What's the earliest song you remember liking ?

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Ahhh, back in the early 60's. I would have been about 4. "The Girl By The River" by the Delmore Brothers. My Dad was a big Blue grass fan. My sister was 8 years older than me so later on (as we lived in Detroit) a steady diet of Motown.
 
"Puff the Magic Dragon", when I was about 8 y/o.
 
Ella Fitzgerald A tisket a tasket. Thanks mum, i must have been 2 or 3. ohh no no no no. just a little yellow basket.
 
"If I Knew You Were Coming I'd Have Baked A Cake" by Eileen Barton, closely followed by Spike Jones' "Clink Clink Polka".

Hey, c'mon, I was only 3 years old. We had a Wurlitzer 78rpm jukebox in the basement, and I was allowed to push the buttons.

But very soon afterward I got into "Good Rockin' Tonight" and "That's All Right" by Elvis.
 
Mommy told me to not put beans in my ears, beans in my ears, beans in my ears!
 
Ol' Susanna from my early elementary school days. Words are pretty interesting.

"It rained all night the day I left, the weather it was dry
The sun so hot I froze to death, Susanna, don't you cry. "
 
Well, through the 50s, I was pretty much stuck with my parents' record collection which was mainly obscure classical stuff. However, somebody had given them a Mills Brothers record one Christmas and I recall playing "Get a Job" and "Yellow Bird" over and over.

Things changed in the early 1960s when I saved up for months and bought myself a....TRANSISTOR RADIO! My first discoveries were some novelty songs--"Monster Mash" standing out big time and also "Hello Muddah, Hello Fadduh". They don't write them like that any more!

However, I'm ashamed to admit that the first song I liked well enough to actually spend a dollar for a 45rpm copy of was "Downtown" by Petula Clark.
 
Bobbsy said:
Well, through the 50s, I was pretty much stuck with my parents' record collection which was mainly obscure classical stuff. However, somebody had given them a Mills Brothers record one Christmas and I recall playing "Get a Job" and "Yellow Bird" over and over.

Things changed in the early 1960s when I saved up for months and bought myself a....TRANSISTOR RADIO! My first discoveries were some novelty songs--"Monster Mash" standing out big time and also "Hello Muddah, Hello Fadduh". They don't write them like that any more!

However, I'm ashamed to admit that the first song I liked well enough to actually spend a dollar for a 45rpm copy of was "Downtown" by Petula Clark.
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That lady made a career out of that song, so there must have been a lot more spend their money on it.
 
"She Loves You" by........well we all know who did that one.........
 
A ticket a tasket Ella Fritzgerald I was about 10. Thanks Mum.
I skived off school to learn how to sing it.
 
Probably the Kookaburra nursery rhyme from school. I couldn't have been older than 6...

The first rock song I liked, though, was probably "Headstrong" by Trapt. I was probably like 8 around then. My older sister downloaded it on Kazaa and I couldn't stop listening to it. Fortunately, once I hit about 15 I realized there was music beyond the radio. :D
 
Silence is Golden by The Tremoloes. I used to lie in bed at the age of about 4 and sing it at the top of my voice.
 
I may have a difference reference point - since I'm likely older than most on this site.

It is difficult for me to think back about 60 years - but I beleive the first song that really fired me up was "He's Got The Whole World (In His Hands). I think the "soulful" feel and gospel vocal delivery of that song seemed deeper than anything I had heard to that point.
 
grimtraveller said:
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 ?
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"He's his own Grandpa" - played on a wind-up 78rpm gramophone in the 1950s when I was very young.

Lyrics - I used to love this as a child.

The only other music I remember when I was very young was Elgar's "Pomp and Circumstance March" - again listened to on 78. I would have been under 10 at the time and these were my parents' records.

My teenage years were the 1960s and the choice of great music in those years was wonderful.
 
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