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[Shackeng]

We all have those songs/numbers that have made an impact. One particular favourite of mine was the Four Tops, 'I'll be there'. I was working in the garage re-building a 1931 Ariel Square Four when I first heard it. Simon Dee, the DJ, (I know, you've never heard of him,) was so impressed, he played it twice in succession on the wireless radio. I was lucky enough to have lived through, and enjoyed, the '60's and Motown music, etc.
What was the record that had an impact on you, and why?

[BazaJT]

Poet and Peasant by Sibelius.Watching a cartoon as a child and they played this as the soundtrack to a part of it and it stuck in my memory so I guess it was the beginning of my love of classical music

[Field Marshal Dr. Opti]

We all have those songs/numbers that have made an impact. One particular favourite of mine was the Four Tops, 'I'll be there'. I was working in the garage re-building a 1931 Ariel Square Four when I first heard it. Simon Dee, the DJ, (I know, you've never heard of him,) was so impressed, he played it twice in succession on the wireless radio. I was lucky enough to have lived through, and enjoyed, the '60's and Motown music, etc.
What was the record that had an impact on you, and why?

The bird and the E-Type at the end of his TV show.

[Olympia5776]

Good thread 

http://www.ukrockfestivals.com/wembley-1974.html
In the glorious sunshine during the break between JCY and Joni Mitchell Concorde flies over at what seemed an impossibly slow speed and over the PA came " My old school " by Steely Dan . That started a lifelong love of their music .
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qqt2zXCW2ho

Edit
Perhaps the unusually strong , but thoroughly enjoyable, Black Afgan we had sourced on the day  may have led me to believe I saw Concorde ,it may have been a Sopwith Camel......

[Terbs]

I happened to see a you tube clip of Roger Whittaker singing, 'The Last Farewell'. Can't get the song out of my head. Swmbo moaning like mad, 'Can't you stop singing or whistling that flippin' tune, gone beyond a joke' !!!

[Bigron]

Via Walt Disney's Fantasia, my everlasting love of Beethoven's Symphony No.6  The Pastoral. Absolutely perfect stress reliever.

Ron.

[Terbs]

I second that, Ron...lovely music....ahhh, close the eyes, and drift away into oblivion !!!

[Varche]

Quite a few. E.g.

1998 ultra nate, Free.  I was on an intensive pass/fail course to become a recruitment consultant. While I was there , I had to sneak out and find a phone box to ring and accept a job back in Telecoms. Not easy as the whole village appeared to be owned by them.  I felt really guilty for the rest of the week

[flyer 0712]

It was 1959  aged 15 in a café in Dallow road luton beds Neil Sedaka singing   Oh Carol  ...even today brings back such great memories..

[iansoutham]

For me it would have to be “Sunscreen” from 1999.

Lots of truth in it.

[Migv6 le Frog Fan]

Very difficult to pick one song. I have loved music since I can remember. We didn't have a tv in the house but my Dad had a reel to reel tape recorder and often played country and gospel music he got from someone who acquired  rare tapes from the U.S.
This lead to me wanting to play guitar when I was 9 years old, so I could try and replicate these sounds.
When I was about 13 or 14 I discovered there was a whole different world of music I hadnt heard. I discovered this through a friend of the family who had loaned my older sister a pile of albums to listen to. When she wasnt at home I started listening to them and one Fleetwood Mac song really resonated with me straight away. So if I had to pick one song it would be Need your love so bad. I was listening The blues for the first time. I didnt know what it was but it touched something deep inside and that has never gone away and never will.
The next album is listened to was Disreali gears, and my world changed forever.
So, thankyou for the music, George Lowden.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_HTUah3ivIo

[Shackeng]

We all have those songs/numbers that have made an impact. One particular favourite of mine was the Four Tops, 'I'll be there'. I was working in the garage re-building a 1931 Ariel Square Four when I first heard it. Simon Dee, the DJ, (I know, you've never heard of him,) was so impressed, he played it twice in succession on the wireless radio. I was lucky enough to have lived through, and enjoyed, the '60's and Motown music, etc.
What was the record that had an impact on you, and why?

The bird and the E-Type at the end of his TV show.

Yes, great finishing clip.

[Shackeng]

It was 1959  aged 15 in a café in Dallow road luton beds Neil Sedaka singing   Oh Carol  ...even today brings back such great memories..

Yes, another great.

[Lizzie Zoom]

Without any doubt it was The Beatles She Loves You in 1963 when I heard it coming from a cafes duke box in Floriana, Malta.

It was sooo different to anything else I had heard, and I then fell madly in love with the Fab Four

[Bigron]

What, that talentless, over-hyped bunch of morons, Lizzie?

Ron

[STEMO]

Without any doubt it was The Beatles She Loves You in 1963 when I heard it coming from a cafes duke box in Floriana, Malta.

It was sooo different to anything else I had heard, and I then fell madly in love with the Fab Four

The likes of them had never been seen before, nor since,  and their music still makes millions of dollars 50 years after they split up.

https://www.cnbc.com/2014/01/24/beatles-business-still-making-money-50-years-on.html

[Lizzie Zoom]

Without any doubt it was The Beatles She Loves You in 1963 when I heard it coming from a cafes duke box in Floriana, Malta.

It was sooo different to anything else I had heard, and I then fell madly in love with the Fab Four

The likes of them had never been seen before, nor since,  and their music still makes millions of dollars 50 years after they split up.

https://www.cnbc.com/2014/01/24/beatles-business-still-making-money-50-years-on.html

Yep, or yeah!, yeah!, yeah!, they were something VERY special and I am so pleased I lived through Beatlemania!

[Migv6 le Frog Fan]

Yet after they split up the only one who showed real musical talent, imo, was George Harrison. The great songwriting team of Lennon & McCartney were useless unless they had the other one to bounce off, or threaten their ego.
McCartney gave an Interview in a newspaper today (Sunday Times ?) where he says he was high on some drug or other and he met God. 
Not sure if he was looking in the mirror at the time, or it was the first time he met Eric Clapton. 

[BazaJT]

I remember how surprised[possibly even shocked]I was when my dad-listening to the radio-said "I like that"he was listening to Bohemian Rhapsody!!

[Field Marshal Dr. Opti]

Without any doubt it was The Beatles She Loves You in 1963 when I heard it coming from a cafes duke box in Floriana, Malta.

It was sooo different to anything else I had heard, and I then fell madly in love with the Fab Four

The likes of them had never been seen before, nor since,  and their music still makes millions of dollars 50 years after they split up.

https://www.cnbc.com/2014/01/24/beatles-business-still-making-money-50-years-on.html

Yep, or yeah!, yeah!, yeah!, they were something VERY special and I am so pleased I lived through Beatlemania!

Not a big fan of their early work which was quite mundane.

Later on with the help of LSD and other 'aids' they became far more interesting.

[Migv6 le Frog Fan]

I often wonder if George Martin was an even bigger piece of the jigsaw than is generally known ?
Lennon / McCartney seemed to be lost without him, post Beatles.

[Doctor Gollum]

I was lost till you were found but I never knew how far down I was falling before I reached the bottom...

Seminal song from one of the best. 

[redelitev6]

I suppose a "windmill in old Amsterdam" doesn't count 

[Doctor Gollum]

I suppose a "windmill in old Amsterdam" doesn't count 

No more than 'Tulips from Amsterdam' 

[Mister Rog]

Someone had organised a school trip on a coach to Aberystwyth. A group of us escaped into the amusement arcade at the Pier. Blasting out was The Stones "The Last Time", at the time it seemed really loud, and that guitar ! That feeling remained with me, I still like loud rock, but louder !

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YAMhhDZ7iKM



 

[jonathanh]

Completely weird memory from me: Glasgow Saturday night many years ago ( think Scotland just beat Italy in some football thing: song Scotland Forever....

[STEMO]

I'm surprised Barry hasn't been on with his George Formby memories. 'When I'm cleaning windows' was a classic.

[Lizzie Zoom]

I often wonder if George Martin was an even bigger piece of the jigsaw than is generally known ?
Lennon / McCartney seemed to be lost without him, post Beatles.

George Martin was the core musical driver and the conduit for the Beatles ever since their first recording audition with the group on the 6th June 1962 and the subsequent signing up of them by Parlophone. He channeled their creativity and was the key influence behind them from that time, but especially and crucially from the recording of Yesterday and onwards through Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band and beyond, utilizing the advances in recording technology and mixing, with orchestration making an appearance.  He kept the Beatles sounds in advance of being 'up to date', and controlled the artistic clashes and differences that occurred within the group.  In short, he was crucial in the Beatles success, and is widely considered, especially by Sir Paul McCartney, to be the real '5th Beatle' rather than Stuart Sutcliffe.

[Bigron]

But basically talentless, Lizzie!

Ron.







Hiding where you will never find me.............

[Lizzie Zoom]

But basically talentless, Lizzie!

Ron.







Hiding where you will never find me.............

  That is something they certainly were not, and their bank accounts where / are something you and I can only dream about!

 

[Bigron]

Yes, life is SO unfair, ain't it? They got all that dosh for "twisting and shouting" - mainly shouting.

Ron.

[Lizzie Zoom]

Yes, life is SO unfair, ain't it? They got all that dosh for "twisting and shouting" - mainly shouting.

Ron.

But Ron they entertained many millions and created billions in trade for the UK.  You cannot knock that.  In the right place, at the right time, with the right people around a highly talented foursome

[Bigron]

A highly HYPED foursome, all due to Epstein, and the gullible nature of a lot of the record-buying public.

Ron.




It might just be that we will never agree on this?

[STEMO]

A highly HYPED foursome, all due to Epstein, and the gullible nature of a lot of the record-buying public.

Ron.




It might just be that we will never agree on this?

Well....we could put it this way, Ron. Your opinion matters not a jot to the millions of people who enjoyed their music in the sixties and still enjoy it today. So carry on.....like a broken (Beatles) record? 

[Lizzie Zoom]

A highly HYPED foursome, all due to Epstein, and the gullible nature of a lot of the record-buying public.

Ron.




It might just be that we will never agree on this?

Well....we could put it this way, Ron. Your opinion matters not a jot to the millions of people who enjoyed their music in the sixties and still enjoy it today. So carry on.....like a broken (Beatles) record? 

Yes, and every time I play one of the many recordings I have by the Beatles I am still filled with pleasure, as many millions are, due to the wonderfully composed lyrics and music that to me is as fresh as it was when first released.  I will always be a loyal Beatles fan, and mourne the loss of John and George.

After my pilgrimage last year to the great City of Liverpool which gave me so many memories of a fab time, I have renewed my vows to them

[Bigron]

Lizzie, I was teasing you, as you well understood, even if STEMO didn't!
WE won't fall out over this.....

Ron.

[Lizzie Zoom]

Lizzie, I was teasing you, as you well understood, even if STEMO didn't!
WE won't fall out over this.....

Ron.

I know, we certainly won't