I love these heartfelt COMMENTS on You Tube that connect an old song with a poignant memory of youth , of sad or happy days. I too at age 68 find myself " thinking about THINGS " that awaken the Proustian memory. Not just old songs but old mental images , memories still green. One of these first song memories I recovered on You Tube was a Christmas song I first heard while watching that black and white TV on a cold winter day in 1953 in the Valley View Housing Project in Providence, Rhode Island : " Here Comes Suzy Snowflakes ".
Also,a song I may have heard in the first grade at St. Edward's Catholic School nearby : " Our Lady of Fatima ". It is still nice to imagine the kind Holy Mother resting on a silvery Moon in a star studded night sky. The Holy Mother of unconditional divine love- in a cold, indifferent or possibly malevolent universe-for me best described by Albert Camus or Thomas Hardy.
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[This reminds me of my childhood so much. Like when I was really little, my parents split up and I went to live with my Mum and my little brother. She used to play this song in the kitchen and called it our song while we danced around together. I legitimately haven't heard it since I was 6 years old and I'm so happy I found it.]
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