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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