What was your favorite song when you were a kid?

[Snake45]

One was the Grassroots...Midnight Confession

Another was Three Dog Night....Chest Fever

AWESOME choices, my friend!

"Midnight Confession" was the soundtrack of every unrequited crush I had my Freshman year of high school. To this day I cannot hear that song without thinking of three or four of those girls and fantasizing....

"Chest Fever," I always associate with The Band, had never heard of Three Dog Night doing it, so I U2bed it and you're right, they DID do it--and a pretty darn good version of it, too. Further googling showed that The Band wrote it. But it's such a great song, who cares? We just thank God that it exists.

Fun fact: On the old Letterman show, Paul Shaffer had special play-on theme music for certain regular guests. For example, Tom Arnold was always played on with Warren Zevon's "Excitable Boy." Nothing was ever said about this, Paul just DID it every time. And who was ALWAYS played on with "Chest Fever"? Why, the great Dolly Parton, of course. I laughed at this every single time after I picked up on it. And I'll bet she did, too.

 

[Teflon97116]

Born in mid-50s, I was raised in a music loving family. We always had something on the radio or record player - and instruments in the house (piano, drums, uke, trumpet, Dad's fiddle). Never missed Ed Sullivan, Smothers Brothers or Glen Campbell shows. 60s and 70s were an amazing time for music, so I had a new favorite song almost daily. Taught myself to play guitar, and I've been a member of a dozen (hobby) bar bands for half a century. Literally impossible to narrow it down to a favorite song or artist.

 

[caryc]

At that age it was Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D minor BWV 565

I love playing that

This when you were a kid?

You are one of those who can "Hear the William Tell Ovedrture and not think of the Lone Ranger!"

Bob Wright

So many people know Bach's Tocata in D Minor from the horror movies and never really knew it was a real classic from the old masters.

 

[Watertender]

Do I hear a vote for Mr. Methane anywhere? He is a real gas!

 

[Snake45]

I love playing that

So many people know Bach's Tocata in D Minor from the horror movies and never really knew it was a real classic from the old masters.

Curiously, "Chest Fever" discussed above began as a riff on Tocata and Fugue in D minor. There's really nothing new, is there?

 

[caryc]

I really love playing Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata, first movement when it's late and dark and the house is quiet. Or on the other hand to liven things up, Scott Joplin's Maple Leaf Rag.

 

[Teflon97116]

Curiously, "Chest Fever" discussed above began as a riff on Tocata and Fugue in D minor. There's really nothing new, is there?

Seriously: "I bust the windows out your car." WTAF???

 

[Snake45]

Seriously: "I bust the windows out your car." WTAF???

From Wiki:

At the Woodstock Festival in 1969, the Band performed on the final day, between Ten Years After and Blood, Sweat, and Tears. They opened the set with "Chest Fever".

The song featured a dramatic solo organ intro played by Garth Hudson. Writing in the 3rd edition of The Rolling Stone Album Guide, Paul Evans stated that "The organ mastery of "Chest Fever" unleashed the Band's secret weapon, Garth Hudson."[3] The introduction is based on Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D minor. In live performances, this solo evolved into an improvisation drawing from numerous musical styles and lasting several minutes. "When Levon Helm has complained about the share out of royalties at this period, this is the song he quotes," states Viney. "His theme is that Garth's contribution was always grossly under-estimated and under-credited. As he says, 'what do you remember about "Chest Fever" - the lyrics or the organ part?'"[4] Starting in the seventies, the organ introduction to "Chest Fever" began to be listed as a separate song called "The Genetic Method", credited solely to Hudson, that precedes "Chest Fever", and it was included as such on their 1972 live album Rock of Ages.[5][6][7]

 

[Turkey Creek]

In the summer of 1957, I turned 14 and discovered girls (not that I could do much about what I discovered). That summer the song "Come Go With Me" by the Dell Vikings came out, and for much of my life would be the song I would name as my favorite. When I was already getting close to old age, I think the song "Lady in Red" by Chris Deburgh pushed "Come Go With Me" to the side.

 

[RoundinCircles]

I grew up in the 80's. It was "Careless Whisper" from Wham. I remember recording it from the radio and I got the DJ's voice. About ten years ago, I was eating with a 20 year old colleague when that song came on. She thought the sax was funny.

 

[Erp]

Year of the Cat, by Al Stewart
Love the Sax solos....

Better one...Kiss me goodbye by Petula Clark
On my way to the airport to fly off to boot camp with my current girl friend, and this song came on.
She sang along with it. Little did I know I would never see her again, and marry the one who was waiting for me,
as the song suggested. lol
Creepy....The song haunts me still today when I hear it...
Brings a tear to my eye...lol

 

[WV460hunter]

I have Lots of favorites but Big Iron and El Paso by Marty Robbins

 

[Fox Mike]

There was a fellow that used to fill in for a guy named Sinatra that didn't do too bad either. Guy named Ken Curtis...many know him only as Festus.

 

[Hvymax]

Dire Straights Heavy Fuel was the story of my life for a few years. The guitar solo at the beginning of Money for Nothing would have me trying to blow the windows out of my truck and you could hear me for a mile in every direction when I dropped Metal Health on my motorcycle. Judas Priest was my workout music.

 

[laterider7]

Way back when, Tush by ZZ Top, was one of the first to be played over and over.

 

[KIR]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY song. It usually comes with presents!!!

 

[Johnny-Baseball]

Dire Straights Heavy Fuel was the story of my life for a few years. The guitar solo at the beginning of Money for Nothing would have me trying to blow the windows out of my truck and you could hear me for a mile in every direction when I dropped Metal Health on my motorcycle. Judas Priest was my workout music.

Our musical tastes are very similar. AC/DC, Dire Straights, Led Zep, Cream/Blind Faith, and the like dominate my play lists even to this day.

Of course, the pre-sets on my car radio take me back to my youthful (pre-teen) roots - Texas C&W music stations that play the Light Crust Dough Boys, Bob Wills, and similar music that I heard on my grandmother's radio - she babysat me every day in the early/mid 1950s.

 

[Hvymax]

Our musical tastes are very similar. AC/DC, Dire Straights, Led Zep, Cream/Blind Faith, and the like dominate my play lists even to this day.

Of course, the pre-sets on my car radio take me back to my youthful (pre-teen) roots - Texas C&W music stations that play the Light Crust Dough Boys, Bob Wills, and similar music that I heard on my grandmother's radio - she babysat me every day in the early/mid 1950s.

I can't do Priest while driving or riding anymore. Can't believe I survived!!! Yeah and pre Sellout Commercial ZZ Top.

 

[caryc]

I always like ABBA. I watched the old movie "ABBA" from Turner Classics the other day. It was like a documentary but the real ABBA people were in it. They did a lot of their famous songs. I don't remember ever seeing them on film or on TV before. In the movie, the subject of the blonde's sumptuous back side came up. Man, they were right. When she danced on stage and turned around you saw what everyone was talking about.

 

[bookemdano]

Anything by The Beach Boys or the Ventures.
Dano