Which are your favourite records from your younger years?

I do Ginny. It's available on iplayer too. It was Brian Matthews programme.

Recently I had to drive up the M6 early on Saturday mornings for a few weeks and discovered that Tony Blackburn plays songs from the 60s on Radio 2 from 6.00.

After the first few notes of almost every number I could remember all the words and would be singing along. If you're an early bird, you might enjoy that.

So many but the biggie has to be Gary Puckett and The Union Gap ~ Young Girl. On a rainy night in the cafe with friends making a Fanta last hours. Hoping he would come in.

I have only ever owned two LPs - Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue on one side and American in Paris on the other.

And a Dionnne Warwick LP. 1964 maybe.

They were my first and last purchases and that only happened because someone (unaware I dislike music) gave me a record token.

I haven't even been able to post up till now, because there are so many!

Feeling Groovy. I used to sing Feeling Grooby, so I must have been very young.

I can remember sitting on a swing singing "Ground control to major Tom..."

Then when I was about 9, I think, Jeepster by T.Rex, and the first record I bought was 'Virginia Plain' by Roxy Music'.

I spent a happy evening last week listening to music on YouTube, and I still love all the songs I used to.

Marc Bolan singing Jeepster.. Wow! Still brilliant.

Yes JenniferEccles we were so very lucky.

Can anyone honestly imagine the youth of today having a discussion like this when they are our age ?

How many current songs will still be remembered even next year let alone in decades to come?

Weren’t we lucky to have been young during those years?

lol, now playing shuffled beach boys. Its so easy to bring the past back via alexa. Oh yes radio caroline, what would we teenagers have done without that, I remember saving up all my saturday job money so I could buy a transistor radio. Another minute and I`ll be bopping around the room. That whole era of music was so uplifting. We were very lucky

yay, good on alexa, she is playing `young girl` to me. Evocative and uplifting

Pirate radio - I remember now we used to listen to Radio Luxembourg.
Looking it up, it started in 1933! I'm not quite that old.

JenniferEccles - I just have to say: I was singing Lily the Pink in the car this morning to my 16 month old DGD, to stop her crying. It works every time, even though I can never remember half the lyrics and make them up as I go along!

JenniferEccles, loved the pirate stations too, Radio One was dreadful in replacement, I refused to listen for years.

Loved the early Bee Gees and had a huge crush on the young Barry Gibb!

Percy Sledge and Otis Redding.

JenniferEccles (with that name you obviously loved the sixties!)
Transistor up against ear under the covers! ? Also loved Battle of the Giants on Luxembourg.

Far too many favourites to list but Ben by Michael Jackson stands out.

He was only a small boy when it was recorded but I remember being stunned by the purity and clarity of his voice.

I had a strong feeling even then that he would go far but I could never have imagined just how huge a star he would become.

We were all young. We were all falling in love and so many songs already mentioned seemed to speak to us didn’t they?

I used to listen secretly in bed to Radio Caroline until the spoilsports shut it down! I was madly in love with Tony Blackburn. I think it was his voice I loved.

Frankie Vaughan - The Green Door, my fav.

Many of these songs above are so evocative. I can immediately think of the tune and words and what I was doing. Bob Dylon and Joan Baez, we were hitching to college in newcastle from liverpool, me and my younger sister. The night has a thousand eyes, I was sowing onion seeds in my first ever tiny soil patch. Jim Reeves, Roger Millar. The 60s was an incredible happy time to be a teenager and young adult. I still love 60s music, it brings back very happy memories, all those parties, the friends

Smoke Gets in Your Eyes / The Platters

Whose Sorry Now. / Connie Francis

God Only Know. / Beach Boys

True Love Ways. / Buddy Holly

Always On My Mind / Willie Nelson .

Yes much later but can’t leave him out

Anyone remember ‘The End Of The World’ by Skeeter Davies? I could only have been about 6 or 7 when this was in the charts, but even then the sadness and yearning for lost love came through to me.

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Franbern I think Last Train To San Fernando was by Lonnie Donegan. I remember Sal Mineo, he was such a handsome young man. Although he was a film star he did have a hit record Start Movin’ which I used to own on a 78. I believe he was murdered at a very young age. I had a few holiday romances too, like yours very short lived. What wonderful memories this thread has brought me and I love to hear other people’s memories too,

I have never really been into the music scene. As a teenager my crushes were all on film stars.
However, at the wonderful age of just 16 years old, I fell in love whilst on holiday in 1957 (with my parents in the IoW). There was a juke box there, and it played (incessantly) Last Train to San Fernando - no idea by whom!!
When I got home, I purchased this as 78 rpm record (remember those), and on the flip side there was Sal Mineo (film star) talking (not singing) to a song called 'They tried to tell us we're too young'. Cried each time I played that - my holiday romance only lasted less than a month back in London.
Many years later, one of my children accidently trod on this record whilst I was doing some tidying around, I sobbed at first, but then realised that this was probably symbolic of the end of that wonderful (yet very painful) teenage time.,

Thanks Chestnut I'll keep a lookout.

annepl I'm sure I've seen that video with the choir on TOTP2 on BBC4 at some time. It must be in their archive, though they don't have much left from the 60s as they re-used all the tapes! You'll need to keep a careful eye on their programmes for that to come on again, although they're mostly running the TOTP from the 1980s at the moment.