When I was a teenager in the '70s, I would go to a local campground with a family and spend weekends with them in their fifth-wheel camper. They had three boys and each of our families have known each other since longer than my birth. This campground had a swimming pond, hiking, biking, and motorcycle trails, and an arcade center. 

During the summer swimming season, they had this huge speaker outside of the arcade center and would blare out music to the area of the swimming pond.  I can't recall specifically if it was through a radio station or some sort of tape recording (I think it was a tape recording of some sort because they played many songs on repeat and I can't recall ever hearing news, commercials, or a DJ).

Below is a list of songs they played all the time and every time I hear one of them, I think of those days and how much fun we had, and how much I loved going camping with that family.  I've included the video of Moonlight Feels Right by Starbuck because it was one of those songs and the epitome of those summers (If you ever want to know the history of this song, check out the Professor of Rock's video on it - oddly, that host reminds me of one of these boys, who is also now departed).

But this is what I just absolutely love about music - how it creates these links to so many of a person's memories.  Another thing I love about it is how it also can be a particular date reminder of particular times in our life when we try to figure out just when an event occurred.

On a societal change note pertaining to public amusements - this swimming pond was not huge, but it had so many water attractions that rarely exist today (a very high diving board, a multi-tiered platform, a huge wheel to run on and compete to stay on it without being thrown off, a water slide, and some other "hazardous" in today's wimpy world standards. Only the slide still exists, along with a safe float.

On an even more amusing tale - I can't recall the specific height of the diving board, but I think it was 28 feet (I could be wrong) and one time I jumped off that wearing blue jean shorts and when I hit the water my legs were slightly apart and the impact ripped the seams in my crotch area and felt like a ball bat had been used to hammer my low hanging fruit and that hurt like hell. 

Anyway, music, what a life enhancer....these are some of the songs they played over and over again.

Starland Vocal Band - Afternoon Delight

Starbuck - Moonlight Feels Right

Bobby Bloom - Montego Bay

Leon Russell - Lady Blue

Bernie  Higgins - Key Largo

King Harvest - Dancing in the Moonlight

Doctor Hook - Sweet Sixteen

War - Low Rider

Walter Egan - Magnet & Steel