Favourite song when you were a child? For me two. "My eyes are dim, I cannot see,

[applegrove]

I have not brought my specs with me, I have not brought my spec-ta-cles with me" and "a-ou-ni, cou-ou-ni, cha-a-ou-a-ni" (a native canadian song that had hand actions to go with it). The first we sang on long car trips as a family despite all having terrible voices. The second we sang in school.

[Tikki]

1. When I was a little girl, I wished Rosemary Clooney....

was my mother....long story...

I loved this song and tried to keep up with all the lyrics..


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=44CQbWDDd64
"Mambo Italiano"...Miss Rosemary Clooney



Tikki

[Bertha Venation]

2. Winnie the Pooh

Deep in the Hundred Acre Wood
Where Christopher Robin played
You'll find an enchanted neighborhood
From Christopher's childhood days

A donkey named Eeyore is his friend
And Kanga and little Roo
There's Piglet and Rabbit
And there's Owl
But most of all, Winnie the Pooh

Winnie the Pooh, Winnie the Pooh
Chubby little cubby all stuffed with fluff, he's
Winnie the Pooh, Winnie the Pooh
Silly willy nilly old bear

[struggle4progress]

3. Puff the Magic Dragon

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wik2uc69WbU

Snoopy vs. The Red Baron
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3YG8GNenGcM&feature=related

The Unicorn Song
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4bc9UwZsYs

[applegrove]

6. The "Unicorn Song" I had forgotten that song. We used to sing that

song on the way home from nursery school.

[struggle4progress]

7. Shel Silverstein was a genius

Sara Cynthia Sylvia Stout!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tvNhhEtUGJY

[applegrove]

30. An 'uncle' of mine brought us "Where The Sidewalk Ends" from the USA. Great book of poetry.

[struggle4progress]

8. A Boy Named Sue

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZNZt5qVgvM&feature=related

[guitar man]

39. delete

oops :blush:

[guitar man]

40. A Boy Named Sue

First 45 I ever got, I was around 6 or 7

[Skittles]

4. Island of Dreams (Springfields)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhF-Mqn-HEQ

[suninvited]

5. I cant find this song on youtube anywhere

but as a young girl I loved Neil Diamond's Child Song

Weeping sky, we bring the sun,
to make you glad and fill you with the day
quiet tree, we have the wind to make you dance
and fill you with out play
and you shall be glad
and you shall dance
and you shall come to hear our song
and learn it's tune before it fades away

[Xicano]

9. Monster Mash..

LOL the first record I owned: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0thH3qnHTbI

[Iggo]

26. It was a graveyard smash in case you didn't know. (n/t)

[marzipanni]

10. A few favorites

My parents encouraged me to sing the first few lines of this when I was 3 or 4 - and since I loved dogs, I also liked the song.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2AkLE4X-bbU

My mom sang this to me and I liked to sing it-
"Went to the animal fair,
The Birds and the Beasts were there.
The big baboon, by the light of the moon,
Was combing his auburn hair.
The monkey, he got drunk,
And sat on the elephant's trunk.
The elephant sneezed and fell on his knees,
And what became of the monk, the monk?
|: The monk, the monk, the monk. :|

She also used to sing, "My mother told me that she would buy me a rubber dolly if I was good, but then I told her I loved a soldier, she would not buy me that rubber dolly."

and "Makin' Whoopee"....I wasn't sure what it meant, but I thought it was a funny song. ;)

[Petrushka]

11. My father singing our favorite lullabye---"Big Rock Candy Mountain" (Tex Ritter children's version).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WX1ULWz7Yzw

For Harry MacClintock's original hobo version, see:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovKk_kPmAk4

[surrealAmerican]

13. I grew up with the Burl Ives version of that:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPqrTaVXJhI&feature=fvw

[Tuesday Afternoon]

12. Mairzy Doats

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

[WinkyDink]

14. Seconded!!

[applegrove]

31. I was so shocked when I realized the song was about mares and does and lambs.

[WinkyDink]

46. I know! There went the magic!

[HopeHoops]

15. "Feelin' Groovy"

Live version: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJBhdKrwTOc

[meow2u3]

16. I rewrote the lyrics for when I was in my 20's--for contact lens wearers

Original:

My eyes are dim, I cannot see
I have not brought my specs with me
I have (hey!) not (ho!) brought my specs with me.

My rewrite for contact lens wearers:

I cannot see, my eyes are dim
I have not got my contacts in
I have (hey) not (ho) got my contacts in.

[meow2u3]

17. Some of my favorite childhood songs we sang along with in the car

The Unicorn - The Irish Rovers

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_EPsuOEH1fY

Nancy Sinatra - These Boots Are Made for Walking

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SbyAZQ45uww

[RZM]

18. Quarterflash, 'Harden My Heart'

One of my first memories of music

[hippywife]

19. There were five of us girls before my little brother was born.

Anytime we had to go anywhere in the car in the evening, my dad would start us singing:

I see the moon
the moon sees me
Down thru the leaves
of the old oak tree
Please let the light
that shines on me
shine on the one I love.

[frogmarch]

20. Shojoji

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FeMaFJsvm9w

In a very famous Japanese children's song, "Shojoji no Tanuki Bayashi," the Tanuk,i beats its tummy, singing a song, having fun under the moon. The refrain of the song says "Ponpoko Pon no Pon.” This is the sound made by Tanuki beating its tummy or “golden balls.” (Tanuki are magical racoon-like dogs with shape-shifting powers. My sister and I always thought they were magical badgers, and we didn't know that tanuki had golden balls - or what balls were, in that context.)


Sho sho Shojoji
Shojoji no niwa wa
Tsu tsu tsukiyo da
Minna dete koi koi koi
Oira no tomodacha
Pon poko pon no pon

Makeruna makeruna
Osho-san ni makeruna
Koi koi koi, Koi koi koi
Minna dete koi koi koi

Sho sho Shojoji
Shojoji no hagi wa
Tsu tsu tsukiyo ni hana zakari
Oira wa ukarete
Pon poko pon no pon
~~

At Shojoji Temple
In the temple garden
In the moonlight
Come on everybody
My friends play belly drums
Pon poko pon no pon

Don't loose your dancing bout
Against the monk
Come here, come here
Everybody come here and dance

At Shojoji Temple
The temple’s bush clover
Is in full bloom under the moon
I’m in a festive mood
Pon poko pon no pon
(sound of playing belly drum)

[MorningGlow]

21. "Joy to the World"

Because I was only 4, I had to go to a private kindergarten instead of to my local public school (they wanted me to wait till I was 5). The school was about 10 minutes away--mom had to drive me. This was back in the day of true "Top 40" AM radio, where they plaed the same handful of songs incessantly (and before the advent of "wacky morning blah-blah teams") and nearly EVERY morning during drive-time, at almost EXACTLY the same time (just before 8 a.m.), the top 40 station played "Joy to the World".

I just heard it on the radio yesterday, and immediately I was back in the front seat of my mom's Oldsmobile (no seatbelt), in rush-hour traffic, on the way to kindergarten. :P

[Mad_Dem_X]

49. I have a special memory associated with that song

I was small, maybe 4 or 5, and I was out with my parents at a restaurant. There was a live band playing in another room, and clearly remember my dad giving me a dollar and holding me up so I could give the singer the money and request "Joy to the World." To this day, the song makes me think of my dad. He died this past August, but I'll always have that special memory. :)

[pink-o]

22. I loved Dusty Springfield's Wishin and Hopin when I was 8 in 63

and also Billy J Kramer "Bad to Me" I had no idea that song was written by 2 blokes from Liverpool named Lennon and McCartney who would blow music wide open a year later!

But aside from being a rock 'n roll baby, I used to cry every time I saw that Kodak ad with "Turn Around". I've always been maudlin about the passage of time, even when I was a kid, and this used to just make me bawl:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qBWVWjdNWC0&playnext=1&list=PL8BAA5D306405247F&index=7

[Tom_Foolery]

23. Jewel Akens-The Birds and The Bees

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RaaVbWD3USI

[Pool Hall Ace]

24. Those Lazy Hazy Crazy Days of Summer

Mr. Nat King Cole!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hv4gYHlqTds

[Iggo]

25. An old drinking song that my father taught us young'ns (and my mother hated him for it)

All four of us kids were younger than ten, and we'd belt this song out during road trips (and sometimes at parties...lol):

Drink...
Drank...
Drunk last night and drunk the night before.
And I'm gonna get drunk tonight like I've never been drunk before.
'Cause when I'm drunk, I'm happy as can be
'Cause I am a member of the Rauss (sp?) family.
Now the Rauss family is the best family
That everrrrrr came overrrrrr from Old Germany.
There's the Highland Dutch and the Lowland Dutch
The RotterrrrrrrrrrdamDutch and the Irish.
Glorious! Victorious! One keg of beer for the four of us!
Now glory be to god there are no more of us
'Cause one of us could drink it all alone...
Damn near...
The lucky stiiiiiiiiiiffffffff!

[applegrove]

33. Your poor mom!!! LOL!

[Iggo]

34. I wish I had video.

It must have been a sight.

[OrwellwasRight]

27. Dizzy

I'm so dizzy, my head is spinnin',
Like a whirlpool it never ends,
And it's you girl makin' me crazy,
You're makin' me dizzy . . .

by Tommy Roe, now long forgotten 60s pop star. Don't ask me how it got to be my favorite song 6 years after it was released, but there it is.

[mia]

28. Singing in the Rain

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1ZYhVpdXbQ

[femmocrat]

29. "How Much is that Doggy in the Window?" and...

"Rudolph the Red-nosed Reindeer"

[Misskittycat]

35. For me, also: How much is that doggie in the window.

Apparently, I belted it out of my bedroom window regularly for the whole neighborhood to hear.

[mix]

32. America - Horse with No Name nt

[Forkboy]

36. This is the first song I can remember HAVING to hear.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDxhugRKZ8g

[Iggo]

38. Oh, you poor kid.

I'm glad to see you recovered so nicely.

[Blue_In_AK]

37. I used to like "Young at Heart,"

Frank Sinatra (yes, that's how old I am). "Fairy tales can come true, it can happen to you..." blah, blah, blah. Of course, I got the words wrong ... "And here is the best part, you get a head scarf."

Woo-hoo.


:rofl:

I also liked Mockingbird Hill and Teresa Brewer doing "Sweet Old-Fashioned Girl." That was a little later, though.

[Redstone]

41. Great green gobs of greasy, grimy gopher guts,

mutilated monkey meat,
little bitty birdies' beaks.

Great green gobs of greasy, grimy gopher guts...
And I forgot my spoon.


Redstone

[MorningGlow]

42. YES!

:thumbsup:

Funny, I was just thinking about that tune the other day--! :P

[newcriminal]

43. Got a skeeter on my peter

I have two sisters and no brothers, so I don't know how or why this was our favorite song, but it was. (Oh, and my husband was not to pleased with me when I sang it to our children)

Sung to the tune of IF YOUR HAPPY AND YOU KNOW IT

GOT A SKEETER ON MY PETER, KNOCK IT OFF
GOT A SKEETER ON MY PETER, KNOCK IT OFF
GOT A SKEETER ON MY PETER, AND I'M AFRAID IT'S GOIN TO EATER
GOT A SKEETER ON MY PETER, KNOCK IT OFF

[ArnoldLayne]

44. My Mother said when I was about 3 years old and I remember

it too that I loved the song "Wonderland By Night" by Bert Kaempfert and "Telstar" by The Tornados. Then a couple years later I liked "I'm Gonna be Strong" by Gene Pitney.

[WinkyDink]

47. I must've sung that last IGBS note a million times. STILL my favorite GP song!

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

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hq8imWHIzDQ&feature=related

[Deep13]

45. Squeezebox--The Who

seriously

[Mad_Dem_X]

48. "Sugar, Sugar" by The Archies, or

"Brand New Key" by Melanie.

[astral]

50. we got to live together ....... ooooooh, chah- chaaah!

there is a yellow one that don't accept the black one that don't accept the white one that don't accept the red one . . . .

different strokes for different blokes