Songs that connects you to 11/22/63

[cryppler4]

Just thinking about music we all may listen to that really makes us think of the various characters/themes in the book. Since I love a song that I can connect with something meaningful to me, here are a few that put me right back to thinking about the book:

Could it be any Harder - The Calling
Just a generally good song about having to say goodbye & wanted just one more moment.

I Would Do Anything for you - Foster the People
This one connects me to the book more than any other. I listen to the song as an overview of the Sadie/Jake relationship, of Sadie telling Jake she'll stick with him no matter what, & Jake willing to give up anything(including their relationship) to ensure her safety. Plus, the music & beat almost have that bittersweet feel of the book.

You & Me - Lifehouse
I know this may not work, but this is the song I envision playing when Jake & Sadie have their final dance. There's no one else in that place or time, it's just them & a moment together. Plus, the song has a semi-sad musical tone to it, once again that bittersweet feeling for Jake & Sadie. Also, "Everything", also by Lifehouse, could relate to Jake & Sadie.

Well, just one fan's opinion. Check out these songs & see what you think! & if you have any songs you listen to that make you instantly think of Jake & Sadie, let us know!

[PrisonerNumber6]

I don't mean to preach anything with this post, like cryppler4 says, this is just a song that resonated with the book for me. It was actually this song, rather than in the mood or anything else that I heard in my head as I read the last lines.




http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cfeEGLsq-kY

[kingzeppelin]

Obviously music is very personal thing. A tune that "shakes one persons tree" will leave someone else unmoved, but music that "makes you instantly think of Jake & Sadie?"
Not an easy question to answer but to my mind there can only be one tune.... Glen Miller's "In The Mood".


Jake & Sadie without "In The Mood" would be like Casablanca without "As Time Goes By"




http://youtu.be/MO9nzpZIoFk

[GNTLGNT]

...most assuredly King Zep....The Great Glenn and his band.....and for their slow dances....


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n92ATE3IgIs

[PrisonerNumber6]

And now folks, an oldie but a goodie. At least a song I associate as much with the novel as anything. Ladies and gentleman, please welcome Ben E. King and the Drifters.



www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-XQ26KePUQ

[tom32]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0BHBjWttvO4

I heard the song above a couple of weeks ago as I was (re)reading the book and the lyrics fit the Jake/Sadie story aspect of the story perfectly I think...The sense of determination mixed with a sense of longing expressed in the song correspond well with Jake's hopes for his and Sadie's futures together, but also with the fact that he doesn't "fit in" in 1963 also.

A relatively new song (it only came out earlier this year) but I became an instant fan and I hope you all like it :)

[PrisonerNumber6]

This song is technically very important to the book and therefore the movie, it will even have to make an appearance in the film for the sake of completeness. However, well...just listen.



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkNVwV5zquM


Gaaah! Someone stop the torture!

[PrisonerNumber6]

I always tend to think of this song when the chapters set on Mercedes Street and Dallas start. It fits the ragged dead end atmosphere of those scenes, and also serves as, I hope, a fitting apology for the last post above.




http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ituP5X7kP64

[carrie's younger brother]

I always tend to think of this song when the chapters set on Mercedes Street and Dallas start. It fits the ragged dead end atmosphere of those scenes, and also serves as, I hope, a fitting apology for the last post above.




http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ituP5X7kP64



Great song by an amazing group. Yes, it does invoke the feeling you describe Prisoner.

[carrie's younger brother]

Although it was not released until 1967 and originally written about the unrest between law enforcement and young club goers on Sunset Strip in California, "For What It's Worth" by Buffalo Springfield ran through my head as I read the book. Some of the lyrics are chillingly accurate:

There's something happening here
What it is ain't exactly clear
There's a man with a gun over there
Telling me I got to beware
I think it's time we stop, children, what's that sound
Everybody look what's going down

Also:

Paranoia strikes deep
Into your life it will creep
It starts when you're always afraid
You step out of line, the man come and take you away
We better stop, hey, what's that sound
Everybody look what's going down

[PrisonerNumber6]

It just occurred to me,this song by Don Henley sums up the themes of the novel (as well as Hearts in Atlantis) as much as anything.



http://vimeo.com/38296751

[Lily Sawyer]

I guess I'm a bit of a purist.
I think of songs from 1961, songs like "Calendar Girl" (referencing Jake/George and Sadie's drawn-out romance over many months), "Hit the Road Jack" (when Jake feels he needs to git before he's discovered).....and because it also cross-references another King work in the same era, "Stand By Me"...

Neil Sedaka: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-V03f74P4_o
Ray Charles: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rEsVp5tiDQ
Ben E. King: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UA53T_DT4kk

[GGliorF]

Hey :) So I'm in the army and right about the time Sadie and Jake broke up and he moved from Jodie I had to stop reading for a few days because it was 'that time of the month army style', which meant I had to guard the base and had almost no free time. But while I was doing that I listened to my iPod a lot and the song "better in the long run" by Miranda Lambert just made me see the book in my head. It was like it was written about Jake and Sadie! How they loved each other but had to break up because it was better in the long run.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-0_zkXXZ7k

[RichardX]

"Family Snapshot" by Peter Gabriel is the best (in my opinion) song about the assassination itself. It's based in part on the JFK assassination and the George Wallace shooting ("Diary of an Assassin"). The unnerving part is that it's written from the perspective of Oswald/assassin and makes him more a pathetic rather than evil character. Tracing the assassination to neglect and a simple desire for attention as a child. Oswald's own father died before he was born. He moved around a lot. Had dyslexia at a time when that was rarely acknowledged or treated in school. No close friends or relatives. Spent most of his childhood to himself.

[CorradoMilano63]

I have just finished reading this beautiful love story. There's one and only song that I started hearing in my mind towards the end of the book and that will remain forever entwined with my memories of Jake and Sadie. The Everly Brothers' "So Sad" which was released in 1960, is achingly wistful and in its own bittersweet way, heartbreaking. The lyrics seem all the more fulfilling if you remember the beginning of the book: "I have never been what you'd call a crying man".
Phil and Don sing: "We used to have good times together, but now I feel them slip away, it makes me cry to see love die, so sad to watch good love go bad. Remember how you used to feel dear, you said nothing could change your mind, It breaks my heart to see us part, so sad to watch good love go bad
Is it any wonder that I feel so blue blue, when I know for certain that I'm losing you. Remember how you used to feel, dear, you said nothing could change your mind, it breaks my heart to see us part, so sad to watch good love go bad, so sad to watch good love go bad…"

[muskrat]

"I met a gin-soaked, bar room queen in Memphis,
She tried to take me upstairs for a ride
She had to heave me right across her shoulders
Cause I just can't seem to drink you off my mind..."

That one got Jake/George in a lot of trouble, if I recall correctly.

[The Nameless]

I have 3 songs that remind me of the book, they're all pretty meaningless though.

1, Nice to be Out by The Stereophonics - simply because of 1 line: "Dallas to the library, the place they ended Kennedy, I stood where Oswald took his shot, in my opinion there's a bigger plot"

2, Sympathy for the Devil by the Rolling Stones - again, no real reason that it resonates for me other than the fact that Jake gets into trouble for singing a Stones song that is not out yet - even though it was not Sympathy for the Devil, that song is just my favourite Stones song, and as soon as I hear the words Rolling Stones, or read them, that is the 1st song in my head.

3, Mr. Sandman by the Chordettes - this is the only one that I think has any kind of real connection, but even this one is not relevant to the story. I just think no song ever made screams "YOU'RE IN 1950'S AMERICA" more than that one. The image of Jake emerging in 1958 for the 1st time is a vivid one in my mind, and for a scene in the movie, I can see him emerging from the dark pantry into a bright late summer day, Jake, looking confused meets the yellow card man, after his chat with him, he walks across to the Kennebec where a near by classic car has Mr Sandman on the radio - maybe the 1st appearance of the White over Red Plymouth Fury, movie scenes are always slightly different. Because Jake does a few resets, the song could be like a theme for the film.