Here it is again: What are you listening to right now?

This song reminds me of a great time I had in Santa Monica in late July 1995. It was playing in my head at the time.

When I hear this song, for some reason I always get an image of me as a 7 or 8-year-old kid, coming out of the Lincoln Tunnel into Manhattan on one of our day trips from central New Jersey to New York.

When I was about 6 or 7 years old, I had a clock radio that had an alarm that would play music. It was just an AM radio from the 60s or 70s, but it was still really neat to me. For some reason, this song very frequently was playing as I woke up.

A few more songs that remind me of going for car rides from central New Jersey to New York with my dad around 1981 or so, and the lyrics to all three kind of resonate with me:

Another song that was a favorite of mine as a toddler

Beauitful how music ties into our lives. And helps bring up memories so vividlyl. Very nice Nucky

Every now and then a new song comes along... and I know it's never going to be on the radio, and only a few people will ever hear it...

I don't know what good an LP would have done outdoors on a playground, but this girl I had a crush on in 3rd grade brought the Footloose soundtrack LP out on the playground with her during recess for some reason. On a beautiful late spring day in 1984, I saw her with it, and as I noticed her and meekly approached her she smiled broadly at me, and I at her. We didn't say a word to each other, we just kind of basked in each others' good vibes. She tilted the LP cover in my direction to show it to me. It was a beautiful moment until I had to ruin it all by doing a crazy dance shouting "Footloose! Footloose! etc", followed by a well-deserved reprimand by my Special Ed teacher (she was in the "normal" classes, I was in Special Ed.) It was near the end of the school year of my last year at that school, and it was my last year of my being in the same school as her. I never did see her again.

Nucky wrote:

I don't know what good an LP would have done outdoors on a playground, but this girl I had a crush on in 3rd grade brought the Footloose soundtrack LP out on the playground with her during recess for some reason. On a beautiful late spring day in 1984, I saw her with it, and as I noticed her and meekly approached her she smiled broadly at me, and I at her. We didn't say a word to each other, we just kind of basked in each others' good vibes. She tilted the LP cover in my direction to show it to me. It was a beautiful moment until I had to ruin it all by doing a crazy dance shouting "Footloose! Footloose! etc", followed by a well-deserved reprimand by my Special Ed teacher (she was in the "normal" classes, I was in Special Ed.) It was near the end of the school year of my last year at that school, and it was my last year of my being in the same school as her. I never did see her again.

What a nice memory you have nucky..even though you feel your little footloose dance spoiled the moment....

this made me cry.

Speechless. No words can capture this feeling.
Beautiful human spirit!
Thanks Tez

tezorian wrote:
this made me cry.

I watched this guy....what an inspiration he is...and what a voice he has!

Still the most amazing thing I have ever heard...