I recently shared a little fact that Seattle was the first city to play a Beatles song on the radio. I have been told that song was "I Want To Hold Your Hand." That would make sense since it was their first #1 Hit on the Billboard Top 100, but I'm not 100% sure if that was really the song played on air in Seattle. I'm still looking for the best way to confirm this little fact.
I never grow tired of the Beatles. My dad was the one who got me hooked as a child and so many Beatles songs take me back to memories of my dad playing his Beatles records and me and my brothers singing along with a hairbrush mic. Picking a favorite song would be really tough, but I think the song "Things We Said Today" is in my top 10 for sure.
Isn't it so cool how memories are triggered by music? It makes me think of an experiment with sound and memory that I read about a while ago; something called The Memory Machine that was installed at the British Museum back in 2003. Cathy Lane and Nye Parry, two composers, built an interactive sound installation into which visitors spoke memories via a telephone and those memories were spun into a mix of constantly changing musical sounds. It was described as an "aural metaphor for the workings of human memory." Beautiful!
"Someday when we're dreaming,
Deep in love, not a lot to say.
Then we will remember
Things we said today........"
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