Those Were the Days, my Friend... the nostalgia thread

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Beginning, naturally, with Mary Hopkins singing Those Were the Days.
Anyone else remember this? I heard it yesterday and felt quite weepy!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9JOmU2jFUo&feature=related

(and if you're too young to know this song, please do listen and enjoy!)

What old songs make you weepy?
 
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I remember that song. My grandmother liked to sing it.

I got the weirdest weepiness from, of all places, Sesame Street, when they started playing an old song, "We All Live in a Capital I."
 

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Hi aruna! Great idea :)

A few old songs still make me weepy but the two that come to my mind are - American Pie (Don McClean), Puff The Magic Dragon (the last verse and I don't care about the reference to drugs; I still take the lyrics at face value).

I don't remember song from the 80s onwards which have the same effect on me.
 

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Yes! to all of the above. One that makes me (almost) weepy is Queen's Who Wants to Live Forever (from Highlander).
 

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Beginning, naturally, with Mary Hopkins singing Those Were the Days.
Anyone else remember this? I heard it yesterday and felt quite weepy!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9JOmU2jFUo&feature=related

(and if you're too young to know this song, please do listen and enjoy!)

What old songs make you weepy?

Written by McCartney, right?

Speaking of Apple conspirators, one of the first concerts I saw was this guy--

Great live performance here--

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FAVKG0I6XXA&feature=related
 

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