By Raining in my heart is a song by the late great Buddy Holly. It’s also the very first song I remember hearing as a very young boy. So young, I was still in my high chair! It was recorded on October 21st, 1958 which would make me just over 2 years old at the time.
It Was Sunday
I’ve been told on many occasions that I couldn’t possibly recall something so vividly at such a young age. However, I can recall every detail of my surroundings when Raining In My Heart came on the radio that day in 1958. I am sure it was a Sunday morning. Although I have no idea why except my folks were there and if it was a weekday they would have been working. That meant it would have been a day in the nursery (kindergarten) for me. So that’s why I think it was Sunday although it could have been Saturday.
My Yellow High Chair
So, there I am, sitting in my high chair with its flaking yellow paint and row of coloured beads on a steel rod. They stretched the full width of the tray that kept me secured in place. The walls were decorated with paper that had silhouettes of dancers on a grey background. I was facing a bay window to the front of the house that had net curtains in place. My folks were sitting at a table to the right of me, eating breakfast. Then the music started, those pizzicato strings introduction of Buddy Holly‘s Raining In My Heart. When I say the music started, it was this song that caught my attention, I hadn’t noticed what was played before or after Buddy.
I Enjoy The Memory
Every time I hear this song, it always takes me back to that moment, clear as a bell and as vivid as though it was yesterday. Yet, people I have told the story to say it’s impossible to have this memory from such a young age. I don’t tell anyone anymore, I just enjoy the memory and of course the song. What puzzles me is why it was only this song? What was it that caught my attention, so much so that I can recall the moment in such detail? Agreed, it is a strange thing and I don’t think I can recall anything so vividly from my life until I’m much older. I bet though, there are plenty of people who have similar memories.
Modern Times
Anyway, back to modern times where I have trouble remembering why I went to the bathroom. Life is good, I’m pleased to be back at my blog after problems with my laptop. I tried to write something using my phone, but boy, it was so tedious I gave up after half a day. Happy 2019 everyone.
Sue W
January 26, 2019I loved listening to the radio when I was a child especially ’Children’s Favourites’ on Saturday mornings. Modern radio is not the same except perhaps for the Radio Four Play.
I can remember being in my pram, the hood up, and the sound the wheels made as it was being passed over the joins in the paving stones. I expect I was a toddler but of what age I haven’t a clue. First memories of Buddy Holly are listening to my older brothers playing 45s.
Trev Jones
January 26, 2019Thanks, Sue. Strange that I recall being in a push chair and being rolled along the pavement. We all have these little film clips in our minds.
Tony
January 26, 2019Memory is a weird thing. Since my ‘op’ mine is all over the place. I can forget things that happened last week, but can remember things from when I was very young. I remember a cigarette machine on the parade of shops near where we lived, but people tell me that I couldn’t remember that as would only be about 3 years old when it was stolen.
Trev Jones
January 26, 2019It is a strange thing. I recall those cigarette and chocolate bar machines, they had them on the wall outside our local newsagents. Thanks, Tony
librepaley
January 27, 2019Extraordinary level of recall. I notice from my own children that what they remember best is not necessarily those special occasions, the holidays, birthday parties we laid on, but rather events that seem random and trivial – but which may have a particular meaning for them.
admin
January 27, 2019I think you’ve hit the nail on the head, librepaley. Thank you ????
Invisibly Me
January 27, 2019Memories like this, tied to emotions, sights, sounds, smells, can linger so well from childhood compared to recent memories (forgetting you’d put bread in the toaster and getting in the shower instead as it burns). Thank you for taking us on your walk down memory lane. I have similar childhood recollections with Del Shannon records my dad would play 🙂
Caz xx
admin
January 27, 2019Thank you, Caz. Yes, smells play a very big part in some of my childhood memories. Especially the smell from the valves of the old Dansette record player.
luisa zambrotta
January 27, 2019Extraordinary memories…
admin
January 27, 2019Thank you, Luisa
Photography Journal Blog
January 28, 2019What a nice memory. I also gave blogging from my phone a try, straight back to the laptop for me.
admin
January 28, 2019Thank you, Maranto, yes, trying to blog from a phone needs some special qualities, like patience for a start, lol. ????
Jay
January 29, 2019Songs and scents tend to penetrate our memories more deeply, like wormholes.
admin
January 29, 2019Thank you, Jay, yes I agree.
mitchteemley
January 29, 2019Amazing you remember things from that far back–and to the soundtrack of Buddy Holly, no less!
admin
January 29, 2019Thank you, Mitch. I must have been born with a good ear for quality music
mitchteemley
January 29, 2019;>)
bereavedandbeingasingleparent
January 29, 2019Love this song and this does take me back to my dads old radio.
admin
January 29, 2019Thank you, it is a classic. Glad it gave you good memories too.
Hope
January 29, 2019Glad you are back in your groooooove!!!!????????????
admin
January 29, 2019Thank you, Hope. Me too. 🙂
The Hinoeuma
January 29, 2019I can’t post on my phone, either. I also can’t see comments on the WP app. I have to come directly to your site.
And, you are not that old.
admin
January 29, 2019Thank you, Chris. I do sometimes feel that old though 😉
Paulie
February 1, 2019Wow, that is quite a recall. I do remember the music of my parents; Nat King Cole, Harry Belafonte the Ames Brothers. It was my music too until I discovered the Beach Boys, then my parents’ music was deemed unworthy until I got older and discovered that Nat King Cole and Harry Belafonte were pretty darn good. The Ames Brothers still haven’t made the cut though.
admin
February 1, 2019Thank you, Paulie. I’m the same, it was The Stones, then Ten Years After and all my blues records that I love. I’ve not heard of the Ames Brothers, I shall have to check them out. Thank you again 🙂
Lara/Trace
February 14, 2019Glad you’re back!
admin
February 14, 2019Thank you Lara, that’s very kind of you to say. 🙂
Ética Hoje
February 24, 2019Muito legal
Gostei do seu post
Tudo de bom
Um abraço
admin
February 24, 2019Thank you, Etica
gianmarco groppelli, *J&J*
November 18, 2019FROM OLD SCHOOL WHEN MUSIC WAS REAL ????????