@m0minmd - we must have been watching the same thing. Then my husband and I starting singing the song and eventually played it for my college-age daughter and her roommate who were here for a break. My daughter gave it the kiss of death - “Sounds like the 80’s …”
When you come across a Time Life music offer on TV, and you stop changing channels and listen for 20 minutes because you know and like all the songs.
These are absolutely fantastic!
"OBVIOUS take-off on An Officer and a Gentleman. And you try to explain and she still stares blankly…
How about when you remember the time before you could rent movies and popular movies would remain at the theater for months. I remember “Officer and a Gentlemen” being at the theaters for about 10 months at theaters in Meridian MS.
Meridian, MS??!! Isn’t that where the author of To Kill A Mockingbird lived?
@toledo:
Nope, she was from Alabama (I dont’ recall the town). If there was an author from there, I would guess Faulkner, he was from MS.
I feel old talking about the classic movies that not only are from my own generation, but from my parents as well, and people looking at me like “what is that?”. Or talking about when TV was over the air and had maybe 6 stations:)
Though I really feel old is when I talk about how great NYC was in the past, how much fun it was compared to today, and my son rolling my eyes and saying “your parents said the same thing I bet”…and I realize he was right!
@musicprnt NYC wasn’t all that much fun in the late 60’s/early 70’s.
When you can remember the sense of awe you felt when you recorded your first TV show on your VCR.
you’d rather have a very dry martini than dessert
When you watch “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off” with your 29-year-old daughter and she points out it came out the year she was born.
When your now-30-year-old daughter has to explain the references in songs from the late '90s when you’re listening to the “Oldies” station.
When your 29-year-old son has to explain how to use a particular iPhone app to you–and why you might want that app. And then you realize you got your first cell phone 25 years ago, but now you’re no longer cool. And, in fact, it’s been many years since you were cool. Many many years.
When your older sister signs up for Medicare.
When you still want to call a trendy drinking/dancing place “Disco” rather than “Club”.
There is a commercial airing with a Clash song for a hotel chain….how did that happen ?
^^^^
Is it “Should I Stay or Should I go”?
@empower: I was talking more late 70’s/early 80’s…NYC had its problems, but it also had a fun edge to it it doesn’t have today, has become so gentrified and sanitized it has definitely lost something…I realize it wasn’t a dream age by any means, garbage strikes, financial crisis, racial unrest, the crack epidemic, the crime rate, but there also was a lot of fun to it, too, things you will never see again, that’s all. The village halloween parade was a fun expression of artists and the gay community, now it has become another tourist oriented parade, the artists are gone for the most part, and it is now the playground mostly of tourists and the well off. There are things I wouldn’t go back to back then, but I think the city was in many ways a lot more alive back then…then again, so was I, and that influences things, too:)
^^the artists can’t afford the rent in that neighborhood anymore, that’s why they left.
Indeed it is HarvestMoon1…what’s next ? Train in Vain in the dentist’s office ? Lose this Skin at the supermarket ?
I got to hear “Like a Virgin” on the pan flute in a restaurant. 
Or rather have a really good night’s sleep than…well…anything.
Yes, a good night’s sleep. What’s that? I miss that before anything else and it’s the first to go when traveling! A SOUND, good night’s sleep–so restorative!