Music is interesting. It’s almost like a sense that can bring back memories like an odor.
Procol Harum - Whiter shade of pale brings back memories of my very early childhood. I can remember riding in the back seat with my little sister singing along with the song even before she really spoke.
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I really know what you mean. I remember being, probably about three and suddenly belting out the Tom Jones song “What’s New Pussy Cat”. My mother was somewhat horrified but for me at that age it was just a nice song about a cat and I liked cats. I used to hang out the window of our third floor walkup brownstone apartment, trying to get the neighbor’s cat to come up the fire escape so I could pet him and that song always reminds me of that particular time and place and that orange tabby. I hear that song and I suddenly remember that dingy apartment, the smell of my mother’s meatloaf in the oven, the sound of the Honey Mooners on the black and white TV and I can still remember the sweet spring air, the fire escape and I can still hear that cat meowing, what he looked like and how soft he felt, I can still hear him purring under my hand.
It’s amazing how certain songs make such impressions on us even at such a young age even if we interpret it differently from what the musician intended. Music is really is the soundtrack of our lives. Some songs make us smile, some songs make us laugh, some songs make us remember loves found and loves lost, and some make us feel melancholy, but music, whether it’s classical, jazz, alternative, rock, metal, Latin, reggae, some music has a way of touching something deep in our hearts.