tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27656403.post114695562731477730..comments2024-03-05T07:03:57.707-05:00Comments on Rock n Roll Graffiti: When songs recall memoriesSteve Seymourhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14944900666172771578noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27656403.post-1148759496694865022006-05-27T15:51:00.000-04:002006-05-27T15:51:00.000-04:00I could never write about songs that trigger memor...I could never write about songs that trigger memories for me. It would take the rest of my life. Even thinking about memories that songs trigger could take forever. I just got back from checking through cd's to find a certain song, & it took several hours, playing snippets of all the intensely memorable, meaningful songs I came across in my search. So, I'm back, without THAT song, but with plenty of comments about Steve's memory-evoking list. I have to confess, "Blue Velvet" is, for me, a great film. I'm not saying I'm younger than Steve, just that memories differ. (I do remember the Auditorium & the Pepins.) Annette Funicello - well I'm not going to go there here. Paper routes, in those days, were for boys, not girls, or as these days, middle-aged men. The Delft Theatre, on the other hand takes me back fast. As for Lesley Gore, another gender difference emerges. For me, she is the voice behind "You Don't Own Me" & other proto-feminist songs. Who could forget "Judy in Disguise"? A true parody, a comedic opposite of the Beatles, while the Stones were busy with their satanic majesties request reversals of the Fab Four. "This Magic Moment" is where Steve's memories and mine really reverberate. I sought out Jay & the Americans as an adult for the vocals & raw emotion on that song and "Cryin'". Neither unique to nor best rendered by Jay & All, but first remembered as sung by them. "Bang a Gong" must have been ubiquitous, and must have represented something to someone. Who can forget it, try though we might? Wings, well, there's a reason Steve's friend Bob called me "Rocky" and I called him "BG". It took me years to find & appreciate the best of solo Paul. "Angie" is one of those Stones songs - and there are many -that keeps this staunch feminist loving those staunch misogynists, right up through "Emotional Rescue". As Steve knows, one of the first songs on my funeral cd will be "Ruby Tuesday" & despite themselves, I found & find a feminist anthem there. Of course I remember the UP State Fair, & perhaps surprisingly, "Love Me Tonight." Could it be that booking agency Sweet Sue Seymour and I worked for? And now we come to the wrenching memories. I grew up in Sault Ste. Marie, with a cabin on Whitefish Bay. We learned the ships' names & flags, waved to the crews as they passed through the Locks. I know each word to "Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" and cry each & every time I hear it. And now, the near-impossible. John - I even bought Life with the Lions #2 - when it came out! I have all of John's, Yoko's, and their collaborative work I can afford to replace from vinyl to cd. So, I went to New York to go to grad school. I drank too much, got lost, drove around with the radio on. They said "John Lennon has been shot." The world stopped. The tears started, then sobs, then hysterics. I had to pull over. And then the saddest news of all. I can pull two positive things out of this: I began collecting Yoko -"Season of Glass" remains a favorite, bloodstained-eye glasses, "Bang, bang, bang, bang." And, as a million of us passed the Dakota marching against nuclear weapons, wave by wave, we sang, LOUDLY, emotionally, "Give Peace a Chance."CedarElkWomanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00207977801641044165noreply@blogger.com