What was the first song that really touched you emotionally?

mr. brownstone

 

I'm roughly that age, and, yeah, I remember that song making an impact. "Dreamweaver" was another song from that era that really made an impact as well.

Badfinger's "Day After Day" was yet another one: long before I knew who Badfinger were, or anything about their Beatles connection, I would sit by the radio hoping to hear "Day After Day" which was so sad, but also strangely uplifting, at the same time.

 

Twist and Shout ! Only kidding. "In My Life" becomes more poignant as you get older,no question of that.
Cheryl Crow did a tune called " It's So Easy" Don Henley sang on it.
Very melodic and touching song.

 

Probably "X&Y" or "The Hardest Part" by Coldplay (my young age is REALLY showing).

 

Beach Boys - Wouldn't it Be Nice

 

This is true: when I was 7 I was very sad for the little red rooster who got lost

 

'Life On Mars' by David Bowie. Probably the first song where I realised I like melancholy music.
Also:
'Yesterday' - Beatles
'Imagine' - John Lennon (yeah I know, cliched now but I loved it as a kid).
'Saturn', 'Uranus', 'Neptune' in a row - Holst 'The Planets'. Still does it for me now.

 

Elvis' IN THE GHETTO. Didn't understand a single word at the time but I was floored.

 

'Dedicated To The One I Love'. I remember hearing this as a four year old. I found those female voices soothing and attractive. I just checked that 'Strangers In The Night' had a 1966 release which would make it my earliest musical memory. That made me feel uneasy, there was something mournful about it that I didn't feel good about.

 

"Me & Little Andy" by Dolly Parton

 

Carpenters - Close To You

 

'To Know Him Is To Love Him' The Teddy Bears.........I was at school and it really moved me.

 

The Who, See me feel me.. listening to you, at age 14

 

"When You Wish Upon a Star"

 

Yes. TV themes for me. "Lassie" and "Wonderful World of Disney". I believe they were on Sunday night and I used feel very nostalgic and sad, just because of the music.

 

Probably this. I was five years old, bite me!
Still think of the Italian girl in my primary school that I 'loved' (at five years old, you don't know the meaning of that word!). If I remember right her mum died of cancer, and she disappeared from our school after only being there for a short while. Never saw her again!

 

I can't remember. I hope it wasn't "Shannon" by Henry Gross, though.

 

I remember this song, aptly, bringing me to tears when I was about 11 or 12...

 

Help!

 

Wildfire. No, j/k

if you're talking about in a deep sense, I'd say On The Beach by Neil Young

 

Ed Ames "Who Will Answer ".

 

Great choice. Here's a little history behind the song originally written by Mac Davis.

http://www.tennessean.com/videos/entertainment/2014/07/18/12843005/

 

It had to be on this album.

 

The first one for me was Oh Yoko by John Lennon, when I first heard it, which was the night after he was shot.

I think the second was The Queen is Dead by The Smiths. The awesome / beautiful guitar playing in the second half of the songs literally made my eyes well up.

 

Moody Blues - New Horizons