I've had some funny flashbacks of childhood recently. The other day, it was a song that pops into my head from time to time but whose title and artist have always eluded me, due to my lack of sleuthing. This is usually the trigger song. Every time I hear that I wonder why I feel like I'm about to start my first day of school, then I realise it's because it reminds me of some song from the seventies. I am not sure what triggered the memory this time because I haven't heard the trigger song in a long time (and I'm not going to listen to it now, not even with that easily clickable link there. Too obnoxious.)
I can only ever remember two lines from the seventies song, so on Sunday, taking a break from thesis writing (which, yes, I'm still doing, at my work office on weekends and early mornings now. Will this end? Ever?) I punched the lines into the search engine:
Over and over again
What do I do?
and it came up right away. Here it is, complete with pasted-together video! It was #1 in October of 1980, which is right about the time that we moved here. A song like this would never be #1 today. Something about that sound... but isn't it great? And I love visuals from the late seventies and early eighties because the weather is always sunny and people have soft, fluffy hair and wear a lot of brown, which is exactly as I remember that time.
And today, I was eating a banana, which is not all that unusual but maybe it was because I am also wearing a yellow cardigan that I thought of a book or a poster that I had as a kid which grouped bunches of foods and other objects from nature by colour. For yellow, there was a banana, and I am sure Bert and Ernie were involved somehow, but the rest is fuzzy.
Thursday, 28 May 2009
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3 comments:
I always think that song is Olivia Newton John when it starts.
"the weather is always sunny and people have soft, fluffy hair and wear a lot of brown, which is exactly as I remember that time"
that is exactly what I think of when I think of early childhood!
Really? Cool! What about striped golf shirts, ribbed kneesocks and palm trees? I think it's just too much Three's Company.
um no, I don't think of that. but now that you mention Three's Company.....maybe.
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