Music from the past: Time travel on the Pony Express

We've all experienced this, hearing a song that instantly triggers a memory. Sometimes that memory can just be a fleeting nano second recollection of where you were the first time you heard that particular tune, on other occasions the song can bring back the memory of the excitement you felt on a first date or equally a lost love (i.e. the song she dumped you to!) or indeed the bitter sweet memory of a long lost loved family member or friend. This happened to me recently when I was in Glasgow wasting time wating for my mates to arrive for our six weekly meet up (i.e. a pint and to talk rubbish). As is my norm I decided to stroll around the Forbidden Planet megastore and snort disparagingly at the new comics on sale as only a grumpy old git can do, when out of the blue the song below came on the sound system.

I think the last time that I heard this song was when it was released in 1970 but as soon as I heard the singers "grunts" at the start of the song my mind was instantly transported back to 1970 and to some friends and school mates I had at the time and hadn’t thought about in decades. The song by Johnny Johnston and the Bandwagon is very much in the bubble-gum pop mould but it is a fun upbeat tune and is pretty much the type of song I was listening to as a 10 year old in 1970's Glasgow, little knowing or caring what tomorrow would bring. Sadly Johnny Johnston passed away in 1979 at the all to young age of 35.