Is there a song that instantly turns you melancholy and maybe brings you back to high school immediately?
Mine is the Kinks’ “Don’t Forget to Dance.”
My senior year of high school my girlfriend moved away and I needed to find a date for prom.
One of my friends had recently broken up with a girl who was pretty but I barely knew her. We went on a date. I think I took her to Rocky III or something.
I wasn’t sure if I wanted to ask her so I said a little prayer. “Dear God, if the next song on the radio is good, I’ll pull over and ask her to prom.”
It was this Kinks tune and I figured wow, what a *sign* – not only was it a rare good song on the radio but it was about dancing.
I asked her, she said yes, we kissed. But prom with her was bad. Turned out auntie flo arrived and she didn’t know how to tell me because we barely knew each other and she didn’t really feel up to dancing.
So I danced with my friends, all the while thinking of my ex gf who wrote me every day from far away… California.
So any time I ask Alexa to play the Kinks I sorta want her to play this but I sorta don’t.
Today I learned she was in the Miss Illinois competition and the year after our prom she was the Rose Queen
