Some songs can do that on August 21, 1961, while heading south on Rte. 287 in Colorado in a 1958 Edsel Villager station wagon, I heard a song on the radio whose words caught my attention. I didn't know it was a recording--I thought it might be a live performance at the studio--but it stayed in my memory.
Fifty-one years later, while listening to Sirius Satellite Radio, I heard the same song for only the second time in my life. It was Poor Folks by Bill Anderson.
Nice song. Understand why someone would remember it.