Two nights ago I was helping my dad install his new amplifier to his probably decade-old stereos. Mission was successful =]
Anyway, I sat beside my dad, reading the manual. Abah turned the Hindustan ke ape entah station to Lite FM. And kedengaranlah lagu Tina Turner yang hit itu - What's Love Got To Do With It. When it was over, Barry Manilow's I Write The Songs was playing. A familiar tune, a song I've loved since ever, seriously.
Abah started singing to it, so I asked who was the singer. Ya lah, I know a lot of songs but dunno the artists. Like most people kot. ^^
In between the lyrics, Abah replied,
"Barry Manilow,"
Hearing that, I immediately typed it into the unsent messages folder in my phone.
After Manilow's song, another witty song I liked played.
So I walked under a bus
I got hit by a train
Keep falling in love
Which is kinda the same
I've sunk out at sea
Crashed my car, gone insane
And it felt so good
I want to do it again
Bachelor Girl's Buses and Trains.
Truth be told, I really miss the songs I used to listen since I was really young on Lite FM, which was Light and Easy before. It feels like I'm never gonna hear these songs again in the future. The oldies when I'm 20-something would be the hits now. Losing or not hearing all the songs my parents grew up with and loved is something I don't want to face.
I'll always remember the days I sang to Journey's Open Arms in the car when I was six or so.
Which, according to Abah,was the first song he heard when he first stepped on US land.
And the time when Abah told me, when I was still a kid, "this is the song I'll be playing at your wedding" (okay, I'm kinda getting into the memories) was Bob Carlisle's Butterfly Kisses.
Incredulously, I cried a bit listening the song. AHAHA.
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