Sounds of Carolina Circle Mall

That's the cover-art for a CD I made a few weeks ago.

The title is "Sounds of Carolina Circle Mall". It's basically a 20 track compilation of music that reminds me of Carolina Circle Mall. It covers both the Ice Rink Era and the Carousel Era, despite the fact that the cover is a picture of the carousel.

The songs are... (Note: I have decided not to include the artists. I'm not sure about some and I want to avoid embarrasment if I'm wrong)

1. Get Down Tonight
2. Turn the Beat Around
3. Flashdance...What a Feeling
4. Last Dance
5. Break My Stride
6. Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go
7. We Built This City
8. Nothing's Going to Stop Us
9. Together Forever
10. She's Got The Look
11. Two Hearts
12. One More Night
13. The Motown Song
14. Can't Help Falling in Love (UB40 Version)
15. Baby Come Back (UB40)
16. Puff (The Magic Dragon)
17. Weave Me the Sunshine
18. Light One Candle
19. The Sign
20. Ordinary World

It's amazing how much music a mall could remind you of.

Carolina Circle Tunes 2006

Last year, I posted a list of songs that remind me of Carolina Circle Mall. Well, I'm going to do a sequel to last year's list with 5 more songs that remind me of Carolina Circle Mall.

5. Monday Monday by the Mamas & the Papas. Back around 1994, I bought a Mamas & the Papas audio cassette at the mall's Camelot Music. One of my favorites was Monday Monday. So that song and other Mamas & the Papas songs qualify as Carolina Circle Tunes.

4. Together Forever by Rick Astley. If my calculations are correct, this was one of the number one songs in America in June 1988. That was the month Carolina Circle Mall finished its renovation and opened its carousel. Also, I believe I heard that song being played a few times at the mall.

3. The Motown Song by Rod Stewart. This song always reminds me of vintage retail and I remember hearing it being played at Carolina Circle Mall (Mainly Montgomery Ward).

2. Hotel California by the Eagles and other Eagles songs. I used to love the Eagles when I was little and I'd always listen to it on the way to the mall.

1. Puff (The Magic Dragon) by Peter, Paul & Mary and other of their music. Like the Eagles, I loved Peter, Paul & Mary and would always listen to them on the way to the mall.

That's all I can think of for now.

Carolina Circle Tunes

Music fills in everything. Music has added the seasoning to my road trips. But it also adds the seasoning to Carolina Circle Mall. Carolina Circle has a variety of music stylings much like road music. Probably the artist that really reminds me of Carolina Circle would probably be Phil Collins. They would always play his music at a lot of stores at that mall like at Montgomery Ward.

The Back to the Future the Second Trilogy (Official Roadgeek and Carolina Circle Movie), has the mother load of Carolina Circle scenes. Every movie has a soundtrack and recently I have discovered some new Carolina Circle Tunes.

Time for a top 5 countdown:

5. Lightning Strikes by Lou Christie. For some reason that song reminds me a lot of Carolina Circle's early years before it was renovated. Even though I haven't witnessed the pre-renovation Carolina Circle, that song mixes well with the pictures of the mall in 1976.

4. Vacation by The Go-Go's. That song reminds me of the carousel. Even though the carousel wasn't there when the song was released in 1982, the song is very 80's and the design at the time of the carousel was as well very 80's.

3: Baby Come Back by UB40. This song is straight from the Back to the Future the Second Soundtrack. Although I've never heard it at the mall, I now consider it a Carolina Circle Tune because of the movie.

2. One More Night by Phil Collins. That song would always play on the car radio coming back from Winston-Salem on Wednesday night. Seeing the neon red main entrance arch with One More Night playing on the radio. Even though on Wednesdays I always went to Hanes Mall and not Carolina Circle.

1. Two Hearts by Phil Collins. Nothing says Carolina Circle Mall better than this song. That song would be played a lot at Montgomery Ward. With that being my favorite store at the mall and having a place in my heart for the mall, that song reminds me of two things: Carolina Circle Mall and driving to North Myrtle Beach on my 2005 Beach Trip.

Music makes the World Go Round. Or in this case, makes the "Circle" go round.