Memory and old songs

[BDM1]

Strange how our memory works and how much "forgotten" items are in there. Yesterday, right out of the blue, i began remembering a song i haven't heard in about fifty years when i was a teenager, "The Jimtown Road" by the Mills Brothers. Lots of old memories pop up to surprise us, maybe none of them really go away, they're just in a part of our brain we don't access much? And the song? Yea, it's a catchy tune that's kinda hard to forget, i guess.

 

[GRAMPS 51]

Hi happens all the time here and the bad part is I cant get the song out of my head for a few days :lol: :lol:

Gramps

 

[Bob Wright]

I am told by "they" that once you learn something, you never forget it. It stays in your memory banks, just gets harder to retrieve.

Many of the songs that pop into my mind are no longer politically correct, even racially degrading. But they do remain in my memory.

I knew of a dear lady, a former school teacher, stated a fear that she might get senile and repeat many of the words she heard in school, though they were far from her daily vocabulary, and even farther from her mind. To her relief, she died before that did happen.

Bob Wright

 

[wwb]

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I knew of a dear lady, a former school teacher, stated a fear that she might get senile and repeat many of the words she heard in school, though they were far from her daily vocabulary, and even farther from her mind. To her relief, she died before that did happen.

Bob Wright

How about the language we used in the Army? Not even a distant memory at the time, but after coming home from Vietnam, on several (many?) occasions, I uttered some socially unacceptable words..... took several months to get over it.

 

[bogus bill]

The first song I can recall hearing was "Pistol Packing Ma Ma" when I was a toddler back in 1943 or 1944. I vaguely recall playing with a toy pistol and a older girl cousin singing that. Maybe that has something to do with my affection for guns ever since?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b39ALX4neIk

 

[bogus bill]

About 2001 I went to wisconsin and got my dad who was in alzheimer`s and was at the time 88 years old. I was driving him back to california to live with me. We stopped at the Little America Wyoming truck stop. Dad got out and had a rare lucid moment. He looked around and said, "I remember this place. Wasn't anything like now. It was just a little store. Your ma and me was headed back home from Oregon (1940) and she was inside buying some sandwich makings. I stayed here in the car with your sister and a woman come out getting in a buggy. She had a couple of young kids with her and complained to me about driving here over ten miles to buy some groceries and they wouldn't give her credit!"
Amazing how the mind works.

 

[gramps]

Songs are links to many memories. Play the oldies, sit back and let your mind wander! Good times!
gramps

 

[Heliman]

The first song I remember hearing was “How much is that Doggie in the window”. Probably because my Grandmother used to sing it and play it with her guitar. We as kids loved it and used to chime in with the “Arf-Arf”!! At the appropriate time of course. Kinda strange what you remember....

 

[powder smoke]

Songs are links to many memories. Play the oldies, sit back and let your mind wander! Good times!
gramps

You got that right my friend! Sometimes Linda and I kick back have a beer or two and place some oldies and classic rock. we have real good time! fun! :lol: Matter of fact we did it last night. Every song brought us back! : ps

 

[Bear Paw Jack]

And they can come at the strangest times. I woke up this morning with an old Elvis song going through my mind. I have no idea where that came from.

 

[gramps]

The cerebral cortex if I was a betting person? :shock: :mrgreen:
gramps

 

[Bob Wright]

The first song I can recall hearing was "Pistol Packing Ma Ma" when I was a toddler back in 1943 or 1944. I vaguely recall playing with a toy pistol and a older girl cousin singing that. Maybe that has something to do with my affection for guns ever since?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b39ALX4neIk

I got a good scolding from my mother for singing that song.

The opening line is "Drinkin' beer in a cabaret, and was I havin' fun............"

My mother, a strict Baptist and teetotaler, cut my song short without any corporal punishment, but I hushed mighty quick!

Bob Wright

 

[SAJohn]

Bing Crosby "Pistol Packing Mama" 1943:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PjgqQcKE3DY

Legend has it the Bing ad libbed the line "lay that thing down before it goes off and hurts somebody."

 

[sfhogman]

The other day "When" by the Kalin twins was running through my head. No idea why...
I was just a little kid when it was popular.

Jeff

 

[Fox Mike]

When one of those moments occur I go on line and find the entire song and chords so I can print it out and play on my guitar. The other day I was thinking about a movie I had seen and the song "Paradise" popped into my mind. All about Muhlenberg County and Mr Peabody's coal train.

 

[6GUNSONLY]

Daddy, won't you take me back to Muhlenburg County
Down by the Green River where Paradise lay
Well I'm sorry my son, but you're too late in askin'
Mr. Peabody's coal train has hauled it away...

 

[Rook]

First record I got when I was a kid back in 1955 was the ballad of Davy Crockett. I got a record player, the record and a coonskin cap for my 5th birthday.
Anybody remember the 33 rpm records?

 

[6GUNSONLY]

33s and 45s, too. I still have The Oulaws 33 rpm (Willie and Waylon, Jessie, and all).