Music which takes you back to your childhood

Other than that, most 1974 fender rhodes heavy Jazz-Pop/R&B.

There was also a lot of Herb Albert & the Tiajuana Brass, the Baja Marimba Band and James Taylor in our house while I was growing up. Actually, we had a Partridge Family album -- on eight-track, no less -- that instantly transports me back to childhood.

C.W. McCall, "Convoy" - it's 1976 and I'm running around the dining room table with my pet cat while singing the chorus at full volume
Maxine Nightingale, "Right Back Where We Started From" and Captain & Tennille, "Love Will Keep Us Together" - it's 1977 and I've learned how to program these songs on diner-top jukeboxes
Gerry Rafferty, "Baker Street" - it's 1978 and I'm trying to fly a kite with my uncle Mike in Round Hill Park

"Silly Love Songs" by Paul McCartney reminds me of a specific beach trip sometime in the seventies when I was a tyke. This song *means* summer to me somehow.

They used to play her in the shop my mum worked at

The theme to "Alf". New Kids on the Block, Duran Duran, Def Leppard and Alice Cooper among my much older siblings' records at the time. Stuff by them were the first few songs I ever learned the lyrics to after Madonna's "Papa Don't Preach", the first song I ever sang. True story.

I blame my brother for forever scarring me with "Poison", the entire lyrics and melody to which I can still remember despite not having heard it for a decade or so.