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At the weekend I made up a tape (with his choices) for my son Andrew (age 7) which features

Yellow Submarine – the Beatles
Theme from Black Beauty
Wheelbarrow man – Julian Cope
You’re gorgeous – Baby Bird
Toot sweets – Dick Van Dyke
Wanderin’ star – Lee Marvin
Walk don’t run – Penguin Café Orchestra
Theme from pink Panther – Henry Mancini
Hush a bye mountain – Dick van Dyke
I love to boogie – T Rex
Downtown – Petula Clark
(Drawing) Rings around the world – SFA

This takes up one side of a C90, any suggestions for side 2? (And feel free to comment on the suffering I’m inflicting on my son)

― Billy Dods, Monday, 8 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

couldnt you've given him a decent T Rex song? that one's lame.

― , Monday, 8 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

It's not the one I would have chosen either.

― Billy Dods, Monday, 8 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Sounds like a sweet idea. Of course he'll end up despising everything you like in those rebelious teen years.....

How about some Jackson Five, some Monkees, some Bob Marley (his more carefree, less political tracks like 3 Little Birds.

― bnw, Monday, 8 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Go on Billy, stick some Throbbing Gristle on it!

― Dr. C, Monday, 8 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

For Side Two:

These Boots Are Made For Walking - Nancy Sinatra
Lazy Bones - Esquivel
In The Summertime - Mungo Jerry
"Boss Cat" Theme
Sunday Girl - Blondie
That's Life - Frank Sinatra
Doctorin' The Tardis - The Timelords (The KLF)
Kites Are Fun - The Free Design
Consider Yourself - from "Oliver!" soundtrack
Take 5 - Dave Brubeck
Always Something There To Remind Me - Sandie Shaw Tiger Feet - Mud
We Have All The Time In The World - My Bloody Valentine (or Louis Armstrong if you must, or can't find the MBV)

― Jeff W, Monday, 8 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm glad I was never exposed to Yellow Sub as a child. It would have resulted in a complete disinterest in the Beatles (and probably music on the whole). heh

― nathalie, Monday, 8 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

but the captain clangs his bell, nath!

― mark s, Monday, 8 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"we would live a life of ease!"

― mark s, Monday, 8 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Funnily enough, "Downtown" always reminds me of early childhood. It's one of the first songs I remember when going around a supermarket with my mother. I might have been only 2!! Other very early listening epiphanies that spring to mind are Diana Ross's "Do You Know Where You're Going To" and the Beatle's "Michelle". So I get hyper nostalgic when I here any of these 3 songs. There was one other song which I can't quite put my finger on now ....

― David Gunnip, Monday, 8 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

hear not here!!

Not sure I would have liked Boards Of Canada as a 2 year old!

― David Gunnip, Monday, 8 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

but the captain clangs his bell, nath!
Hey Mr Sinker, it's still MISS CLAEYS for you. ;-)

Include some Basehead and/or De La Soul.

― nathalie, Monday, 8 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

How old is your son?

― DeRayMi, Monday, 8 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Still age 7. Same he was when he posted the question. ;)

― Alex in SF, Monday, 8 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

My two and a half year old son goes potty for Soul Limbo by Booker T & the MGs and Liquidator.

― Braces Tower, Monday, 8 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

i liked eartha kitt when i was seven

when i was nine i liked JOSEPH AND HIS AMAZING TECHNICOLOR DREAMCOAT!! But you can slip that if you wish...

I used to get very cross about songs with stories where the stories weren't to my mind satisfactory as regards narrative closure viz "Puff the Magic Dragon"

― mark s, Monday, 8 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

oldies like Rockin' Robin, The Monster Mash, Wooly Bully, Louie Louie, Dizzy, Mony Mony, Sugar Sugar, Yummy Yummy.

The Specials - Message to You, Rudie, Do The Dog, Enjoy Yourself.

Johnny Rivers - Secret Agent Man./John Barry - 007 theme.

Run DMC - Mary, Mary, My Adidas.

― fritz, Monday, 8 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Put on "Controversy", "Annie Christian" or "Sexuality" by Prince. I lurved those to pieces when I was seven. (Still do, actually).

― Dan Perry, Monday, 8 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Dan, Funky Child of His Time.

― Ned Raggett, Monday, 8 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Surfin' Bird-Trashmen, Chirpy Chirp Cheep Cheep-Mac & Katie Kissoon, The Lion Sleeps Tonight-Tokens, Blitzkrieg Bop-Ramones, Hocus Pocus-Focus, Bike-Pink Floyd, Crocodile Rock-Elton John, Shortnin' Bread-Collins Kids, Muleskinner Blues-???.

― Arthur, Monday, 8 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Sorry, I somehow missed the age.

― DeRayMi, Monday, 8 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Put 'Bike' by Pink Floyd and 'Effervescing Elephant' by Syd Barrett on - though a 7 yr old might feel a bit too grown up for those.

― Johnathan, Monday, 8 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Happy, lovely songs: I Wanna Be Like You by Louis Prima from The Jungle Book, almost anything by Jonathan Richman (I'd have Ice Cream Man or UFO Man), Mmm Bop by Hanson, On A Chicory Tip by Denim, Girls Just Wanna Have Fun by Cyndi Lauper, It's Not Unusual by Tom Jones, Ballroom Blitz by the Sweet, Disco Inferno by the Trammps, I Could Be Happy by Altered Images, Doin' The Do by Betty Boo, Spinning Around by Kylie and Rapper's Delight by the Sugarhill Gang.

My parents' total lifetime record collection: a Reader's Digest classical box-set (4 or 5 LPs), never played to my knowledge except once by me, a cheapo MFP Bachelors compilation, I've Got A Brand New Combine Harvester by the Wurzels and The Birdie Song. Tell your song how lucky he is.

― Martin Skidmore, Monday, 8 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Popcorn by Hot Butter, Wipeout by the Surfaris, Telstar by the Tornadoes, Double Dutch Bus by Frankie Smith, Ma-Nah Ma-Nah by the Dave Pell Singers.

― Arthur, Monday, 8 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Double Dutch Bus!!!! Arthur that almost redeems your Panic Room sympathies.

How about "the Israelites" by Desmond Dekker?

― Tracer hand, Monday, 8 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Nat Cole Trio, "Straighten Up and Fly Right" or "Route 66"
Roger Miller, "King of the Road" (not the Mission of Burma guy)
Grofe's "Grand Canyon Suite"
Pee Wee's Big Adventure Soundtrack

Since you asked, I fear that two Dick Van Dyke songs will doom your son to a life that peaks at age 35, then declines slowly into made-for-TV alcoholism and dubious facial hair.

― Curt, Monday, 8 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Just like his dad then.

― Billy Dods, Monday, 8 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Raymond Scott and Carl Stalling both did fantastically excellent cartoon scores, which are more than suitably wacky... I bet he'd probably be amused by Esquivel! as well.

― matthew m., Monday, 8 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Prince: "Pop Life," "Starfish & Coffee"
Funky 4 + 1: "That's the Joint"
Ramones: "Beat on the Brat"

― M Matos, Monday, 8 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

What about Michael Jackson?

The only records my folks had were a Simon and Garfunkle Greatest Hits and Sgt. Pepper. Thank god for MTV, it was the only music in the house as a child. I watched it religiously from the time I was about 5 or so.

― mt, Tuesday, 9 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Frankie Smith - Double Dutch Bus!!!

― Ron, Tuesday, 9 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

oh sorry, well I third the movement then!

― Ron, Tuesday, 9 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Arthur's selections impeccable as ever.

Ma-Nah Ma-Nah by the Dave Pell Singers
Is this the Muppets' thing? Or a cover of it? Or did the Muppets cover it or what?

― Jeff W, Tuesday, 9 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

What I find strange is that Billy's making a mixtape. I am not saying it's bad. But doesn't your son get exposure to your music just by being around you when you play yer records???

― nathalie, Tuesday, 9 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

it's for when he sends him off to boarding school in a month's time

― mark s, Tuesday, 9 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"Mah na mah na" was originally by Piero Umiliani and subsequently covered by the Muppets on their great first album.

The song also goes down well with my son, as does Israelites and the Ski Sunday theme tune (his all-time favourite).

― Braces Tower, Tuesday, 9 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

On second thoughts, I'd exercise a little caution when playing "Mah na Mah na" to kids:

"One of the top tunes from the Muppets' kiddie show has some racy roots. The jazzy nonsensical track, "Mah-Na, Mah-Na," is a cult fave with adults who grew up watching "The Muppet Show" and even appears in kiddie sing-along books. However, the song originated on the soundtrack of a 1968 X-rated documentary titled "Sweden: Heaven or Hell," according to musician and writer Peter McLennan, who has been researching the tune. The film was banned in Sweden for featuring lesbian nightclubs, nudity and wife-swapping. McLennan figures someone at the "Muppet Show" must have known about the song's salacious origins, but decided to kept it secret. Muppets representatives weren't available to comment on the "Mah-Na, Mah-Na" sex film connection."

― Braces Tower, Tuesday, 9 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Aw, thanks, Jeff. Likewise, I'm sure.

And thanks for the history lesson re: Mah-Na Mah-Na, Braces. The one I remember hearing on the radio in 1969 was the Dave Pell version. I wonder if it's the same as the Muppets version? Or did the Muppets sing that one?

― Arthur, Tuesday, 9 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

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