Do any of you have music that still triggers childhood doctor’s office visit flashbacks?

Is there music from your childhood that still takes you back to getting a thermometer in your butt, or being exposed?

Music to have your rectal temperature taken by:

(They Long To Be) sung by Karen Carpenter, or Dionne Warwick singing another Burt Bacharach song, (Do You Know The Way To San Jose), or Jethro Tull’s (Bungle In The Jungle) were the soundtrack songs of my childhood clinic visits. These, and tunes like them would play over the waiting room pipes as I sat with my mother awaiting the usual humiliation and probable pain down that long hallway after my name was called by my attending nurse. The music wasn’t piped into the exam rooms, but when a little boy is laying bottomless on a table, no one seemed to care if the doors was left open or ajar, so the music was usually still very audible.

No matter where or when I hear them, some songs are still an instant ‘thermometer in the butt’ for me.

Do any of you have music that still triggers childhood doctor’s office visit flashbacks?

No music, but sometimes seeing an object from when I was a kid. For example the old doctor Spock book. The thermometer case with a K on it that mom used for me as a kid, will. Stuff like that.

A reminder of a junior school medical - The great Phil Spector's first big hit by the Teddy Bears 'To know him is to love him' chart topper at the time.

Sabrina - Boys boys boys...I get instant butterflies in my stomach when I hear this song

I will need to find a doctor who appreciates mood music. I haven't had the pleasure of distracting music playing in the background. The waiting area maybe but I find it annoying. The exam room is largely just that, a place for an exam, sometimes nicely decorated with a picture or two but largely just the table and a counter. So I can't say that I have any connection to music for this purpose unless gasps and grunts count?

Great question. When I was 11, I was listening to "These boots are made for walking," by Nancy Sinatra, and saw a hot blonde girl driving a Mustang, at the time. At some point, I saw Nancy performing the song on T.V., and I thought how sexy she was. (I reached puberty very early). Anyhow, the image of her, coupled with the memory of "Mustang Sally," the hot blonde, came to mind years later, when I developed the thermometer fetish. I would love to have been able to take the rectal temp. of both of those women.

The Sesame Street theme song!

The theme to "The Love Boat."

Musical memories of being in the doctor’s office back in the day when my temperature was taken in my bottom include Sing and Close to You (Carpenters) Shambala (Three Dog Night) and Tie a Yellow Ribbon (Dawn).

They used to have these morals or nursery rhymes songs

Never laugh when a hearse goes by for you may be the next to die. They put you in a 6-ft place and shovel dirt and gravel in your face. The worms crawl in and the worms crawl out and the worms play Pinnacle on your snought.

Of course there was Ring around the Rosie.

Can't remember the other ones now.

Yes, what I remember is “76 Trombones” from “The Music Man”. Still get that flushed embarrassment feeling and erection when I hear it.

Peggy Lee‘s “Fever”.

That's a very interesting question. I didn't have any background music for my shots, but if I had, it would probably help recalling the events. I remember there was a distinct scent (besides alcohol) into that room. If I feel that smell again, I'll probably remember more things.

but when a little boy is laying bottomless on a table, no one seemed to care if the doors was left open or ajar

I agree with that, people didn't respect our privacy. In my case, my mother didn't even care about my friends seeing me like that in the room, nor the doctors cared too.

I remember there was a distinct scent (besides alcohol) into that room. If I feel that smell again, I'll probably remember more things.I agree with that, people didn't respect our privacy. In my case, my mother didn't even care about my friends seeing me like that in the room, nor the doctors cared too.

That alcohol smell is a trigger for me now. I agree about the doors being open, etc. It all added to the heightened embarassment.

Mostly smells do it for me….like rubbing alcohol

Alison Moyet, love resurection. She sings about a warm injection to calm the pain….

I can't think of any music that does that to me. Women's perfume, a jar of Vaseline, or a thermometer definitely sets things off.

No so much a song but rather different odors . . . rubbing alcohol and (this is weird) but a faint vinegar smell.

I was watching the lion king with my sister when my mom came in to drag my sister kicking and screaming to the bathroom for an enema I was listening to hakuna Matata while she screamed and cried in the other room

The REAL PROS in this music include these orchestra leaders (from half a century ago):

Herb Alpert

Mantovani

Neal Hefti

Percy Faith

Ray Conniff (I was weaned on his version of “Happy Together”--download it sometime!)

Henry Mancini (always loved that man's music!)

Lawrence Welk

Nelson Riddle

Felix Slatkin

…..also (led by whom????) 101 Strings and the Living Strings and Living Brass (on RCA…..howcum we never had a Living Woodwinds?).

Also, I'd include Arthur Fiedler here, but in my book he ranks as classical….and it was his dearest wish to be taken more seriously as a classical conductor.

Lol, with a nick like 1970's boy all these tunes are hitting me hard!

Thanks for the memories!

No music, but I can’t get out of my mind the memories of a certain nurse. I first saw her when I was about 14. She was early 20’s, thin, not particularly good looking, but lots of freckles on her face and arms. I still think of her saying, I need you to turn over for me. Then several wrist snaps shaking down the thermometer, then an enormous amount of Vaseline, then sliding down my underwear, inserting the thermometer, and holding it in for the entire time. I had her quite a few times throughout high school, and I can’t get the image out of my mind.

How about the 1960s song “Fever”

One more to my list below: Andre Kostelanetz

I am not remembering there being music played in my doctor's office. Magazines to read, one just sat quietly, or the kids played with the toys in the corner.

Doctors offices have changed…no magazines or toys. TVs in the corner that you may not get to hear or not.

I am not remembering there being music played in my doctor's office. Magazines to read, one just sat quietly, or the kids played with the toys in the corner

i remember Highlights Magazine. The only place we ever saw it was at the pediatricians office. If you were reading it it was a sure thing you’d soon end up in only your underpants lol

i remember Highlights Magazine. The only place we ever saw it was at the pediatricians office. If you were reading it it was a sure thing you’d soon end up in only your underpants lol

Highlights and I go all the way back to the 60s…it wasn.t just in pediatricians' waiting rooms, it was in the clinic of many a family practice, like dentists and psychologists. Still like to google the mag's title and pull up the latest front-cover artworks.

“Elevator music”! Music that should never be classified as music…. ugh…. gouge out my eyes and ears…. so… ugh…. terrible…. boring…

I don't remember hearing elevator music - but when I call the doc to make an appointment you get a “scheduler” - a non medical idiot who only finds open spots on the schedule or transfers you to the correct department. The “on-hold” music is absolutely the worst!! Plus it has a sharp break in the middle as it loops back to start over - and usually there is a looooong wait til a sub-human answers. It's the kind of shit you just can't “un-hear”!!!!!!!!