Do you recall the music you loved when you were a kid?

[Fleshdancer]

In preschool, I was all about the Disco Donald Duck...I was soooo cool.

I adored Fever by Peggy Lee (still do). When my mom clean the house, she would start by blasting that record and Fever was the first song.

What about you? What are your childhood music memories?

[Left Is Write]

1. A few songs stand out in my memory -

The Unicorn Song - The Irish Rovers
M.T.A. - The Kingston Trio
Scarlet Ribbons - Harry Belafonte
The Marvelous Toy - Peter, Paul and Mary
Endless Sleep - Don Williams
Amanda - Don Williams

[Robeson]

2. Good call on Don Williams...

...I've never been much on country, but his music always had a ring of sincerity, and was not contrived.

[Starbucks Anarchist]

3. When I was a kid, I played Thriller all the time.

[ghostsofgiants]

4. Songs taht stand out in my memory are "The Final Countdown" by Europe

And "Copper Head Road" by Steve Earle, haha.

[Blue-Jay]

10. .

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KskaUMuARR8

[ghostsofgiants]

12. You, sir, are a king among men.

[AlCzervik]

5. The 5th Dimension, Sonny and Cher, mostly Cher, Jim Croce, Joan Baez and Bette midler

were staples around my house. Whenever i hear The age Aquarius i feel like i'm 5 years old.

[lizerdbits]

6. I will never forget my Chipmunks vinyl

It had Whip It and My Sharona.

I loved "I love a rainy night" by Eddie Rabbit because my dad and I loved to watch summer time thunderstorms. And when I heard "Heartache Tonight" by the Eagles on the radio I would sing 'party' instead of 'heartache' while my dad drove me to swimming lessons in our canary yellow Fiesta he would correct me. I thought what does he know he's OLD! Not only is his age 2 digits the first one is a THREE!

[fizzgig]

11. i had that record too!

loved it!

[Pithlet]

15. I had that. I totally forgot about it until you mentioned it.

I wish I still had it, now. My kids are young, and they'd get a kick out of it, after they wondered what the heck that black shiny flat thing was.

My earliest memories were of Wings. I can remember asking my mom to play the Band on the Run album. When I was a little older, the fav was Fleetwood Mac's Rumors.

[u4ic]

7. This was my favourite song

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FeZftK2kO6U

:D

[Joe Fields]

8. I can remember my dad playing his collection of those really thick

plastic 78's of Les Paul and Mary Ford, Benny Goodman, Gene Krupa, Artie Shaw...

As for the music I liked, that's practically all I still listen to today. The golden age of rock.

[Fuzz]

9. Four words

"Like a Rhinestone Cowboy"

Ok, I was terribly repressed. ;)

[Whoa_Nelly]

13. OK THis is gonna date me

Come Fly With Me--Frank Sinatra

I Won't Grow Up--Peter Pan starring Mary Martin

Red, Red Robin

Oklahoma

Loverly--My Fair Lady

All of The Sound of Music


yeah...am over 50 :eyes:

[Louis C. Phurye]

14. I listened to my sister's stuff.

Van Halen - Diver Down
Styx - The Grand Illusion
Styx - Paradise Theatre
Journey - Departure ???
Supertramp - Breakfast in America
Boz Scaggs
Boston
Peter Frampton

I can remember a stack of albums but those particularly stand out.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

16. Saint Saens Organ Symphony and Bizet's Carmen

They were my favorites...

[dajoki]

17. The Beatles

[chknltl]

18. Julie London singing "Fly Me To The Moon"

Here it is on youtube used as the music for, of all things, a Final Fantasy game clip. Yuna and Tidus do make a fine pair and Julie London...what a voice. (Yep I was the geek who complimented the artist there about a month ago. This song makes a pretty ear-worm by the way.)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MC7zFK0oAGM

[SeattleGirl]

19. Motown!

I still love that sound!

[u4ic]

20. Me, too!

Love, love, love Motown. :D


Evening, asshat! :loveya:

[SeattleGirl]

23. Evening, fuckwad!

Love your taste in music! :loveya:

[hughee99]

21. When you're 6 years old, "Lola" doesn't make any sense. n/t

[Roon]

22. Elton John was my first music I loved

Not only did I love his music, but he was also the only other person I knew that was gay. I tell my brother this and he asked, "How did you know he was gay?"...i told him that our Father told me. This was before he was married. When he got married to a woman I was so shocked! I was also crushed. But things all turned out for the better. :-)

[Zing Zing Zingbah]

24. Walk Like an Egyptian, Sledgehammer, Like a Prayer n/t

[GenDem]

25. The Archie's -- Sugar, Sugar,

The Beatle's Hey Jude, The Monkee's I'm a Believer, The 5th Dimension's Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In, and Peter, Paul & Mary's Puff the Magic Dragon

Ahhh, the good old days.

[Wetzelbill]

26. Howard Jones "No One Is To Blame" The Moody Blues "Your Wildest Dreams"

Those stand out.

Then was I was very little, I recall a little CCR and Marshall Tucker being played etc.

[stuntcat]

27. Stevie/Fleetwood Mac was the first thing I liked

when I was 11 to 13 years old, it took me a while longer to learn about old Fleetwood Mac. I was mostly just a Stevie fan.
Then there was Prince.
My Dad was a radio DJ so I heard music all the time, I just never had a taste of my own until Stevie Nicks.

My best friend called me from her concert the other night and I heard all of Stand Back, it sounded so good, I could hear the song and the crowd freaking out :loveya:
I don't get to see her because she's not coming close enough and I can't drive :|

[BrotherBuzz]

28. Davy Crockett and Tennessee Ernie Ford 's 1955 smash hit 'Sixteen Tons'

"Sixteen Tons" spent ten weeks at number one on the country charts and eight weeks at number one on the pop charts, and made Ford a crossover star. It became Ford's 'signature song.' I probably would not have heard it if it hadn't become such a crossover hit. As a little kid, I just loved Tennessee Ernie Ford's bass voice.

Sixteen Tons

Some people say a man is made outta mud
A poor man's made outta muscle and blood
Muscle and blood and skin and bones
A mind that's a-weak and a back that's strong

You load sixteen tons, what do you get
Another day older and deeper in debt
Saint Peter don't you call me 'cause I can't go
I owe my soul to the company store

I was born one mornin' when the sun didn't shine
I picked up my shovel and I walked to the mine
I loaded sixteen tons of number nine coal
And the straw boss said "Well, a-bless my soul"

You load sixteen tons, what do you get
Another day older and deeper in debt
Saint Peter don't you call me 'cause I can't go
I owe my soul to the company store

I was born one mornin', it was drizzlin' rain
Fightin' and trouble are my middle name
I was raised in the canebrake by an ol' mama lion
Cain't no-a high-toned woman make me walk the line

You load sixteen tons, what do you get
Another day older and deeper in debt
Saint Peter don't you call me 'cause I can't go
I owe my soul to the company store

If you see me comin', better step aside
A lotta men didn't, a lotta men died
One fist of iron, the other of steel
If the right one don't a-get you
Then the left one will

You load sixteen tons, what do you get
Another day older and deeper in debt
Saint Peter don't you call me 'cause I can't go
I owe my soul to the company store

[HuskerDU]

29. I grew up in the 70's so I would listen to oldies radio...

the early days of RnR, 50s-early 60s. That stuff was so much fun, and it still is today.