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    The Tracks of My Years

    Old tunes trigger memories.Listenng to BBC they have desert Island discs where celebrities choose 8 tracks for their sojourn.

    I'll try and find some memorable items though cannot promise dates 100%, some before my time but seemed to be endlessly played Volare, That's Amore

    1953
    seemd to always be playing as a child


    1954

    Utterly surreal video



    1955
    Crooning


    1956


    1957
    Rock awakes


    1958
    Dreamy


    1959
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    I just want the chance to use a bigger porridge bowl.

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    1960
    first heard in Moseley, I can still see the street when I hear it



    1961
    The dance where you stubbed a cigarette while towellin' your back, a sensation marking a new era the 60's see Peter sellers the Party for some funny dancing.


    1962
    Few hits named after a drink


    Some great organ


    1963
    Still love it, never ages


    The Beatles would change pop culture forever, odd how robotic and cleancut !



    1964
    Evergreen Dionne kindled my love of coffee coloured minxes


    Still a classic today from the coffee girls



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    1965
    14th home new record player the sounds of London !

    Smokey and the inspiration for OP




    When I moved to California I was not disappointed



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    Quote Originally Posted by david44
    The Tracks of My Years
    The Tracks of My Tears. The Miracles' 1965 original.

    Sorry can't get youtube to work properly on this bloody handphone.
    Last edited by Norton; 01-12-2016 at 12:36 PM. Reason: Too slow again! :)

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    1966 started like all guys around buying songs and playing music non stop, days were spent in record shops, drum shops, garages bashing out sounds

    Great film of Beach Boys 66 classic


    Still great as she reaches...Mick;s Cray drawl so distinct,estuary nasal








    1967 the summer of lovefrom Haight to Highbury



    Gary Brooker lived with his nephew and for a while my only music


    No way back from the rabbitholler



    A text don't quite make the cut




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    Quite easy to find out what was the number 1 record on the date of your birth (at least for the UK). This was mine:


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    1968 Can u Surry?




    My favourite Beatles


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    1969 back to London , great timing it was the hub, The Marquee Ronnie Scotts Ladbroke Grove, Camden everwhere, the world was wide open



    Soundly in Brixton thru crackly speakers the "Sooties" astonished us with their home made cigarettes and endless invites to bring our gals to the blues

    Ska had arrived, greatest archivist DJ Derek of the Star and Garter Montpelier



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    1970
    Charts recede Albums and Layla time was rushing into the future





    A unique blast from the past, the headbangers anthem



    First Album and still a a favorite, well worth a spin if you've never hears 'old VAN the man



    1970s the great album artwork another thread, a format lost on CD digital



    1970 was year of IOW and Woodstock which is a thread in itself


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    1971ish, Living in Islington Kent Ireland and Wales, trips to Spain France and Austrai

    So many so will give a selection memory hazy as sex n drugs and rock n rill replaced sports and bikes on my to do list.....ah those were the days... to be young loaded and free in London.

    The Pill had just become widespread AIDS unheard of, LSD was as cheap as beer and weed was sold openly in Brixton and under the bar anywhere.

    Work was plentiful rooms cheap and no video cameras !!The government paid you study we were a very lucky generation.Startd plans to travel teh walk to China.Got as far as Sikkim but didnt walk much



    Later walked around Haarlem and Harlem


    written in 69 I think by John Denver but found this great cover, spent most of fist two visits to Confederacy in Georgia and Carcker swamps of N Florida, black women catfish and rye paradise






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    1972
    A great year for me and music
    His best


    From French Dressing in Streatham to nooky in the North, Tunstall Torch, Unity Burslem,The Place sometimes nights out at The Highwayman or Liverpool,Manchester.



    silly song unless yer main squeeze was Sylvia



    Then along came Neil Young with Harvest and later After the Goldrush gems
    As for Sylvia she got the gold and I got the shaft





    Unlike Thai ladies who needs a motel when warm welcome park to prep a Haitian divorce


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    73 and the great city on the Kattegat,Kobenhavns Universitet,Huset,polser and bikes, I was the lowest student ever admitted but where else could you date an Eskimo.from Thorshavn ..mmmm eyes like a Sino Thai/Mongol and body like a greyhound, tired just thinking.....

    A song about carrots helps you drink OL



    Started with Suomi but didn't finish , my last Lapp was in 2004



    Incomparable and a tragic loss so young


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    "Tears On My Pillow", Little Anthony And The Imperials. Always reminds me of LT.

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    74 Amsterdammaged living in Jordaan and Haarlem

    My Sylvia's song


    My favourite track from a great and forgotten artist who gets little notice these days






    When visiting folks often crossed Hungerford Bridge just for the view, see there's the wheel now and went to opening of nurses statue on visit to St Thomas's and realise the smog and soot gone , well done London




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    bit of a blur Nepal Afghanistan and Turkey , chillout in Staffordshire forgive me if dates wrong, probably date I heard/bought last played..I hope Friday night's with Wivnal returns as he has a great mix of music. In fact a music thread could be the get on parole card like old photo deal?






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    Your Brooks Benton YouTube above reminded me of the first music I remember hearing. My mother was crazy for him and played his music often.


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    Yep great stuff Mote 75 hen playing buying listeing to music was tops, I bought a piano, it won.






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    Back to Tooting in TOOTING





    OUTTA SEQUENCE BUT TOO GOOD TO MISS


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    1975 MORE. Stuck outside of Newcastle with those Burlsem Blues again




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    1976
    One of Zawinuls less known



    A brixton fave along with Dave and Ansell
    known as smooth spade to the mods





    Beloved of rude boys




    and babes

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    1977
    Waves of disco and punk new music everywhere




    Back To Haarlem heard this and some great N Sea Jazz


    met Al once a very underated musician and lively guy

    My friend Gerry used to cover this in the Staffordshire pubs as warm up to the Banks Bros aka Unit 4 plus 2










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    Quote Originally Posted by david44
    1975 MORE. Stuck outside of Newcastle with those Burlsem Blues again
    Is Ferry wearing an eye patch for style reasons?

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    Quote Originally Posted by UrbanMan
    Is Ferry wearing an eye patch for style reasons?
    no injury apparently, not worn later, enjoyon Avalon played on loop at Avalot caff in Glastonbury


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    1978

    for LoyToy it took so long to bake it...



    For TV lovers





    Amsterdam to Stafford Santana all the way great cover of Moodies



    For a change of pace



    Funky


    Footwork




    from 69 given to me in 78

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    Out of order pull yer Suggs up it's MADNESS, all their best stuff seen many times a great dance band


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