OT: Songs That Make You Yearn about Someone, Something, or Somewhere

[RockyMTblue2]

Pretty self-explanatory

 

[quavik]

Having spent most of my life in Alaska, i met some wonderful women there. Unfortunately, my life's arc was in a different direction from a committed relationship - no sane woman wanted to wait for me while i was on month long expeditions and i was in love with the wild. Now, with the benefit of retrospection, i can forgive myself for questionable priorities. However, at times in the dark of night i still think about the "girls" of the north country:

 

[ctfjr]

Nostalgia at its best!

 

[meyers7]

A couple songs remind, make me want to go back, to when I was younger, free.

Do You Remember - Robert Jon & the Wreck

 

[meyers7]

And the other one.

Younger Years - Red Wanting Blue

 

[Scud49]

The Animals, winter 1965, my soph year in HS - It's My Life. I was somewhat a rebellious, non comformist type, so this song resonated with me.

 

[YoDore]

No explanation needed.

 

[Aluminny69]

Neil Young - “Harvest Moon”

Neil Young - Harvest Moon [Official Music Video]

Neil Young - Harvest Moon [Official Music Video]

Please give a listen to this cover version. I really think you'll like it.

 

[Shenandoah]

2019 My wife and I spent 12 days wandering around Scotland. During that time, we had 2 hours (not days, HOURS) total, of rain, all on the first day while we were relaxing in our hotel after our redeye flight.

 

[Monte]

 

[Kaizen]

A very sad song but beautiful ...

 

[Kaizen]

 

[Kaizen]

 

[Scud49]

This one takes me back to riding our school bus on a very cold winter morning, 1964 or thereabouts. It must have been -25 outside, WBZ in Boston played this song that morning:

 

[64Zcode]

In 2005, I ordered my first new one, from the Bowling Green assembly line...guess what it was

Nice! Good on ya!
Ever since I discovered the Shelby Cobra I have wanted to build one - no chance that I'll every be flush enough to own a real one.
I bought every issue of Kit Car magazine that featured a Cobra, I sent away to every company that was offering kits for one of their pamphlets, and snagged up any car magazine that featured anything at all about a Cobra.
I was even lucky enough to buy a car with an original dual quad 427 that was going to be the heart of the build.
Alas, "life" went on and gradually the Cobra build faded away. I still would love to build one, but 'life' is still happening in a manner that does not bode well for that yearning.



I still own the car with the 427 and since this video was created in 2011 by my nephew I have made the car more presentable, but won't ever restore it.

Some Old Ford

 

[Kaizen]

This song was labeled by Turner Classic Movies's Andrea Passafiume as "one of the most recognizable songs in the world".[17] Hamlisch and the Bergmans won the Academy Award for Best Original Song at the 46th Academy Awards; the former musician also won the Oscar for Best Original Score for the film.[18] The tune also won the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song in 1974 and the Grammy Award for Song of the Year in 1975.[19][20]In 2008, the song was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame

 

[AidanFan20]

 

[Bigboote]

I grew up on the Sound, and my aunts got the kids a Sunfish. Some years I went sailing 3-5 days a week. Favorite was going out Friday afternoons after work with a friend who also liked good beer.

 

[RockyMTblue2]

 

[Bigboote]

I discovered Richard and Mimi Farina around the age of 14-15. I fell in love with the mountain dulcimer and bought a kit to make one soon afterward. I made a couple more from kits and within a few years made a couple from scratch. I sold a bunch to augment my paltry stipend in graduate school, which led to a lifetime of making and selling musical instruments.

Have a listen -- don't be fooled by the beginning, this is a brilliant piece of music. The piece is a mashup of folk songs -- starts out with Frere Jacques, includes Bonaparte's Retreat, King Wenceslas, I think about four others.

 

[Ozimoto]

Growing up in that narrow part of Maryland the sticks out between West Virginia and Pennsylvania in the Appalachian chain, I grew up around a lot of hammer dulcimer and fiddle music. Here is one of my non traditional favorites that makes me think of home.

 

[Bigboote]

Growing up in that narrow part of Maryland the sticks out between West Virginia and Pennsylvania in the Appalachian chain, I grew up around a lot of hammer dulcimer and fiddle music. Here is one of my non traditional favorites that makes me think of home.

Ken Kolodner is a really good hammered dulcimer player, located aroung Baltimore. He does play a lot of Old Time music, although I’m more familiar with Helcicon, who play world music. Karen Ashbrook is a DC- area player, mostly British-Isles traditional music. I’ve seen both Ken and Karen multiple times, love them both. Here’s one from Helicon:

 

[Kaizen]

 

[cuzinvinny]

just gives me a lighter feeling of summer enjoyments growing up being a young guy without many worries...

I love this version without a singer

 

[Ozimoto]

Ken Kolodner is a really good hammered dulcimer player, located aroung Baltimore. He does play a lot of Old Time music, although I’m more familiar with Helcicon, who play world music. Karen Ashbrook is a DC- area player, mostly British-Isles traditional music. I’ve seen both Ken and Karen multiple times, love them both. Here’s one from Helicon:

My wife went to high school with Chris Norman, who plays with Ken Kolodner in Helicon.