Big band music reminds me of my dad, as do Johnny Cash and The Beach Boys.
The song MTA (Kingston Trio) is indeliably my Mom in the kitchen singing along.
Can’t Tell You Why (Eagles) is the first song I ever danced with DH to. And everything Prince is 100% I am in college again. Kids today, they don’t know…
My kids are very musical and there are too many songs that remind me of them!
@ChoatieMom -“ We May Never Pass this Way Again” was also our Senior Prom song. I never got to dance to it as my date was in the bathroom when they played it!
I still like the song, though.
I have a tube of Clinique scrub stuff in my shower that only has a fraction of the product left. They quit making it over a dozen years ago, but it smells like the Love’s Lemon Fresh products from the early ‘70s and the smell takes me right back, so I keep it to open in the shower and breathe in that smell occasionally. Also, whenever I hear Elton John singing “Your Song,” my favorite song, I am 13 years old again and in my bedroom listening to music.
Just reading the scents takes me back to junior high (Charlie, Herbal Essence)! Plus Love’s Baby Soft, Bonne Belle Lip Smackers Dr. Pepper flavor!
Actually, I may have lied. The candle may have been Love’s Baby Soft (someone mentioned that after I typed this). But Sweet Honesty is very familiar for some reason too.
Barry Manilow’s Mandy takes me back to a Friday night in January at a teen dance at the YWCA, when we all heard that a high school senior had died in a skiing accident. He was locally famous. And the tears began.
Just this past Saturday night, this Boomer was at Wegmans and the music was turned up a bit. It must have been targeted to lonely-hearts-Boomers shopping on Saturday night at 8pm. Aerosmith’s Dream On… and Styx Come Sail Away.
It would be the scent of Bonne Belle 10 0 6 that would take me back. My mother used it and the bathroom often smelled of it. 
Before streaming, we refused to get cable in the house when the kids were young. We bought them tons of vhs tapes and dvds instead. On a lark I bought them whole seasons of Bewitched, I Dream of Jeanne, Green Acres, and Beverly Hillbillies. Watching those shows always took me back to my childhood.
Well there is your memory evoked! 
Oh, definitely songs. Old photos.
Aw, yes, it was my grandma’s lotion. I have some right here beside me. 
Tuesday Afternoon …
Something calls to me
The trees are drawing me near
I’ve got to find out why
Those gentle voices I hear
Explain it all with a sigh..
Heard this lately, along with Jethro Tull singing Aqualung.
Definitely brought back memories. The Who and Lou Reed bring back memories of a college friends that passed too soon
My mother smelled of Pond’s face cream, my grandmother of Noxema. I like both to this day.
First kiss was before first dance with DH, listening to Billy Joel’s “You’re My Home.” Flutters my heart every time. We have the main lyric on the wall in both our house and cabin and will probably choose it for our headstones:
Another one that I think resonated with a lot of us is Janis Ian’s “At 17.” I was 17 when it was released and was awed that she knew exactly how I (and every other girl I knew) felt. I find the song somewhat painful even today though, looking back, it really didn’t describe my life, just my angst.
I have a lot of boyfriend memories when I hear Jim Croce’s “Time in a Bottle,” John Denver’s “Rocky Mountain High,” “Annie’s Song” (and others), Harry Chapin’s “Taxi,” anything Cat Stevens or Bread.
Psychologists refer to the:
”reminiscence bump,” the concept where music from your late teens and early twenties (your “coming of age” period) creates the strongest nostalgic and emotional bonds, shaping your lifelong favorite music tastes because it coincides with identity formation and major life events, making those songs feel more significant and pleasurable even decades later, though musical tastes do evolve.
Also not a Manilow fan. At all. But sad that he has lung cancer.
Throwback songs/ singers for Me are also seals and Crofts (Dash Crofts gave me his guitar/mandolin pick when I was in HS!), Loggins &Messina, doobie brothers,John Sebastian, etc
Ah, Doobie Brothers… I think Yacht Rock sums up the oeuvre of my emotional music attachment.
Anyone a Buffalo Springfield fan? I think I can still sing every one of their songs!
My father was quizzing me the night before a history test in 7th grade. He was frustrated that I did not know the material. He asked, how is it I can memorize the words to every song on the radio, but was unable to remember a few history facts? Being the smart ass kid I was, I replied, I didn’t live through the time like he did! Good thing he didn’t believe in hitting, as I sure did give my parents a hard time and got away with most of it.
I still know the words to all the song from my teen years; also still don’t know my history facts! 
The MTV years are nostalgic for me. Big Country, Flock of Seagulls, Toto, etc.
I found this version of In a Big Country a few years ago and it’s a tear jerker despite the poor quality. Stuart Adamson committed suicide not long after it was recorded.
None of the songs mentioned above are blasts from the past for me. I work in a store and mellow rock and similar play on the sound system all day every day. I find it kind of weird that the songs of my youth are still playing on a daily basis 50 or even 60 years later.
My dentist’s office plays yacht rock. I enjoy it. When I was young my orthodontist’s office played classical Music. Made me hate classical music.
Easy answer…they played those songs on the radio over…and over…and over…and over. And you might have had records which you also could play over and over and over. I doubt you heard those history facts that many times!!
