What was your favorite song when you were a kid?

[Paladin]

I'm glad I was there as a young teenager to experience the dawn of rock and roll. The songs from that era that always transport me back to a happy place are; "Rock Around the Clock" by Bill Haley and the Comets", "At the Hop" by Danny and the Juniors, "Little Darlin'" by The Diamonds, "Standing on the Corner" by The Four Lads and of course you have to have a few of Elvis's hits, "Don't Be Cruel" and "Teddy Bear".

I have digitized all of my favorite songs from over many decades and currently have a roster of 685 which I have on thumb drives, MP3 players, cellphones and CD's. These are the only songs I listen to and there's not a clinker in the bunch that I want to skip over for the next song.

I have seven complete stereo component systems set up in my house, garage and basement so that I can be listening to my favorite music no matter what I'm doing. Music is a big part of my life.

Friends and family have donated their "outdated" stereo component systems to me, mostly high-end ones, rather than throw them out. I graciously accepted them.

 

[wproct]

Mine would be Johnny Cash's "I Walk The Line", and I would have been around 11 years old.

 

[XUSNORDIE]

The earliest songs I can remember being favorites and singing a lot with friends was the theme songs to "The Monkees" and "The Banana Splits" television shows.

 

[GasGuzzler]

I remember the very awkward and weird intro to the Banana Splits show. The slide looked fun. I'm kid of the '70's.

The earliest song I remember singing is "Lay Down Sally" (guessing Derek and the Dominoes but possibly a solo Clapton song and no one was named Derek). I got busted by a drive through teller in the '80's for signing "Good Golly, Ms. Molly" by Little Richard where the tellers in the bank could hear me over my Mom.

I've been busted by everyone else around me in the following 40 years singing everything from David Allen Coe to Pink Floyd in public, usually wrong place, wrong time.

 

[Snake45]

I've been busted by everyone else around me in the following 40 years singing everything from David Allen Coe to Pink Floyd in public, usually wrong place, wrong time.

I've found that a real ice-breaker is Warren Zevon's "Play It All Night Long," which begins:

Grandpa pissed his pants again;
He don't give a damn
Brother Billy's got both guns drawn;
He ain't been right since Viet Nam.

Sweet Home Alabama,
Play that dead band's song.
Turn those speakers up full blast;
Play it all night long!

 

[kickingandscreaming]

Anything by Steppenwolf, especially "Snowblind friend". Need a 25 cent bounty on drug dealers.

 

[Snake45]

Anything by Steppenwolf, especially "Snowblind friend". Need a 25 cent bounty on drug dealers.

Amen, Mah Brother. "Magic Carpet Ride" has always been a favorite, but lately I've realized that "Monster," written as an anti-establishment screed in the '60s, is an AMAZINGLY accurate recitation of the current world/national situation and would make a great anthem for Constitutional Conservatives.

And is there anyone that THIS lyric from another song reminds you of?

Obnoxious Joe comes on the screen
Along with his guest self-righteous Sam...
While pushin' back his glasses Sam is sayin' casually
"I was elected by the masses"
And with that in mind he starts to unwind
A vicious attack on the finest of grasses....

 

[Actnbill]

Devil Went Down to Georgia...... but I wasn't really a kid by then

 

[Don Lovel]

"The girl wearin nothin but a smile and a towel on the billboard on the side of the great hiway"

 

[3manfan]

Iron Butterfly's In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida, full 17 minute version.

 

[WAYNO]

I first became aware of popular music in the mid fifties. And the music my parents chose influenced me greatly. And to this day, I love that music.

I think the first favorite song(s) of mine were Doggie in the Window and Goodnight Irene Goodnight.

A short time later, I was influenced by kiddie songs such as by The Chipmunks, and since my sisters were turning from adolescent to teenagers, early rock 'n roll was a huge influence.

I continue to love all of the above music.

 

[WV460hunter]

Some of the earliest music I ever heard was Southern Gospel Quartets like the Kingsmen Quartet (outta Ashville,NC) and Happy Goodmans and Western Quartets like The Sons of the Pioneers. Learned to whistle to Home on the Range by Sons of the Pioneers.

 

[jimbo1096]

Ten Tons by Tn Ernie Ford
then Peggy Sue by Buddy Holly
Then I remember sitting on the steps of my neighbor's house in Shreveport and listening to my first transistor radio and hearing Hound Dog.
Elvis had been playing Louisiana Hayride in town. The opening of my ears to rock & roll to come. Roy Orbison was also a favorite

 

[Snake45]

then Peggy Sue by Buddy Holly

Buddy Holly was FAR ahead of his time. His stuff still sounded fresh when Linda Ronstadt was making #1 hits with it in the '70s!

 

[57fritzers]

Hey, great query, nine pages of response so far says it's been a popular thread. Can't imagine this one hasn't already been named. Have only glanced through page 1. For me, easy, hands down, 'puff the magic dragon.' It was played frequently on pop radio when I was 5y/old(1962).
I'd go running to the radio every time it came on.

 

[57fritzers]

My sisters were much older than me, so I grew up with their pop music in the sixties. I recall running to listen to "Puff the Magic Dragon " as a two or three year old. That is probably the first recollection that I have of listening to music. We always had a variety of albums in the house, and a radio seemed to always be on.

Alright, another puff fan. Had two older sisters, so heard a lot of radio, Motown and folk music.