# Heard any forgotten favorites lately? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 18, 2009, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heard-any-forgotten-favorites-lately/500224 "2009-06-18T22:32:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2009, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heard-any-forgotten-favorites-lately/500224/1 "2009-06-18T22:32:17Z")
I just heard Mary Chapin Carpenter’s _I feel lucky_. That was a fun song, I haven’t heard it for years and remember one drunken summer party where a bunch of us sung it floating down the creek drinking beer. Good times! (Been forever since we floated down the creek.) Heard any good ones? ---
**Author:** ![Serenata67](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/serenata67/32/10646_2.png) [@Serenata67](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Serenata67)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2009, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heard-any-forgotten-favorites-lately/500224/2 "2009-06-19T01:51:17Z")
> [@Khadaji](#): > > I just heard Mary Chapin Carpenter’s _I feel lucky_. That was a fun song, I haven’t heard it for years and remember one drunken summer party where a bunch of us sung it floating down the creek drinking beer. Good times! (Been forever since we floated down the creek.) > > Heard any good ones? I love that song! Anyway, I recently heard Blessid Union of Souls “Let Me Be The One.” I love that song and hadn’t heard it in forever! Then I got all nostalgic and started looking up more songs from my 90s youth. ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2009, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heard-any-forgotten-favorites-lately/500224/3 "2009-06-19T02:28:42Z")
[Lemon Tree](http://www.peterpaulandmary.com/music/01-09.htm). I loved it as a young kid, and re-discovered it for the first time in over 4 decades a few weeks ago. Only now do I realize what the song is about. Wow! What a bitter dirge… ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2009, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heard-any-forgotten-favorites-lately/500224/4 "2009-06-19T03:39:53Z")
Hearing, not exactly. But I was rehearsing with a big band this morning when _Four Brothers_ (the Woody Herman hit) was called. I hadn’t played that chart in 20 years, hadn’t listened to the recording in ten, but the phrases came right back to mind. This isn’t even all that unusual. Many musicians seem to develop a kind of phonographic memory. ---
**Author:** ![Oslo\_Ostragoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/a9a28c/32.png) [@Oslo\_Ostragoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oslo_Ostragoth)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2009, 6:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heard-any-forgotten-favorites-lately/500224/5 "2009-06-19T06:49:14Z")
this thread needs more links. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2009, 11:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heard-any-forgotten-favorites-lately/500224/6 "2009-06-19T11:26:01Z")
> [@Oslo\_Ostragoth](#): > > this thread needs more links. 🙂 Fair enough. [I Feel Lucky](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xkR8ksF1Xrw) [Lemon Tree](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qpgJXvajhWQ) I couldn’t find Peter Paul and Mary’s version. You tube had dozen’s by PP&M, but not that one. [Four Brothers](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SbwZGtITKg) I confess it, I don’t know the song and so I have no idea if this is the right version. [Let me be the one](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=icZBUS_T-aU) ---
**Author:** ![Wheelz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wheelz/32/5718_2.png) [@Wheelz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wheelz)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2009, 12:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heard-any-forgotten-favorites-lately/500224/7 "2009-06-19T12:13:14Z")
Earlier this week I ran across one-hit-wonder Lee Michaels’ _Do You Know What I Mean_ while driving home. I had to crank it up and yell along. _Been fourteen days since I don’t know when I just saw her with my best friend Do you know what I mean_ (By the way, “Been forever since we floated down the creek” should totally be the first line of a song. Maybe by Mary Chapin Carpenter…) ---
**Author:** ![Harmonious\_Discord](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/74df32/32.png) [@Harmonious\_Discord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harmonious_Discord)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2009, 1:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heard-any-forgotten-favorites-lately/500224/8 "2009-06-19T13:18:02Z")
Yes I got out the albums a few days ago. No need to list all the forgotten songs. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2009, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heard-any-forgotten-favorites-lately/500224/9 "2009-06-19T15:46:27Z")
Last week, **Car Talk** featured Graham Parker doing his “Crawling from the Wreckage,” which reminded me of the ramped up Dave Edmunds version. Now I’m revisiting Edmunds. ---
**Author:** ![Push\_You\_Down](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/push_you_down/32/9095_2.png) [@Push\_You\_Down](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Push_You_Down)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2009, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heard-any-forgotten-favorites-lately/500224/10 "2009-06-19T16:22:44Z")
While looking for music to put on a comedy short… I found Easy E’s “Balls on ya Chin”… I hadn’t heard that one in a long time. ---
**Author:** ![cjepson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a9adbd/32.png) [@cjepson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cjepson)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2009, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heard-any-forgotten-favorites-lately/500224/11 "2009-06-19T20:02:34Z")
Back in high school (early 70s), I would listen to friends’ copies of Cat Stevens’ “Teaser and the Firecat”, but never had one of my own. Then a couple of weeks ago I got a copy. It was cool to hear things like “Rubylove” (the one where he sings in Greek) and “How Can I Tell You” (one of those heartrending songs that a lonely teenager could really relate to at times) again.