What was the first song that got you loving music?

Discussion in 'Music Corner' started by Flatso, Jan 18, 2003.

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  1. Flatso

    Flatso Forum Resident Thread Starter

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    Mine was "Yummy Yummy Yummy", were those dirty lyrics or not I don't know but the song catchy as the flu. I also remember "Tracy" and "Band of Gold" and then I discovered the Beatles and music became the obsession I know and love today.
     
  2. Jamie Tate

    Jamie Tate New Member

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    Nashville
    Rhinestone Cowboy. Can't believe I admitted that!
     
  3. KeithH

    KeithH Success With Honor...then and now

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    Beaver Stadium
    Boston's "More Than A Feeling". Great song on a great album.
     
  4. Grant

    Grant Life is a rock, but the radio rolled me!

    My love for music was instinct. I was wired that way from birth.
     
  5. Tullman

    Tullman Senior Member

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    Boston MA
    Night Train. I don't know who did it. It was some record my dad had.
     
  6. ATR

    ATR Senior Member

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    I think it was either Burl Ives or Theodore Bikel singing 'The Little Engine that Could' at 78 rpm.
     
  7. Grant

    Grant Life is a rock, but the radio rolled me!

    James Brown did a record called "Night Train" in 1963...
     
  8. mudbone

    mudbone Gort Annaologist

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    ...on which he plays the drums as well.

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  9. Dave

    Dave Esoteric Audio Research Specialistâ„¢

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    Believe it or not......Wilf Carter: You Are My Sunshine 1964.
     
  10. Pinknik

    Pinknik Senior Member

    My mom has told me that I used to sing "Bad, Bad Leroy Brown" when I was younger, that could be it. My parents also had a very cool cassette of various artists doing songs as different as "I Want to Hold Your Hand" and "Here Comes the Sun." A few years later, I learned it was the same band. :)
     
  11. Ed Bishop

    Ed Bishop Incredibly, I'm still here

    Either "I Want To Hold Your Hand"/"I Saw Her Standing There"
    or "She Loves You"/"I'll Get You," very early memories. These weren't my first records, but the first that have a real hold. My mother claims as a tot I used to sing along to Guy Mitchell's version of "Heartaches By The Number," but it's her word against mine....

    ED:cool:
     
  12. Jimbo

    Jimbo Forum Hall Of Fame

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    Oooh, this is scary..."You Are My Sunshine" is the song that got me started as well. Don't know who it was by, I think it was one of those yellow-vinyl kiddie 45s. I'd play it over and over 'til my parents would turn it off! "That's enough now, little Jimbo, go do something else instead.":)
     
  13. mudbone

    mudbone Gort Annaologist

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    High Noon by Tex Ritter

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  14. Jeff Minn

    Jeff Minn Senior Member

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    Just eight years old and I was hooked.

    The Beatles: Eight Days a Week
     
  15. My mother says when I was about 3 years old I was dueting with her to the song "Fascination" a la the Nat King Cole arrangement. When I got married in 1993, we used Nat's version for our opening waltz at the wedding reception. My mother had a tear in her eye.

    I actually think I got the rock and roll bug in around grade 1, 1962-63. My elementary school used to have dance lessons every Friday evening with a professional dance teacher/DJ. We learned all the dances of the day, the twist, bunny hop, hokey pokey, square dancing, waltzes, polkas, and I was only 6. :) So I'll go with Chubby Checker - The Twist, followed closely in 1963 by The Beatles - Twist And Shout. It was whole Twist thing, I think. :laugh:
     

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  16. jamesmaya

    jamesmaya Senior Member

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    Los Angeles
    I believe it was "The Witch Doctor" by a band called the Chipmunks. As a 5-year old, I was hooked by the sound. It was a "gateway" song, as a few years later I'd be listening and addicted to much harder stuff...

    Jim W.
     
  17. stever

    stever Senior Member

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    Omaha, Nebr.
    "Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is," by Chicago. It was the first song I loved enough to ask my mom, "Can we go buy the 45?" What an appropriate thread to make my first post on!
     
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  19. Paul K

    Paul K Senior Member

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    Toronto, Canada
    "Sealed With A Kiss" - this is unusual because I am only 35. Gosh what a sap I am!! Nobody knows that factoid except now, the thousand or so of you all.
     
  20. AudioEnz

    AudioEnz Senior Member

    The first song I remember was Glen Campbell's Try a little kindness from around 1970. I would have been six and used to sing that song walking to school!

    But the biggest event in my musical life was when my parents split up. My mum changed the radio from a sports'n'talk station to a top 40 pop station. I was hooked. The big songs for me were Paper Lace's Billy don't be a hero and the mawkish Seasons in the Sun by Terry Jacks.

    From there it was a couple of years to buying my first record. It was Abba's Dancing Queen which showed that my great musical taste has been there from the beginning.:D
     
  21. Casino

    Casino Senior Member

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    BossTown
    Used to have a handful of 78's by that singin' cowboy, Gene Autry, when I was a tyke. Don't know if they were the records that really got me into music (don't think so), but they were the first ones I remember. I think I got into the music scene more when the Five Satins, Dubs, Johnnie & Joe, Chuck Berry, etc. started getting airplay.
     
  22. ascot

    ascot Senior Member

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    Wisconsin
    I almost hate to admit this, but I have a tape my aunt made of me at age 2 singing along to "Last Night I Didn't Get to Sleep at All".

    My earliest memory of connecting a song and an artist was knowing the Beatles sang "I Want to Hold Your Hand", "She Loves You", and "Sgt. Pepper". I don't remember how old I was when I knew that but it was the '70s so I was younger than 10.
     
  23. BradOlson

    BradOlson Country/Christian Music Maven

    Sneaky Snake by Tom T. Hall
     
  24. Uncle Al

    Uncle Al Senior Member

    Location:
    Long Island, NY
    I think I was pre-programed to be a music lover.

    Seriously.

    There isn't an overwhelming reason for this, even though my father and his brother were musicians - I just think I have the music gene. I remember at 4 or 5 listening to diverse things like Bizet's Carmen, Stravinsky's Rite of Spring, 78's with Nelson Eddy and Jeanette McDonald, The Andrew Sisters, Judy Garland (Get Happy!), even singing along with Mitch. My father tells me (although I do not remember this), that I learned to read singing along with Mitch. My mother and he both say they made no effort to teach me to read in my preschool days, but I do know that I was reading in kindergarten.

    The first song that me ME realize I loved music??

    The Dovells - You Can't Sit Down.

    CONTACT!
     
  25. ferric

    ferric Iron Dino In Memoriam

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    NC
    Burl Ives in the fifties : Jimmy Crack Corn, Shoo Fly
     
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