what's the first music you remember hearring?

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i got to ask an 82-yr-old sax player this last night: he said "mood indigo" but then he admitted that was just something still liked a lot, not the actual real first thing he heard

― mark s (mark s), Sunday, 24 August 2003 09:26 (twenty-two years ago)

(i thought we did this before but i couldn't find it: if anyone remembers and can link that's cool — but it was ages ago, so lots of new ppl get to answer also)

― mark s (mark s), Sunday, 24 August 2003 09:27 (twenty-two years ago)

i think it was Queen's "night at the opera" lp..

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Sunday, 24 August 2003 09:32 (twenty-two years ago)

i don't remember at all, but firmly recall two-tone being the first musical movement i grasped, understood and liked... i was at primary school, so the understanding part of it was pretty basic, but i think it has to a certain extent informed a lot of what i like to this day and i still play the very first records i ever bought and love them...

― Dave Stelfox (Dave Stelfox), Sunday, 24 August 2003 09:35 (twenty-two years ago)

wake me up before you go go - wham
reminds me of playgroup, prob round 85/86?

― glenny g2003 (glenny g2003), Sunday, 24 August 2003 09:36 (twenty-two years ago)

Petula Clarke's "Downtown", on the classic rock station my dad always used to have on in the car. Must have been around 87, I think.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Sunday, 24 August 2003 09:41 (twenty-two years ago)

the alan parsons project - tales of mystery and imagination (my dad used to play it a lot, and i kinda still like it)

― Bob Shaw (Bob Shaw), Sunday, 24 August 2003 10:11 (twenty-two years ago)

'Sgt. Pepper' on my dad's reel to reel in the late '60's

― Zoot, Sunday, 24 August 2003 11:01 (twenty-two years ago)

Popcorn by hot butter, it was record of the week so was on the radio every day when i got home from play school. i remember encouraging my mum to get us back so i could hear it. i'd like to claim it was something cooler, but there ya go!

― Officer Pupp, Sunday, 24 August 2003 11:53 (twenty-two years ago)

...that would've been 1972

― Officer Pupp, Sunday, 24 August 2003 12:07 (twenty-two years ago)

karma chameleon

― minna (minna), Sunday, 24 August 2003 12:45 (twenty-two years ago)

I remember sitting in front of my grandfather's record player (one of those large wooden suckers with the massive wodden lid) and hearing Glen Campbell sing Rhinestone Cowboy. I loved it so much, I made him play it to me over and over again. I was three, and it was 1978.

― Jonathan (Jonathan), Sunday, 24 August 2003 12:47 (twenty-two years ago)

Two things that spring to mind. The theme music to 'Listen With Mother' on the radio (although I can only vaguely remember what it sounds like). Also something by Fauré played prior to assemblies in primary school through wall-mounted wood finish speakers with a kind of basket-work circular grille. Again I just have a vague recollection of it being slow and solemn.

― David (David), Sunday, 24 August 2003 12:55 (twenty-two years ago)

"Goo Goo Ga Ga" by Joe Scruggs.

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Sunday, 24 August 2003 13:00 (twenty-two years ago)

The first thing I heard was probably a wind up music box, so I'll say "Twinkle, twinkle". My dad was into rock so the first record I remember lisening to was Edgar Winter - they only come out at night and Iron Butterfly Ina.... (I thought his guitar sounded like a dinosaur)

― Brandon Welch (Brandon Welch), Sunday, 24 August 2003 13:24 (twenty-two years ago)

Probably something from Sing, this kiddie album of the early seventies. And cool it was.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 24 August 2003 13:47 (twenty-two years ago)

Probably "I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing," the old Coke anthem.

― Jazzbo (jmcgaw), Sunday, 24 August 2003 14:08 (twenty-two years ago)

Karma Chameleon?! Wake me up before you go go?!

...feeling like an old pup now...

― Officer Pupp, Sunday, 24 August 2003 14:16 (twenty-two years ago)

the beatles.

― cecilia, Sunday, 24 August 2003 14:45 (twenty-two years ago)

Michael Jackson's "Thriller" video or Phil Collins "Sussussudio"

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Sunday, 24 August 2003 15:16 (twenty-two years ago)

Sam Cooke's "Chain Gang." I am 19.

― My name is Kenny (My name is Kenny), Sunday, 24 August 2003 15:26 (twenty-two years ago)

'Thriller', 'All Night Long' and 'Pass The Dutchie'. I can't remember what was on my music box, sadly.

― Barima (Barima), Sunday, 24 August 2003 15:29 (twenty-two years ago)

Patridge Family "I Think I Love You"
I was in 1st grade. I'm sure I heard music before that, but I don't remember it, or it didn't make an impression. I loved the minor key and space in the arrangement. Pure pop. Yes, I think it ruined me forever.

― Orbit (Orbit), Sunday, 24 August 2003 15:40 (twenty-two years ago)

Distant Drums by Jim Reeves. I was about three and it was my dad's (the year would have been 1975). I'm sure I heard some other stuff too, but that's the first one I remember properly.

― ailsa (ailsa), Sunday, 24 August 2003 15:43 (twenty-two years ago)

Depends what it is... the first song I CLEARLY remember is "Daydream Believer" as covered by Anne Murray... my mom played it a lot, and my dad would jokingly sing it to her (name is Jean) But I remember air guitaring on a toy broom to Born in the USA at about 4 years old in like 87, and that was the first album I liked. Grew up listening to that.

― Bryan Moore (Bryan Moore), Sunday, 24 August 2003 15:49 (twenty-two years ago)

"I Think I Love You" was one of my favorites as a kid. I think I've mentioned before that I remember standing on my toy-box and giving a dramatic performance of that song. (That would have been kindergarten or first grade, probably.) Also the 5th Dimension made a big impression with: "Up, Up & Away," "Let the Sun Shine!" and (slightly later) "(Last Night) I Couldn't Get to Sleep at All."

But I can't say exactly what the first music I remember hearing is.

― Al Andalous, Sunday, 24 August 2003 15:54 (twenty-two years ago)

(I didn't actually remember the chronological order of those 5th Dimension songs--I had to look it up.)

― Al Andalous, Sunday, 24 August 2003 15:56 (twenty-two years ago)

my mom used to make us clean the house to greatest hits beatles and queen albums.

― tom cleveland (tom cleveland), Sunday, 24 August 2003 16:51 (twenty-two years ago)

let's hear it for the 5th Dimension!

― Officer Pupp, Sunday, 24 August 2003 16:57 (twenty-two years ago)

"Stand and deliver" i think...remember "True" on TOTP as my dad was getting dressed for something or another

― Michael B, Sunday, 24 August 2003 17:01 (twenty-two years ago)

the theme to cheers

― Andrzej B. (Andrzej B.), Sunday, 24 August 2003 17:04 (twenty-two years ago)

the music at the beginning to that kids show zigzag

― im a g, Sunday, 24 August 2003 17:11 (twenty-two years ago)

Late 60s/early 70s Christian praise records, with a huge chorus and backing music which featured some "Shaft"-like guitar work.

Don't let anyone tell you that what the Polyphonic Spree does is original.

― Andrew Frye (paul cox), Sunday, 24 August 2003 17:40 (twenty-two years ago)

Righteous Bros, Dusty, Beatles. One of those three. Probably "Lovin' Feeling" by the former. I still remember the awful horror of that line: "Baby, something beautiful's dy-y-ing". 'Course, I took it literally, a trait I've never fully shaken.

― David A. (Davant), Sunday, 24 August 2003 18:48 (twenty-two years ago)

My sister will say that my first words were "Let me whisper in your ear" from "Do You Want To Know A Secret". But I remember my Aunt Lillian, (God rest her soul) singing the theme from "High Noon" when she baby sat me. I also recall the mating songs of the dinosaurs. I am old. Way fucking old. It occurs to me that the mating song of dinosaurs may have been Led Zeppelin II, so maybe I ain't THAT old.

― Speedy Gonzalas (Speedy Gonzalas), Sunday, 24 August 2003 20:32 (twenty-two years ago)

my mum tells me she sang sloop john b to me in hospital. i downloaded it a year and a bit ago during an effort to educate myself about the beach boys and i knew i recognised the tune but didn't know where from so it's possible i was remembering it from the days when i was first born - which i read somewhere is possible with tunes. otherwise my earliest memories of music are my mum having radio 2 on in the car. and i remember phantom of the opera making me cry but not understanding why. which is a funny thought because i'm far too trendy to like andrew lloyd webber now.

― DJ Baird, Sunday, 24 August 2003 21:14 (twenty-two years ago)

Donna Summer, played by my mum when I was about four. The first song I remember liking myself was "Super Trouper" by Abba.

― Mark C (Mark C), Sunday, 24 August 2003 21:30 (twenty-two years ago)

Jim Croce, 'Bad, Bad Leroy Brown'

― luna (luna.c), Sunday, 24 August 2003 21:34 (twenty-two years ago)

My brother and I used to share this box of 7 inch records and I can remember him giggling stupidly to Tom Jones' What's New Pussycat? and Elvis' Teddy Bear. And, whatever he chose to listen to I also had to hear.

― Claire (Claire Miccio), Sunday, 24 August 2003 21:36 (twenty-two years ago)

Earliest pop memories
Did your parents used to sing you songs?

― N. (nickdastoor), Sunday, 24 August 2003 22:27 (twenty-two years ago)

"Big Rock Candy Mountain" and "Yellow Rose of Texas," both 78s. "The Queen's Navy" on Martyn Green sings Gilbert & Sullivan. "Peter and the Wolf."

― Frank Kogan (Frank Kogan), Monday, 25 August 2003 02:59 (twenty-two years ago)

it must have been the Supremes, which my mom played all the time. she listened to the radio constantly; "Reunited" and "Last Dance" were pretty huge and I remember loving both. (I was born in '75 so would have been four and three, respectively, for those.) lots of Stevie Wonder (for reasons I have never exactly fathomed to this day, "Isn't She Lovely" scared the shit out of me when I was a little kid--I would literally run out of the room crying whenever it came on. it just sounded like a nightmare to me, texturally/rhythmically/sonically). but my mom had three brothers and three sisters and except for Dani, who's barely a year older than me, they all played records all the time. this is helped along by the fact that all of them, including my mother and except Dani, were teenagers when I was a little kid. Bob, the oldest, may have been in his early 20s and Tom was gone to college in Philadelphia, but yeah, the rest of 'em played records all the time. and Bob was a club DJ anyway so he had more than anyone. I'll go for broke here and say the first album I recall well was The Best of Earth Wind & Fire, which I still love the living shit out of (the nonpause between "Shining Star" and "Reasons" is one of the great musical awakenings of my childhood).

― M Matos (M Matos), Monday, 25 August 2003 03:06 (twenty-two years ago)

*cough*

Anyone else fancy contributing to the above thread? I know I've not done me yet, but don't take that as a sign that I'm not interested in your own thoughts and memories..!

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Monday, 25 August 2003 12:33 (twenty-two years ago)

That's really good about "Isn't She Lovely." I wish I could remember more of the things I found unaccountably disturbing as a kid.

― Al Andalous, Monday, 25 August 2003 12:55 (twenty-two years ago)

i used to get so mad at "puff the magic dragon" bcz (aged seven) i considered the story to be INCOMPLETE!!

― mark s (mark s), Monday, 25 August 2003 13:14 (twenty-two years ago)

My mom singing "The Fox Went Out on a Chilly Night." The theme to DuckTales.

― Tom Breihan (Tom Breihan), Monday, 25 August 2003 13:33 (twenty-two years ago)

my mom sang "the fox went out on a chilly night" too!

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Monday, 25 August 2003 13:41 (twenty-two years ago)

I have a vivid memory of going door-to-door with some other kids trying to get people to pay us to wash their cars. I was five years old. We stopped at one woman's house. "What's Love Got to Do With It" was on the radio.

Also: the Muppets and John Denver Christmas album.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 25 August 2003 15:48 (twenty-two years ago)

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