It’s 1:30am.  I’m channel surfing and I come to a channel playing a song.  I’m instantly whisked back to the late 70′s, in my childhood living room singing Cold as Ice by Foreigner into a rolled up newspaper.

Yes, an infomercial for the ultimate soft rock hits of the 70′s.  The marketing department for this company is genius.  They played on my late-night fatigue, and my emotional connection to the past that is so easily tapped into through music.  I am an extremely sentimental person, so most songs I grew up on have one memory or another attached to them.

For example, Reminiscing by Little River Band makes me think of laying in the dentist chair (age 5 or 6) looking up the dentist’s nose.  I can remember how the room smelled, the sounds, the sink that we used to have to spit into back in the day.

Biggest Part of Me by Ambrosia takes me back to The Rollerama in Brighton, Michigan.  I would skate in circles for hours in my boot skates with the big orange rubber toe stoppers, just waiting for a song like this to play so I could slow skate hand-in-hand with one of the older 5th grade boys.  Or how about Rich Girl by Hall & Oates?  I remember how that song always made me giggle as little girls do, because it had the “B-word” in it.

There are so many others.  Needless to say, I ended up ordering the CD collection.  I don’t even know how many songs I have or how many more months I have to pay $29.95.  But each time I hit play and hear a song that I haven’t heard in years, I am filled with a feeling from my youth that just makes me……happy!

Do you have a song that revives happy memories from all 5 senses?

~Michelle