Christy assigned our third sibling assignment for
February 2018:
Building playlists have
become a part of our lives now because of the new ways we listen to music. If
you could build a perfect playlist of ten songs, what would be the theme and
what would on that list? Explain the
theme and why you chose those songs, or some of the songs. You can find Bill's post here and Christy's post here.
My theme for my playlist is “Evoking
Memories”. When I listen to each of
these songs, a very specific memory comes to mind.
Here is my special playlist:
1.
O What A Night—Franki Valli and the Four
Seasons
2.
You’ve Lost That Loving Feeling—The
Righteous Brothers
3.
Love Will Keep Us Together—The
Captain and Tennille
4.
Another Gray Morning—James Taylor
5.
I’m The Greatest Star—Barbra
Streisand in “Funny Girl”
6.
Ain’t No Sunshine When She’s
Gone—Bill Withers
7.
Suddenly Seymour—song from “The
Little Shop of Horrors”
8.
Suddenly I See—K.T. Tunstall
9.
I Try—Macy Gray
10.
My Love—Lionel Richie
Here are the memories evoked when I hear these
songs.
1.
Frankie Valli and the Four Season’s hit, “Oh
What a Night” always reminds me of my friend Kellee Crall Mills, and singing it
with her, and our routine we did to this song in P.E. in Junior High. I also have a memory of us singing it at the top of our lungs as we walked along the street of Kellogg, possibly to Kellogg Junior High School.
2.
I remember in high school being at a football
game (in Post Falls I think), sitting in my then boyfriend’s car, and
the Righteous Brother’s song “You’ve Lost That Loving Feeling” came on the
radio. At that moment I knew my
boyfriend and I would be breaking up soon….because we had lost that lovin’
feeling.
3.
During the summer of 1975, Mom
bought a radio that had a pull up antennae, and you could actually pick up KHQ
FM out of Spokane on the radio to listen to music. That
summer, the song I loved the most was Captain and Tennille’s “Love Will Keep Us
Together”. I have a memory of sitting on
our front porch at home during the summer, it was cloudy, like a thunderstorm
was brewing, and I was listening to the radio on the front porch, and singing
along to the songs.
4.
I had purchased the James Taylor
album J.T. when I joined the Columbia Record Company, back when you could get
12 albums for a penny, or something like that.
J.T. was one of those first free albums.
I listened to this album a lot in my junior high and high school
years. But it wasn’t until I was in my
thirties that I totally understood the lyrics to the song “Another Gray
Morning”. I remember listening to it one
time, and I could relate to the woman in the song, of how her days were gray
with depression, and it was totally where I was at that time in my life. Understanding the lyrics of this song was a bit of an epiphany for me.
5.
I was always a Barbra Streisand
fan, and love singing her songs. I love
the movie “Funny Girl”, and I actually have two distinct memories from the song
“I’m The Greatest Star” from this movie.
One is performing this number in the Miss Kellogg Pageant my senior year
in high school (I was second runner up), and later, I also performed the song in
the University of Idaho Talent Show my junior year (and received second
place). I later performed it in a show
at Sixth Street as well.
6.
If I would leave town for a few
days, and would talk to Paul on the phone, he would sing Bill Wither’s song
“Ain’t No Sunshine When She’s Gone” to me each time I left town. Paul doesn’t like it when I leave town, and
this song always reminds me of that, in a wonderfully sweet way.
7.
When Paul and I lived in Glendive,
Montana, we participated in a fund-raiser for the local hospital foundation
called “The Fractured Follies”. They
would hire a director to come in, and the show was made up of local talent who
would sing show tunes on stage. It was a
fun event to be a part of in that community. One of the
years, Paul and I were given the song from “Little Shop of Horrors” called
“Suddenly Seymour” to sing. We both fell
in love with this song, and it reminds me of the love we felt for one another
in those early years of our marriage when we lived in Montana.
8.
In the summer of 2006 Paul and I
loaded the girls into our newly purchased Dodge Caravan and headed to Southern
California for a family vacation. The
music I remember most was K.T. Tunstall’s CD “Eye to the Telescope”, and the
song I remember most from that album was “Suddenly I See”. When I hear this song, I remember traveling
through Nevada in the middle of the night, stopping at 2 a.m. at an iHop in Las
Vegas, and driving across the Mohave Dessert.
9.
We had made the decision during
the spring of 2000 to move to Kellogg from our current home in Meridian,
Idaho. We didn’t make the actual move
until August, so we spent the summer in Meridian. A song that was playing frequently on the
radio that summer was Macy Gray’s “I Try”.
Whenever I hear that song, memories of our last summer in Meridian come
flooding back.
10.
When Paul transferred to the
University of Idaho my junior year of college, he owned a copy of Lionel
Richie’s album, titled “Lionel Richie”.
We listened to this album a lot, and when I hear songs from this album,
it reminds me of our budding romance and falling in love with one another that
year. But the one song on the album that
really stands out to me is the song “My Love”, and especially the line that
says, “just thinkin’ about you baby just blows my mind.”
