My dad would play this tape in the car every time he drove my brothers and I somewhere. It will never stop making think of him and them, or how much I love and miss them.
I was just a freshman in high school. Still struggling with a lot of things. My parents had pulled me off my ADHD medication and then couldn't understand why my schoolwork was suffering, I was struggling with understanding my own blossoming identity and sense of self, figuring out who I was. I wasn't doing my work in school so I was put in the afterschool programs with the problem kids. One day we had to leave the high school building and go across the street to the intermediate school for 5th and 6th grades. The teacher who was supervising us thought we might benefit from some calm, meditative music. This was the album he played. I'd never heard anything so soothing and calming before. I was hooked. A week later we had to go back to the building and I asked him to put the tape on again and I asked if he could make a copy of the tape for me. He did. My parents, particularly my mom, hated it. She didn't consider electronic music to actually be music. She made fun of new age music, meditative music, stuff like Enya and Enigma. I was hooked on it and I started looking for all kinds of new age CDs and tapes to listen to. I don't even remember that teacher's name anymore it was so long ago. But he helped me in ways he'll never know. This album and music of this genre are knitted together with some of my fondest memories. I still can't listen to Rhythm in the Pews without flashing back to one particularly nice, cool day in early november, walking down a road lined with trees on either side, the leaves falling everywhere as a nice cool wind blew in. That moment of that day when I paused and looked around me and took everything in cause I wanted to remember it. The blue sky, the chill in the air, all the yellow leaves, the grass just starting to turn brown.
Yup. Great album. This is one of my favorite pieces of music for all-time. Calming, restorative, enlivening… all at the same time. Magic. Wishing you well.🌌🌅
I heard Call Me by Blondie play on the radio a few weeks ago and I was wracking my brain over what song sounded exactly like part of the main verse. I couldn't sleep at all, I just kept thinking about it, until just now it finally hit me. Now I am at peace
One of my favorite songs ever. I first heard it in an art class in high school in the 90's and somehow managed to get a copy of the entire album on tape soon after. I remember listening to it over and over again at night under the covers and letting my mind follow the music wherever it led.
Summer evenings at Stone Mountain, watching the laser show. And even before that, memories of driving through the Adirondacks with my family with this tape on in the background as it snowed like crazy outside. Hello nostalgia.
I can't remember how young I was when I first heard this song. All I remember is that I heard it at the Stone Mountain lazer light show. I'm not as enraptured by the song now as I was then, but this brings back my childhood memories clear as day.
I first heard this song in 1992 when I was in second grade and obsessively loved it. Two years later, my best friend and I choreographed a killer dance to it for the school's talent show. :)
Remember my older brother playing this in his room when I was little. When I heard I loved it. I never remembered the name, so it was hard to get him to play it. The album he listened to it in had a purple tree, so that's how I described the song. Years later, I still find it an amazing song. I owe it to my older brother for showing me this song.
Doesn't this take you back to your good days. I just remember this song when I was 5, and it just takes me back. When I was 5 it was good. We always listened to stuff like this and The Cars. Just beautiful!
Years back, in order to wake me up for elementary school, my dad would play this song on the speakers at full volume throughout the house. Now I wake up at my mom's house for school and it's been that way for a long time now. Only recently was there an occasion where I wake up at his house, and he played the music on the speakers again and it was major nostalgia
First time I heard this we had just gotten high and my pal's pop comes into the living room where we're baking out and throws this on. He sits down and none of us say a word. Just sitting there grooving on this. Then I see him grinning and sonofabitch if he's not baked himself. We all had a good laugh and let him DJ away the next hour or so playing Ray Lynch, Jean Michel Jarre, Laurie Anderson, et al. Ahh, good times.
@@chrishuston6652 Careful Chris, all your favorite musicians just might've been real losers at one time or another. Yet we'd all be the losers, had their music not been made.
As vezes me pego chorando , lembrando do Gaspa depois imagino oque ele falaria se estivesse aqui olha menina para de chorar vou te dar uma chinelada kkkk e aí sorrio , ele sempre será especial sempre será essa luz que nunca se apagará só tenho uma palavra pra descrever Gratidão .
Comecei a escutar Gasparetto depois que ele morreu...Não o conhecia, mas ele ficou tão próximo, é impressionante. Parece que está vivo, na verdade ele ainda vive. Gosto muito dele, muito mesmo. Uma pena não tê-lo conhecido aqui. Era uma figura. Engraçado e inteligente.
@@michelleaguirres3433 quando estava com depressão ouvi ele na rádio Mundial me ajudou bastante vira e mexe ouço ele ainda bem que temos acesso aos vídeos gravados na internet sou muito grata a ele , ele é um ser iluminado mesmo não estando aqui fisicamente.
@@patriciafilhadoreiJesus verdade!! Escuto os áudios dele todos os dias. Gosto muito da Maria Fernanda Amaral, ela fala mais sobre relacionamentos afetivos, mas também ensina sobre as leis da vida. É ótima também. Amo muito ela e o Gaspa
The first time my family & I heard the music of Ray Lynch we were shopping. The music could be heard all through the store like the music of the Pide Piper. We left the store that day with every Ray Lynch album and an amazing ONKYO steroe system. Still enjoying my steroe & the music of Ray Lynch some 30 yeas later.
This has got to be one of the most aptly named songs ever. The music is truly effervescent. I bought this on tape back when CDs were a novelty item, and I still love listening to it.
when Stone Mountain's (GA),laser show played this,i always wondered who the musician was.he had some interesting titles for his songs.they play this every time visit.also,they play The Devil Went Down To Georgia by Charlie Daniels,which is a cool sight.
An old favorite that haunts me with memories, wonderful ones. Brings me a ton of joy and when I heard it again today it gave me the willies as in goosebumps. Great stuff from Ray Lynch, thanks a bunch!
Same story. I first heard this in the late '80s as a kid. I was on class field trip to the Westbury Music Fair (now called NYCB Theatre at Westbury) and they were playing this as muzak before the show started. Of course, I've completely forgotten what show it was and now can only remember this tune that got stuck in my head for decades. I finally found it this morning when I created a "Tubular Bells" station on Pandora.
Reggie Holder this was the most identifiable piece of music used at the Wonders of Life Pavillion (1989-2007) at EPCOT Center at Walt Disney World. The pavillion is now empty, unused, and rotting with the most loved of its 3 attractions, Cranium Command, still standing but not operating.
I was born in the 90's and my mother had a tape she would play in the car and it had this song on it and I would beg and plead for her to play it so from the time i could talk i would cry for soda pop when I was in the car and a lot of the time she would put it on :) as a child i would looses myself in the popping rhythmic sound of this song...i always kinda imagined raindrops when i would hear this song :) thank you so much for sharing :)
Whenever I draw or create something, I always have some sort of music on, depending on the mood. Now that I think about it, I think this is one of the first songs to actually start that inspiration. Gosh, if only I remembered what I was drawing back then while I listened to this...
I first heard this song in the late 80s. A woman who would later go on to be my 6th grade math and computer teacher played a series of shapes via a projector while this song played. She played the same presentation again during my 6th grade year, but all these years I haven't heard this song since or looked it up. Then earlier this month or last I got to thinking about it again. All I could remember was that the teacher in question mentioned that the artist's last name was Lynch, and she mentioned the title Deep Breakfast, which all this time I thought was the title of the track.
+Ronald Kapaun Your story was pretty fascinating as well! I never got around to buying the album, but one of these days I will, even if I'm only able to do digitally.
This song extenuates how wonderful Ray Lynch is and how amazing his work can be. While I strongly believe other songs on the same album are better, I really love this song for its light electronic pop feeling.
@@user-fd8br4mq8n Tiny Geometries and The Oh of Pleasure are definitely 2 of my favorites. Celestial Soda Pop is a wonderful electronic pop track, and is of course the first Ray Lynch track I heard, and to date, still the only one I have remixed.
Just heard this on Smooth Jazz Chicago dot net - thought it might have been Andreas Vollenweider. Rick O'Dell says Ray is 71 now. Very cool and pioneering for its time!
i love this song, and listen to it every day... it is the perfect melody to dream, imagine and visualise! thanks for the beautiful pics and the video! well done
My grandma jean loved ray lynch and we we would visit her and make things out of clay while listing to lynch.....I lost my grandma jean when I was 9 yrs old ......:(.....I miss her and can't wait to c her again....
Listened to this and other wonderful stuff in my furniture shop, all night long… mid 1990’s. Wonderful people in my life then too. Fuckin’ bliss. Thx, God.
This magnificent and joyful music was chosen by Luis Gasparetto for the opening credits of his radio and television broadcast in the late 1980s until almost the end of his life, which occurred in 2018. Gasparetto was a spirit painter and was especially known for this reason in the world but particularly in Brazil, his native country, but also psychotherapist, giving advice to each other through his broadcasts . Bisous Emi 😍
@@emi7912 And you always have nice words for everyone who warms the heart and brings joy, and on top of that you are not outdone in terms of knowledge too, you like to discover new things, you have an inquisitive mind and it's a pleasure to share with you. 😘😘😘
This is incredible. I cant believe it took me this long to finally find this song. It's Nov 2023. The last time I heard this song was in the academic year beginning in Sept 1998. So basically between Sept 1998 and Summer of 1999. That's basically at least 24 years. I have tried over the years to utilize various sound search websites to find it and I wasn't successful. At a point i thought I may be humming the song wrong and I gave up. And now, "Hum to search" found it in less than 30 Seconds. I am about to send this youtube link to a friend and former classmate. The song was part of a CD album of purely instrumentals that we both always listened to. I have no recollection if they were from various artists or from the same artist. The only thing I recall is that we listened to this song a hundred times more than we listened to all the other songs on that CD. I am just hoping that my friend's memory is as sharp as mine and that they will remember. Fingers crossed.
Tessa is happily and freely swimming in her old pool of this song like as she was teen. Damn. What a Google YT. I even can find this very old-time New Age piece when I was very very young. Thanks to Farhat Tuc to upload this piece of his album to let me re-enjoy and wrapped by this warming old cloth....10/10 of HAPPINESS BY THIS OLD SONG..................... STF.....................
Years and years had not heard this evocative theme. Really musicians of that time have something that connects us to a cosmic energy in which we are all part of another .... the images are beautiful. Peace for all
Legendary. I remember being in first grade and hearing this song on the radio and asking my mom what it was. Nearly 20 years later I remembered it had "soda pop" in the title and I'm so stoked I finally found it! So much pleasant nostalgia right now!
Holy crap, my second (or third?) grade music teacher used to play this song for us and make use do these weird exercises like moving our eyes around and such, she called it “Brain Gym” and so for years I thought it was the Brain Gym song, googling this obviously did me no good...suddenly I remembered having heard it play in Epcot once upon an eon ago, an hour or so of searching and here I am. Man, this brings back memories lol
Ray lynch is great he really is good. For some odd reason whenever im taking a test my teacher puts on a song for us to listen to and i always tell her to put on this one. great song
I played this over and over till I burned it in my brain after doing CPR on a co-worker and it helped me get over the trauma.....such an awesome price of musical genius
Same I went looking for this guy's RU-vid channel after my dad showed it to me thinking that this guy was indi only to find out it came out a while back
