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Posts: 177
Friday
Does anyone remember 'Our Tune' on Radio 1? The DJ Simon Bates used to read out a true story to the background music of Romeo & Juliet, that a listener had sent in. I used to love listening to the stories; they were usually about someone's romance (with both happy and sad endings) but sometimes the story could be about something else : family conflict, broken friendships, loss of a family member/friend, love against the odds etc. Or sometimes the story would be about a person's own private troubles ; I remember the story of one man who became suicidal because he started balding!
Simon Bates would read out the story - taking big gulps and pauses here and there - and while some of the stories were uplifting, or sometimes amusing, some stories were heartbreaking. When I used to listen to them, whether at home or in the car, everything would stop and I'd become transfixed! They started each morning just after 11 and went on for about 15 minutes.
Anyway, I thought it would be nice to start an "Our Tune" on here!
It would be lovely hearing a story of yours, and the song that you associate with those times. As you probably know, you can find almost any song on Youtube, and put the link to it on here.
If you don't want to go into the details of your story - you could just put the link up to a song that is special to you - and keep us all guessing!
You can put more than one song up - we all have a few songs that take us back to a certain time or event in our lives.
I have a few songs which I'll post up later...but to get you started, here's a link to the theme tune of Simon Bates 'Our Tune'......
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C6ZDsUGiGqM
Strawbs
Formally Known As Strawberryxxx
Barbarababe #1
Posts: 100
Friday, 04-15-11 1
Hello Strawbs
This is a marvellous thread. I well remember Our Tune and I would listen to it on occasion, I thought it was a super idea and some of the stories had me reaching for my hankie I can tell you. It's quite strange you've brought this subject up, I only finished sorting out my music this week. I will tell you my tune and the story attached to it which makes it so terribly special to me. I need to go back in time to when I first heard this delightful and romantic song and never guessed the meaning it would have for me. I loved the song the first time I heard it and it's one that I would feature on Desert Island Discs, it would be in my bag for sure. It's melodious, romantic and full of passion and meaning. Being an all time favourite of mine I had it on my cassette tape compilation when I took it with me to Turkey. When I met my chap and we started to become serious in that first fortnight the song took on an even more powerful meaning and I was thrilled to the heart when I asked my chap to listen to it and he said he loved it too. When I left him at the airport it felt like that song had been written for us, fate maybe? We had a very tearful goodbye at the airport and once I'd settled into my seat on the plane I was already planning ahead to my next trip, I love making lists and plans. I felt terribly upset without my chap on that lonely flight home but it cheered me up immensely when I played that song on my cassette player (I've transferred them all now to CD and ipod) I feel a trifle embarrassed to say I played the song repeatedly, non stop, over and over again throughout the whole flight while I thought about my chap and went over and over in my head all the times we'd shared as I listen to the song. I feel a little embarrassed because I remember the passenger sat next to me kept glancing at me as I swayed my head to the music, the melody and rhythm always gets you swaying, and I get carried away with music and I always smile while listening and day dreaming.
My chap hasn't popped the question yet but it's on the cards and I even told him if we got married this would be our wedding dance tune and he agreed it would be lovely to dance to on such a special occasion. The words fit perfectly to our love story (I would never have guessed back then when I first heard it the significance it would have for me) and I am thrilled to find the songs on youtube. I have all ready sent a link to my chap, I know he will be thrilled he loves the song so much. The special and unusual thing is that the singer was on the short side like my chap and had dark hair like him too. It's a marvellous video and when you watch it to the end the last picture of the actor looks facially very much like my chap and there's a lady at the end who has the same hairstyle as me. It's incredible.
Here ladies is Our Song. I hope you enjoy it as much as I and my chap do.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AdLfDg_cnIo
Babs
pixiestoes #2
Posts: 12
Friday,
Aaaw that is beatiful babs x
Deniz #3
Posts: 86
Friday,
Babs thats lovely.
As for OUR TUNE i remember the theme intro tune, buts thats as far as it goes
I'm not a lovely dovey person ... I love receiving flowers but thats as romantic as i get.
porkchop #4 [
Posts: 136
Frida
This is ours what we first kissed to in a bar
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJWjBLb7x8U&feature=fvsr
xx
absoluteasenaeasy.turkishlove #5
Posts: 2
Friday
our tune is also a tarkan track....don bebegim...reminds me of leaving my now husband at the airport when we were holiday romancing .we still love the track to this day.x
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BRLE0Hy8Rnc
scarlett #6
Posts: 177
Saturday
Hi Babs,
Your song is beautiful.
Do you mean the man in the red jacket at the end of the video looks like your boyfriend?
Strawbs
Formally Known As Strawberryxxx
scarlett #7
Posts: 177
Saturday
Hi Porkchop,
That Tarkan's a sexy beast isn't he?! Did you see the way he kissed that girl in the video?!
Strawbs
Formally Known As Strawberryxxx
yvette #8
Posts: 216
Saturday,
Cor Tarkan is fit in that first one! His gay aint he?
Yvette
Deniz
Posts: 86
Saturday,
Yvette go wash your mouth out with soap .... How can you say such a thing about MYYYYYYYYYYY Tarkan
ruby #10
Posts: 94
Saturday,
Hi Girls
I think Tarkan is very sexy too, went and saw him at Wembley in April 2008, gosh 3 years ago now, how time flies, he was brilliant and so so sexy in the flesh. Must take a cold shower now.
One of my favourite songs is Bu Aksam Olurum which is such a powerful love song and going back about 8-10 years it was playing everywhere you went in Marmaris. Due to the fact that it is such a very sad song, the Turkish Government decided to ban it initially as so many Turks were commiting suicide to the song. Really cannot understand why they decided to do this en masse, but they did, so it was banned.
Anyway, typical of Turkish laws, they decided the video could still be played but they adjusted the ending to it, the violen now goes a cropper off the balcony instead of the man. This song brings back so many powerful memories, of course, I didnt understand a word of it until I watched it on YouTube and read the English subtitles. I used to think he was saying 'do your room, do your room', so I used to say to my teenage daughter at the time, go on, do your bloody bedroom its a mess!.
Anyway, hope you enjoy it as much as I did and still do.
https://youtu.be/M-PRNjXvrQo
Posts: 177
Friday
Does anyone remember 'Our Tune' on Radio 1? The DJ Simon Bates used to read out a true story to the background music of Romeo & Juliet, that a listener had sent in. I used to love listening to the stories; they were usually about someone's romance (with both happy and sad endings) but sometimes the story could be about something else : family conflict, broken friendships, loss of a family member/friend, love against the odds etc. Or sometimes the story would be about a person's own private troubles ; I remember the story of one man who became suicidal because he started balding!
Simon Bates would read out the story - taking big gulps and pauses here and there - and while some of the stories were uplifting, or sometimes amusing, some stories were heartbreaking. When I used to listen to them, whether at home or in the car, everything would stop and I'd become transfixed! They started each morning just after 11 and went on for about 15 minutes.
Anyway, I thought it would be nice to start an "Our Tune" on here!
It would be lovely hearing a story of yours, and the song that you associate with those times. As you probably know, you can find almost any song on Youtube, and put the link to it on here.
If you don't want to go into the details of your story - you could just put the link up to a song that is special to you - and keep us all guessing!
You can put more than one song up - we all have a few songs that take us back to a certain time or event in our lives.
I have a few songs which I'll post up later...but to get you started, here's a link to the theme tune of Simon Bates 'Our Tune'......
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C6ZDsUGiGqM
Strawbs
Formally Known As Strawberryxxx
Barbarababe #1
Posts: 100
Friday, 04-15-11 1
Hello Strawbs
This is a marvellous thread. I well remember Our Tune and I would listen to it on occasion, I thought it was a super idea and some of the stories had me reaching for my hankie I can tell you. It's quite strange you've brought this subject up, I only finished sorting out my music this week. I will tell you my tune and the story attached to it which makes it so terribly special to me. I need to go back in time to when I first heard this delightful and romantic song and never guessed the meaning it would have for me. I loved the song the first time I heard it and it's one that I would feature on Desert Island Discs, it would be in my bag for sure. It's melodious, romantic and full of passion and meaning. Being an all time favourite of mine I had it on my cassette tape compilation when I took it with me to Turkey. When I met my chap and we started to become serious in that first fortnight the song took on an even more powerful meaning and I was thrilled to the heart when I asked my chap to listen to it and he said he loved it too. When I left him at the airport it felt like that song had been written for us, fate maybe? We had a very tearful goodbye at the airport and once I'd settled into my seat on the plane I was already planning ahead to my next trip, I love making lists and plans. I felt terribly upset without my chap on that lonely flight home but it cheered me up immensely when I played that song on my cassette player (I've transferred them all now to CD and ipod) I feel a trifle embarrassed to say I played the song repeatedly, non stop, over and over again throughout the whole flight while I thought about my chap and went over and over in my head all the times we'd shared as I listen to the song. I feel a little embarrassed because I remember the passenger sat next to me kept glancing at me as I swayed my head to the music, the melody and rhythm always gets you swaying, and I get carried away with music and I always smile while listening and day dreaming.
My chap hasn't popped the question yet but it's on the cards and I even told him if we got married this would be our wedding dance tune and he agreed it would be lovely to dance to on such a special occasion. The words fit perfectly to our love story (I would never have guessed back then when I first heard it the significance it would have for me) and I am thrilled to find the songs on youtube. I have all ready sent a link to my chap, I know he will be thrilled he loves the song so much. The special and unusual thing is that the singer was on the short side like my chap and had dark hair like him too. It's a marvellous video and when you watch it to the end the last picture of the actor looks facially very much like my chap and there's a lady at the end who has the same hairstyle as me. It's incredible.
Here ladies is Our Song. I hope you enjoy it as much as I and my chap do.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AdLfDg_cnIo
Babs
pixiestoes #2
Posts: 12
Friday,
Aaaw that is beatiful babs x
Deniz #3
Posts: 86
Friday,
Babs thats lovely.
As for OUR TUNE i remember the theme intro tune, buts thats as far as it goes
I'm not a lovely dovey person ... I love receiving flowers but thats as romantic as i get.
porkchop #4 [
Posts: 136
Frida
This is ours what we first kissed to in a bar
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJWjBLb7x8U&feature=fvsr
xx
absoluteasenaeasy.turkishlove #5
Posts: 2
Friday
our tune is also a tarkan track....don bebegim...reminds me of leaving my now husband at the airport when we were holiday romancing .we still love the track to this day.x
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BRLE0Hy8Rnc
scarlett #6
Posts: 177
Saturday
Hi Babs,
Your song is beautiful.
Do you mean the man in the red jacket at the end of the video looks like your boyfriend?
Strawbs
Formally Known As Strawberryxxx
scarlett #7
Posts: 177
Saturday
Hi Porkchop,
That Tarkan's a sexy beast isn't he?! Did you see the way he kissed that girl in the video?!
Strawbs
Formally Known As Strawberryxxx
yvette #8
Posts: 216
Saturday,
Cor Tarkan is fit in that first one! His gay aint he?
Yvette
Deniz
Posts: 86
Saturday,
Yvette go wash your mouth out with soap .... How can you say such a thing about MYYYYYYYYYYY Tarkan
ruby #10
Posts: 94
Saturday,
Hi Girls
I think Tarkan is very sexy too, went and saw him at Wembley in April 2008, gosh 3 years ago now, how time flies, he was brilliant and so so sexy in the flesh. Must take a cold shower now.
One of my favourite songs is Bu Aksam Olurum which is such a powerful love song and going back about 8-10 years it was playing everywhere you went in Marmaris. Due to the fact that it is such a very sad song, the Turkish Government decided to ban it initially as so many Turks were commiting suicide to the song. Really cannot understand why they decided to do this en masse, but they did, so it was banned.
Anyway, typical of Turkish laws, they decided the video could still be played but they adjusted the ending to it, the violen now goes a cropper off the balcony instead of the man. This song brings back so many powerful memories, of course, I didnt understand a word of it until I watched it on YouTube and read the English subtitles. I used to think he was saying 'do your room, do your room', so I used to say to my teenage daughter at the time, go on, do your bloody bedroom its a mess!.
Anyway, hope you enjoy it as much as I did and still do.
https://youtu.be/M-PRNjXvrQo
