Songs you sang when you were a toddler

It aired before I was born, but my parents told me I used to sing Johhny Yuma Was A Rebel a lot when I was very little. What did you sing?

 

The Itsy Bitsy Spider?

 

Frankie Valli - Cant take my eyes off of you,
Hey Jude

 

B.J. Thomas - "Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head"...although mostly I imitated the Herb Alpert-esque trumpet part that ends the song.

 

How Much Is That Doggie In The Window

 

These Boots Are Made For Walkin

I had no clue what they lyrics meant.

ditto with Strawberry Fields Forever

 

"Fireball" (the theme to "Fireball XL-5")
"The Little Old Lady From Pasadeana"
"We Ain't Got Nothin' Yet" (imitated the bass line)

Dale

 

The ink is black, the page is white....

and

Jesus Christ, Superstar, who are you la la la la la la.

 

What about songs you learned in grammar school? I had a really kind grade three teacher, Sister Anita, who taught us the Bobby Darin song Simple Song Of Freedom and Try A Little Kindness, which I found out years later was a Glen Campbell record.

 

Beats me, but I have a toddler (who just turned three last weekend) and her first song was "You Are My Sunshine."

However, the last couple months she's shocked me by singing the opening to "Freefalling" and way too much of "American Pie." She's also a big fan of "Yellow Submarine."

 

My parents bought a Magnavox console (big tube amp; 12" woofers) when I was 3 or so. I had my own LPs. Howl Along With Huckleberry Hound Dog was an early favorite (patriotic songs & school/college songs punctuated with silly interuptions from cartoon character voices).

Early grade school saw Nat King Cole's gospel songs album in heavy rotation as well as My Fair Lady with Noel Harrison, and the New Christy Minstrels' album with Green, Green.

My mom used to sing Hank Williams.

About age 8 or 9, I first learned the Beatles songs from The Chipmunks Sing The Beatles' Hits on Liberty Records. My first rock LP was The Dave Clark Five's Greatest Hits.

 

I'm told that I used to sing a popular song at the time, "Open The Door, Richard".

 

I am imagining your teacher as a very kind and loving person. Truly, what a great and noble profession. Thanks for sharing that Sean.

I remember my elementary school music teacher, Mr. Vineyard, taught us lots of great songs, but all we ever wanted to sing was "La Bamba." The Los Lobos version was all over the radio at that time, around 87 or 88. Guess that shows what a youngster I am!

 

My third grade music teacher had us sing "Has Anybody Seen My Sweet Gypsy Rose". Now that I know what it's about, I wonder about that lady.

 

I would have been four in 1956, and I can clearly recall singing Elvis's "Hound Dog" into a reel-to-reel tape recorder the people who lived in the downstairs apartment of our duplex had.

Oddly, though, that was my sole connection to rock 'n' roll until I started listening to AM radio in late 1962. It just wasn't on my radar at all...instead, I remember summer camp songs like "The Ship Titanic" and "The Dummy Line," and harmonizing with my mom on old corny songs like "Moonlight Bay" and "Tell Me Why" (the ivy twines).

 

Greeks call their Grandmother Ya Ya. I had this friend who was Greek who was abandoned by his parents, and so he lived with his Ya Ya. When the old lady was sitting out on the balcony, my other friends and I would sing "She loves you, Ya, Ya, Ya!"

 

Cracklin Rosie - Neil Diamond

I still have the little seven inch record I guess to be exact ( just looked up vinyl name sizes to be sure) that I would play on the Fischer Price record player.

 

I imagine she wouldn't have been overly impressed by my harassing the old Greek lady, eh?

 

I still have Chipmunk Punk. Picked up that one at age four or five. I liked that Neil Diamond song much better than anything on it though.

 

Bad Bad Leroy Brown
A kids song called down by the bay which featured ad lib sections
such as
"did you ever see a bear?
Combing his hair?
Down by the bay..."
C

 

Ah yes, why can't they make quality television shows like that anymore?
I remember singing "my heart would be a fireball" and probably humming the rest.

Has it been issued on DVD?

 

I probably was most familiar with TV themes since radio and records weren't generally played too much in my household.

Ballad of Davy Crockett

Born on a mountain top in Tennessee,
Greenest state in the land of the free.
Raised in the woods so's he knew every tree,
Killed him a bear when he was only three.
Davy, Davy Crockett King of the Wild Frontier.


Mickey Mouse Club March
Who's the leader of the club
That's made for you and me
M-I-C-K-E-Y M-O-U-S-E
Hey! there, Hi! there, Ho! there
You're as welcome as can be
M-I-C-K-E-Y M-O-U-S-E

Mickey Mouse!
Mickey Mouse!
Forever let us hold our banner
High! High! High! High!
Come along and sing a song
And join the jamboree!
M-I-C-K-E-Y M-O-U-S-E

and at the end of the show, the song would be sung slower and start with:
"Now it's time to say goodbye..."

 

Eddie Floyd's "Knock On Wood". I always tried to sing the words as I imitated the snare drum with my mouth noises! It used to annoy my sister!

I didn't know any kids songs. Really I didn't. I was always around adults. I had a kiddie record player, but i'll be dammed if I remember anything I played on it. But, I remember Aretha Franklin, The Young Rascals, Wilson Picklett, The Temptations, the Supremes, and J.J .Jackson!

Great record! That song came out when I was in the third grade, though.

 

You rock dude!!!

 

Oh you lie! I never posted that! Grrrrrr!!!!!!