The one song that brings you back to your childhood.

[Stylizer1]

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[Mrfenn92]

Simon and Garfunkel bridge over troubled water
My old man would listen to it. Takes me back to this day as a fond memory of simpler times.

 

[Osprey]

Bon Jovi's "Livin' on a Prayer" was the first song that I fell in love with when I heard it on the radio. I remember waiting until it was on again, recording it on tape and listening to it over and over.

 

[hangman005]

 

[Mike C]

American Pie

 

[Unholy Diver]

Bon Jovi's "Livin' on a Prayer" was the first song that I fell in love with when I heard it on the radio. I remember waiting until it was on again, recording it on tape and listening to it over and over.

That song and that whole Slippery When Wet album was monstrous, It gets my vote as well

 

[Killer Orcas]

Day Tripper, Beatles, turned me on to music.

 

[MoreOrr]

If we're literally talking "childhood"...
I couldn't have imagined that I'd be popping in here and end up posting that.

 

[Spawn]

 

[BigBadBruins7708]

A couple different ones for different reasons.

The entire 1st Boston album takes me back to riding in my dad's car as a kid. He listened to classic rock stations playing Boston, Stones, Seger, etc
Green Day - 'Basketcase' takes me back to being a kid watching MTV
Starship - 'Nothings Gonna Stop Us Now' for me reminds me of all that late 80s/early 90s light synth top 40 that you heard everywhere

 

[Elvis P]

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I was seven.

 

[BobColesNasalCavity]

 

[Tawnos]

For no real great reason:



Funny enough, this is also true for a whole other generation of kids, since Rascal Flatts covered it and they put that on the Cars soundtrack.

 

[VMBM]

The closing theme of this fairly obscure French cartoon always left me feeling melancholic


But an actual song; I remember liking this Eddie Cochran tune above all others... Must have been that female backing choir!

 

[frisco]

I remember watching Elton John on The Muppets. He did Crocodile Rock and Don't Go Breaking My Heart. That was my first recollection of popular music.

My Best-Carey

 

[Jumptheshark]

mostly cause my dad loved it

The video was filmed here in the UK in Weybridge

 

[WetcoastOrca]

Sergeant Pepper. I played that song over and over when the album first came out after I found a copy at my older cousins.
Really the whole album brings me back as it was magical for a kid.

 

[Xelebes]

Music Box Dancer (F. Mills) - played on an organ. It has to be played on an organ. My mom used to play this song on the organ in my earliest recollections of music. So something like the following:




I also strongly associate this to the car radio as we drove to my grandmother's place in the late 80s and early 90s.

 

[Roo Returns]

Having one is tough because for each era there's at least one. I grew up when MTV and radio were THE main source of music so there are shifts.

 

[Guardian17]

 

[Spring in Fialta]

They're not quality songs but largely stuff that played in Florida Flea Markets 1998-2001. So, radio hits.

Janet Jackson's early 00s hits (All for you, Someone to Call my Lover), Hanson brothers, Kylie Minogue, Sisqo...

For some reason, Janet Jackson songs are the ones that affect me the most.

 

[SJSharksfan39]

Don’t Worry, Be Happy was the first song I ever liked.

 

[#37]

 

[93gilmour93]

I grew up around lots of music in my family but this song sticks out as the song that was always associated with good times when I was a kid.

 

[Fixed to Ruin]