First Songs You Remember As A Little Kid?

Quite possibly "Winchester Cathedral".

 

Hall and Oates - Man Eater

I was three when this came out, and I was genuinely afraid that the woman in the song was going to eat me.

 

Some of the first songs I remember:

Rockin' Robin
Mr Custer

 

Dizzie Tunes - Ra-ta-ta-ta-ta (1971)

 

Surfin Bird
Forget Him
Crossfire
Sugar Shack
Hey Little Cobra
Fools Rush In / Down Home
The Cheerleader
Speedy Gonzales

Can't separate them - they kind of run all together.

 

This, I think. Not when it came out, but a little bit later on.

 

Probably "How Much Is That Doggy In The Window" by Patti Page.
Hey, I was born in 1951.

 

I was born in 1968 and made many trips to Grandma's house in the car. I remember hearing Rock Your Baby by George McCrae, Have You Been Mellow by Olivia Newton John, Sister Golden Hair by America, and the theme song from the Good the Bad and the Ugly. I also remember standing up in the front seat of our 1970 Pontiac Lemans while cruising down the highway.

 

My earliest music memories have to be mom listening to her Alfred Apaka, Robert Goulet, and (yes) Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass albums on the console stereo.

 

PAPERBACK WRITER

(OR AS I THOUGHT IT WAS, "PAPERBACK RIDER")

 

Some of my Mom's old 45's were the first records I ever heard:

Party Doll - BUDDY KNOX
I'm Left You're Right She's Gone - ELVIS PRESLEY
Rip It Up - LITTLE RICHARD
Too Much - ELVIS PRESLEY
Wanted - PERRY COMO
Why Baby Why - DELBERT BARKER
Yellow Rose of Texas - MITCH MILLER

 

My mom's 45s as well ...

Hound Dog
Purple People Eater

My daughter's first song was a Beatles tune on the radio in the hospital. 2 days old. She screamed, but I don't think it was for Paul.

 

Mairzy Doats

 

Hound Dog

 

First Date by Floyd Cramer

 

Spoonful Of Sugar...Julie Andrews from a Mary Poppins record my parents bought for us. I was maybe 7. 1964 or 1965.

 

I have no idea why, but when I was around 2 or 3 I used to lose my mind whenever "A Well Respected Man" came on the car radio (and we're talking mid '70s - my mom was apparently listening to some proto-oldies stations) - I absolutely loved it. Being in my car seat and flipping my lid to that song in a state of complete, pure joy might actually be my earliest distinct memory.

Yet hearing it now holds no subconscious power or real sentimental value whatsoever and I didn't even become anything beyond a casual Kinks fan. Weird.

 

I'm the baby of the thread, I guess. Born in '94, and the first songs I can remember being played in the car are the Doors Best Of double CD and Aerosmith Big Ones. The ones I remember the most are "Break On Through (To the Other Side)" and "Light My Fire" for the Doors, and "Rag Doll" and "Walk on Water" from Aerosmith. Oh, and of course "Smells Like Teen Spirit".

 

Fox On The Run - Manfred Mann. I was 2 when it came out so I must have been 2 or 3 years old. My [much] older brother had the single (UK Fontana) and I could pick that single out of the whole bunch every time. It used to be a party trick of mine apparently

 

Elvis, Monkees, CCR, Grass Roots. That kind of stuff. I was 4 in 1968 and of course 5 in '69. So that era represents most of my earliest musical memories. Though curiously enough, not so much the Beatles.

 

Sherry - The Four Seasons
The Little Old Lady From Pasadena - Jan & Dean
I Want To Hold Your Hand - The Beatles
Downtown -- Petula Clark
Walk Don't Run '64 - The Ventures
Hanky Panky / Thunderbolt - The Shondells

Those all really stuck in my head as a child. One Christmas (1964) I got a little Sony portable radio with an earphone. Dug it.

 

My grandmother told me she always thought they were singing Ticket To Rag...

 

Goo Goo Dolls - "Slide" is my earliest memory. Maybe that explains why I'm so bitter. Not necessarily an awful song, but a literal carbon copy of the far superior "Asking Me Lies" by the far superior Replacements.

 

There must have been something before : "I Wanna Hold Your Hand" & "She Loves You".
But~ for the life of me I can't remember a thing before that... @ 9 y.o.