What is the earliest song you remember loving as a kid?

[xipotec]

Not the teenage band fixation, but much earlier.....

What is the song you hear today that you can remember loving as a child? Or the song that you remember hearing as a child and it takes you back to that time?

It may be a song you really hate now, but still takes you back.....


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[a-dev]

Berlin's Take My Breath Away comes to mind from Top Gun. Still like that song.

Or, for that matter, other songs in that soundtrack - You've Lost that Loving Feeling and Great Balls of Fire

It was and is usually a movie that brings my attention to a song.

 

[ZE_501]

I don't know if it was an album or a compilation of bands, but it was a pink coloured cassette tape with black printing, I'd listen to on a mono tape player/recorder .. the song was 'Iko Iko' ... which I only just looked up and now know was a 1972 cover by Dr. John, although I wouldn't have heard it until about 1975 or 1976, given my earliest memories are somewhere between the ages of 2 and 3.

I don't remember encountering the song again until that movie 'Satisfaction' with Justine Bateman (with Liam Neeson and Julia Roberts!?) which is listed as 1988, but I thought I was much younger when I saw that, guess not, I would have been around 15.

 

[goatchumby]

I don't think that there was anyone who wasn't into Thriller when it came out.

 

[ZE_501]

I don't think that there was anyone who wasn't into Thriller when it came out.

Absolutely, but it wasn't the earliest by any stretch. I also remember this compilation on vinyl called 'Rock '81' which amongst other gems had 'Drugs In My Pocket' by The Monks. 8-year old me was all ...

 

[Captain-Miles-Dallas]

I was 3 years old when this song was a hit in 1960.
I still like this song.

 

[pixletwin]

When I was 2 or 3 years old.

 

[JMT1979]

For me it's Tears For Fears 'Everybody Wants to Rule the World'. I also remember 'The Final Countdown' by Europe, but that came out a year later.

 

[LiamNeesons112]

I was OBSESSED with Earth, Wind & Fire and Tower Of Power when I was little. I’d definitely have to say that Fantasy by EWF was the first song I loved. All of those car rides with dad, driving up north in an RV. Good times.

 

[wormlander]

Rivers of Babylon - Boney M

 

[Space Jockey]

I think the earlier songs I remember as a child are Take On Me by Ah-Ha and Band Aid's Do They Know It's Christmas, both of which were 1984. I remember playing with my new He-Man toys and them being on TV. Take On Me blew me away because of the animation. Happy times.

 

[generalszabo]

Go easy on me, I was 6

 

[noheddardstark]

Probably Africa by Toto or Separate Ways by Journey. I’m not a young man.

 

[greatlakes6]

American Pie

 

[devilof76]

I was told I used to dance in my playpen when The Hustle came on. Couldn’t walk yet, but I’d hold myself up on the sides.

Earliest song I can remember liking a lot was Tiger by ABBA.

 

[Wor-Gar]

Hey Ya! by Outkast.

 

[xipotec]

I was told I used to dance in my playpen when The Hustle came on. Couldn’t walk yet, but I’d hold myself up on the sides.

Earliest song I can remember liking a lot was Tiger by ABBA.

My son did the same with Funkytown….It was in Shrek..

 

[Rotfish]

Mike Oldfield, Genesis, or Vangelis. Not sure which I remember first; my dad had tapes from all three on rotation in the car.

This song in particular comes to mind. Still love it.

 

[BoosterGold06]

Ticket to Ride by The Beatles

 

[Dave_W]

Probably Summer of '69. My dad always used to play that whole album in the car.