which song gets you thinking about childhood

[80sChav]

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Another great song I like very much that reminds me of my youth, though i often have forgot how much I like it until I hear it, is Without You by Nillson, a brilliant song even if it was new many years before I was born and I must've been 10/13 when I first heard it. Without You is just a song that is so sad I think but so brilliantly wrote and sang too.

As well I like Carrie (I think it is Carrie with the lines Carrie does'nt live here any more), though i'm unsure, if anyone can confirm this or not please, thanks. If it is Carrie , the name of the song, then it holds special reasons as a first true love of the same name, years after first hearing the song.

80sChav

[Trickyvee]

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Mickey by Toni Basil and The Lion Sleeps Tonight by Tight Fit are songs which really remind me of childhood.

[darren]

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another fave of mine.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k95AD9vjAdo


here u go mate.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_lJvGFzcAU

Kim Wilde and Kids In America is another song i've just recalled i s so much used to like, though I was too young to know of it really when it was new in 1981, but I recall it still being immenmsley popular into early 1990s and later possibly as far as that goes. It isw not a song i'd associate with the Year of 1981 if i'm honest, it truly stood the test of time and was so unique in many a way to others' of it's era. I always recal Diana ross (i'm unsure if it was when she was with the Supremes), Do You Know Where Your Going To (which first became famous as an advert for Thomas Cook I think, though i'm willing to stand corrected if it was another ad or whatever it was that made it famous).

Either way I can recall first hearing this famous song around 1982 I think - one of my earliest and fiorst happiest memories. It's amazing to think how both these song's have stood the test of time year's later and can be heard at any given place or time! Brilliant Childhood memories indeed.

[80sChav]

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Kim Wilde and Kids In America is another song i've just recalled i s so much used to like, though I was too young to know of it really when it was new in 1981, but I recall it still being immenmsley popular into early 1990s and later possibly as far as that goes. It isw not a song i'd associate with the Year of 1981 if i'm honest, it truly stood the test of time and was so unique in many a way to others' of it's era. I always recal Diana ross (i'm unsure if it was when she was with the Supremes), Do You Know Where Your Going To (which first became famous as an advert for Thomas Cook I think, though i'm willing to stand corrected if it was another ad or whatever it was that made it famous).

Either way I can recall first hearing this famous song around 1982 I think - one of my earliest and fiorst happiest memories. It's amazing to think how both these song's have stood the test of time year's later and can be heard at any given place or time! Brilliant Childhood memories indeed.

[darren]

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fantasticsong milkman

here is another one from me.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lAZgLcK5LzI

[themilkman]

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[darren]

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yes i remember buying that belinda song heaven is a place on earth not long after it came out.
never stoppesd playing it on my twin deck cassette player.

here is another song that makes me think of the good old days.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSh6SQd8UrI
apparently this song has a lot cut from it.
based on a film this song is.

[80sChav]

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The first tape I ever bought was a Pet shop Boy's one from an old fashioned DIY Shop, as I was not botherd about Music until about 13/14. Though from Lisa and Belinda I could honestly not decide pick my favourite as both with most of their song's defined my youth very very much as I started to like their music in the 1990s.

I respect both Belinda and Lisa's careers very much, though i'm unsure how Belinda got into singing and i'm sure her path was'nt easy, I feel with Lisa she had not an easy path like Kim Wilde - another singer who's mega hit Kids In America brings my 80s and 90s youth back straight away too.

80sChav

[Richard1978]

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I'll always have time for Belinda's Music - I think that Belinda and Lisa Stansfield were equals in terms of talent and how they sang song's in the 1980s. Lisa really was the United Kingdom's answer to Belinda from America I think (I had never known for year's Belinda was from America - I don't know why, strangley), but indeed all these types of song's make me think of being young/my childhood. There was still ot's of good music up until 1994/1995 I feel/think, what with the abundance ofMusic on TV on a Saturday and Sunday "back in the day".

I have to givve a mention too to T'Pau. What a voice Carol Decker had - Carol was a truly brilliant singer - T'Pau are easily in my 80s top 10 bands/group's/singers.

Thanks Darren as well for the link to Belinda's song it sure instantly took me straight back to the 1980s mate

80sChav

Same here for all 3 of them.

The first CD my Dad bought was Belinda's Heaven On Earth, which meant it was played a lot for a few months. Her early years with the Go-gos were good even if they wern't that well known.

[80sChav]

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I'll always have time for Belinda's Music - I think that Belinda and Lisa Stansfield were equals in terms of talent and how they sang song's in the 1980s. Lisa really was the United Kingdom's answer to Belinda from America I think (I had never known for year's Belinda was from America - I don't know why, strangley), but indeed all these types of song's make me think of being young/my childhood. There was still ot's of good music up until 1994/1995 I feel/think, what with the abundance ofMusic on TV on a Saturday and Sunday "back in the day".

I have to givve a mention too to T'Pau. What a voice Carol Decker had - Carol was a truly brilliant singer - T'Pau are easily in my 80s top 10 bands/group's/singers.

Thanks Darren as well for the link to Belinda's song it sure instantly took me straight back to the 1980s mate

80sChav

[darren]

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Ill agree with you on whigfield saturday night. mate.
here she is.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TOvcytygY_M

here is a song that brings me back to the eighties watching loads of great programees in the morning.
the eighties for me the nest time of my life.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9LwoSxc_J4Y

As a fan of Only Fools and Horses, i'm always watching it. There is ssome un-beliveable 80s songs on it in some episodes. There are often song's on Only Fools and Horses I remember but can not recall them exactly but just think "wow I heard that as a Kid". I like Soul2Soul and the Back To Life - a truly brilliant dance song that instantly makes me think of being in my teens as do Whigfield with Saturday Night and Haddoway - Pleae Don't Go? (I think the name was, though i'm unsure).

Whifield and Saturday Night was just sensational I think - a dance song, that'll forever be on the scene no matter where you are, say in a Country Pub or a crowded Pub. Hearing this makes me think time and again about Sunday Morning TV and when everything in my life was quite ok for me. What memories - so many when thinking of my childhood.

[Richard1978]

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There's been a few versions of Where Is The Love, but the one on OF&H is by Mica Paris & Will Downing, at least it is on the Soundtrack CD.

[80sChav]

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I have just been watching some episodes of Only fools and Horses - what classics are on there from the era of Rodney's Wedding! Where Is The Love? by I think P Bryson and Roberto Flack (though i'm unsure to be certain), and I Holding Back The years I think by Simply Red. Mick Hucknall and Simply Red to me were like Wet Wet Wet, as in not many groups had so many hits so continualy. I also recall hearing an advert with a Ha Ha! song on it - Take On Me I think it was (or it might of been the Sun Always Shines On TV), but I think it is Take On Me, more so.

I really like all these song's etc, but the era of P Bryson and Roberta Flack and others from the early to middle of he 1980s like these and Brenda Russell with "Piano In The Dark" for me really were the 1980s version of the 1960s Soul Era of Mary Wells etc. This was in the early 1990s when I got into this type of Music on tapes like Night Flight before tapes with any compilation of certain styles of Music was brought out! A great era and time indeed, even10 years or so later when I discoverd it too.

[Sly]

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For me it's anything of the Rumours album by Fleetwood Mac. I heard that album a trillion times as a kid, and I still love all the songs on it even today. Good times.

[the-peoples-poet]

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The theme tune to The Young Ones and Old Grey Whistle Test. That and the BBC and ITN news themes. World In Action theme tune. Various advert jingles. Proper music wise, Ace Of Spades by Motorhead. It was *that* episode of The Young Ones that introduced me to my beloved Lemmy. Wonderful warm fuzziness wriggles inside me when I hear that song, for lots of reasons.

Great thread!