What was the very first song you loved?

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first song i loved that i still love: maybe 'Stand And Deliver' or 'Prince Charming'

welcome to the jungle

"Life Is a Rock (But the Radio Rolled Me)"

Oh, I have a kind of solid answer to this, because it's still one of my favorite songs: "I Feel for You" by Chaka Khan.

First I can remember loving is Any Dream Will Do from Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. My parents had the OST and my mum typed out all the words so I could sing it. I was five years old, I think. I didn't like chart music at the time.

the first two songs i remember making my mom repeat over and over in the car are oingo boingo - grey matter and devo - peekaboo. evidence of growing up in la at the time of kroq.

"Rio" by Duran Duran. I was 3.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FCARADb9asE

Actually, I might have loved some hymns before Any Dream Will Do. Now The Day Is Over, maybe.

"shiny happy people" by R.E.M. and "games without frontiers" by peter gabriel

^^^ actually explains a lot i guess

The Lion Sleeps Tonight by The Tokens, when I was about 4.

my mum typed out all the words so I could sing it.

Haha, my mum used to do this too.

Mine was Mull of Kintyre.

air supply, the one that you love

I think it was "For the Longest Time" by Billy Joel. I remember it from a camping holiday with my family when I was 4.

Probably 'Blackbird'.

lol emo

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or, like, the He-Man theme song.

I think it was "For the Longest Time" by Billy Joel.
That was my grandma's favorite song! A lot Billy Joel was going on in the late 70s/early 80s...

Pepito Chiquito, the Lad from Trinidad.

This was on a cheapie 45 rpm vinyl record for kids when I was about 5 or 6. It had the hook: "...and with the bongo punch he knocked him out!" My brother and I played that record until it gave out, as we jumped around and practised bongo punches.

First record that anyone has heard of: Meet the Beatles. I loved it all. I can still sing Til there Was You from start to finish. I memorized every guitar twang and slurred lyric on every cut and now can summon their memory at will.

beatles again here. i wanna hold your hand.

Wait, I forgot about this one:

I Don't Want To Live on the Moon

Raffi is for hipsters.

I think "Wooly Bully"

the earliest songs I remember telling my dad to turn up in the car were "Take it to the Limit" and "Drivin' My Life Away". I think the first non-Disney 45 I begged my parents to get me was "Break My Stride".

i think it might be "one day in your life" by michael jackson. it still makes me teary.

Disco duck

The Bear Neccessities. Apparently my mum came to pick me up from nursery school once to find me performing it solo for the entire class. I don't remember this. I still think it's a cracking tune.

<3 alba

"Oh Boy", Buddy Holly. Or "Cum on Feel the Noize", Slade. Or "I Want to Hold Your Hand", The Beatles.
lol older brothers' record collections/Radio 2 every morning.

The Bear Neccessities. Apparently my mum came to pick me up from nursery school once to find me performing it solo for the entire class.

That's hot.

The Beach Boys - Kokomo

Gilbert O'Sullivan - "Get Down"

Material Girl :-)

RED RED WINE

1. U.S.A. national anthem
2. Scooby-Doo theme song
3. "That's the Way (uh-huh)" - KC & the Sunshine Band

Super Trooper / ABBA

"Day-O (Banana Boat Song)" by Harry Belafonte. My dad had a cassette of Harry Belafonte's calypso hits, and I really loved them all.

Probably "Queen of Hearts" by Juice Newton

"Hey Jude"

Joe Scruggs - "Goo Goo Ga Ga"

I think the first non-Disney 45 I begged my parents to get me was "Break My Stride".

^ This!!

I also really remember loving Julian Lennon's classic "It's Much Too Late for Goodbyes". True Blue was the first tape I ever owned and man did I love that.

I think the first pop song I ever loved was "Just What I Needed" by the Cars

Oooof. I'm guessing it was probably "Let's Stay Together," "Ballroom Blitz," or "Gee, Officer Krupke," but undoubtedly I am misremembering other stuff from when I was even younger.

s.thing by abba apparently, but i dunno what.

i was a huge top 40 fan when i was really little and couldn't name just one song i loved. but the first time i feel truly in love with a piece of music was when i was 13 and heard 'disarm' by the pumpkins for the first time. and in 6 weeks i finally get to see them live for the first time!

1st song I ever loved (and hated) was "Puff the Magic Dragon". Loved cuz I loved it, hated cuz it made me cry. "Sloop John B." & "When I'm 64" were other big learning-to-walk hits.

1st song I ever loved on my own (i.e, not from my parents' record collection) was "Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft". This when I was about 9 years old. Favorites of the next couple years to include "God of Thunder", "The Gambler", "Stayin' Alive", "Ballroom Blitz" and Surrender".

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Favorite was the Cheers theme song!

there really is a shakin stevens lol???

99% sure my answer is funkytown or superfreak, my big sister probably knows definitively.

slip me some skin, soul brother

the first song i ever remember playing on repeat for all times was "sugarpie honeybunch" circa 8 or 9 years old

Rockin' Robin, as performed by Michael Jackson.

Walk Like An Egyptian -- The Fucking Bangles

Susuddio

Probably something from All Aboard! http://www.discogs.com/release/1194647.

First pop single I'm pretty sure was 'Hyperactive' by Thomas Dolby.

n a couple of years later "Dumas Walker" by the Kentucky Headhunters, a couple of years after that it was Ini Kamoze's "Here Comes The Hotstepper"

then I heard the Dead Kennedys

Saturday Night by the Bay City Rollers

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First pop single I'm pretty sure was 'Hyperactive' by Thomas Dolby.

Heck. Yes. This is like the national anthem for 5-year-olds

Something from Sesame Street or Free To Be...You and Me, no doubt.

I Love You by the Jets or I Just Called to Say I Love You by Stevie Wonder, I can't remember which was first. I tuned into LOVE 99 all the time. I think I was 6?

"Hello, Goodbye"

some of these are o_O. the actual first piece of music that really grabbed me I think was Beethoven's 7th, but the first pop song might have been Lionel Richie's "You Are".

I'm sure it was a cartoon theme, etc, etc, but the first bit of pop music that was a favorite song of mine was "I Know What I Know" by Paul Simon. Still love it today too!

Got to be Raffi. "Five Green and Speckled Frogs", maybe?

It's not like I had a choice, since my parents knew the guy.

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I'm pretty sure it was Dolly Parton, "9 to 5."

I had a total fixation on that movie, which was one of the first things we had on (Beta!) videotape at our house - early in the 1980s. I spent a lot of grade school desperately wanting to tell someone to "piss off."

Still love it today too!

It's so rare and so nice when that happens. My pick -- Chaka Khan doing a Prince song backed up by Stevie Wonder on harmonica, and that's even leaving out Grandmaster Flash -- I remember that song distinctly for changing the way I thought about music. I guess I was about ten. It was the first time that a song was more than something my parents turned on in the car. It was something with what seemed like a MAGICAL power to make you feel GOOD no matter how you were feeling otherwise. It was this big turning point in my understanding of what music is and why people like it and etc.

And come on... it's just a great fucking track. :)

Songs from Animalympics which I've now discovered was all by Graham Gouldman of 10cc! This explains many things.

Oh man, how awesome was Animalympics?! I need to find this movie again...

hi strgn! thanks for thinking of me, but i'm already working with a couple of scribes. just to fill out your notebook, tho, my last spin drs was 14 years ago and my last live beethoven was 48 hours ago.

There's a tape in existence somewhere of me singing "I was made for loving you" by KISS when I was about six, so I guess that's one, though it's hard to get it right in my memory anymore. "Antmusic" by Adam and the Ants was another.

Trayce, it goes like:

I was made for LOVING you baby!
You were made for loving me!
And I was made for LOVING you baby!
You were made for loving me!

definitely not the first, but when i was younger, shopping with my mom, this was the first single i beggggggggged for (and still didn't get): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aiNbBeJ1Ewg

ROFL I meant its hard to remember if that was the first one I loved - sadly I still remembr how the song itself goes ;_; And I can still mentally hear twee little me squeaking "I can't get enough! No ah can't get enough!" and then giggling. Bwaha.

Excluding nursery rhymes, it would have been either The Overlanders "Michelle" or Herb Alpert's "Spanish Flea", circa Jan 1966, so a month or so before my fourth birthday.

Dave Dee's "Hold Tight" would have come next, along with Nancy Sinatra's "These Boots".

(I knew "She Loves You" more or less from birth, but you asked for "loved".)

The first song I can *remember* loving was ZZ Top "She's Got Legs" or whatever the song title may actually be.

I thought "she knows how to use 'em" meant she could run fast.

Next song I remember was MJ's Beat It, which I heard as "Just Peanut". I could totally relate, becuase man, did I love peanuts.

Blockbuster by The Sweet and then sometime later on I Feel Love by Donna Summer. I think I was probably a very weird child.

Sting "Russians". I was not a fun loving 8 y.o

There's a tape in existence somewhere of me singing "I was made for loving you" by KISS

omg... there's a tape of a four-year-old Kenan going to town on "Love Will Keep Us Together". I especially enjoyed the refrain of I WILL, I WILL, I WILL, I WILL, I WIIIIIIIILLLLL

That's impossible, we sang songs in the car and played the Beach Boys and Peter, Paul & Mary and Christian children's albums like the Bill Gaither Trio from before I could remember. So I'm sure I used to beg for all of those, on rotation.

If you mean the first song I can remember loving from the popular music options, maybe..."Boys of Summer" by Don Henley.

Don't look back. You can never look back.

If you mean in terms of the first song I can remember thinking "I want to hear that again, immediately", then that would probably be "Save the life of my child" by Simon and Garfunkel. My parents had a tape of pretty much all of their albums in the car and I can remember hearing it around the age of 4 and thinking "What's that noise? I love it!" Hence my love of Moogs and electronica was born, which was solidified a few years later by hearing "Oxygene 4" on the radio and recognising it as 'my music'.

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`cos I'm old.

Here I Go Again - Whitesnake

For you, Alex:

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I distinctly remember hearing "Martha, My Dear" on the car radio when I was five or six and just blissing out. I had the feeling that it was very, very familiar to me, although I didn't know what it was--I thought I might have heard it in the womb (which I probably did).

The whole Animals album, by P.Floyd

"Eleanor Rigby", when I was three.

God, yeah, Convoy for me too. I had the 7" single and played it to death. I would've been about 5.

Hahaha Kenan I think I sang "Love will keep us together" on a tape as a kid too! I used to love taping myself singing and babbling away pretending to be casey kasem and such. I was a bit odd. Or maybe all kids do such things.

"nowhere man" by the beatles. i was an existential 8 year old.

And Rob, you mention Oxygene: my ex tells me that as a little wee one, his parents would play him Jarre as lullabies when he'd go to sleep at night. It's so entrenched in his mind that even today, it makes him sleepy.

Trayce and Kenan: Youtube plz.

Also:

First pop single I'm pretty sure was 'Hyperactive' by Thomas Dolby.

Heck. Yes. This is like the national anthem for 5-year-olds

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This is a killer recommendation.

courtesy of the stack of 7"s that my 14 y/o'er than me sister had, it was love child by the supremes. i was 3.

however i remember flying hey jude around the room like a frisbee to sis' distress.

Xpost to Trayce. Hopefully the same will apply to my boy - I played him "74:16" by Global Communications, it never failed to get him to sleep, the ticking clock at 60bpm, perfect! I also used "Terrapin" by Syd Barrett, "Good night" by the Beatles (obviously) and the side two medley from "Abbey Road", by "Sun king" he was nodding off.

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