What is your 16 song?

[Venturous]

OK. What one song more than any other song takes you back to that magical time when you just turned 16 and finally got your drivers license?

 

For me, it is this song released in 1976, the year before I got my license. If I close my eyes I am cruising the streets with friends in my '67 T-Bird and hanging out at the Green Arrow Restaurant. Hard to believe 38 years separates me from those days. It seems like yesterday sometimes.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SSR6ZzjDZ94

Edited March 4, 2015 by Venturous

[SilvrT]

You expect a guy to remember what song he liked best 52 years ago?? Heck, I can't remember what song I like best now!

 

Dang... there were so many from 1963...

 

Sukiyaki

Ring of Fire - Johnny Cash

In Dreams - Roy Orbison

If I had a Hammer - Trini Lopez

Wipe Out - The Surfaris

 

(to name a few)

[cowpuc]

Thats a tough one Gary,, to choose one,, just one... Those were unforgettable days, tumultuous to say the least but also extremely exciting.. I guess that's why Don McKlean's hit was it for me and a lot of my friends back than...

 

[Chaharly]

This one is easy! Bohemian Rhapsody by queen!! I grew up watching Wayne's World its still one of my favorite movies. I love crooning along with Freddy Mercury. 2009 I got my licence!!!

[Flyinfool]

That was so long ago I do not remember if I was ever 16.

 

The only "music" I remember from back then is the scream of a nitro fueled 2 stroke at full throttle with no muffler.

 

I never had the time or the technology to listen to any other kind of music.

[videoarizona]

1964 -

 

Suspicion - Terry Stafford (writer of "Amarillo by Morning" and more)

Baby I Need Your Loving - Four Tops

 

If I really had to choose.....

 

Suspicion by Terry Stafford.

 

[slowrollwv]

409 The Beach Boys. I had a 64 chevy ss conv. with that motor. What a blast back then.

[rbig1]

Had one 8 track when I got my first car. Bought the player and tape same time. Schools out by alice cooper. Ford mustang 289 fastback 67

[BratmanXj]

1996 - got a "little old lady drove it to dialysis on Tuesdays" Ford Granada, radio shack tape deck head unit and a single working speaker in the dashboard. I had already been playing guitar for a few years and was big into Alternative & Grunge Rock...

 

Stone Temple Pilots - Trippin on a Hole in a Paper Heart, Big Bang Baby

Gin Blossoms - anything from New Miserable Experiance

 

But the one song that always rocked was from a somewhat local group out of University of Illinois. Cadillac used the song for a comercial about 5 years back and I nearly broke my ankle running into the living room when it came on the TV.

Edited March 4, 2015 by BratmanXj
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[Stealthblade]

Bruce Springsteen Live: 75 to 85 was the album for me.

Thunder Road was the song when I hit 16 in '85 and my first car was a very impressive Dodge Aries K 2 door.

 

That car had a stick shift and nothing else. Manual steering, manual brakes, manual door locks, manual windows, NO A/C, and surprisingly since it was a stick, no tach.

It even went faster than others due to the TURBO stickers I bought and stuck on the side.

 

Believe it or not, I beat an automatic Mustang 5.0 through 3 gears in it once. Silly 'Stang just spun the tires.

 

Thunder Road all the way

 

The only version of this song I will listen to is this one.

 

 

Bob

Edited March 4, 2015 by Stealthblade
Forgot to add my song.

[Rick Haywood]

I have two that take me back to when I was 16

 

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Vu0Uo0ubNs

Edited March 5, 2015 by Rick Haywood

[Oldodge]

1974 Paperlace, The Night Chicago Died

[sfcrader]

Supertramp (Goodbye Stranger) and Earth, Wind & Fire (September). When I hear these 2 I think back to the great times I had with my friends on the s ake river.

[Yammer Dan]

I have a favorite that stuck with me for quite a few years. Nothing to do with speed or riding. Have no reason for liking it so well but Ricky Nelson's "Patches" and several yrs later "Garden Party" was a good one but nothing matched "Patches"

[BlueSky]

When I was 18 and just graduated high school, I spent some time that summer at my friends home located close to a drive-in restaurant with delivery to your car door. The juke box had outside speakers and I could hear them play the Ray Charles song, "I can't stop loving you". Somebody kept feeding the juke box and played it over and over again. Stuck with me more than any other song.

[Zzyzx]

IRON BUTTERFLY - IN A GADDA DA VIDA - 1968 (ORIGINAL FULL VERSION)

 

Always had to much Boone's Farm by the time this one ended man.

 

[ragtop69gs]

Just about everything they did takes me back to those days. Also Hendrix, the temptations and Ten Years After. Can't believe I actually lived through those days! Deep Purple - New York 1973 (Full Concert) - YouTube

 

 

Then there was The Fugs,,, pretty much the first punk band. They played some raw, controversial and at times xrated stuff. I won't link it here but there is plenty examples on utube. A few years before I could drive legally.

Edited March 5, 2015 by ragtop69gs

[Venture n Dixie]

Ricky Nelson's "Patches" and several yrs later "Garden Party" was a good one but nothing matched "Patches"

I know the Clarence Carter version of Patches recorded in muscle shoals Alabama. Never heard ricky nelsons. Will look that up.

Joy to the world (Jeremiah was a bullfrog) 3 dog night

[cowpuc]

Oddly enough, I LOVED Country Western back than too (still do) and Willie has always done me good..

 

 

Seconded only by him and Waylon..

 

Edited March 5, 2015 by cowpuc

[ragtop69gs]

Oddly enough, I LOVED Country Western back than too (still do) and Willie has always done me good..

 

 

 

Thanks for that Willie video, all the pictures shown sure did bring back memories of my childhood days of tv watchin'

[cowpuc]

Thanks for that Willie video, all the pictures shown sure did bring back memories of my childhood days of tv watchin'

 

,, Mine too Raggie,, mine too....

[ricksbike]

House of the Rising Sun--Still love it!!!:sun:

[Motorcycle Mike]

Wow! 16 was 45 years ago!

So much GREAT music from that era it's hard to pick any one song. I've all ways had an appreciation for and enjoy most types of music but the rock-n-roll of the 60s & 70s has allways been, and still is, my choice.

[Rick Haywood]

Just about everything they did takes me back to those days. Also Hendrix, the temptations and Ten Years After. Can't believe I actually lived through those days! Deep Purple - New York 1973 (Full Concert) - YouTube

 

 

Then there was The Fugs,,, pretty much the first punk band. They played some raw, controversial and at times xrated stuff. I won't link it here but there is plenty examples on utube. A few years before I could drive legally.

 

Jay, we were lucky to grow up with the best music rock and roll had to offer. There is so much great music fro 1955-1980. I work part time security at a college campus and I was surprised how many young people listen to that era of music. I guess being force feed it growing up from your parents may have helped. I know our 22 year old daughter loves it is listens o it an a regular basis.

[Rick Haywood]

Just about everything they did takes me back to those days. Also Hendrix, the temptations and Ten Years After. Can't believe I actually lived through those days! Deep Purple - New York 1973 (Full Concert) - YouTube

 

 

Then there was The Fugs,,, pretty much the first punk band. They played some raw, controversial and at times xrated stuff. I won't link it here but there is plenty examples on utube. A few years before I could drive legally.

 

Jay, we were lucky to grow up with the best music rock and roll had to offer. There is so much great music fro 1955-1980. I work part time security at a college campus and I was surprised how many young people listen to that era of music. I guess being force feed it growing up from your parents may have helped. I know our 22 year old daughter loves it is listens o it an a regular basis.