First Song

[papayahed]

This will probably show our ages. What is the first song you remember hearing or that really sticks out in your mind from childhood?

(I stole this from another website.)

[Paulclem]

I can remember this song clearly in the house I was born in. (It was a typical Yorkshire terrace with a cobbled street outside - still there too).

I remember standing on a settee and listening to it. I couldn't quite understand the song - I was 3 - but I imagined her wearing wellies - the only boots I was aware of - and walking up a muddy drive.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRkovnss7sg

[soundofmusic]

"Mr Sandman" by the Chordettes...my sister always played it on her radio

[OrphanPip]

My parents never really listened to much music apart from whatever was on the radio.

I can vaguely remember some bad French children's music I had on cassette.

"Hit the Road Jack" stands out since it was a favourite of my grandfather, and I sang it with a friend at a talent show when I was in grade 1.

Hmm, other than that I used to end up with my brother's cast off music, old Daft Punk cassettes and mixes of 90s dance music. And I remember my brother's gangster rap blasting from his room.

My first CD I bought of my own volition was No Doubt's second album (1st mainstream one though), I could have picked something much more embarrassing.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QLI7FJgaydE

Edit: That URL seems to say a lot about my childhood taste in music.

[JuniperWoolf]

I remember sitting on my mom's bed in listening to Tears of Pearls by Savage Garden on her walkman. That was a good time.

[Basil]

At the age of five: "Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah" from The Song of the South soundtrack and "(Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay" by Otis Redding and "Take Me Home, Country Roads" by John Denver, both from an 8-track compilation my parents had.

I don't know why we were still listening to 8-tracks in the early 90's. :confused5:

[stephofthenight]

dont know how old it was but it would be..."theres a tear in my beer and im crying for you dear, you are on my lonely mind...."

[Scheherazade]

Thinking of English songs...

I was not even 10, when I used to make up gibberish lyrics to sing along to this song (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0qIOCuBwcTc) (obviously I did not know a word of English then).

This one (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CM30iNH8TqA) I got to know when I was a teenager -a few years after it was released- and how I loved it (having started to learn a little English helped as well, probably).

[Revolte]

Am I the only one with the Barney theme song? lol

[Alexander III]

Hakuna Matata - The Lion King, amazing movie, and also the first movie I saw at the cinema.

[Triter]

Day Tripper-The Beatles
Side 2 was We Can Work It Out
Neither were on any original album release, for those trivia minded.

[Nightshade]

We had music on all the time when I was little ( kids nursery rhyms and songs tapes and videos)
So probably one of them... THe man that lived on the moon sticks out, but that is because I loved the line 'His hair was made of spagehtti'
Apparantly on my second birthday ( my mum was giving birth to my sister) I made my grandmother play Jungle book 7 times and sang every song while dancing around like a nut case...

But how about songs that somehow stick to a particular memory?
I learnt to iron to John Denver's Annie's Song. I can't listen to that particular album( BEst of John Denver Volume 2) without thjinking about ironing and how proud I was at my beautiful neat school shirts. :D

[Helga]

there was a lot of music in my house as a kid but I mainly remember that when I was 3 I knew almost all the lyrics to the song we had in Eurovision that year 'Socrates'

[OrphanPip]

Am I the only one with the Barney theme song? lol

For some reason my parents only allowed me to watch the CBC or Radio-Canada as a child, so I grew up on terrible Canadian or recycled British children shows.

[MarkBastable]

Little Children by Billy J Kramer. I was three, I guess.

[Paulclem]

Am I the only one with the Barney theme song? lol

Barney!!! When my kids were little I remember vomiting over the TV whenever it came on...

Sorry...

[Scheherazade]

Am I the only one with the Barney theme song? lolI was in my 20s when I first heard that one.
Hakuna Matata - The Lion King, amazing movie, and also the first movie I saw at the cinema.Oh, boy. I took my nephew, aged 4 at the time, to that one and it was his first movie too.

[Niamh]

Not sure what i remember first really. Grew up with a lot of 60's music but my earliest is probably something by UB40, curtesy of my sisters.