Which are your favourite records from your younger years?

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

Percy Sledge and Otis Redding.

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!

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!

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.

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

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

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?

Yes JenniferEccles we were so very lucky.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

On Radio Merseyside every Sunday at Noon Frankie Conner plays all late 50s/60s music he was a regular at The Cavern with The Hideaways and other groups of the time the songs take you straight back to your youth.
I like all early Motown music and the dances that they did.
Everything to do with Merseysound as we all came to know them well going to Matthew Street to the club wearing our shortest mini skirts and white boots.

Mini skirts and white boots! Yes, those were the days glammanana. My DD found some of my 60's dresses in the loft and wears them occasionally. Remember Dolly Rockers and Mary Quant?

My first crush was Ricky Nelson with songs like 'Unchained Melody', 'Poor Little Fool.', 'There'll never be anyone else but you for me'

Followed by Adam Faith with 'Poor me.' and 'What do you want?' with his distinctive staccato delivery.

Jail House Rock! Last Train to San Fernando! ( am I showing my age?!!!) Little White Bull, Heartbreak Hotel, Half of Sixpence, A Long Lonely Summer, and of course The Beetles! Years ago, but such happy days!

Oh, and My Boy Lollipop! popular when DH and I were first married! We called our Sheltie puppy after the singer - a girl (and puppy) called Millie!!

crochet mini dresses and yes white boots and those Mary Quant shift dresses. Oh what happy times, all those lovely parties, no drugs in my circle and only enough drink to make the evening go with a swing. Celery sticks in jars, cubes of cheese and pineapple on sticks. We had the best of times, we really did.

I have asked alexa to play joan baez, I`d forgotten those. Nice too and like Ginny, I am remembering the words.

Loved Mary Quant. Loved and copied that hairstyle. Wore those shift dresses and white boots. Ahhhh....

Oooohhhh, let’s drink let’s drink let’s drink to Lily the Pink the pink the pink, the saviour of the human raaaaace, for she invented, medicinal compound etc.? strange record wasn’t it,but such an ear worm.

Anyone remember the rather doleful Peter and Gordon?

Oh yes. Wasn’t one of them Jane Asher’s brother?

Yes, Peter I think. The Scaffold (Lily the Pink) had Paul McCartney’s brother in the band.

Yes I remember Peter and Gordon, loved them for a short time before someone else took over. Mini shift dresses and white boots, remember making a dress from an old bed throw. Velvet Underground reminds me of booze/drug filled parties, lying around listening to the songs and smoking.

There were so many, I use to practice my shorthand by writing down the words of the songs. Happy days.