Spinoff to Scents-What songs remind you of childhood

As a child-The Big Chill Soundtrack-both my parents loved this..ooo ooo I betcha wonderin how I knew bout your plans to make me blue...

Prince-My Mom was really into prince when i was about 10 and she would fadst forward through Darling Nikki but we always used to hear the first part I knew a girl names Nikki I guess you could say she was a s e x fiend.

Eagles-were a favorite of my Dadd I can still hear him singing Witchy Woman

You are the Sunshine of my life-My Dad used to dance with me to this and we ended up dancing to it at my wedding

Being a teenager-old house and rap, black eyed peas when they first came out, REO Speedwagon, Paul Simon, Pink Floyd, Queen

I have so many music memories!

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Dancing on the Ceiling. That song was on the radio when my neighbor was telling us a story of how her DH's house burnt down to the ground as a child and they just barely made it out.

I'm petrified of fire, so I HATE that song now!!!!

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Wake me up before you go go...whats the real name? That was the epitomy of my childhood, always dancing to it with my parents and my cousins!

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This Used to Be my Playyground, by Madonna..

Also anything by Color Me Badd, Samantha Fox or New Kids on the Block

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Cruel Summer from Karate Kid.

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Red Red Wine...

She-Bop by Cindi Lauper

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You Are My Sunshine......my mother used to sing it to me.

Anything by Tchaikovsky.....I danced ballet for many, many years.

The Mister Rogers song (I was the ONLY kid on the block who loved Mister Rogers....I actually cried when he died )


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The songs from Thriller.

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Anything by the Beach Boys

Brown Eyed Girl

Some Beatles songs

Alvin and the Chipmunks Christmas Song

You are my sunshine - used to sing it with my grandma

And there are a few riddle types songs that I used to sing with my Nana

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Steppin' Out by Joe Jackson. Love that song in the 5th grade

Any old Michael Jackson song, I was obsessed with him in elementary school.

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"Shake Your Love" - by Debbie Gibson or any other one of her songs,

Every single song from New Kids on the Block" - especially "I'll be Loving You Forever" - everytime I hear that song I'm sitting on my couch with my best friend wearing our big smiley face tee-shirts, knee length denim pants and our "Debbie Gibson" signature black hats professing our undying LOVE for Donnie and Jonathan through the television

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anything Michael Jackson or Disco.

Also, Sunshine on my shoulders my cousin used to sing it in the car as we were going to CYO

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"Oh mickey your so fine"
"Take this job and shove it"
"putting on the ritz"

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Physical by Olivia Newton John - the first song I ever learned the lyrics to at age 3!!!

Arthur's Theme

Abracadabra

Greatest American Hero Theme

These are just songs I remember hearing on the radio when I was really little.

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Show tunes - I did a lot of plays and took dance lessons.
Madonna
Michael Jackson
The Commodores - Night Shift
Crowded House - Don't Dream It's Over
Hair bands

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Billy Joel Uptown girl - i remember vititng my pre-school friends house nad her mom let us jump on the bed and she would blast that song

Wake me up before you gogo- I remember learning a tap dance to that song at dancing school

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Ok this might sound weird, but Islands In the Stream but Kenny Rogers and Dolly Parton. For some reason when we were little kids, my brother and I used to sing this song together when it came on the radio.
Its one of parents favorite memories of us growing up.

I still remember the words

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Wow - so many mentioned remind me of my childhood.

Girls Just Want to Have Fun - by Cyndi Lauper.

Take on Me - by A-ha...really the video reminds of my childhood - old school MTV when all there was was videos!

Thanks to my dad and his music choices:

Money for Nothing - Dire Straits

Anything by The Police

Beast of Burden by Rolling Stones

Anything Beatles

And of course - New Kids on the Block from about the age of 11 till 14.

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I'm a bit older so Simon and Garfunkel- my parents loved them. Anything from CBS-FM- always on our radio.

And the song- Believe or Not- from the Greatest American Hero- it was my sister's favorite as a baby and she had this fisher Price tape player. She played it over and over.

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My mother only listened to Country...I know...
She LOVEd Patsy Cline. Sang the song, Crazy:.
She taught it to my 4 year old and they sing it as a duet all the time. Too cute, actually.

Other songs/ singers that bring me back are:
Olivia Newton John
Rick Springfield
Corey Heart
Debbie Gibson
Laura Brannigan
Sheena Easton

(I remember buying these records at a record store in Queens every Sunday after church)

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ok- I am really old- so many of the songs your parents were listening to- were albums I was buying as a teen and pre-teen!

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The Who
The Doors
Led Zepplin
U2

My brothers pretty much had control over the music in the house

My parents only listen to Irish Music