Post a song from your childhood here:

[applegrove]

Ani Kuni, an Iroquois song we sang all the way through school

[Ptah]

1. Frank Sinatra - Love and Marriage

[HarveyDarkey]

2. I've got nothin' after that

Love it, BTW. Wish I'd had something that nice to sing as I grew up.

[struggle4progress]

3. Sleigh ride party

[RebelOne]

4. Mares eat oats and does eat oats.

Unless you were born before 1940, you would not know this song.

[csziggy]

7. I know that one! Mom used to sing it to us

She learned it from this recording:

[RebelOne]

9. Yes, I learned it as a child and still remember it. n/t

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

8. And liitle lambs eat ivy.

A kid'll eat ivy, too; wouldn't you?

I was born after 1940 but I know the song. I learned it from my Mom, who was born in 1920.

[RebelOne]

12. I am amazed that there are some who remember this song.

I thought I was the only one since it is so old as I am.

[Bertha Venation]

18. I remember it, too. n/t

[raccoon]

33. Heard it from my mother, who was born in '28. nt

[mimi85]

23. My mom was born in 1929

and she taught me this one. I don't know if I would've thought of it again. Gracias!

[SwissTony]

36. Born Scotland, 1950.

This song seemed to be around during my childhood. in fact, when I saw then words "Mares eat oats", I thought "That's 'Mairzy Doats'".

[Blue_In_AK]

44. I know it...I was born in 1946.

[trof]

54. C'mon. It's "Mairzy Doats". Born 1941.

A kiddley divey doo, wouldn't you?

[nolabear]

5. This, because we really did do the game.

(We also hand-clapped to Iko Iko before the record ever happened)

[nomorenomore08]

6. This song was huge when I was about 8:

Yeah, I'm a child of the 90's (born in '84). Grunge and everything that followed it, was the soundtrack to my elementary school years.

[csziggy]

10. This one became my little sister's theme song

[antiquie]

11. Blue Suede Shoes

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[IDemo]

13. Puff The Magic Dragon -

[laundry_queen]

14. I actually remember that song.

I have no memory of singing it in school or seeing it on TV, but when I hit play, I remembered it instantly. Cool song.

Most of the songs from my childhood were French. There's probably no YouTube of them. J'entends le Moulin sticks in my head...Il est né le divin enfant was a favorite at Christmas.

Then there was the music my parents listened to. Olivia Newton John's "Let get physical" was my favorite song for years when I was little, lol.

[Rowdyboy]

15. My mom sang "Serenade of the Bells" as a lullabye to me and all four of my siblings....

She had a lovely voice and, corny as it is, I love the song still...

[mimi85]

21. It's not corny

it's beautiful. Thanks for sharing it with us.

[Rowdyboy]

24. Your most welcome. Listening to it again brings back such wonderful

memories of childhood, lying in my bed in the dark and listening to her put the younger kids to sleep with her soft, sweet voice, sounding almost like a bell at just the right times. I still sing it to myself at times.....

I also love to quote a piece of nonsense she taught me...

"As I was walking up the stair
I met a man who wasn't there
He wasn't there again today
I wish that man would go away!"

Thanks to google now I know that was from a song too. "The little man who wasn't there" apparently came from an earlier poem called "Antigonish"

Needless to say, I had an intriguing childhood.

[discntnt_irny_srcsm]

32. Antigonish

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Hughes_Mearns

Yesterday upon the stair
I met a man who wasn’t there
He wasn’t there again today
Oh, how I wish he’d go away

When I came home last night at three
The man was waiting there for me
But when I looked around the hall
I couldn’t see him there at all!
Go away, go away, don’t you come back any more!
Go away, go away, and please don’t slam the door

Last night I saw upon the stair
A little man who wasn’t there
He wasn’t there again today
Oh, how I wish he’d go away

IMHO this is what you would get if Freud read Nietzsche.

[fizzgig]

16. this is one of the first songs i remember

i am pretty sure i saw them when i went to the telluride bluegrass fest with me ma.

[Bertha Venation]

17. no video . . .

Say, say oh playmate
Come out and play with me
And bring your dolly three
Climb up my apple tree
Slide down my rainbow
Into my cellar door
And we'll be jolly friends forevermore

[hermetic]

27. Here ya go, BV

I used to have this on a little, yellow record so I thought there must be a YT. Sure enough

[Bertha Venation]

37. I don't think we ever sang the second verse

I didn't know there was one.

Thanks!

[applegrove]

42. I remember that. Such a pretty tune.

[Blue_In_AK]

45. Oh, yeah.

[archiemo]

48. That brought back so many memories of me and my girlfriends...hand clapping routine and all! n/t.

[vanlassie]

19. The Funniest Song In The World Groucho Marx

I think it was on a 78 disc.

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[mimi85]

20. Some great songs on here!

Great topic. Especially feels good not talking about Syria for a few minutes. My dad sang this to me when I was little. Damn I miss him! I still get a tear or two when on occasion it pops up.

[BlueJazz]

25. Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini

Wonderful tune.

[Tom Kitten]

26. Ten Twenty Thirty Forty Fifty Or More?

The Bloody Red Baron rode up the score!

[hermetic]

28. I've always had a record collection

even at 6 I had a bunch of little, yellow ones and this was one of my favorites. It wasn't by Garcia and Grisman back then, of course, and it totally cracked me up when I found this version.

[RiffRandell]

29. Everything off the Free to Be You and Me album.

My best friend in high school had it too growing up, and we would and get silly and sing all the songs.

That was a great album for kids...still is.

This was one of my favorites off the album....Helping:

[rug]

30. Davy Crockett

[B Calm]

31. LOL, you beat me to it. King of the Wild Frontier

[rug]

38. I even had the hat.

[Brigid]

34. "The Worm Song"

Oh nobody likes me
Everybody hates me
Guess I'll go eat worms
Great big fat ones
Great big juicy ones
Worms that wiggle and squirm

-- Courtesy of my dad.

[DFW]

35. "Dracula's Geatest Hits" was album of my childhood

Left the Dave Clark Five in the dust!

[Tom_Foolery]

39. Jewel Akens' "The Birds and the Bees"...

[Doc_Technical]

40. This Perry Como song was my favorite when I was 5 years old.

Remember when many popular songs would have a key change?

[steve2470]

41. 1969, The Archies, Sugar Sugar

[Blue_In_AK]

43. I used to sing Frank Sinatra "Young at Heart" when I was about seven.

I remember I used to sing "And here is the best part...you get a head scarf...if you are among the very young at heart." It was years before I realized that it was "head start."

[OxQQme]

46. One eyed, one horned

flying purple people eater.
Or are we talking real early childhood?
I was 17 when this had major airplay in LA. It's an earworm that returns often.

[antiquie]

49. Yep, and Alley Oop!

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My grandkids say they love my funny songs.

[OxQQme]

51. There are so many

I was born in 1940. Mom and Dad were all in to music.

http://www.digitaldreamdoor.com/pages/best_songs-1940s.html

http://www.nme.com/list/100-best-songs-of-the-1950s/262449

[antiquie]

52. My folks played the radio or the record player a lot of the time.

I know the words to a lot of those, both decades.
Thanks for the links.

[vanamonde]

47. Tammy

Debbie Reynolds

[LWolf]

50. We ALL

got kicked off the bus on the way to school for singing this song to the bus driver:

The key moment was when we shouted, in unison and 4-part harmony, "The bus driver's playing with her own ding-a-ling."

[graywarrior]

53. The Singing Nun

Man, I hated it mainly because I liked it.