Your Favorite Song as a Child - that you can remember...

[Westerly Wood]

I am sure you all had many, but here was mine.

 

[hansmoust]

This song was definitely one of those for me:



Sincerely,

Hans Moust
www.guitarsgalore.nl

 

[twocorgis]

I am sure you all had many, but here was mine.

Same group, different song. First 45 I bought with my "own" money, and it's as timeless today, as it was revolutionary when it was released.

 

[walrus]

If I go back to the first song I remember knowing a little, and liking, it was my mother playing "Leavin' On A Jet Plane" by Peter, Paul and Mary.

My own first favorite song, assuming my memory is correct (questionable) was "Daydream Believer" by The Monkess. I'm guessing their TV show got a lot of young kids into music.

walrus

 

[GAD]

My dad loved opera so my earliest favorite music was operatic and classical.

The first music I remember asking for was The Pirates of Penzance. Though the version I remember as a kid is from an LP that I still have, this campy '80s version is one of my favorite things ever and has been since I first discovered it as a teen. In the past I almost went down the laserdisc path because it was available on the format, but have since managed to score a pristine digital version. And yes, in the begining that's Linda Rondstadt as Mabel. Kevin Kline is the pirate king.

My absolute favorite song as a 5 year old was an earlier version (with original lines removed from this version) of this song:




I Am a Pirate King from the widescreen digital version. I would have killed to see this goofy version live.

 

[gjmalcyon]

My first LP:



Favorite song:



I later came to love the Brian Wilson ballads on the second side.

 

[davismanLV]

This is gonna seem weird but here goes. We never had much music at home. Any and all came from my dad only. But we went to my grandparents for Thanksgiving, and she played the radio all the time! This is when I found out about my penchant for song lyrics and being able to remember them. I was like maybe 5 or 6 at the time. This Perry Como song would come on and my grandmother and I would sing together.

So fast forward to a year and a half ago, we start going to Casa di Amore down the street. It's an old school, Brat-Pack decorated place with a vintage feel and they play old music. So we're playing machines and Magic Moments comes on, and without thinking I just start singing along with it. At the end, Don just looks at me and say, "What the hell was that song and how do you know it??" It's imprinted on my brain for some reason.



Of course a few years later when I was allowed to actually buy a 45 (I had to beg) I bought this of course.



So there's a couple.

 

[GGJaguar]

Like GAD, I grew up with opera as well as jazz. The aria "Largo al Factotum" from Il Barbiere di Siviglia (The Barber of Seville) is the standout for me. I got to see this opera at the Metropolitan Opera in New York a few years ago and it was one of the greatest experiences of my life.

 

[twocorgis]

My dad loved opera so my earliest favorite music was operatic and classical.

The first music I remember asking for was The Pirates of Penzance. Though the version I remember as a kid is from an LP that I still have, this campy '80s version is one of my favorite things ever and has been since I first discovered it as a teen. In the past I almost went down the laserdisc path because it was available on the format, but have since managed to score a pristine digital version. And yes, in the begining that's Linda Rondstadt as Mabel. Kevin Kline is the pirate king.

My absolute favorite song as a 5 year old was an earlier version (with original lines removed from this version) of this song:




I Am a Pirate King from the widescreen digital version. I would have killed to see this goofy version live.

My Scottish dad was a massive Gilbert and Sullivan fan, and played the Pooh-Bah in our local theater company's production of "The Mikado" I think I have a photo somewhere. I grew up listening to a lot of that, along with "The radio station of the New York Times" WQXR.

 

[jp]

I see some commonalities here. My first record was the Beach Boys Endless Summer, which I think I loved for the melodies. I also loved all the songs from the movie Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. Lol!

For some reason, though, I remember really loving the song Sweet Emotion by Aerosmith.

 

[wileypickett]

My first LP:

My first LP too! (1965)

My first single: Soupy Sales "Do the Mouse" b/w "Pachalafaka" (1965)

These are the first records I picked out for myself. I would have been 12.

But if we're REALLY talking childhood (that is, pre-teen), when I was six my parents bought me two records which I played over and over again on my parent's 78 RPM player:

"Playmate" b/w "I Don't Want to Play in Your Yard" (no idea of the artist)

"How Much is That Doggie in the Window" (Patti Page)

 

[JohnW63]

My Mom played records with songs. I think my Dad got ones by Chet Atkins. Mom used to put us to bed with Rapsody in Blue and the Grand Canyon Suite. Not much lyrics there. She like Any Williams, so one of those might be my early songs. The one I remember is I had been given a " transistor radio " of my own to listen to and "Sweet Surrender" and "Sunshine on my shoulders" came on the radio. From there, I wanted to figure out how to play my Dad's old Key guitar.

p.s. John Denver wrote Leaving on a Jet plan, but many people credit Peter,Paul, and Mary.

p.p.s

GAD, in the early 80s I worked at a Ski area and during the summer we had a sled track made of concrete and fiber glass that was like a bobsled track. We workers got really good at it and had our favorite sleds. Most beginners did have the balance figured out and would sometimes slide right off there sled ,which would either finish the run without them or get ejected right off the track. In the summer, sliding down the track at any speed was would road rash on your bare legs pretty quickly. One day, the cast of the Pirates of Penzance drove up to Big Bear from LA and went on the ride. Some of them got good doses of Neosporin ointment all legs and arms. I know a few of them were well known actors at the time, but all Google lists in the film cast.

 

[James Hart]

born in 68, before my sister was born in late 74, my folks got me a used 'suitcase record player' and a selection of 45s... these 3 were my go to for a good few years

 

[James Hart]

GAD, in the early 80s I worked at a Ski area and during the summer we had a sled track made of concrete and fiber glass that was like a bobsled track. We workers got really good at it and had our favorite sleds. Most beginners did have the balance figured out and would sometimes slide right off there sled ,which would either finish the run without them or get ejected right off the track. In the summer, sliding down the track at any speed was would road rash on your bare legs pretty quickly. One day, the cast of the Pirates of Penzance drove up to Big Bear from LA and went on the ride. Some of them got good doses of Neosporin ointment all legs and arms. I know a few of them were well known actors at the time, but all Google lists in the film cast.

I worked a couple summers at "Action Park" here in NW NJ... specifically on the "Alpine Slide"

 

[bobouz]

The first thing that comes to mind, at ten years old in 1961, is the music from the original West Side Story movie. Then around 1963, I got completely hooked on Jerry Lee Lewis’ Breathless - I’d play that 45 over & over again. A hop, skip, & a jump later came the blues-oriented bands from the British Invasion, and then a super-fun deep dive into where that stuff actually came from!

 

[GAD]

My Mom played records with songs. I think my Dad got ones by Chet Atkins. Mom used to put us to bed with Rapsody in Blue and the Grand Canyon Suite. Not much lyrics there. She like Any Williams, so one of those might be my early songs. The one I remember is I had been given a " transistor radio " of my own to listen to and "Sweet Surrender" and "Sunshine on my shoulders" came on the radio. From there, I wanted to figure out how to play my Dad's old Key guitar.

p.s. John Denver wrote Leaving on a Jet plan, but many people credit Peter,Paul, and Mary.

p.p.s

GAD, in the early 80s I worked at a Ski area and during the summer we had a sled track made of concrete and fiber glass that was like a bobsled track. We workers got really good at it and had our favorite sleds. Most beginners did have the balance figured out and would sometimes slide right off there sled ,which would either finish the run without them or get ejected right off the track. In the summer, sliding down the track at any speed was would road rash on your bare legs pretty quickly. One day, the cast of the Pirates of Penzance drove up to Big Bear from LA and went on the ride. Some of them got good doses of Neosporin ointment all legs and arms. I know a few of them were well known actors at the time, but all Google lists in the film cast.

Alpine slide!

That’s a great story!

 

[F30]

I remember the first time I heard this song as a teenager and just loved it:

 

[West R Lee]

I had a bunch of favorites in the 60's, mostly from my older sister's music. This wasn't my favorite as I loved a bunch by the Beatles, Beach Boys, Johnny Rivers, the Animals, Tony Joe White......the list is endless. But this is the first one I remember singing around the house.





West

 

[adorshki]

Sang along with this on the car radio riding with my mother when I was 4 years old.

In second grade it was

In 4th grade it was


By summer before 6th grade I was beginning to get a taste for teen pop:

If Page ever actually played with the Hermits via the Mickey Most connection (JP Jones is confirmed), the studio version could be the one.
I feel so vindicated for my love of the Hermits for all these years. Right up there with the Monkees.

JP Jones arranged the strings and bell for this one, composed by the immortal Graham Gouldman who gave us "For Your Love", "Heart Full Of Soul", "Evil Hearted You" for the Yardbirds and "Bus Stop" for the Hollies before finally forming 10cc.

My first "songwriter" hero although I didn't know it then. (Lennon being my first overall hero)

And they even did it live without a lip-synch. Nice. Just the band.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wdCHlJoAP8I

The I discovered Steppenwolf. Just before the Airplane.

 

[Brad Little]

The little red 78 of "The Teddy Bear's Picnic," no idea who recorded it.