musical 8 things : if you haven't been tagged yet, TAG - you're it!

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LaidOutInLavender (who always takes the most beautiful & interesting pics) tagged me over the weekend and the rules are:
I am supposed to post 8 songs that make me remember when..... just songs that bring me back to a certain memory: make me remember the time.
So in-between work phone calls, I'll get this done. Here goes:

The comment that I mentioned on LaidOutInLavender's post is the first song that I'll use. It was:

1. Queen --- "Another One Bites The Dust": I was in my early thirties, and decided to take roller-skating lessons. One night at a free-skate at the rink this song was playing when a careless teenager crashed into me and I fell & totally hurt my left knee. It was late and I was about 30 miles from home --- I had to drive myself back home & my car was stick-shift, so every time I had to push the clutch in, it really hurt. (I ended up being on crutches for a couple of weeks & getting the knee drained twice.) When I hear this song now, I picture me crashing & burning. (ha!!)  And yes --- every time I hear the pulsing bass THUMP THUMP THUMP before the words "Another one bites the dust!" I can feel my knee throbbing in perfect time with it...Plus, over 20 some years later, my left knee still gives me trouble.

2. Led Zeppelin --- "Kashmir": Summer of 1975 - this song was on the Top 40 on the charts - my first baby, my oldest daughter, was a tiny newborn. My husband & I lived in our very first apartment together: 1/2 of the second floor of an older 3 story brick home that sat next to the Dunkin Donuts on the corner of Main Street in Jeffersonville PA (which could have been Any Small Town USA). Soooo many times when I would get up in the middle of the night to feed my baby daughter, this song was on the radio. When I hear it now (33 years later) I immediately picture sitting in the big comfy overstuffed chair in the living room, in front of the big bay window there, with the lights on dimly. The windows are open and there's a soft hot summer breeze drifting through the shear curtains. I am more tired than I ever had imagined that I could be. The sultry exotic "Kashmir" is on the radio and I am feeling like I am the only person awake in that moment --- the entire rest of the world is dark & asleep. I look down at the tiny little baby in my arms and my heart is overwhelmed with the thought that she is mine. How is it possible for me to be completely responsible for someone so helpless & small? How is it possible to love someone so much who I have only known for such a short time?

3. Hall and Oates --- "Sarah Smile": October 8th 1979: I had just given birth to my second daughter, Sarah. This was back in the days where you labored in one room, were wheeled to surgery to deliver, and then were rolled on a gurney back to your own room after delivery. I was being wheeled back to my own room after delivery and over the hospital intercom, this was the song that was playing! When I hear this song now, I still picture being flat on my back looking up at the hospital's white ceiling tiles rolling by, thinking "Hey! --- What a coincidence! I just HAD a Sarah!"

4. Ray Parker Jr --- the theme from the movie "Ghostbusters": Every time I hear this song, I will always think of my son Sam as a little boy. When he was little, he LOVED this movie. When we saw it in the movie theater, we paid once but snuck back in and sat through it a second time. We had the video tape and he used to watch it every day at LEAST once, sometimes twice. One week when he was sick, he spent a couple of days on the couch and watched it 3 or 4 times each day. (He was sick and I felt bad telling him "enough is enough!") For one Christmas, Santa brought him a set of Ghostbuster equipment: some kind of headgear with special glasses & a proton pack with a Nerf proton ray sticking off the front of the proton gun. He used to run around the house busting any living being that got in his way--- ghosts, humans or unsuspecting kitty cats. When he busted someone he'd yell "You're BUSTED!" This Ghostbusting was very serious business to him.

5. "Sad Girl" --- OK --- all you other Old People out there, help me out --- who is the Artist for this song? I can't remember. It was another Top 40 hit: 1968-ish: "Sad girl --- you look so sad. Did he break your heart? Gee that's too bad. I guess now you see, how love can be..."
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When I was in 9th grade, for the Very First Time Ever, a boy that I liked actually liked me back. [[...be still my heart...]]  I went to a friday night dance at my junior high school. I was wearing my favorite moss green sweater & the moss green a-line skirt that matched it perfectly. After my parents had dropped me off at the school, I had rolled my waist-band up at least 2 times, so that my skirt was shorter than they would have let me wear it out of the house. The lights were dimmed in the gymnasium. Some local band was playing but in between breaks, one of the AV nerds would play records. The sad opening notes of "Sad Girl" came over the loud-speakers and every angst-ridden teenaged girl's heart started to instantly melt. (yes, including ygrs'...) *HE* walked over to me and asked if I wanted to dance...
*GASP!*
I wished the song would last forever. I thought that this was the most monumental moment of my entire life. For 3 minutes and some-odd seconds, I thought I was the luckiest girl in the world.
[[ In Hind Sight, I should have run from the gym screaming and never looked back. Who Knew.]]

6. The Delfonics --- "La La Means I Love You": May of 1970: *HE* writes this line in my 10th grade high school year book --- Again, I think I am the luckiest girl in the world: I am SURE it is A Sign...( how wrong can one YGRS be???)

7. The Moments --- "Love On A Two-Way Street": The entire year of 1971- Emo Teen ygrs is sitting in her bedroom, playing this vinyl 45
over
and
over
and
over
again, singing along with it sadly, feeling like her heart will surely shatter into a million little pieces and she will just die.
WHY did my parents not bust through my closed bedroom door and smash this record over my head and heave my record player through my bedroom window??? Why??? I know that's what I would have done if I were them...oh my god!

8. Gino Vinelli --- "I Just Wanna Stop": November of 1988: My husband (this is NOT the same guy as in # 5 & # 6 & # 7) and I were having a good year in our rollercoaster marriage - it was our 16th wedding anniversary. My parents babysat our 3 kids for the weekend. We went for a long snowy weekend getaway to a honeymoon resort in the Poconos - the Couples Only kind of resort with individual chalets & heart-shaped jacuzzis. We had spent one evening at the small basement night club there (which was below the large dining room area) eating & drinking, dancing & smooching at our little candle-lit table. It was late & we decided to go back to our chalet. We walked upstairs & got our coats. There in the dimly-lit entrance foyer of the empty dining room, there was a jukebox. We found this song. We put a coin in the jukebox and picked this song. In the quiet emptiness we held each other close & slow-danced. "I just wanna stop and tell you what I feel about you babe. I just wanna stop: I never wanna live without you babe."
A year and a half later, we separated. On what would have been our 20th wedding anniversary (to the day) my finalized divorce papers came in the mail

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