Post the first songs you ever remember

[OffWithTheirHeads]

me; Howdy Doody time, Mickey Mouse, Hound Dog

[angstlessk]

1. Old Shep by Elvis Presley...I cried my eyes out...

[begin_within]

2. When I was 4, I sang

"When Irish Eyes Are Smiling" at the top of my lungs and I remember everyone laughing hysterically, though I didn't think it was funny. I was just singing.

And when "These Boots Are Made for Walkin'" came out, it became my favorite song for a while and I would sing along with it.

[geardaddy]

96. My parents had the Mrs. Miller Sings album

so as a young child when I heard "These Boots are Made for Walkin" sung by Mrs. Miller, I had recurring nightmares of body-less boots walking around.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mrs._Miller

[Curmudgeoness]

3. This is really embarrassing.

My favorite song as a kid was Patches by Dickie Lee. I was a real sappy kid.

[angstlessk]

4. I remember that song as a 12 year old sucidal kid...

luckily over the counter sleeping pills just made you vomit if you took too many!

[Curmudgeoness]

6. It was extremely depressing.

If you notice, it shows that I was always a liberal. No class warfare!

And I am very glad that you did not succeed!

[cyberswede]

5. Other than lullabies...

I remember "Yellow Submarine," "Let the Sun Shine" from Hair, and several Peter Paul & Mary songs. I was very little, and my sister (14 hrs older) played these (or sang them herself) for me.

[Art_from_Ark]

87. I had a 45 of Puff the Magic Dragon

The flip side was "Come Back to Sorrento". I never payed the flip side, LOL.

I remember "Eleanor Rigby" from Yellow Submarine because they played that scene from the movie on the Today Show when the movie came out in 1968.

I played "Let the Sun Shine" in junior high band.

Good times

[cyberswede]

94. Puff used to make me cry

...then my sister told me it was about smoking pot. I stopped crying, but she got in trouble with our mom. LOL

The first 45 I remember playing was "English Country Garden" by Jimmie Rodgers. It belonged to one of my older siblings.

[Art_from_Ark]

103. Puff used to make me cry, too

And then I saw the Captain Kangaroo version, where Puff ends up finding a new friend, so everything turned out OK for him.

I had no idea about the pot connection until maybe 15 or 20 years later.

[cyberswede]

104. Captain Kangaroo!

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I loved that show! Bunny Rabbit, Mr. Moose, and Mr. Greenjeans...and the ping pong balls! Thanks - haven't thought about that in ages.

Oh...and I remember a rumor in Jr. High that Mr. Greenjeans was Ted Nugent's father.

[Art_from_Ark]

105. I think there was also Grandfather Clock on Captain Kangaroo

Bunny Rabbit was always wanting a carrot.
Mr. Moose reminded me of Bullwinkle, and the first Bullwinkle show actually had a moose puppet to fill in some time.

I also remember a few songs:

The President on the Dollar
I'm a Lonely Little Petunia in an Onion Patch
The Train Goes Choo Choo Choo Choo Choo

[cyberswede]

108. There was! And Dancing Bear.

This really takes me back! (especially the B&W photo, since we didn't have color TV until 1981!)

[UTUSN]

7. "Que sera sera" - Doris my DAY - too bad she's a wingnut (loves [STRIKEOUT/s] ) n/t

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ON VERY BELATED EDIT: SO sorry. My brain-fart led me to type "O'LOOFAH" as her wingnut love object. I meant LIMBAUGH. Somehow I don't doubt that she would also admire O'REILLY, but that's not whom I was referring to.

It doesn't change what at least one of the posters Replied to, but special apologies to one and all.

REPEATING, it was LIMBOsevic that she is a fan of, and he is who said it, said she (used to?) call his mother to chat and he said, "Doris, don't call when I'm not there. Call ME!1"


She's been refusing an honorary Oscar for years. Now that she's put out a new album, I won't be surprised if she shows up to collect it this year.

More trivia, everybody know it was her son Terry MELCHER that MANSON was out to get but his gang got lost and did the massacre at the wrong address? The Hollywood hipsters hosted their alternative parties with all kinds of street guests like MANSON, who thought MELCHER had agreed to produce a record of his songs then welched on the deal.

[Justice wanted]

12. You're kidding?

[UTUSN]

40. Sorry, I mis-typed. It's LIMBAUGH, not O'REILLY. See my belated correction. n/t

[Justice wanted]

41. But you mean she is a right winger?

[UTUSN]

44. Well, the only evidence is her being a fan of LIMBOsevic's

I know nothing else of campaign contributions, her actual voting, or whatever. Otoh, she's friendly/empathetic to the Gay community, and the son she adored participated in the alternative/counter-culture scene of the ('70s? '60s?), but I seem to remember she was friendly with the RAYGUNs (but so were the Beach Boys).

All I've really got is what LIMBOsevic said. As for her growing old gracefully, her decades of silence seemed to make that so, and the last previous quote was that she wouldn't give interviews because all they asked her about was Rock HUDSON, yet with this new album she had a tiny interview in the Sunday supplements and yakked about him and the others (nothing new, just re-hashing).

My guess is that she *does* vote wingnut. Sigh.

[Justice wanted]

45. hmmmm that is hard to say. I can see what you are saying. It is hard to say.

[angstlessk]

13. Did not know she was a wingnut...she and that bald ego maniac were perfect together...

she grew old gracefully, he on the other hand, just grew from prepubescence to juvenile-ness

[UTUSN]

14. Several years ago LIMBOsevic puffed himself up on the air telling us

that she is a great fan of his but won't call him directly, that she used to call his mother when he wasn't around and he said:

"Doris, CALL me."


I hate Hollywood wingnuts.

[alphafemale]

29. WOW! Mind Zing on that one!

I was singing that one day in front of my Mom.

She snapped at me...

NO!!!! You'll NEVER Be Pretty!!! So You'll NEVER MARRY a RICH man!!!

ANd you're NOT SMART ENOUGH to GET RICH on YOUR OWN!!!

I was maybe 5 or 6...lol.

I grew a thick skin and got used to that kind of shit.

[angstlessk]

61. Damn...my mother was at least subtle in undermining my confidence...yours was brutal!

[alphafemale]

69. lol It was good life training!

There's just about nothing anyone can say to me anymore that can hurt my feelings or make me wither.

I think she was ultimately GOOD for my self-confidence.

Though that was clearly NOT her intent.

"Your attempts to stomp me down only made me stronger, Mama!"

[Pryderi]

8. Danny was a Donkey- my Mom or The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze-

my dad.

Both my parents read and sang to me

[OffWithTheirHeads]

17. Danny was a donkey? Must have missed that one.

[OriginalGeek]

9. I Think I Love You

Partridge Family.

I remember hearing it on the radio and I specifically remember singing it to myself in a school cafeteria in 2nd or 3rd grade.

I'm sure I heard other songs before that - I watched Mr. Rogers and Sesame Street but ITILY was the first radio song I remember being aware of.



And I still like it to this day.

[Art_from_Ark]

68. I remember hearing that song on the Partridge family TV show

My sister was the same age as you and she just loved that song.

[femmocrat]

10. "How Much is that Doggy in the Window?"

LOL

[Raven]

50. Yes! How much is that doggie in the window, the one

with the waggley tail. How much is that doggie in the window, I do hope that doggie's for sale.

Great memory!

[Justice wanted]

11. a song from Sesame Street Daddy Dear.

[Tikki]

15. "(Ghost) Riders In The Sky"...Vaughn Monroe

or something by Frankie Laine or Rosemary Clooney...

For some reason I had the family's big console radio with the big green glowing dial
in my bedroom when I was a little kid...I figured out how to turn it on and nobody
ever made me turn it off right away...

I have always had a radio/stereo/computer to play music in the bedroom since.



Tikki

[ScreamingMeemie]

16. "Playground in My Mind", "Joy to the World"

"For You Are Beautiful"

[Stuart G]

18. Buttons and Bows...don't recall where or when..nt

[nirvana555]

19. Help by The Beatles. I was six years old and when I heard it the first time

I literally stopped in my tracks. I had heard music my parents listened to before that and really enjoyed it but NOTHING effected
me like Help.

[Art_from_Ark]

85. Buttons and Bows was one of Dinah Shore's stock songs

She had her own TV show in the '60s called "Dinah's Place" and you might have heard it on that show.

There was also a commercial for a snack food called "Buttons and Bows" in the '60s that used a jingle based on the "Buttons and Bows" song.

"Two new snacks that go together are Buttons and Bows, Buttons and Bows, they go together, they're Buttons and Bows"

[sakabatou]

20. Pinwheel

[Arugula Latte]

21. from the radio: "Up, Up and Away," "Good Morning Starshine," "Everyone Knows It's Windy"

Also, "Age of Aquarius"

[Art_from_Ark]

88. The Fifth Dimension had a TV special in 1969 or 1970

It showed the group in a balloon singing "Up, Up and Away"

I also remember "Windy" from the radio, or perhaps the skating rink.

[greendog]

22. Little Brown Jug

I believe it was on an album of children's songs that I played over and over. This version by Frank Crumit is real similar to the one I remember. We're talkin' 50 years ago.

[Silver Swan]

23. I remember a lot of songs from the late 1940's-early 1950's radio

When I was about four, my grandfather coaxed me to sing Tennessee Waltz for him. He gave me fifteen cents to sing it.

[Petrushka]

24. I remember my dad singing us to sleep with "Big Rock Candy Mountain" . . . mid-30s . . .

[Rowdyboy]

25. My mom sang a lullabye back in the 1950's..."The Serenade of the Bells" It still haunts me...

[RZM]

26. Quarterflash, 'Harden My Heart'

I remember dancing to it as a really young child.

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[Rowdyboy]

27. I totally forgot "Wake Up Little Susie" by the Everly Brothers

and "Goodnight Irene"

[EFerrari]

54. "Wake up little Susie.

I used to have a 78 recording of my mom and her sibs singing it to me when I was a baby and they tried to get me to cry for posterity. lol

[Vanje]

28. Scotland the Brave

(My dad was a piper.)

[grasswire]

30. Marezy Doats

I had very eclectic musical experiences. My mother was an opera fan; my father loved Stephen Foster's songs. And they listened to a radio program every week that played Old Time songs from early 1900s. My grandfather was a trombone player who started brass bands in little towns on the Canadian prairie.

And so I have been in love with all kinds of music from early on.

Oh wait. I remember a song my older sister taught me when I was very little -- it was a post WW2 song: "Comin' in on a wing and a prayer."

[Pryderi]

43. Yep! That was another early song.

[EFerrari]

57. Same here.

And my mom and I lived with extended family until I was about 7. They all had different tastes. My grandmother liked classical music and some Spanish language ballads from the 10s and teens. Mom liked pop and show tunes. One uncle was a teenager who listened to Mexican pop and another uncle was a geek into jazz and swing. My Aunt Grace was an opera buff. If you look at my iPod, it looks like it's used by several different people.

[musette_sf]

102. Another vote for Marezy Doats here,

and my Mom's impression of Ernest Tubb singing "I'm Walking The Floor Over You".

[HeiressofBickworth]

31. My mother often sang a lullaby to us

and I sang it to my daughter and then to my granddaughter. I stopped when my granddaughter said, "Oh, Grandma, stop, please stop." For some reason she didn't appreciate my off-tune rendition. I loved that lullaby and hope that between the two they remember it and can sing it to my great-grand kids when I'm no longer around.

I also remember that my mother, who was decidedly a status-seeker, decided that we were to be exposed to the great music classics. She found an album that had classics but with children's words. When my daughter was little, I made every effort to find such a record to no avail. I recall that William Tell Overture was sung as "Giddy up, giddy up little rocking horse". There was another, a waltz, "Froggy the Frog jumped off the log, the birds sang a tune...."
Let that rumble around your brain for a while.

[Tabasco_Dave]

32. Joan Baez - The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down

[JCMach1]

33. Joy to the World- 3 Dog Night

[denbot]

34. Peter Paul & Mary - Puff the Magic Dragon

That is the first song on the radio that I remember singing along with. I would have been around five at the time.

[pamela]

62. That's mine, too.

Also, Little Sister by Elvis Presley and I Want To Hold Your Hand by the Beatles

I have a vague memory of another song that might have been earlier than those... "I told the witch doctor I was in love with you. I told the witch doctor you didn't love me true and he said ooh eee ooh ah ah bing bang pollywolly bing bang..." That's all I remember.

[Grantuspeace]

75. me three

[CottonBear]

82. Me four! n/t

[Art_from_Ark]

89. I had Puff the Magic Dragon and I Wanna Hold Your Hand 45's

The other song (Witch Doctor) is by David Seville and the Chipmunks and it first came out in 1958. Later it was played on The Alvin Show (1961 or thereabouts).

[momto3]

35. 50 Ways to Leave Your Lover - Simon and Garfunkel

Apparently, I sang this song quite often when is was 5.

I do not think I turned out to be a heartbreaker.

[raccoon]

36. "Tonight You Belong to Me," by Patience and Prudence. Also "March of the Tin Soldiers." nt

[CottonBear]

37. Yellow Submarine and Puff the Magic Dragon.

In the mid 1960s I was given a Close and Play record player that played 45 rpm records. I loved those songs and my little record player. My very conservative, Southern parents bought those records for me. I still love those songs. My mom attended a Peter, Paul and Mary concert in Chapel Hill, NC in the very early 1960s. That was probably the most radical thing she ever did!

I wish that I still had those 45s and the Close and Play. My little boy would enjoy them. I can't remember what was on the B sides. Hmmm...now I'll have to research that.

Here's a YouTube video of the actual 45 rpm record being played. Eleanor Rigby was on the B side.

And here's a wonderful BBC video of a live performance of Puff the Magic Dragon:

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The B side of Puff the Magic Dragon was Pretty Mary.
I'm going to play these for my little son today!

Post was edited for spelling (I want spellcheck back please) and to add video links.

[many a good man]

38. You Are My Sunshine/Secret Agent Man

and...

[IcyPeas]

49. Secret Agent Man was the first 45 I ever bought

[UnrepentantLiberal]

39. My mom bought the Beatles' Sargent Pepper

when it was released. I remember the cut out mustaches.

[Arkansas Granny]

42. "Back In The Saddle Again" by Gene Autrey.

[solara]

46. Who's Got The Ding Dong, Who's Got The Bell

Somebody Bad Stole The Wedding Bell Now Nobody Can Get Married


I think it was Eartha Kitt's recording.. but my mom used to sing it while she was washing dishes or something.


Also Doggie in the Window

[Still Blue in PDX]

47. 26 Miles Across the Sea

Our car was a 1959 Pontiac Catalina and I thought it was crazy that there was a song about it.

There were a bunch of other songs that I knew from my parents' and brother's records, but I remember that on the radio. And that damned "The Lion Sleeps Tonight." Gods, I hated that song!

[IcyPeas]

48. animal crackers in my soup (shirley temple)

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[MichaelMcGuire]

51. I thought that said for one minute "post the first songs you never remember"

[dana_b]

52. Mama Look A Boo Boo by Harry Belafonte

and rock-a-bye-baby. My mom would rock me while singing that and then "drop" me onto my bed at bedtime. My brother and sister and I would listen to Harry a lot and that song in particular because my dad was a real ass - to them in particular.

[ChoralScholar]

53. Early 80s

"That's All" by Genesis (or possibly just Phil Collins)
"Another One Bites the Dust" by Queen

[MichaelMcGuire]

55. Unsure but I know the first record I ever bought

Iron Maiden - Killer

[Kadie]

56. Brand New Key and Rain Drops keep falling on my head

Brand New Key

Rain Drops keep falling on my head

[AllenVanAllen]

58. Johnny Mathis - Chances Are

My father was huge JM fan.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

66. LOVE this song...

However, I was a teenager full of teen angst when it was popular!

[yellowcanine]

59. My mother used to sing "The Bedbugs and the Roaches"

I woke up this morning
and looked up on the wall
The roaches and the bedbugs
were having a game of ball

The score was two to nothing,
the roaches were ahead.
The bedbugs hit a homerun
and knocked me outta bed!


(Yodel for chorus)

[RebelOne]

60. A song from my childhood.

[madamesilverspurs]

63. Teddy Bear Picnic

If you go down to the woods today
You'd better not go alone.
If you go down to the woods today
You'll wish you had stayed at home.

For every bear that ever there was
Will gather there for certain because
This is the day the teddy bears have their piccccccnic.

[WCGreen]

64. Officer Krupke

[IGoToDU]

65. Fun question!

The Night Chicago Died...Beach Baby...Laughter in the Rain (by Neil Sedaka)...Those Were the Days My Friend (Mary Hopkins)...She lived on the Morning Side of the Mountain, He lived on the Twilight Side of the Hill (Donnie and Marie)...Good times!

[Art_from_Ark]

67. There are three of them

"Witch Doctor" from The Alvin Show (a.k.a., the "Oo-Ee-Oo-Ah-Ah Song&quot

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"Telstar" by the Ventures

and the Kent Cigarettes jingle

[Shoe Horn]

70. I AM A MOUSE. (oops, I'm thinking of book, sorry!)

lol.

Well, here it is anyways:
http://www.amazon.com/Mouse-Golden-Sturdy-Books/dp/0375874917

I still have it.

[Bucky]

71. "Still lookin' for that blue jean, baby-queen (purtiest girl I ever seen)..."

"...See her shake on the movie scree-ee-een! Jimmy Dean!"

[applegrove]

72. "And the cat came back, the very next day, the cat came back, they though he was a gonner".

I loved that song. Mostly because it was about a stubborn cat.

[high density]

73. Fondest childhood song...

I loved dancing to this thing for some reason.

[ArnoldLayne]

74. Wonderland By Night and I'm Going To Be Strong by

Gene Pitney.

[pipi_k]

111. Gonna Be Strong...

He says so much with so few words and such little time. That's always been a heartbreaker for me...

[mrs_p]

76. Raindrops keep falling on my head

I think I must have had a toy that actually played that song.

[Motown_Johnny]

77. Strawberry Fields Forever - Beatles

I shared a bedroom with a brother 9 years older than myself who had his stereo in the room.

I was born in '63 and the song was released in '67 so I am guessing I was 4 and my brother was 13 when I first heard it but I can't swear to that.

[Odin2005]

78. The Barney song...

[meow2u3]

79. The Unicorn

[CrispyQ]

80. The Animal Fair

I went to the animal fair
All the birds & the beasts were there.
The old baboon, by the light of the moon
was combing his auburn hair.

Well the monkey he got drunk
And he fell on the elephant's trunk.
The elephant sneezed, & he fell on his knees
and that was the end of the monk!

My Mom sang that to me before bedtime.

Also, Puff the Magic Dragon - no wonder I still puff.

[SaintPete]

92. As soon as I read your subject line

that song started playing in my head.

And that was the end of the monk, the monk, the monk, the monk, the monk, the monk, the monk, the monk!

[raccoon]

81. I posted earlier, then I realized "Davy Crockett" would be one of the first songs I remember. nt

[LynneSin]

83. Release Me - by Engelbert Humperdinck

It was from my mom's album collection. I had such a crush on the guy. I was only 5, what the heck did I know?

[DiverDave]

84. Johnny Cash "Burning ring of fire"

I liked it when I was 3-4...
Just the music my mom and her family had on at the time.

[SaintPete]

86. Roger Miller's - "King of the Road"

My dad used to sing that song when he was happy, & based on where we lived, I couldn't have been more than 3 of 4 max. !966 or '67

Or maybe Peggy Lee's "Winter Wonderland" back in 1965.

[Art_from_Ark]

90. King of the Road came out in '65, I think

I remember hearing it on the radio before leaving for school.

that, and Dang Me
And "Ode to the Little Brown Shack Out Back"

[SaintPete]

91. That's right! But my memories of the song

are tied to a specific event - which would have placed that memory in 66-'67 when I was about 3.

[HughBeaumont]

93. "Sweet City Woman" by The Stampeders.

"Can't Buy me Love" and "Paperback Writer" by the Beatles.
"One Fine Morning" by Lighthouse.
"Gypsy Woman" by Brian Hyland.
"Vehicle" by The Ides of March.

[Burma Jones]

95. here are a couple.....

Grandfather's Clock (actually from a music box, but I couldn't find a clip of that)

She Loves You

[MiddleFingerMom]

97. Frere Jacques

[siligut]

98. Raggmopp, by Cecil the seasick sea serpent

It was "jazzy" and feel good music, I loved it.

[pipi_k]

110. OMG...

I used to love that song!

R-A-GG M-O-PP

Ragmop! Ragmop!

[irisblue]

99. lets' twist again by chubby checkers & roy orbison & motown

i recall dancing to lets twist again with uncle pete as a very little girl....maybe 61/62. i suspect a roy orbison song is responsible for one of my younger brothers, pretty woman or only the lonley....we had a very fancy (to us) cabinet hi-fi system, my mother & father would get a smiley silly look and dance in the kitchen after dinner to his music. we had what seemed to be a huge stack of LPs and 45s and there was lots of music in our house. I grew up in detroit, so motown music was almost everywhere..pretty woman walking down the street...nice topic

[Paper Roses]

100. 'Show me the way to go home' and 'You are my Sunshine'.

I bet there are a million more but my old mind can't remember them. We're talking 1940's here.

[Wait Wut]

101. Uncle Remus.

My first and favorite album. I drove the whole house insane with my little record player.

[kaitcat]

106. Celebrate by Three Dog Night

We sang it lustily, off-rhythm and off-key. I was about 4.

[pipi_k]

109. Although I don't really remember this

from childhood (I have heard it lots of times since), my mom said my favorite song was "Mr Sandman" by the Chordettes.

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Some of the earliest songs I do remember come from Captain Kangaroo's show (like some others here).

"Playmate" and "Alfred The Airsick Eagle" were my favorites.

can't find any video for "Alfred..."

[Amerigo Vespucci]

112. "Papa Oom Mow Mow" by the Rivingtons

...also known in a slightly different form as "Surfin' Bird" by the Trashmen (later covered by the Ramones).

"Papa Oom Mow Mow" was one of the first records I ever owned...my sister gave it to me. I played it to DEATH.