Songs that take you back to your childhood

[Deleted]

Pretty simple, what are some songs that when you hear them, take you back to your childhood and/or songs you are partial to since you have memories with them

Keith Urban- "Sweet Thing"
Such an average love song i know, but when i was 12, this was my favorite song. Something about this song reminds me of summer

Tim McGraw- "Last Dollar(Fly Away)"
I've made mention of this one a few times, but my grandpa and i used to love this song. He would always be blaring it when he picked me up from school and always be smiling too. We must have about 4 copies of the "Let It Go" album lol

Josh Turner- "Long Black Train"
This was the first song i learned to play on guitar, and would be constantly playing it when i was 13. I got to play it at a guitar recital which turned out to be my last since my guitar teacher moved away

Brett Eldredge- "Raymond"
When i was 13 i always loved liestening to the radio until my mom came home. This song was one that i always was hoping WYRK would play every night. Less than a year later i met Brett at a Brad Paisley concert. Very nice guy who even signed the EP i had of his

I'll have more later(mobile typing sucks) but feel free to get the nostalgia going! :) I apologize if there is already a thread like this

[gonecountry]

1."Behind Closed Doors" and "The Most Beautiful Girl" - Charlie Rich
2."Sunshine on My Shoulders" and "Thank God I'm A Country Boy" - John Denver
3. "If You Love Me Let Me Know" and "Please Mister Please" - Olivia Newton John
4. "Bop" - Dan Seals
5. "Lucille", "She Believes In Me" and "Coward of the County" - Kenny Rogers
6. "Here You Come Again", "I Will Always Love You" and "Hard Candy Christmas" - Dolly Parton
7. "I've Been Everywhere Man" - Hank Snow
8. "Rhinestone Cowboy" and "Southern Nights" - Glenn Campbell

[Deleted]

Rascal Flatts- These Days
Shedaisy- Little Goodbyes
Toby Keith- How Do You Like Me Now
LeeAnn Womack- I Hope You Dance
Tim McGraw- Somethin' Like That

[.indulgecountry]

Strawberry Wine - Deana Carter
Who I Am - Jessica Andrews
Backseat of a Greyhound Bus - Sara Evans
Wide Open Spaces - Dixie Chicks
Georgia Rain - Trisha Yearwood
I Hope You Dance - Lee Ann Womack

[sabre14]

As a little kid:

The Wilkinsons - "26 Cents"
Jo Dee Messina - "I'm Alright"
Jo Dee Messina - "Bye, Bye"
Jo Dee Messina - "That's The Way"
Shania Twain - "Honey I'm Home"
Shania Twain - "That Don't Impress Me Much"
Shania Twain - "Man I Feel Like A Woman!"
Mark Wills - "Don't Laugh At Me"
Collin Raye - "I Can Still Feel You"
Billy Ray Cyrus - "Busy Man"
Yankee Grey - "All Things Considered"
SHeDaisy - "I Will...But"
Chad Brock - "Yes!" 
Mark McGuinn - "Mrs. Steven Rudy"
Jamie O'Neal - "There Is No Arizona"
David Ball - "Riding With Private Malone"
Jeff Carson - "Real Life (I Never Was The Same Again)"


As a middle school kid who played youth hockey on the weekends: :)


Shania Twain - "Up!"
Shania Twain - "Forever And For Always"
Trick Pony - "Just What I Do"
Lonestar - "Walking In Memphis"
George Strait - "Desperately"
Craig Morgan - "Look At Us"
Sherrie Austin - "Streets Of Heaven"
David Lee Murphy - "Loco"
Rachel Proctor - "Me And Emily"
Josh Turner - "Long Black Train"
Faith Hill - "Cry"
Gary Allan - "Songs About Rain"
Chris Cagle - "What A Beautiful Day"
Montgomery Gentry - "Speed"
Joe Nichols - "Brokenheartsville"
Brian McComas - "99.9% Sure (I've Never Been Here Before)"
Trace Adkins - "Chrome"


High School:


Sugarland - "Baby Girl"
Kenny Chesney - "Anything But Mine"
Hot Apple Pie - "Hillbillies"
Ryan Shupe and the Rubberband - "Dream Big"
George Strait - "You'll Be There"
Keith Anderson - "Pickin' Wildflowers
Bobby Pinson - "Don't Ask Me How I Know"
Trisha Yearwood - "Georgia Rain"
Jeff Bates - "Long Slow Kisses"
Keith Urban - "Better Life"
Big & Rich - "Big Time"
Amy Dalley - "I Would Cry"
Brian McComas - "The Middle Of Nowhere"
Hanna-McEuen - "Something Like A Broken Heart"
George Strait - "The Seashores Of Old Mexico"
Rascal Flatts - "What Hurts The Most"
Joe Nichols - "Size Matters (Someday)"
Joe Nichols - "Tequila Makes Her Clothes Fall Off"
Jamey Johnson - "The Dollar"
LeAnn Rimes - "Probably Wouldn't Be This Way"
Sara Evans - "Cheatin'"
Trick Pony - "It's A Heartache"
Brad Paisley - "Alcohol"
Carolina Rain - "Get Outta My Way"


I covered ages 8 to 17.

[bigfan101]

Gotta be Jessica Andrews, Who I Am---wore that record out!

[Deleted]

Dec 14, 2014 22:06:21 GMT -5 .indulgecountry said:

Strawberry Wine - Deana Carter
Who I Am - Jessica Andrews
Backseat of a Greyhound Bus - Sara Evans
Wide Open Spaces - Dixie Chicks
Georgia Rain - Trisha Yearwood
I Hope You Dance - Lee Ann Womack

I can't believe I forgot Wide Open Spaces and Who I Am; both fit me as well.

A few more that came to mind:

There Is No Arizona, When I Think About Angels- Jamie O' Neal
Cindy Thompson- What I Meant To Say
Shania Twain- Honey I'm Home
Kellie Coffey- When You Lie Next To Me
Dixie Chicks- There's Your Trouble

[Juanca]

I'm not a country music listener, especially because I lived in Peru for the first 30 years of my life, but I do have some memories... Maybe more country pop though:
- Queen of hearts (Juice Newton)
- Lady (Kenny Rogers)
- Here you come again (Dolly Parton)
- Have you ever been mellow? (Olivia Newton John)
- It's a heartache (Bonnie Tyler)
- Angel of the morning (Juice Newton)
- Gambler (Kenny Rogers)
- 9 to 5 (Dolly Parton)
- Love's been a little bit hard on me (Juice Newton)
- Reuben James (Kenny Rogers)
- I will always love you (Dolly Parton)
- Islands in the stream (Kenny Rogers & Dolly Parton)

My parents did their first trip abroad in 1981 and they bought a cassette "greatest hits" by Kenny Rogers so I remember many other of his songs too :)

[Deleted]

Any Dido song.

[toomuchboy]

Shania Twain ~ "No One Needs to Know"
Faith Hill ~ "Wild One," "This Kiss," "Where Are You Christmas?"
Patty Loveless ~ "You Can Feel Bad If It Makes You Feel Better," "How Can I Help You to Say Goodbye"
LeAnn Rimes ~ "Looking Through Your Eyes"
Tim McGraw ~ "Don't Take the Girl"
Alan Jackson ~ "Little Bitty"
Alison Krauss ~ "When You Say Nothing At All"
Mark Wills ~ "Don't Laugh At Me"
Sherri Austin ~ "Never Been Kissed"
Lorrie Morgan ~ "Good As I Was to You"
Reba McEntire ~ "Fancy," "Forever Love," "I'll Be," "I'm a Survivor," "Why Haven't I Heard from You?" etc. (my mother is a Reba fan, so just about her whole discography does it for me)
Sara Evans ~ "No Place That Far"
Jessica Andrews ~ "Who I Am"
Jo Dee Messina ~ "Lesson in Leavin'"
Jamie O'Neal ~ "There Is No Arizona"
Deana Carter ~ "Strawberry Wine"
Dixie Chicks ~ "Goodbye Earl," etc.
SHeDAISY ~ "Lucky for You (Tonight I'm Just Me)"
Taylor Swift ~ "Teardrops On My Guitar" (high school)
Gary Allan ~ "Songs About Rain" (high school)
Josh Turner ~ "Long Black Train" (high school)

[Ten Pound Hammer]

"Jukebox in My Mind" is one that takes me back most to some of my earliest memories, as a 3-year-old singing this song at A&P.

"Two Timin' Me" by the Remingtons makes me think of our local Subway, because it seems that the song played in there on either our first visit after it became Subway, or our only visit to the short lived Mexican place it was before.

I have a tape from 1992 where the morning DJ at WKJC played "Every Second" by Collin Raye after a then-five-year-old me called in a request. A couple months prior, we had seen Collin at a local bar that has since been torn down, and mom bought his album at Kmart on the way to the concert. I think I later called in a request for "Power Tools" by Ray Stevens on my first day of school, and Joe Diffie's "John Deere Green" on my 7th birthday. We had at least one of these on tape, but I have since lost it.

"The Cheap Seats" takes me back to age 7, when we would watch the DJs of the local country station play ball, and listen to Detroit Tigers play-by-plays broadcast by Ernie Harwell.

"On the Road" and "Nobody's Gonna Rain on Our Parade" take me back to that same age, when we would drive around the state or nearby states a lot just because I wanted to go somewhere. The former came out right after a massive 1993 trip to the UP to visit friends, then down to Beloit, WI to visit my grandpa, who died during the visit. The latter, I seem to remember hearing for the first time on a trip to Big Rapids, MI in 1994.

"My Kind of Girl" makes me think of Disney World the same year, since I remember hearing it play over a loudspeaker there. Likewise "Shut Up and Kiss Me", because I hated it as a child when certain words sounded like each other, and it bothered me that we were hearing that song in Kissimmee, which sounds like "kiss me".

"I Like It, I Love It" and "I'm Not Supposed to Love You Anymore" take me back to 1995-96, when my then-three-year-old sister would sing along to both as "I Yike It, I Yuv It" and "I No Asposed To Yuv You Nanymore" respectively.

"Vidalia" was one of my only musical memories from 1996, because mom and I didn't do much memorable stuff that year, but she was tickled by that song since she likes Vidalia onions. Another memory that year was hearing "That's Enough of That" by Mila Mason and "What Will You Do with M-E?" by Western Flyer back to back, while waiting to pick up a prize at WKJC. She and I discussed the line "enough of this overreact" in the former.

"Two Piña Coladas" and "It's a Great Day to Be Alive" take me back to road trips to Texas in 1998 and 2001, respectively. Those songs were playing on the radio seemingly every time we changed the station.

[Andy]

This applies pretty much to any song from about 1998-2005, plus some older songs I enjoyed as recurrents. A few notables I have particularly strong nostalgic feelings for:

Alabama - Down Home
Alison Krauss & Union Station - Lucky One
Brooks & Dunn - Red Dirt Road
Carolyn Dawn Johnson - Complicated
Chris Cagle - Laredo
Confederate Railroad - Trashy Women
Dierks Bentley - What Was I Thinkin'
Dolly Parton - Shine
Gary Allan - Man of Me
Jessica Andrews - Who I Am
Joe Nichols - The Impossible
John Michael Montgomery - Letters From Home
Kenny Chesney - I Go Back
Lee Ann Womack - I Hope You Dance
Neal McCoy - Wink
Sara Evans - Suds in the Bucket
Sawyer Brown - Some Girls Do
The Soggy Bottom Boys - Man of Constant Sorrow
Terri Clark - I Just Wanna Be Mad
Tim McGraw - Where the Green Grass Grows
Toby Keith - I'm Just Talkin' 'Bout Tonight

[Deleted]

Love everyone's selections so far, here are a few more of mine:

Montgomery Gentry- "Gone"
My mom loves this song so naturally i did growing up. I used to love singing "Gone like the soldier in the civil war bang bang!" for some reason

Tim McGraw- "Still"
To this date, my favorite Tim McGraw song. I just love everything about this song and loved when he sang "i can close my eyes no matter where i am".

Other songs that remind me of past times that i don't have a specific reason for:

Josh Kelley- Georgia Clay
Josh Turner- Another Try(w/ Trisha Yearwood)
Lady Antebellum- Love Don't Live Here
Garth Brooks- The Thunder Rolls
Jason Aldean- Crazy Town

[someguy]

Reba McEntire - so many, but especially "Why Haven't I Heard From You", "And Still" and "Does He Love You"
Martina McBride - "A Broken Wing"
Deana Carter - "Strawberry Wine"
Faith Hill - "It Matters To Me"
Collin Raye - "That's My Story"
Trisha Yearwood - "XXXs And OOOs", "Thinkin' About You", "I Wanna Go Too Far"
Shania Twain - "Any Man Of Mine", "No One Needs To Know", "I'm Outta Here"
Pam Tillis - "When You Walk In The Room", "In Between Dances"
Mary Chapin Carpenter - "Shut Up And Kiss Me"
Wynonna - "No One Else On Earth"
Joe Diffie - "Third Rock From The Sun"
Toby Keith - "Who's That Man"
Garth Brooks - "Callin' Baton Rouge"
Brooks & Dunn - "She's Not The Cheatin' Kind"
Alison Krauss - "When You Say Nothing At All"
Patty Loveless - "I Try To Think About Elvis"
Jo Dee Messina - "Heads Carolina, Tails California", "Bye Bye", "I'm Alright"
LeAnn Rimes - "One Way Ticket"

and many, many more...these are just off the top of my head.

[Zeebz]

Great topic. I mainly listened to country radio when I was younger, so anything from the late 90's to around 2005-6 makes me really nostalgic. Oh, and my parents introduced me to older country artists as well, so I'll give credit to them here too. Here are a few:

"Suds In the Bucket" - Sara Evans
"Independence Day", "Concrete Angel" - Martina McBride
"This Kiss", "The Way You Love Me" - Faith Hill
"Strawberry Wine" - Deana Carter
"Redneck Woman" - Gretchen Wilson
"Don't Take the Girl", "I Like It, I Love It", "It's Your Love", "Just To See You Smile", "Where the Green Grass Grows", "My Next Thirty Years", "Live Like You Were Dying", (and basically everything else from him in that time frame) - Tim McGraw
"Whiskey Lullaby" (w/Alison Krauss), "I'm Gonna Miss Her (The Fishing Song)" - Brad Paisley
"I Hope You Dance" - Lee Ann Womack
"Lesson In Leavin'", "Heads Carolina, Tails California" - Jo Dee Messina
"What Was I Thinkin'" - Dierks Bentley

And practically everything from Shania Twain, Toby Keith, Dolly Parton, Reba McEntire, Brooks & Dunn, Rascal Flatts, Kenny Chesney, and The Dixie Chicks, among others. :)

[Ten Pound Hammer]

"No News" was another memory from 1996. Mom and I just loved the song, and she bought the album. I practically wore that album out. Still the best album Lonestar did.

[carriefan15]

Lesson In Leavin', Breathe, Little Bitty, Write This Down, Big Deal, and Who I Am come to mind right away!

[straitfan87]

George Strait - "Ocean Front Property", "Baby Blue", "If I Know Me", "Heartland", "Check Yes or No", "Blue Clear Sky", "Carried Away" etc... (Ok all of George's singles)
Clint Black - "Better Man", "Walkin' Away" (any clint black single from '89 thru '98)
Ricky Van Shelton - "From a Jack to a King", "I've Cried my Last Tear For You", "Backroads"
Diamond Rio - "Mirror Mirror", "In a Week or Two", "Walkin' Away" etc..
Brooks & Dunn - "Neon Moon", "Brand New Man", "My Maria" etc...
Doug Stone - "In a Different Light", "I Thought It Was You"
Tim McGraw - "Don't Take the Girl", "Not a Moment Too Soon", "Everywhere", "Can't Be Really Gone", "She Never Lets It Go to Her Heart"
Kenny Chesney - "All I Need to Know", "Me and You", "When I Close My Eyes", "You Had Me from Hello"
Sawyer Brown - "The Race Is On", "The Walk", "Cafe on the Corner" etc...
Alabama - "Roll On (Eighteen Wheeler)", "Down Home", "Here We Are" etc...
Restless Heart - "That Rock Won't Roll", "The Bluest Eyes in Texas", "Big Dreams in a Small Town", "When She Cries", "Fast Movin' Train"
Blackhawk - "Every Once in a While", "I'm Not Strong Enough to Say No", "Like There Ain't No Yesterday"
Reba McEntire - "Whoever's in New England", "Walk On", "You Lie", "The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia", "The Heart Won't Lie", "Does He Love You", "And Still", "If You See Him/If You See Her" (once again all of reba's singles mid 80's thru late 90's)
Confederate Railroad - "Queen of Memphis", "Daddy Never Was the Cadillac Kind"
Toby Keith - "Should've Been a Cowboy", "He Ain't worth Missing", "Me Too", "Wish I Didn't Know Now", "Dream Walkin'" etc...
Clay Walker - "Hypnotize The Moon", "Dreaming with My Eyes Open", "Only on Days That End in "Y"", "Rumor Has It" etc...
Tracy Byrd - "Watermelon Crawl", "Holdin' Heaven", "4 to 1 in Atlanta", "Lifestyles of the Not So Rich and Famous", etc...
Mark Chesnutt - "Too Cold at Home", "I Just Wanted You to Know", "It Sure Is Monday", "Brother Jukebox", etc...
Neal McCoy - "They're Playin' Our Song", "No Doubt About It", "Wink", etc...
Alan Jackson- "Here in the Real World", "Chattahoochee", "Don't Rock the Jukebox", "Gone Country", "Gone Crazy", "Pop a Top" (any of Alan's 90's singles)
Tracy Lawrence - "Sticks and Stones", "I See It Now", "Texas Tornado", "How a Cowgirl Says Goodbye" etc...
Mary Chapin Carpenter - "The Hard Way", "Down at the Twist and Shout", "I Take My Chances", "Quittin' Time" etc...
Garth Brooks - "The Dance", "Not Counting You", "Unanswered Prayers", "The Beaches of Cheyenne", "Much Too Young (To Feel This Damn Old)" etc...
Patty Loveless - "Blame It on Your Heart", "How Can I Help You Say Goodbye", "Chains", "I'm That Kind of Girl" etc...
Joe Diffie - "Home", "Pickup Man", "John Deere Green", "Prop Me Up Beside the Jukebox (If I Die)", "Ships That Don't Come In" etc...
Suzy Bogguss - "Letting Go", "Aces", "Outbound Plane", "Drive South"
Dwight Yoakum - "Guitars, Cadillacs", "Thousand Miles From Nowhere", "Pocket of a Clown" etc...
Trisha Yearwood - "Walkaway Joe", "The Song Remembers When", "She's in Love with the Boy"

To name some...

[onebuffalo]

George Strait - "Ocean Front Property", "Baby Blue", "If I Know Me", "Heartland", "Check Yes or No", "Blue Clear Sky", "Carried Away" etc... (Ok all of George's singles)

ALL of his singles bring you back to your childhood? Very long childhood from 1981 to 2014!

[straitfan87]

Dec 17, 2014 17:19:43 GMT -5 onebuffalo said:

George Strait - "Ocean Front Property", "Baby Blue", "If I Know Me", "Heartland", "Check Yes or No", "Blue Clear Sky", "Carried Away" etc... (Ok all of George's singles)

ALL of his singles bring you back to your childhood? Very long childhood from 1981 to 2014!

Haha still a kid at heart!

[tim]

Well this was supposed to be a short list, but then I started typing haha. Here's a list of songs that'll easily take me back to a kid for one reason or another:

Alabama: Born Country, I'm In A Hurry

George Strait: So Much Like My Dad, Chill of An Early Fall, Heartland, Where the Sidewalk Ends, Easy Come Easy Go, Blue Clear Sky

Don Williams: anything from his True Love album in 1990

Hal Ketchum: Small Town Saturday Night

Sammy Kershaw: Haunted Heart, Don't Go Near the Water, Meant To Be

Boy Howdy: They Don't Make 'Em Like That Anymore

Tracy Byrd: Holdin' Heaven

Alan Jackson: Midnight In Montgomery, Blue Blooded Woman, Wanted, She's Got The Rhythm (and I Got the Blues)

Doug Stone: Warning Labels

Mark Chesnutt: Brother Jukebox, Bubba Shot the Jukebox, Ol' Country, Almost Goodbye

Randy Travis: Look Heart No Hands, Are We In Trouble Now

Vince Gill: High Lonesome Sound

Ricky Van Shelton: I Am A Simple Man, Keep It Between the Lines, Wherever She Is

Paul Overstreet: Daddy's Come Around, Seein' My Father In Me

Paul Brandt: My Heart Has A History

Neal McCoy: No Doubt About It, You Gotta Love That

Mindy McCready: Ten Thousand Angels

Carlene Carter: I Fell In Love, Every Little Thing

Mike Reid: Walk On Faith

Marty Stuart: Now That's Country, Hey Baby

Mark Wills: Places I've Never Been

Mark Collie: Even The Man In The Moon Is Crying

Mandy Barnett: Now That's All Right With Me

Sawyer Brown: The Dirt Road, The Walk

Clint Black: We Tell Ourselves, Put Yourself In My Shoes

Aaron Tippin: There Ain't Nothin' Wrong With the Radio

Alison Krauss: When You Say Nothing At All

edit: adding Deana Carter's "Strawberry Wine" to the list...and you could pretty much include her entire Did I Shave My Legs For This? album that always takes me back to childhood.

[Deleted]

Martina McBride

“Independence Day”
”My Baby Loves Me”
”A Broken Wing”

Faith Hill

“This Kiss”
”The Way You Love Me”
”Breathe”
”Stronger”

Shania Twain

“Man! I Feel Like a Woman!”

LeAnn Rimes

“Blue”

[phil1996]

SheDaisy: Don’t Worry Bout a Thing
Montgomery Gentry: Something To Be Proud Of
Keith Anderson: Pickin Wildflowers
Ryan Shupe: Dream Big

And just about every other music video in 2005. I grew up with country music that year with Lance Smiths CMT show

[jimmy's carhartt]

My parents played George Strait's "Strait Out of the Box Set" all the time and I swear I knew every word of every song by the time I was 6. But I especially go back with "Amarillo By Morning", "Ocean Front Property", "Baby's Gotten Good at Goodbye", "Baby Blue", "Check Yes Or No", "Easy Come, Easy Go" and "Love Without End, Amen". 

Aside from those,

"Walking In Memphis" - Lonestar
"Red Dirt Road" - Brooks & Dunn
"Where the Green Grass Grows" - Tim McGraw
"It's a Great Day to Be Alive" - Travis Tritt
"Remember When" - Alan Jackson
"Beer For My Horses" - Toby Keith & Willie Nelson
"Drive" - Alan Jackson
"Should've Been a Cowboy" - Toby Keith


High School years was more like

"Chicken Fried" - Zac Brown Band
"As She's Walking Away" - Zac Brown Band
"Colder Weather" - Zac Brown Band
"Smile" - Uncle Cracker
"Somewhere With You" - Kenny Chesney
"Barefoot Blue Jean Night" - Jake Owen
"Put You In a Song" - Keith Urban

[jimmy's carhartt]

Mar 25, 2019 18:33:23 GMT -5 phil1996 said:

SheDaisy: Don’t Worry Bout a Thing
Montgomery Gentry: Something To Be Proud Of
Keith Anderson: Pickin Wildflowers
Ryan Shupe: Dream Big

And just about every other music video in 2005. I grew up with country music that year with Lance Smiths CMT show

Damn I forgot all about Dream Big. My big brother played that song at his high school graduation when I was maybe 13 or 14. That takes me back.