What's the earliest song you remember liking ?

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Sort of following on from the "Did you like your parents' music ?" thread, what's the earliest song you remember liking ? Was it one that your parents listened to and roughly how old were you ?
 
Hey Jude. I was 3 or 4 and already been listening to my folks' Beatle records for a couple years but can't remember which songs I liked.
They didn't own HJ though, and when I heard it on the radio it was totally new to me. Was obsessed.

Little did I know it was about heroin. ;)
 
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For me it was "Twist and Shout" as done by The Beatles
 
early records for me were 78's and the earliest two I remember liking were "Brown Eyed Handsome Man' ... Chuck Berry I think.
And 'Josephine Please Don't Lean on the Bell' and I don't know who did that.

Parents also had the musical 'South Pacific' on 78's. That's where the term 'album' came from because you'd have a dozen 78's packaged in a book like a photo album.
Anyways I listened to 'South Pacific' a lot.

First record I ever bought was King Curtis 'Soul Seranade' when I was about 10.
 
My Uncle used to make country cassettes for my Bro when we were kids and I remember 'borrowing' one once.

This stuck in my head ever since.

 
Purple People Eater and 96 Tears.

In the early '70's my sisters played a lot of 45's, and these were the first two tunes that I remember recognizing and looking forward to.
 
Definately this one. As a kid I was obsessed with that tape for years. It is about a talking and thinking police car with anxiety issues.

 
There was a song I liked when I was 5 years old that was on the radio a lot back then (ca. 1972). It stuck in my head for decades. I searched the Billboard Hot 100 charts for those years but could never find it. By the time MP3 downloads came along and I had any hope of finding it, I'd forgotten everything about it. :(
 
fat_fleet said:
Little did I know it was about heroin. ;)
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That's another one of those Beatle myths.
I remember many years ago, having a conversation with my mate Sandra and she declared it was about heroin and the lines "so let it out and let it in, Hey Jude, begin" were references to the needle and trying to get the young of the world hooked on drugs. These were pre~internet days but inwardly, I was going ":facepalm:". It was the kind of mindset that had 'right thinking' anti Beatle people thinking that "Blue Jay Way" was a call to America's youth to drop out of society with "32 repetitions of the cry 'please don't belong', in other words, don't belong to society" when in actual fact George Harrison was waiting in a house on Blue Jay Way for Derek Taylor and as he was tired, said "please, don't be long" and wrote a song about waiting for a familiar face to turn up !
Long before internet rumours and urban myths, there was "Interpretations of Beatle lyrics". :D
So many of the songs that commentators thought were Beatle drug promotions {"Lucy in the sky with diamonds", "Yellow submarine", "Fixing a hole", "Hey Jude"} weren't at all whereas many of the ones that were {for example, "Day tripper", "She's a woman", "She said, she said", "Got to get you into my life", "It's all too much"} passed completely under the radar !
They've done so many interviews where the subject comes up and the actual drug references contained within their songs are so extensively documented.

jaynm26 said:
Was an Elvis gospel track old rugged cross. AMAZING!!
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It's actually a really stirring song to sing and play. It's one of those hymns where the power of the melody meets in the right place with all the elements that make a song brilliant.

diggy_dude said:
There was a song I liked when I was 5 years old that was on the radio a lot back then (ca. 1972). It stuck in my head for decades. I searched the Billboard Hot 100 charts for those years but could never find it. By the time MP3 downloads came along and I had any hope of finding it, I'd forgotten everything about it. :(
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I've had that problem.
I went through a phase at the turn of the century when loads of songs from my childhood kept jumping into my head but I didn't know who they were by or what they were called. I'd go to this record shop and ask this guy that worked there who was reputed to have an encyclopaedic knowledge of tunes. He helped me with some. I'd actually sing him the melodies and he identified them. But the final time I went there he was in a right mood and was very "don't waste my time" with me. So I never went back to Tower records and soon after, they closed down.
So then I just bought loads of singles from second hand shops or compilation albums of singles and netted some that way that I'd known but didn't know {if you know what I mean}. But there's still a few that I don't have a clue on, that I'll probably never get to hear again.

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Squeeze Box-Who. Didn't get it when I was 6 years old.
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That was the first song in which I was aware of the Who. I used to complete the fourth line with my own, somewhat corrupt, line. Then I didn't really hear it for 20 years. When I bought the single, I was surprized at how soft it was.
 
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That's another one of those Beatle myths.
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Nah, everyone knows it's true. And Revolution #9 was a call to incite a race war, and Sexy Sadie really was about Susan Atkins. Dead Paul told me!

Also another couple songs that really got me at a young age were Big Bad John by Jimmy Dean and the Hollies' Long Cool Woman in a Black Dress. I thought both those songs were so spooky....BBJ, with the creepy rhythm and chanty whispered chorus, and LCW...something about that vocal melody sounded so dark and urgent.
 
Foggy Mountain Breakdown - Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs
 
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The earliest song I can remember liking was "Get off of my cloud" in 1965 by the Rolling Stones. My Mum told me I used to cry if it wasn't on "Top of the pops". I used to jump up and down when it was on so I must've taken some kind of notice of Mick Jagger. I was only 2, going on 3. Neither of my parents have ever liked the Stones or owned their records so I've got no idea how I came to hear it, let alone regularly enough to like it. I must've heard it on my Mum's radio or seen them on telly.
 
I was 5 or 6 years old and right about the same time I liked Iron Man and Convoy. Black Sabbath kind of stuck with me, CW McCall, not so much.
 
Funny about The Beatles.

My Grandma had a "record player" with a 45 rpm of "I Want To Hold Your Hand,"

It was sitting on the floor inside of her Southern California garage.

I remember looking down at it in awe as it spun and played.

It definitely is my earliest pleasant musical memory, I think I was 4.
 
When I was a young boy I was obsessed with my Dad's Buddy Holly records. My earliest recollection of anything musical is It's So Easy. The guitar Tommy Allsop played on that still make me marvel today. Even though I can play it myself now, I still love those tones. Something special.

The songs that really stand out from when I was younger, other than Buddy Holly's Greatest Hits, are;

Don Williams - (I Recall) The Gypsy Woman......and
Pink Floyd - Arnold Layne/See Emily Play.

My Dad had a wide range in taste of music and he played these songs all the time. Along with The Dubliners, The Spinners, Steppenwolf, Quo, and many more besides.
 
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