Piano In The Dark
Posted 08-25-2008 at 11:59 AM by LuvMyIS350
This song is by Brenda Russell and was popular in 1988. This song is absolutely beautiful and takes me back to the time when my mom passed away.
It just came on the radio...haven't heard it in like 10 years and I'm tearing up at my desk. It still brings me to tears 20 years later. Funny how music can have such an impact on memories.
It just came on the radio...haven't heard it in like 10 years and I'm tearing up at my desk. It still brings me to tears 20 years later. Funny how music can have such an impact on memories.
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Kind of a long story but..when i was about 4 or 5, before my parents divorced, I used to stay at my gramma's, my dad's mother, he was in the navy, his sister would tuck me in at night, and would sing me a song about big boots...I had totally forgotten, since i didnt have much of a relationship with them after...
Last year, for some reason, that memory came flooding into my mind, I didnt know the song, hadnt heard it since, but remembered my aunt singing to me at nite? I wondered if it was a dream?
so i went on limewire, and searched " big boots" thats all i could remember. and low and behold, there was a song like this!!!
It was recorded by elvis, and I clicked on it and listened to the song. It was the same one, I remembered the tune when i heard it, I sat at my computer and cryed like a baby, I had never heard that song before or since, and now that i know what it is, I havent listened since, and cant even think of it without tearing up.
Im such a marshmallow.Posted 08-25-2008 at 12:39 PM by sunny
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I never heard of that Elvis song...
Yeah, stuff like that TOTALLY gets me every time. So many times of my life can be associated with a couple songs. I heard an old song of Richard Marx's the other day. It wasn't one played on the radio, but I'd found it on a whim and burned it on a CD. It's called "Touch of Heaven". I played it over and over again on my 6-hour drive to Columbia SC to attend an ex-bf's wedding. That was the same event in which I slept with a man for the first time in 5 years, breaking my sex drought. I hear that now, and WOW, the memories come flooding back of that one-night stand and how awesome and sexy the whole experience was.
So music can send you to a happy or sad place, but man, it hits hard, doesn't it?
Posted 08-25-2008 at 12:47 PM by LuvMyIS350
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I can totally relate ladies. I still get choked up when I hear Elton John's, "Daniel my brother". It's the song that was playing when my parents told us kids they were getting a divource.Posted 08-25-2008 at 01:19 PM by Diesel11
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Oh my, yes, the impact of music is huge.Posted 08-25-2008 at 01:30 PM by Lady_Fate
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Awww, Deez, that's horrible! I hear that song and it gives me good kid memories.Posted 08-25-2008 at 01:38 PM by LuvMyIS350
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It is a beautiful song, but I'm sorry to hear that it brings up such sad memories (otherwise I would totally play it for you on piano Luv!).Posted 08-25-2008 at 02:57 PM by RavnQuest
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awwww the power of music....it sounds silly to say this, but after all this years these songs Adieu and flying tea pot can still bring me to tears...I was (and kinda still am :P) in a lonely place and these songs are like (yes, you're alone, there probably no such thing as "true" love). And also Do For Love can me me tear up with happiness....you never forget your first love....Posted 08-25-2008 at 03:33 PM by HunnieBee
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oh, luvs. you make me want to cry. i don't know how else to say this, but, i am glad to know that you can still cry about things like that. that means that your mother was a bigger person than she ever thought. it shows that you have a big heart. i hope one day that most of the pain in remembering her will subside.Posted 08-25-2008 at 06:29 PM by xqzmi
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Thanks for this blog, I just listened to it on Youtube(you can find any song you want on Youtube) and it brought back awesome memories of 12th grade for me, circa 1989.Posted 08-25-2008 at 07:09 PM by supernaturalnine
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LUV, Your blog reminded me of a song by the Dixie Chicks called, "Cowboy Take Me Away". My Dad died in March of 2000 and my Mother passed nine months later in December of 2000. They both had had failing health several years before they died, and each wanted to be the one to go first so as not to endure the pain of being left behind missing the other. My Dad died first leaving Momma behind so sad and scared. She had COPD and basically hurried her death by smoking more and smoking stronger cigarettes.
So....the song "Cowboy Take Me Away", to me, is her calling to Daddy to come and take her with him...to be free.
Oh, boy, I am crying as I write this and listen to the song.
Posted 08-25-2008 at 08:42 PM by msohaiku
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My dad used to sing to us this song called La Paloma as a lullaby -- very old song -- probably re-recorded more times than any of the Beatles' songs.
One night when I heard him singing it to my lil' sis on his guitar, trying to lul her to sleep -- I was barely 10 -- I also started humming the tune to his music -- he was surprised that I knew the song -- I was even more surprised that I knew the song -- I guess it stuck in my memory from when he sang it to me as an infant!
It was passed down from my grandma who sang it to my dad and all of his 7 siblings when they were little -- it has a special meaning in my family because it was the last song she sang to him and his brother as they left home for the war; the words are truly beautiful.
Actually I sang the same song for my dad by his hospital bed. It was the very last evening I spent with him before returning to the US -- he died shortly after that.
Thanks for the very warm memories.Posted 08-25-2008 at 09:49 PM by wasabijack
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Thank you everyone for your comments! I'm glad that you've shared your memories with me as well. They're all so touching and made me tear up again!!!Posted 08-26-2008 at 07:05 AM by LuvMyIS350
