Songs From Childhood

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https://youtu.be/3JWTaaS7LdU?si=ONt3GYDFpNRF1qiI
I was so obsessed with this song when it first came out. Mom took me to see The Bodyguard for my seventh birthday, and when that song played I started singing at the top of my voice, lol. I used to be able to hit all the high notes. Not anymore.

I loved this song when I was around 12, I think. I thought about my crush when I listened to it. We ended up dating when I was 17 or 18, and I found out that the fantasy was much better than the reality. No, we just didn't have enough in common.

A couple of notes about the last song.
The Wilson Pickett version of ‘Land of 1000 Dances’ was a bigger hit nationally and still more well known. The Cannibal and the Headhunters version was the version that was a hit in the New York area.

The “ na na na na na" hook was my repetitive behavior of the summer of 1965. I drove every adult crazy with my “cover” of that hook.

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I liked it when I was a kid and did the same thing. It was an especially effective way to irritate my brother.

You knew that song?

I was not trying to annoy anybody I just liked the riff.

When I was first diagnosed and looking back over my life to reframe it in an autistic context that was one those memories that came up the made me say to myself “oh yeah”.

I was 11 years old when the Beatles movie ‘Yellow Submarine’ came out. That was the first movie that I remember my parents letting me go by myself to see. It was about a 15 minute walk that involved crossing busy intersections.

Yep, i knew the song. I homeschooled and mostly listened to what my parents listened to. I actually preferred it, generally, although I like classical music and more recent stuff too.

It’s really interesting to look back on memories post-diagnosis. It explains so much.

I loved singing this song. I think I initially heard it in Please Don’t Eat the Daisies and, when I was old enough, The Man Who Knew too Much.



“Que Sera Sera”

From the 1964 movie ‘Mary Poppins’ staring Dick Van Dyke and Julie Andrews

This is probably one of the more potent childhood nostalgia bits, I hadn't even heard it (that I know of) until a few years ago and it was a bit of a shocker how eerily familiar it was. Takes me back to being seven or eight years old in 1987, *thick* late 80's film score vibes.

I was obsessed with the musical Peter Pan with Mary Martin when I was a kid. I still know the lyrics to the songs.

I really liked this song when I was very young.

https://youtu.be/YraWuJxPcyU?si=tPtnpF_VgWdzl-0g



I heard the knock on my door
I heard the ring of the bell
I got the letter but I couldn't go
So many thoughts in my head
So many places to be
So many faces that I longed to see

But standing in front of me tonight
The lights will take me where I long to be
Just like a thousand nights before

Thank you for caring but the lights
Will take me where I want to be
I can't explain, it gives me something

Give me the lights, precious lights
Give me lights
Give me my hope, give me my energy
You can turn the wrong into right
Precious lights
Illuminate me, won't you let me play?
Carry me, carry me away



This is one of my first stim songs. ^

I loved coloured light so much I'd sit in my first pillow fort like it was my protective bubble from the world, basking in the coloured light from Freddy (my little Christmas tree, used year-round), and listening to this on repeat thousands of times.

Using a turntable, that was no small feat.




This song reminds me of the lights too -




https://youtu.be/I9mmbrLmV2A?si=apml9GRPUbJjrqMh


It's an indelible sensory memory.

Instead of "feel like giving up" I used to sing "feel like smoking up ...."

I was only 11 but thought that made me sound cool.