what song(s) did you go around singing as a kid?

[Ava]

when i was 5 i went around everywhere singing "foxy lady" :rofl:

[MrSlayer]

1. Mostly KISS and AC/DC songs.

I was always a rocker, even at age 5.

[Forkboy]

3. For me it was KISS and Cheap Trick songs.

I got over Kiss rather easily, but I still love Cheap Trick.

Sadly, I didn't really catch on to AC/DC until Back in Black, which I now don't even like very much. But I went back and really paid attention to the Bon Scott stuff after BiB, and I still love all of that.

By 1981 all my musical tastes started veering off into bizarre territory, where they still reside. :)

[MrSlayer]

6. Yeah, I dropped KISS by the time I was 10.

As the heavier stuff started coming out I moved away from them.

[Forkboy]

8. I held on a little longer.

But I ended up moving on to heavier, and punker, pastures by 13. At first it was Priest and Maiden and early Scorpions and stuff, then onto the Ramones, the Clash, and eventually Metallica and Slayer and the Dead Kennedys. After that the shit hit the fan and I fell in love with everything fast and loud.

I can listen to a lot of mellow stuff now that I'm pushing 41, and like some very low key things that I never imagined I would like. But I'll always be a sucker for The Riff, in any of it's forms, be it punk, black metal, or old school thrash, and it's still what I listen to the most. :headbang:

[MrSlayer]

12. Well we are definitely on the same page my brother.

I had a similar path though I stayed more to the heavy side. AC/DC to Priest to Venom and Mercyful Fate to Metallica and Slayer. Except for crossover bands like D.R.I., I didn't really get into Punk until later on.

"Piss on those who choose to pose and Thrash with all the rest!"

[Maraya1969]

2. My first thought was when I was real little and went to Sunday School

and I used to sing "It's been wonderful walking with Jesus"

Then I remember singing "Build me up buttercup when I got older'

[BeachBaby]

15. I thought of Sunday School too....

and the first song I thought of was a missionary song sung to the tune of The Battle Hymn of the Republic...."From Savannah to Havana, from New York to Mexico, from Balboa to Samoa, from Iraq to Idaho...."

First secular song I remember singing to the point of overkill was "Another Brick in the Wall". :)

[Skittles]

4. Ave Maria

my grandfather loved that song

[Connonym]

5. Ricki Don't Lose That Number

Steely Dan

[EFerrari]

10. Bad sneakers. Steely Dan was the music I dated to.

That was fun. :)

[Blue_In_AK]

7. I'm old.

I was singing "Young at Heart" when I was seven or so -- you know, "Fairy tales can come true, it can happen to you..." blah blah. I remember I used to sing, "And here is the best part, you'll have a head scarf." :rofl: It didn't make much sense, but that's what I heard.

[EFerrari]

9. "If you are among the very young at heart."

lol

There were no books in our house but music, yes! All the musicals, pop from Mexico AND from here. My whole family watched the news the night the Beatles landed. lol

So, I have Doris Day AND Sinatra AND Dean Martin AND Harry Belafonte in my head. Oh, and Johnny Mathis! My cousin freaked me out on one road trip by putting on a Perry Como tape and I knew all the words.

I want to say that what I sang was Sinatra but it morphed into Tommy Roe at some point and later into the Stones and then Nirvana and even later, the Foo Fighters! I'm a serial offender. :)

[Blue_In_AK]

16. It sounds like we morphed along a similar route,

Sfexpat2000. :) I loved Nirvana. I think I was as sad as my kids were the day Kurt Cobain died.

[EFerrari]

29. I know.

That was some bad day.

My youngest son and I commuted together for a while, an hour each way, in the late 90s. Foo Fighters, the Smashing Pumpkins, POTS, Morissette, Jane's Addiction, Friends of P, Paula Cole lol

Damn, I haven't done anything new this whole decade except for some great Cuban music and Jango Reinhardt. :blush:

[patomime]

11. Ol' McDonald...

had a farm, e-i, e-i, o!

[panhead1961]

13. Mama told me not to come

[WritingIsMyReligion]

14. Rod Stewart's "Maggie May," actually.

:rofl:

[ghostsofgiants]

17. The Final Countdown.

I ruled.

[flvegan]

18. Oh gawd, no.

A Joey Tempest prodigy?

[ghostsofgiants]

22. Don't even front, dude.

That song rips and you know it. :P

[Sebastian Doyle]

25. Yeah, it "rips"...... like a massive wet fart

A "heavy metal" (yeah right) song, based on a keyboard riff?

Is there even a guitar on that shitty record?

[ghostsofgiants]

27. I definitely would never consider it heavy metal...

And honestly, I like it in an ironic/satirical way, but I still love it.

[ronnykmarshall]

19. Stop! In the Name of Love.

Or any Supremes song.

One time my brother and cousins rode their bikes in a circle around me as I sang "Reflections" I even had a tambourine.

[EFerrari]

30. My cousins and I had a game where one of us would think of a word

and the other guy had to think of a lyric that used that word. We could go on for HOURS. Looking back, song was HUGE for us. It was part of everything. We used to put on records and make up dances that involved jumping on furniture and doing turns the length of the livingroom. Hey -- we were about 15 years ahead of John Travolta! lol

[Fleshdancer]

20. Disco Donald Duck and Fever

I was one cool cat :rofl:

[Iggo]

21. When I was a little kid, I sang this song.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p02DgHeGdyI&feature=related

I had no idea what it was about. My mom was horrified.

EDIT: It's "Brand New Key" by Melanie, for those of you without access to youtube.

[kwassa]

23. Ooh Eeh Ooh Ah Aah Ting Tang Walla Walla Bing Bang

Witch Doctor - Ooh Eeh Ooh Ah Aah Ting Tang Walla Walla Bing Bang

Alvin and the Chipmunks

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNZj3fH-7zc&feature=related

about 2:14 into the clip from the show

One-eyed one-horn flying purple people eater!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9H_cI_WCnE

Itsy Bitsy Teeny Weeny Yellow Polka Dot Bikini

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

[supernova]

24. Why, Why, Why Delilah! and Puff the Magic Dragon!

:D

I pretty much covered the Tom Jones oeuvre when I was 7. ;-)

Oh, and Hey Mr Tambourine Man.

[Graybeard]

26. Davey...Davey Crockett...king of the wild frontier.

Had a coon-skin cap too!

[hvn_nbr_2]

34. You beat me to it.

I wanted a coon-skin cap but my parents wouldn't get me one.

[Graybeard]

35. Mine was kind of ratty.

I was in NYC and I don't even want to think what kind of animal they used.:scared:

[kayakjohnny]

28. tie my pecker to a tree to a tree

[Enrique]

31. Jeremiah was a bullfrog...

was a good friend of mine.

[malta blue]

32. Tales of Brave Ulysses and Get Off My Cloud

were my two anthems.

Get Off My Cloud was used whenever anyone teased me.

Tales was my favorite song.

[raccoon]

33. Addams Family theme. The Witch Doctor (Oo-ee-oo-ah-ah) nt.

[lizziegrace]

36. Cecilia by Simon and Garfunkel

My mother was mortified.

"Making love in the afternoon
with Cecilia, up in my bedroom"


:)

[Lady-Damai]

37. Uh.......Tough Boy by TOM*CAT

I was obsessed with Kensiro as a little kid. I was probably 4 or 5. My family thought it was so weird for a little girl to be singing about fighting in english/japanese song. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7vkPviOSqo

Welcome to this crazy Time
Kono ikareta jidai e yôkoso
Kimi wa tough boy
Matomo na yatsu hodo feel so bad
Shôki de irareru nante un ga ii ze
You, tough boy

Toki wa masani seikimatsu
Yodonda machikado de bokura wa deatta

Keep you burning Kakenukete
Kono fuhai to jiyû to bôryoku no mattadanaka
No boy no cry Kanashimi wa
Zetsubô ja nakute ashita no manifesuto

We are living, living in the eighties
We still fight, fighting in the eighties

Doko mo kashiko mo kizudarake
Uzuku matte naitete mo hajimaranai kara
tough boy
Dotchi wo muite mo feel so sad
Dakedo shi ni wa itaranai
Jibun wa dô dai? tough boy

Koko wa eien no rokku rando
Kobushi wo nigirishime bokura wa deatta

Keep you burning Kakenukete
Kono kyôki to kibô to genmetsu no mattadanaka
No boy no cry Susumanakya
Ikioi wo mashita mukaikaze no naka wo

We are living, living in the eighties
We still fight, fighting in the eighties
We are living, living in the eighties
We still fight, fighting in the eighties

[Bucky]

38. My baloney has a first name; it's Oh Ess Cee Ay Arr! Myyyy baloney has a second name...

and so forth and so on.

[Texasgal]

39. " Oh susana! Don't you cry for me"

"I come from Alabama with my banjo on my knee;
I'm goin' to Lou'siana my true love for to see.
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."

[Tikki]

40. 'Hit the Road Jack'.....

..and don't you come 'round no more, no more, no more, no MORE!!...


Tikki