Up, Up and Away
What’s your earliest musical memory? What was the first song you remember?
This is probably impossible to answer with one specific song, but you can doubtless name several songs that go back to the murky ether of infancy. Songs that you heard as a toddler, and while they may not have meant anything then, the rhythms, melodies and beats were indelibly etched into your synapses. Songs that, perhaps, your parents and those around you at the time may have particularly enjoyed. Twenty, thirty, even fifty years later, hearing one of these songs stops you dead in your tracks. Not unlike brushing past someone in a crowded shopping centre and smelling a long forgotten perfume from a long forgotten lover.
It’s a Tuesday morning, and after getting up early, I have been working at home- which means sitting in front of my computer, listening to my cool music collection and pecking away at my keyboard. (Fifty years ago, work would have been tilling a field in the rain listening to cows, but I digress, that’s a whole ‘nuther blog post).
Anyway, so it’s a Tuesday morning and I am sitting here typing and The 5th Dimension song “Up, Up and Away” just came on and BANG! I was frozen in time. For me, this is one of those songs. “On Top of The World” by The Carpenters is another.
And there are more.
To be continued…