First recorded song you ever remember hearing…

I've been working on the railroad...

 

I have no idea. It's just a song I remembered hearing many times. By different people. Like a folk song.
But I never hear it anymore which seems strange.

 

Recorded? Maybe it would be Moon River by Andy Williams.

 

Since I was 9th out of 11 kids, I had teenage siblings in 1968, meanwhile I was 5yo. But pretty much any pop song from 1968. They were like back ground music.

However it would be one of two songs from 1968 that I specifically remember. One being Crystal blue persuasion.

 

I have no idea but it would have been something by Andy Williams, Perry Como, Bing Crosby, etc. that mom played on the old console record player.

 

The entire Niel Diamond "Hot August Night" album. My mother wore the grooves out on two copies of the vinyl. I was born in July 1971 and that album came out in '72.

 

Up Where We Belong, Joe Cocker/Jennifer Warnes on my mom’s 8-track in her ‘77 Regal driving home one cold night. White vinyl seats. Maybe I was 5.

 

I Saw Her Standing There - Beatles

 

My parents played the radio a lot so I have no memory of a specific firs "recorded" song I heard but I know the first record I actually remember was Bobby Helms new hit "Jingle Bell Rock" when I was five or six years old.

My uncle gave us a 45 record player and that record for Christmas in the late 50's. I learned later that it was extremely difficult to find since it was so popular. For decades he drove a Greyhound bus for a living from Philadelphia to Miami and bought it during one of his trips in December.

The walkdown in the intro of that song is what got me interested in bass.

My uncle has been driving that big bus in the sky for about 12 years and I will never forget him or that gift.

Thanks, Uncle Bud.

 

My dad passed away when I was 9, as an electronics buff we had an awesome homemade stereo system with speakers built into the bookshelves,

The 45 rpm of Penny Lane/Strawberry Fields Forever played incessantly & in his glory he would conduct the orchestration in the middle of our den. I can still hear it.

 

"Don't Sit Under The Apple Tree, With Anyone Else But Me."

 

Love that he conducted while the record was playing. I did similar stuff when I was growing up, my parents thought I might want to be an orchestra conductor...or maybe I just had control issues. My father was also into electronics and we worked on a couple of projects together. I wound up having a career as an electronic engineer.

 

Might've been...

 

Can't be sure, but late 70's, I know my mom had some of these on AM radio:
- All I Have To Do Is Dream (Everly Brothers)
- Love Me Do (Beatles)
- Monday Monday (Mamas and Papas)

One of the strongest memories I have of consciously listening to a song and its lyrics was "Hotel California", in the backseat of the car driving through the Poconos, probably around 1980. I heard "You can check out any time you like, but you can never leave" and my six year old self thought: "That's deep, man."

 

It was one of these treasures, no doubt, at my grandfather's place where I first found a home. It was a mixed blessing

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Might not have been the very first, but my brother and I spun the crap out of this one as little kids. I was maybe 3 years old? We had a tube record player! Take that you vinyl snobs