Very first song that moved you.
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anytune
Super Member
+1 :thmbsp: It was spring 1963. I was in first grade, and this was the first song I ever went nuts over. This led to the discovery that summer of Top 40 radio on WLS in Chicago: Surf City, Tie Me Kangaroo Down Sport, Blowin' In The Wind, Surfer Girl, Judy's Turn To Cry, Easier Said Than Done...ahh, memories.
spartanmanor
Lunatic Member
Most likely some Beatles song. The first album that I spent time with was the Beatles 1967–1970 I played it so many times I knew it backwards and forwards.
12ax7
Super Member
...a restless wind that yearns to wander.
Wow, what a kick in the, "My Parents Music That I Grew Up Listening To" memory bank!
I'm more familiar with Gogi Grant's version (1956) of, "The Wayward Wind" than Patsy's (1961), but I loved that song. Lots of artists covered it... Tex Ritter, Frankie Laine, Gene Vincent (!), Sylvia and even Neil Young.
"Shrimp Boats (is a comin')", another strong memory from 1951. Wow!
Eddie Fisher, "Oh, My Papa".
Perry Como, many.
As Bob Hope sang, thanks for the memories.
And then Elvis hit the airwaves......
I won't admit that I'm old, but one of my favorite Jethro Tull songs is, "The Dog Eared Years"!
Wow, what a kick in the, "My Parents Music That I Grew Up Listening To" memory bank!
I'm more familiar with Gogi Grant's version (1956) of, "The Wayward Wind" than Patsy's (1961), but I loved that song. Lots of artists covered it... Tex Ritter, Frankie Laine, Gene Vincent (!), Sylvia and even Neil Young.
"Shrimp Boats (is a comin')", another strong memory from 1951. Wow!
Eddie Fisher, "Oh, My Papa".
Perry Como, many.
As Bob Hope sang, thanks for the memories.
And then Elvis hit the airwaves......
I won't admit that I'm old, but one of my favorite Jethro Tull songs is, "The Dog Eared Years"!
Arkay
Lunatic Member
You won't get hit by me!
(Although I well understand why you would expect it around here.) That song "moved" me, too, and I'm not ashamed to admit it (he says, gulping hard and putting on his bravest face...). It was on a compilation 8-track that came free with my Dad's Cadillac when he got it. As a teenager, I got to borrow that car, and there wasn't much better than ol' Barry to have on the system when I'd hit the electric controls to lean the front passenger seat back to nearly-reclining, when there was a nice girl in/on it... Yeah, it "moved" me in more than one way, back then! 
I get sick of seeing his face on umpteen unwanted LPs in the used-LP bins, but in fact, I kind of like Barry sometimes, when I think back...That was one of the first songs that I ever learned ALL the words to. I could sing every verse from a young age. There were certain "tensions" surrounding it, involving people I knew who were into drugs (when I was way too young to know such people or things), that I'd rather not go into in detail, but suffice it to say that that song had --and still has-- some personal significance for me, too.
Permanent Waves
Digital Man
Lol, well that's not the case with me (as you've probably seen by some of my posts in the playlist threads we both post in): I have about a terabyte of FLAC files ranging over many genres. It's just that nothing ever has (or ever will I suspect) hit me in the way Rush does. Sure I like/love listening to other stuff and it can be great too, but even Rush's worst material is as good or better to me than the best of everything else (though this is comparing apples to oranges I know).
Rush and Kiss are actually old friends btw. Rush used to open for them when they were starting out and were impressed by the work ethic Kiss possessed, no matter what they really thought of their music (as mentioned by Geddy Lee in the new Rush documentary).
And, btw, I'm really kind of cheating here, I know there must have been other music that stood out from the background when I was a kid, but I really can't remember anything that significant (besides maybe some Beatles, Beach Boys, Michael Jackson--I did have the Thriller album when I was 7ish--and a little later hair pop rock/metal bands like Bon Jovi and Def Leppard) until I started really getting into music as a young teen and Rush just floored me and regulated all other bands (many that I loved and still do) to second tier. None come close.
JimInLhc
Active Member
Beyond the Sea by Bobby Darrin? I was eight maybe. The first 45 I bought was "Hound Dog" ... I was six I think.
The first album that "changed my life" was certainly Pet Sounds. Those were the days. Music was everywhere, the radio was worth listening to. People talked about melodies and lyrics. Everyone watched Ed Sullivan.
The first album that "changed my life" was certainly Pet Sounds. Those were the days. Music was everywhere, the radio was worth listening to. People talked about melodies and lyrics. Everyone watched Ed Sullivan.
JimInLhc
Active Member
I was in Jr. High when PPM's Puff came out. Every morning KRLA (Pasadena Ca) played it as "most requested" from the previous day. Went on for many weeks.
I get a tear in my eye when I play it or hear it now. Life was so wonderful then. RIP Mary.. you are one of my very favorite Commies! (Honorable mention to Woody).
I could talk about this all night... or day.
Dan ʕ•ᴥ•ʔ
Peanut Head
Tom Dooley by The Kingston Trio when I was 5 (the song was a huge hit when I was 2). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Dooley_(song)
pmsummer
simul justus et peccator
Forgot that one. Yep.
clydeselsor
Lunatic Member
A String Of Pearls by Glenn Miller on my parents hi-fi. It was my father's favorite song and is still one of mine too forty-some years later...
braincramp
Active Member
I think the reason "Paperback Writer" knocked my socks off was because I was a 14 year old playing in a high school Rock and Roll band and we thought we were pretty cool.When I heard that song I thought, Wow! We got a long way to go.
Tower Boss
Super Member
I would have been only 2 when the song came out, but it was a lullaby tune my Pop played almost nightly.
Nights in White Satin ● The Moody Blues ● 1967
Regards,
Mike
Nights in White Satin ● The Moody Blues ● 1967
Regards,
Mike
