Hey GOB writers … Is there a song that can take you back to a memory?
Cathi: It’s hard to remember this until it happens. One song that does this for me is Bon Jovi’s Wanted Dead or Alive from maybe 1985. It’s not really one of my favorite songs – I wouldn’t normally seek it out. But whenever I happen to hear it, which is maybe every few years, I’m take back to being 16 and on a trip to Germany. I was at some sort of fair, riding a ride like a Scrambler (pic). I had been gone for 3 weeks and was homesick. I loved my trip, my German club classmates, and the people I met in Germany. But, the song still gives me an empty feeling of being homesick.
Christie: Absolutely! Music has played a big role in my life which means that songs can trigger memories or memories can trigger songs in my head. Either way, just about every big event in my life has a song (or songs) attached to it. Right now I’m in the childhood home of a lifelong friend of mine and remember us at eight years old, listening and singing to a Donny Osmond record. Later at 19, Tom Petty’s “Here Comes My Girl” was one of the morning songs that an old boyfriend would leave on a walkman for me when I came into work a few hours later than him. How romantic was that for my young self and how old am I that I used a walkman? You young writers can google what that is! Nowadays, I have added podcasts to the memory inducing mix … like Serial, that got me and a friend through a cross-country road trip with fast food and her sweet dog, Mitzi.
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