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  2. Category:Songs about nostalgia - Wikipedia

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    Back in the Day (Ahmad song) Back in the Day (Missy Elliott song) Back Then (CDB song) Back Then Right Now; Back to the 80s (song) Back When; Back When My Hair Was Short; Baggy Trousers; Be Here Now (George Harrison song) Beach Baby; The Best Year of My Life (song) Birth of Rock and Roll; La Bohème (Charles Aznavour song) Bookends (song) The ...

  3. Those Were the Days (song) - Wikipedia

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    "Those Were the Days" is a song composed by Boris Fomin (1900–1948) but credited to Gene Raskin, who put a new English lyric to Fomin's Russian romance song "Dorogoi dlinnoyu", [a] with words by the poet Konstantin Podrevsky. The song is a reminiscence of youth and romantic idealism.

  4. List of songs based on literary works - Wikipedia

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    The song is based on Donna Deitch's 1985 film Desert Hearts, which is an adaptation of Rule's novel. [186] "Soma" Is This It: The Strokes: Brave New World: Aldous Huxley: Refers to the fictional drug used in Brave New World. [187] "Song For Clay" A Weekend in the City: Bloc Party: Less than Zero: Bret Easton Ellis [53] "The Stand (Prophecy ...

  5. Long, Long Ago - Wikipedia

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    "Long, Long Ago" is a song dealing with nostalgia, written in 1833 by English composer Thomas Haynes Bayly.Originally called "The Long Ago", its name was apparently changed by the editor Rufus Wilmot Griswold when it was first published, posthumously, in a Philadelphia magazine, along with a collection of other songs and poems by Bayly.

  6. The Boys of Summer (song) - Wikipedia

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    "The Boys of Summer" uses a repeating guitar riff. It was recorded in the key of F ♯ major with a tempo of 88 beats per minute. Henley's vocals span F ♯ 3 to A ♯ 4. [7] [8]The lyrics appear to be about the passing of youth and entering middle age, with the nostalgic theme of "summer love" [9] and reminiscence of a past relationship. [10]

  7. Last Night When We Were Young - Wikipedia

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    Last Night When We Were Young" is a 1935 popular song about nostalgia and young love [1] composed by Harold Arlen, with lyrics by Yip Harburg. Arlen regarded it as the favourite of the songs that he had written. [2] Lawrence Tibbett recorded the song on October 9, 1935. [2]

  8. The Things We Did Last Summer - Wikipedia

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    The Things We Did Last Summer" is a popular song about nostalgia [1] from 1946. The words were written by Sammy Cahn, with the composition by Jule Styne. The most well known version is the 1946 Top ten hit by Jo Stafford. Versions by Frank Sinatra and by Vaughn Monroe also charted that year. Shelley Fabares had a hit cover in 1962 on the pop chart.

  9. Yesterdays (1933 song) - Wikipedia

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    "Yesterdays" is a 1933 song about nostalgia [1] composed by Jerome Kern with lyrics by Otto Harbach. They wrote the song for Roberta, a musical based on the novel Gowns by Roberta by Alice Duer Miller. "Yesterdays" was overshadowed by the musical's more popular song, "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes", which was a number one hit for the Paul Whiteman ...