I’m sitting here reading the boards, and the song Nightshift by The Commodores comes on the streaming radio station I’m listening to. I literally got goosebumps. I used to adore that song when I was young, but had not thought about it in literally years. Have any nearly-forgotten songs that you used to love resurfaced in your life recently?
It’s interesting that I knew the song virtually from the first note, even though, as I said, I haven’t heard the song in years.
I hesitate to say, anything by the Carpenters. :eek:
As a kid I used to really love the sound of “Philly Soul” (The O’Jays, The Brothers Johnson, The Main Ingredient, The Three Degrees) but gave it up when I became a teen because it wasn’t “cool” enough - too many strings, too few guitars, etc.
Now, because of a local radio station that used to have PS as the backbone of a really cool playlist I rediscovered it and now unabashedly claim it as my own. 
Mel McDaniel had a string of huge country hits in the late 70s and early 80s that I was a fan of as a kid. But I forgot them as my tastes changed and his songs vanished from the radio as his career waned.
I rediscovered his stuff once oldies counrty radio became a regular format, and expanded to include pretty much everything before George Strait, Garth Brooks, video-era Reba McIntire. I still love some of McDaniel’s songs like “Louisiana Saturday Night” and especially “Stand Up”. Simple fun music.
I used to listen to the Indigo Girls a lot in high school, but my love for them had fizzled out a bit by college. This summer I was at my weekly open mic night, and this girl who usually performed at other venues with the open mic host started singing “Ghost” and I just about fell to pieces. I had forgotten how much I loved that song and especially loved singing it. I had goosebumps. A week or two later we sang the song together, and the harmonies in that song just ruin me, I tell ya. I don’t have a particular emotional attachment to that song, but I really almost got teary being reminded how much I loved that song.
The local nighttime DJ on the Top 40 station back in the 60s always used to close out his program just before midnight by playing “That’s All,” by Bobby Darin. I would lie there in the dark waiting for that beautifully melancholy song to come on and send chills down my spine.
I finally went out to look for it and realized that it’s on the album of standards that Darin recorded when he decided to change his career to something more adult. We all have to go through that at some point in our lives.
Naw, I too enjoy their work. She had a wonderful voice.
Vincent by Don McClean – I played that over and over again.
I also played Iron Man by Black Sabbath over and over again, but nobody’s forgotten that.
The other day I heard Afternoon Delight by The Starland Vocal Band. You know, I just went to pieces.