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Location: SE Louisiana | I'm a big fan of music.... All different kinds... The first music I can remember hearing as I was growing up was Big Band..Glenn Miller, Tommy Dorsey..Benny Goodman.. After that I remember Mantovani and Herb Alpert and the and the Tijuana Brass... Then came something NEW... The Fab Four!!! John, Paul, George and Ringo!!
Then we moved to the Midwest....Missouri...Where I adopted people like Hank SR. and Red Sovine.. Uh oh,,, Then came Charlie Daniels and Hank JR....
Then someone talked me into smoking a fat one... and I discovered Pink Floyd and Rush and Kansas and Styx...
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Where I'm going with this is...I never really heard a song I could relate to until I heard THE song...
Now... I have to say... I've not done the research into this song... But in all my ignorance I will say... I don't give credit to the singer.... I give it to the person that wrote the song/story... and the person that put it to music... There are probably hundreds of people in this country that could have sang it just as well...
But... I cannot listen to this without shedding tears.. It takes me so close to home.... The House That Built me...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQYNM6SjD_o
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Location: Arkansas | That song says SO much. I get teary too cause it makes me think of my grandparents' home---truly that house and the two people in it built me. . . .
ETA I THINK Miranda wrote it as well as sings it.
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Location: SE Louisiana | I was sitting outside of BAM (Books -A- Million) Last week and one of the young men that works here came out on his break.... and I was playing some old country songs......I qued up and played "Country Roads"... and his eyes lit up!!! "Who is that?" he asked me... I told him it was John Denver... he said "Who?"... He had never heard of John Denver.. So.... For all you people that never heard of John Denver,,, Please allow me to introduce you to him... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1vrEljMfXYo |
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Location: North Dakota | komet. - 2015-04-03 12:55 AM I was sitting outside of BAM (Books -A- Million ) Last week and one of the young men that works here came out on his break.... and I was playing some old country songs......I qued up and played "Country Roads"... and his eyes lit up!!! "Who is that?" he asked me... I told him it was John Denver... he said "Who?"... He had never heard of John Denver.. So.... For all you people that never heard of John Denver,,, Please allow me to introduce you to him... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1vrEljMfXYo
I love John Denver! When I was a kid, my dad would play his John Denver CD in his truck all the time when we'd go out to Saturday morning breakfast or to my Grandma's. I LOVED Home Grown Tomatoes (and country roads and all the other songs) but as an elementary age kid I thought that song was just hilarious. I still have it on my phone and listen to it in my truck. It takes me back. The Devil Went Down To Georgia also takes me back to that time. I also love House that Built Me. My other favorite songs include Viva La Vida (really anything by Coldplay), Holding Out For A Hero (Bonnie Tyler), and Never Gonna Give You Up (Rick Astley). Also everything from AWOLNation and Imagine Dragons. |
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Location: Kansas and loving it | Crosby Stills and Nash, Southern Cross. |
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Location: SE Louisiana | rockette - 2015-04-03 5:53 AM
Crosby Stills and Nash, Southern Cross.
Yeah.. but It's hard to l like Crosby, Stills and Nash without liking Emerson, Lake and Palmer!! 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fBvGZP4srZA
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Location: Kansas and loving it | komet. - 2015-04-03 6:13 AM
rockette - 2015-04-03 5:53 AM
Crosby Stills and Nash, Southern Cross.
Yeah.. but It's hard to l like Crosby, Stills and Nash without liking Emerson, Lake and Palmer!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fBvGZP4srZA
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Location: Jersey Girl | komet. - 2015-04-03 1:55 AM I was sitting outside of BAM (Books -A- Million ) Last week and one of the young men that works here came out on his break.... and I was playing some old country songs......I qued up and played "Country Roads"... and his eyes lit up!!! "Who is that?" he asked me... I told him it was John Denver... he said "Who?"... He had never heard of John Denver.. So.... For all you people that never heard of John Denver,,, Please allow me to introduce you to him... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1vrEljMfXYo
I grew up listening to John Denver. I am not ashamed to admit my most favorite Christmas album of all times is John Denver and the Muppets-A Christmas Together  |
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Location: SE Louisiana | rockette - 2015-04-03 6:58 AM
komet. - 2015-04-03 6:13 AM
rockette - 2015-04-03 5:53 AM
Crosby Stills and Nash, Southern Cross.
Yeah.. but It's hard to l like Crosby, Stills and Nash without liking Emerson, Lake and Palmer!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fBvGZP4srZA
What about Dewey, Cheatum, and Howe? lol!
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Location: Florida | Who went to see John Denver in the movie where he becomes God. Can't remember the name, maybe God Almighty? He was great. My favorite John Denver song, hmmm, Country Road or maybe the one about would you please come to California... |
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Location: SE Louisiana | Vickie - 2015-04-03 10:49 AM
Who went to see John Denver in the movie where he becomes God. Â Can't remember the name, maybe God Almighty? Â He was great. Â My favorite John Denver song, hmmm, Country Road or maybe the one about would you please come to California... Â
It was Oh GOD!! ...and George Burns was GOD... What and a great movie!!! |
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Location: South of Canada and North of Mexico | Anywhere with You by Jake Owen
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Location: Phoenix | Anything Dave Matthews Band. Typical Situation is the song I'm digging right now. The line "it all comes down to nothing" just really resonates with me. It really all does come down to nothing. We all die. So stop worrying and just live. |
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Location: SE Louisiana | Yes!!! the ONLY guarantee we get the day we are born... "You ain't getting out of this alive".... |
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Location: 31 lengths farms | I literally lived "The House That Built Me" about 6 years ago. The last house we lived in that all the brothers and sisters were in was a house in a little town called Rainbow CA outside of Fallbrook and Camp Pendleton where my dad was stationed. There are 6 of us kids, 21 years difference between the oldest and youngest. My oldest brother passed away 28 years ago of an apparent suicide and my second oldest brother passed away 8 years ago from cancer. My mom has dementia and I had been caretaking for her for about 4 years. My fiancé and I went to visit his parents who live in Hemet which is north and east of my old hometown and I just felt the magnetic pull to go see the old house. I walked up the driveway, which looked exactly the same as it did 35 years before, and the house looked pretty much the same from the outside. The new owners husband was in the new garage and as I was trying to tell him who I was I burst into tears, he ran to the house to get his wife who came out. She had found memories of the house too, I guess after we moved her grandma had bought the place and she would spend her summer with her grandma out there. Then when her grandma too started to fail in health she had moved out there to help take care of her and then ended up buying the house from her and redoing it into basically two separate homes inside. She took me on a tour of the home, the grandma's end was what would have been our old kitchen and living room, basically untouched other than appliances. The master bedroom and bath were her grandmas bed and bath and our old bedrooms and the old garage had been made into the couple's new end of the house. It was unbelievable kind of her to let me walk thru and relive some old memories of all 6 of us being there, I could literally feel my older brothers again and remember their faces.
The other song that I love and reminds me of my mom is Jamie O'Neal's "She's Somebodies Hero". That's my momma. |
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Country Roads was very important to my Grandmother and she had me sing it to her often. It's probably our family anthem along with One Tin Soldier. (campfire song). Johnny Cash and Marty Robbins brings me to tears thinking of my Dad. |
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Location: SE Louisiana | run n rate - 2015-04-03 11:25 AM
I literally lived "The House That Built Me" about 6 years ago. The last house we lived in that all the brothers and sisters were in was a house in a little town called Rainbow CA outside of Fallbrook and Camp Pendleton where my dad was stationed. There are 6 of us kids, 21 years difference between the oldest and youngest. My oldest brother passed away 28 years ago of an apparent suicide and my second oldest brother passed away 8 years ago from cancer. My mom has dementia and I had been caretaking for her for about 4 years. My fiancé and I went to visit his parents who live in Hemet which is north and east of my old hometown and I just felt the magnetic pull to go see the old house. I walked up the driveway, which looked exactly the same as it did 35 years before, and the house looked pretty much the same from the outside. The new owners husband was in the new garage and as I was trying to tell him who I was I burst into tears, he ran to the house to get his wife who came out. She had found memories of the house too, I guess after we moved her grandma had bought the place and she would spend her summer with her grandma out there. Then when her grandma too started to fail in health she had moved out there to help take care of her and then ended up buying the house from her and redoing it into basically two separate homes inside. She took me on a tour of the home, the grandma's end was what would have been our old kitchen and living room, basically untouched other than appliances. The master bedroom and bath were her grandmas bed and bath and our old bedrooms and the old garage had been made into the couple's new end of the house. It was unbelievable kind of her to let me walk thru and relive some old memories of all 6 of us being there, I could literally feel my older brothers again and remember their faces.
The other song that I love and reminds me of my mom is Jamie O'Neal's "She's Somebodies Hero". That's my momma.
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Location: SE Louisiana | RidenFly - 2015-04-03 12:25 PM
Anything, from Fleetwood Mac. The Chain, Monday Morning, Rhiannon.Â
Country Roads was very important to my Grandmother and she had me sing it to her often. It's probably our family anthem along with One Tin Soldier. (campfire song).  Johnny Cash and Marty Robbins brings me to tears thinking of my Dad. Â
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Location: SE Louisiana | Click the link below to hear what I listened to when I was a kid.... I expanded from this... It was hard to beat but it was possible..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPXwkWVEIIw
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