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First recorded song you ever remember hearing…
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I can think of two that qualify, can't pin down exactly which was FIRST
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The Beatles song was first one I recall hearing on a CAR radio, for sure...
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The Beatles song was first one I recall hearing on a CAR radio, for sure...
She's leaving home, the Beatles, I was really young,I would cry every time my big sister would play that song.
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I'd agree with you, but then we'd both be wrong
We had this 45 when I was real little and my brother and I listened to it hundreds of times.
I'm remembering back to the mid fifties, when I was 4 or 5. Possibly The Runaway Train by Vernon Dalhart (had to look that one up), or something Big Band Jazz, my Dads favorites, or The Dam Busters March, that was on the frequently on the radio in the UK back in the 50's. A couple of years later Green Door and Rock Around the Clock, feature large, then by age 11, The Beatles and The Animals.
Was going through my dads 45s when I was like 2. Picked out Del Shannon's Runaway, probably because it had a very gaudy bright pink label.
Not the worst first song to hear I guess.
Not the worst first song to hear I guess.
Yeah. That song hit oddly hard for me as a kid, growing up, as well.
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Tough one (I'm old). I know there were many before it, but the earliest I can remember would have been something like Bryan Hyland "Sealed With A Kiss". Also my parents loved 101 Strings. Those 101 Strings albums were sold in grocery stores. A Night In The Tropics comes to mind.
Last year we had a family day out, on my Mum's birthday, to a museum in the countryside that we used to visit as kids (it doubled as Christopher Walken's Bond villain lair, in "A View To A Kill").
Part of the museum is dedicated to the history of Television, and Radio, with examples of just about every notable development.
As I left the section dealing with WWII military communications, I wandered into the section displaying radio in the home, and quite unexpectedly there it was : the very radio I spent most of my childhood transfixed by.
It turned out my Mum had donated it to the museum, a couple of decades earlier.
I was completely floored by this rush of emotions, from joy, to grief, as all of the intervening years came flooding back, and the sheer sense of time elapsed hit me.
But the enduring memories are the first time I heard Sparky's Magic Piano (which terrified me, but was tempered by the fact that the radio had a nice friendly face, and reassuring green glow), and that from about the age of 4, I used to listen, every evening, to the theme tune to "The Archers" (before the radio was very promptly turned off).
Mid-'60s, I'd have been 4 or 5 at the time. "Downtown" by Petula Clark (who was immediately renamed by my dad as "Peculiar Tart").
The Bare Necessities from the 1967 album "Songs from The Jungle Book". I was a few months shy of 2 years old.
the first time i heard a song with the mind of a musician was "i want to hold your hand", by the beatles. shortly thereafter i picked up drumming. this was in maybe 2018. everything before that, to my 12 year old self, was sort of just pleasing sounds. a lot of instrumental video game music, specifically a game called "undertale" that was pretty popular with kids my age a couple years ago.
Didn't that record come out around 1982?
They were still releasing 8-tracks in the 80's?
I thought by the 80's, anybody who still had an 8-track was an original 60's hippie hanger-on, and defacto 70's technology refusnik.
I'm astounded if they were still manufacturing 8-tracks by the mid-70's, let alone releasing records in that format in the 80's.
In addition to Moon River, I also remember liking Something by the Beatles, Spinning Wheel by Blood Sweat and Tears. I'm sure they weren't the first songs I heard, just the ones I really liked.
Yeah, it's 3:30am and woke up earlier.
Watching the Ken Burns Jazz series on DVD and it just flashed on me the very first recorded tune I heard was this song by this legend. I think I might have been just about 2 years old and was on our phonograph player. Yeah, it might be corny to some of you, but it's still one of most upbeat and happy ones to me. That and he's just a great trumpet player. Any others have a way back one to post this day?
First recorded song I remember was on the car radio. 1964, I was about 2.
32 years after that I got to back Petula when she came to town for a show called Blood Brothers.
She could still belt it out, and sounded great.
I gotta say Starbuck's "Moonlight Feels Right." I still feel like a little kid when I hear it.
