I remember my folks playing the Glen Miller Orchestra. What a treat to have seen them in concert! Ooh, Take me Home Country Roads www.youtube.com/watch?v=1vrEljMfXYo just feels like a warm hug, doesn't it?  I wonder if the bear in the Rockies was coming for a sing along with you And S&G! I can remember my cousin Kathy introducing them to me with "Scarborough Fair". I was so enchanted. I can remember a different relative having their records when I was a teen. LOL, I agree, don't get me started on Jacques Cousteau, but unfortately for me, I was inland AND Jaws happened, so yours truly had phobias about bath tubs, let alone the ocean. And that's without ever seeing the movie. My Mom desperately kept me away from the adverts, but even as a kid you see the posters. Let's say she was relieved when that one left the movie theaters. Now that I'm much older, I never want to live away from the ocean and I've seen several whales over the decades. My most treasured remains the three belugas just off the point near Pacific City. LOL, leave it to an adolescent male to be showing off for a video. Thanks for letting me know the species. That's quite some tummy! Oh my, Zelda! I know that song with David Essex!!!! I remember that one from my early teen years, playing over my little radio. Small wonder you were hooked I remember singing "Mares Eat Oats, and Does Eat Oats" as a child, but that Andy Stewart song ~ What a hoot!!!!  and what a fantastic Elvis impression |
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Post by dalesnfellfan on Oct 1, 2014 16:38:41 GMT -1
Oh what a coincidence Debbie, I couldn't sleep last night and for some reason started thinking about childhood poetry I enjoyed at school and thought it might make an interesting thread. My favourite poems were Robert Louis Stevenson From a railway carriage and The lamplighter, and I also liked A. A. Milne especially the one about Tiger, but by all time favourite was Albert and the lion recited by Stanley Holloway.
Re. songs I also liked John Denver and Simon and Garfunkel but as a young adult along with the Beatles, but my favourite as a child was the Hippopotamus song by Flanders and Swan, I have very fond memories of my father singing it to me as a small child and also seeing them on telly, in black and white of course.
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Post by ikklecob on Oct 1, 2014 17:53:14 GMT -1
Another John Denver fan here but he was in my late teens. Childhood favourites were puff the magic dragon, and the little white bull m.youtube.com/watch?v=eFhqLCLTQ-w |
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Post by Fi on Oct 1, 2014 18:52:22 GMT -1
S & G for me - my Dad used to put 'Bridge Over Troubled Water' on EVERY Christmas morning. I can still visualise the album cover too.
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Post by Blackshadow Dales on Oct 1, 2014 23:22:20 GMT -1
I saw Garfunkel in concert in Buffalo about ten years ago. Good concert but def needed Simon to be there!
When I was in highschool the Spice Girls were in, along with Snoop Doggy Dog and Shania Twain if you listened to country.
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Post by Blackshadow Dales on Oct 1, 2014 23:24:08 GMT -1
Oh and ABBA as well!! Have always liked all of their songs!
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Post by Debbie on Oct 2, 2014 14:05:35 GMT -1
 Great, now I suddenly have ABBA's "Dancing Queen" stuck in my head! Ah well, if I have to have a song stuck, at least it's a good one Oooh, I remember singing "Puff the Magic Dragon" back in grade school, and it was also the time when Disney's version of Winnie the Pooh came out (I'd no clue at the time), but the grade school chior teacher had us singing the "Tigger's Song".
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Post by dalesnfellfan on Oct 4, 2014 13:40:37 GMT -1
A Christmas song me and my children loved from the early '80s was 'Grandma got run over by a reindeer on the home from our house Christmas Eve'
I found it on youtube but don't know how to put a link on here, if you google it you can find it though.
You're probably getting an idea off my rather black sense of humour by now!!
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Post by Debbie on Oct 4, 2014 14:17:09 GMT -1
"Grandma Got Run Over By a Reindeer" became an instant hit here ...after everyone got over the initial shock of hearing it. I found a version on YouTube for you that has the lyrics www.youtube.com/watch?v=3zmnuNd5rX8
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Post by dalesnfellfan on Oct 4, 2014 15:06:21 GMT -1
Debbie it wasn't a hit here unfortunately, it was played extensively on the radio and my children desperately wanted to buy it to play to Grandma (my mum, ex mother in law didn't have a sense of humour at all)but despite looking in all local and some not so local record shops (pre internet)we could not find it or even order it. If this was typical throughout the country it's not surprising it wasn't a hit here.
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Post by Blackshadow Dales on Oct 4, 2014 16:08:16 GMT -1
Still plays on the radio a lot here at Christmas time, my children know it. My mother in law doesn't find it funny either!
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I wonder if the bear in the Rockies was coming for a sing along with you 
Great, now I suddenly have ABBA's "Dancing Queen" stuck in my head! Ah well, if I have to have a song stuck, at least it's a good one