Music, The Ultimate Time Machine

In these days of virus, demonstrations, and a lot of anger, don’t you wish you could hop into a time machine and go back to a time when things were a little simpler?  Well, with music you can do that!  

On 101.5 KOOL-FM, we say every song brings a memory.  It’s true, if you think about it, you might think of a place a person or time when you remember hearing that song.  For me, the song “Hello, Mary Lou” takes me back watching my big Brother Mick, putting Butch Wax on his flattop getting ready for his date with a girl named Mary Lou.  

My time machine takes me to 1964, sitting in the den at my house watching The Ed Sullivan Show, The Beatles are performing and my mother commenting on how long their hair was!  Then the next day being on the playground at school with my friends singing “I Want To Hold Your Hand”, when Sister Mary Thomas joined in singing with us!  A Nun, knew the words to a Beatles song?  

The song “Don’t Let The Sun Catch You Crying” reminds me of a slow dance my Freshman year dancing with Colleen. I might remember that too for the fact that I was dancing with a girl who was a Senior no less.

IN 1971 my time machine takes me to Headly Hall on the campus of The Abbey, where I was in High School, and we would get mad if they didn’t play the long version of “American Pie.” 

Oh, the song “Maggie May” has a very very special space in my time machine…. let’s just say, it was playing when…. when…I think you might be able to figure that out!  

Hearing the song “Loves Me Like A Rock” by Paul Simon puts me in a car riding to work with my Dad, listening to KLZ and Uncle Mike in the Mornings!  Singing along with that song.  And now when I hear that, I’m right back in that car!  

I can’t help think of Leigh when I hear the song “Hooked On A Feeling” by Blue Suede.  I have no idea if she thinks of me when she hears it, but it again takes me back to my college days. 

The song “It Might Be You” by Stephen Bishop, is the song my wife and I fell in love with, yes it is OUR SONG!  

Most of the songs bring back good even great memories, but some songs bring back painful memories, like the song “If I Know Me” by George Strait.  That was the song that I was playing on the air, May 3rd, 1991 when my brother called me to let me know that our Mom had just been killed in a car accident. 

So when you get tired of reading and watching all the drama on TV, Facebook and in real life, remember your time machine is just a song away!