Top songs from my childhood

[Horrorgrrl]

[quote]Originally posted by British
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9. "Magnet & Steel" - Walter Egan (love dat song)
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GREAT song. With back-up vocals by Stevie Nicks!

Tess[8D]

[i_like_lectric_motors]

Let's see. Songs I thought were cool as Hell as a kid:

Gilbert O'Sullivan - Get Down
Three Dog Night - Shambala
Jonathan Edwards - Sunshine
Cate Brothers - Union Man
Golden Earring - Radar Love
Gordon Lightfoot - Sundown
Raspberries - I Wanna Be With You
Black Oak Arkansas - Jim Dandy
Sugarloaf - Don't Call Us, We'll Call You
Redbone - Come And Get Your Love
Walter Egan - Magnet and Steel (Nice call British)

And about half a million more songs. I liked just about anything back then.

[British]

I found Walter Egan's album last night at Cheapo. Sadly, I couldn't justify the $3.20 to get the rest of the tracks.

[WolverineSyr]

[quote][i]Originally posted by i_like_lectric_motors[/i]
I liked just about anything back then.

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Let's face it, when most of us were little kids, we liked almost everything & that's pretty cool. I love listening to the radio with kids - they get so excited by everything & have such wild interpretations of what the songs mean.

I remember listening to my aunt's old 45 of End of the World by Skeeter Davis & thought it was the deepest, greatest thing ever recorded. I'm glad I let that go about 35 years ago.

[KYYX4ever]

[quote][i]Originally posted by WolverineSyr[/i]
<br>[quote][i]Originally posted by i_like_lectric_motors[/i]
I liked just about anything back then.

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Let's face it, when most of us were little kids, we liked almost everything & that's pretty cool.
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Totally. Good point.[:)]

One more I vividly recall:
"Ode To Billy Joe"....seemed like such a sad song....oh yes, and that "I've got a pair of brand-new rollerskates, you got a brand new key" song...

[My Aural Stimulator]

My mom and dad had EVERY Ferranté and Teicher 8-track ever made. They also had Willie Nelson and Neil Diamond. Despite that, my favorite songs from childhood are:

Right Back Where We Started From - Maxine Nightingale
Downtown - Petula Clark
The Sheraton commercial
Really Wanna Know You - Gary Wright
Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey - Wings
Some Joan Baez song I've tried hard to forget yet every time I hear it, it sticks in my head for days

I can't think of any more, but there are loads. I'll have to dig through my 70's rock stuff to refresh my withering memory.

[vco]

Wow, another child abused by being forced to listen to Ferrante & Teicher...my parents also had 8-tracks of Captain & Tenille. Ew...

The songs I liked as a little kid that I heard often (I had older sibs):

Cheap Trick "Dream Police"
Cheap Trick "Surrender"
Gerry Rafferty "Baker Street"
Paul McCartney & Wings "Silly Love Songs"
Rupert Holmes "Escape (Pina Colada Song)"
Squeeze "Tempted"
John Lennon "Woman"; "Watching the Wheels"; "Just Like Starting Over"
Gary Numan "Cars"
Glen Campbell "Rhinestone Cowboy"
Michael Jackson "Don't Stop Till You Get Enough" ; "Rock With You"; "Off The Wall"

[JohnPaulGeorgeRingo]

FYI Lotta Love is a Neil Young original.




[quote][i]Originally posted by British[/i]
<br>[quote][i]Originally posted by i_like_lectric_motors[/i]


It's "Lotta Love" and you're 29.
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Dead on.(even though I may have listed my age on here before).
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Keep your feet on the ground and keep reaching for the stars.

[2Nu]

Wow, how did I miss this one?

My earliest recollection is of 60's (AM)Radio Tunes (still cherish them all)

The Beatles - Eleanor Rigby
The Beatles - Paperback Writer
Paul Mauriat - Love Is Blue
Petula Clark - Downtown
The Mamas & The Papas - Monday Monday
The Mamas & The Papas - Words of Love
The Rolling Stones - Ruby Tuesday
Tom Jones - It's Not Unusual

(FM) Late 60's Early 70's

CCR - Down On The Corner
CCR- Lookin Out My Back Door
CCR - Proud Mary
Eric Burdon & War - Spill The Wine
Melanie - Band Of Gold
The Beatles - Let It Be
The Carpenters - Close To You
Mungo Jerry - In The Summertime

Thanx For The Memories!
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[geoffolehane]

The first 45 I ever bought was "Strangers in the Night" by Frank Sinatra.

From my childhood (not necessarily in this order):

1. Some Velvet Morning - Nancy Sinatra/Lee Hazelwood
2. Pleasant Valley Sunday - The Monkees
3. Eli's Coming - Three Dog Night
4. As The Years Go By - Mashmakhan (even then I liked obscurity)
5. New York Mining Disaster 1941 - Bee Gees
6. Up Around the Bend - CCR
7. Suspicious Minds - Elvis Presley
8. Stay With Me - Lazarus (see above note)*
9. Atlantis - Donovan
10. The Mighty Quinn - Manfred Mann
11. Jesus Christ Superstar - Original Broadway Cast
12. Sweet Caroline - Neil Diamond
13. They're Coming to Take Me Away Ha Ha - Napoleon XIV
14. I Love Onions - Lunch With Casey
15. Snoopy vs. the Red Baron - Royal Gaurdsmen

---alright so I had a fondness for the farcical. What do you want? I was 10.

BEATLES - Seperate category. I liked just about all their Top 40 hits from 1966 on.

* Interesting story about LAZARUS. I won the album from my local radio station in 1969. I still have it. It was a [i]stiff[/i] all the way, which is why the station was giving it (along with a pile of other records) away. I only listened to it all the way through that first time in 1969 but I was immediately drawn to the rock tune "Stay With Me." Even to this day I still love the song! It was recorded in Nashville, TN and released on Amazon Records.

[Borneojimy]

I kinda miss those overly dramatic "story songs" from the 70s. You know, like:
Run Joey Run
The Blind Man In The Bleachers
Rocky
Seasons In The Sun
There were a million of them, usually by somebody that was never heard from again & they almost always involved somebody dying. Great stuff.

[Borneojimy]

And what about the ones like "Mr Jaws" where they would have a guy playing the role of a reporter on some breaking news story where he would ask some lame question followed by a clip of some recent hit? There was one around the time Three Mile Island happened too.

[Moparmark]

The memory bank is getting pretty empty,so all I can add is I vaguely remember a bit of Three Dog Night and alot of C.C.R.

[DayGloJo]

[quote][i]Originally posted by WolverineSyr[/i]
<br>I love this thread!

Later on I got a cool blue transistor radio that looked like a donut but would twist into an "S" shape. I think I got it at Radio Shack. You could put it on the handle bars of your bike. I loved that radio!

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Wolverine,
I'm guessing that your bike was a "stingray" with a banana seat, wasn't it? My sister had one of those "S" radios. in white. I saw one of those this spring in New York City's Museum of Modern Art's new design wing. Congratulations, Wolverine, our lives have become period pieces!!! [:0] [V]

DayGloJo

[i_like_lectric_motors]

[quote][i]Originally posted by Borneojimy[/i]
<br>And what about the ones like "Mr Jaws" where they would have a guy playing the role of a reporter on some breaking news story where he would ask some lame question followed by a clip of some recent hit? There was one around the time Three Mile Island happened too.


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Now that you mention it, I do remember that. The guys name was Dicky Goodman. He had a few of those "songs".