Since I have always loved music and spent much time analyzing lyrics to sappy songs and recording them in my diary as a further expression of my great teenage angst, I had many songs to choose from. The one that immediately came to mind was one that I first heard on Family Ties: At This Moment by Billy Vera and the Beaters. I went so far as to tape it off the tv while it was playing in accompaniment to the heart wrenching love story of Alex P. Keaton and Ellen Reed...sigh. It was pretty tough to do, living in a noisy household and required fervently watching for a repeat of the episode that contained it and much scrambling to push record at the right moment, but I managed to get a very warped, imperfect version of it.
BUT, I knew that the one I chose for your viewing pleasure had to have a big haired singer in it, (Billy Vera had no hair), so instead, I choose Right Here Waiting by Richard Marx. This song literally made my heart HURT, as I pictured my longing, steadfast (non existent) suitor pining for me across the ocean somewhere (why he would be there, I don't know- perhaps saving the world or something like climbing Mt Everest with his bare hands just because he could, or something incredibly heroic.)Nowadays, this song makes me gag, but THEN, oh, the pain of a good love song filled with unfulfilled longing for faraway love...SWOON, gasp!
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this may sound sad, but just the first few chords of that richard marx song gives me goosebumps. oh those awfully pitiful days of the feelings i had when i listened to that song. they sure knew how to get us girls dreamin' back then! i was a sap too. and i'm still laughing at how we both struggled w/ the technology back then and getting that perfect song recorded w/o background "help".
alex p. keaton...*sigh*!
Isn't it funny how just those few bars of music just snap you back in time. This song totally is one of them. and yes heart ACHING.
Hair back then was really horrible, but oh so fun to see and laugh at. (self included)
Thanks for playing.
Alex, was cute but he was too smart for me, I liked Mike Seaver. (aka Kurt Cameron) now he was cuuute and mischeivious.
I was a camp counsellor one summer, I think I was like 19, when one of the other counsellors taught everyone sign language to Right Here Waiting. They played it over and over again. It drove me crazy because I never liked that song. I liked it even less after that summer!
And I thought I was ready for Mensa when I figured out I could make a mix tape from the TV!! Just goes to show ya... I loved the musical Newsies (yes really!) so when it came out on tv I was at the ready with my trusty boom box.
OOOH, and the song you picked? Delilah (can't even type it without singing her name, lol) played it a lot when our troops were having heavy deployments after 9/11, WOW-za, still makes me cry.
Blessings, Carolynn
I spent way too much time swooning over such songs and longing for Mr. Non-existent. You picked the perfect song for Monday's theme!
I know the episode you are speaking of and to this day I get a bit misty eyed when it plays thinking of Alex and Ellen. As for Richard, I'm so glad our taste in music evolves. Thanks for the stroll down memory lane.
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