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Here are a list of songs I remember vaguely from when I was a toddler. Heard them mainly on the radio over and over again in my dad's '71 Truck or my mom's '79 Civic. A few songs I remember when I was a bit older.

10. "Whole Lotta Love" - Nicolette Larson (some idiot on Jeapoardy missed this question)
9. "Magnet & Steel" - Walter Egan (love dat song)
8. "Angel of the Morning" - Juice Newton
7. "Queen of Hearts" - Juice Newton
6. "Sailing" - Christopher Cross (okay, this song kinda sucks)
5. "If I can't Have you" - Yvonne Elliman (major nostalgia)
4. "Too Much Heaven" - Bee Gees.
3. "C is for Cookie" - Cookie Monster. Played this way too often until I put in the tape wrong, and thus broke it.
2. "baker street" - Jerry Rafferty
1. "Under the Boulevard Lights" - Chuck Francour. 2 local djs reunited me with this song after 20 years



I should make an iPod playlist from this.

Now, guess my age from this list.

[quote]Originally posted by British
[br]Here are a list of songs I remember vaguely from when I was a toddler. Heard them mainly on the radio over and over again in my dad's '71 Truck or my mom's '79 Civic. A few songs I remember when I was a bit older.

10. "Whole Lotta Love" - Nicolette Larson (some idiot on Jeapoardy missed this question)
9. "Magnet & Steel" - Walter Egan (love dat song)
8. "Angel of the Morning" - Juice Newton
7. "Queen of Hearts" - Juice Newton
6. "Sailing" - Christopher Cross (okay, this song kinda sucks)
5. "If I can't Have you" - Yvonne Elliman (major nostalgia)
4. "Too Much Heaven" - Bee Gees.
3. "C is for Cookie" - Cookie Monster. Played this way too often until I put in the tape wrong, and thus broke it.
2. "baker street" - Jerry Rafferty
1. "Under the Boulevard Lights" - Chuck Francour. 2 local djs reunited me with this song after 20 years



I should make an iPod playlist from this.

Now, guess my age from this list.
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It's "Lotta Love" and you're 29.

[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).

Profile dude, always check the profile. [:D][:D][:D]

man, I hung out in a local bar in 80 or 81 that had almost every one of these songs on the jukebox...plus goodies like Diana Ross 'It's my Turn'...I hated that bar but the bartender was really cute and used to give me free drinks cuz I was a punk and she thought that was cool...so I went and endured...I gotta be the only old punk around who knows all the words to this shit...ugh...

Wow! Baker Street. I haven't heard of that song in years!

That's a great way to look back at your childhood years.

I clearly remember:

1. lots of Beatles songs, esp. "Yellow Submarine"
2. lots of Bee Gees. [i]Saturday Night Fever[/i] soundtrack. But do you remember before they went disco they had some country-folkish-type material ?? My pop had those early album(s), and I remember "Going Down to Massachussetts".
3. The Kingston Trio
4. "Baker Street" by Jerry Rafferty
5. my mum was a huge Stones fan, so there was lots of late 60's/ early 70's Stones on. That was when they were still really good.
6. The Ventures
7. "Ziggy Stardust" - David Bowie
8. "Mellow Yellow" - Donovan
9. "Something in the Air" - Thunderclap Newman
10. "The Mighty Quinn" - Manfred Mann
11. "White Rabbit" - Jefferson Airplane

SUCH a cool topic! My biggest was 1972ish when my dad was stationed in Okinawa. They used to play "Take Me Home Country Road" at the USO club all the time. The visuals are still ultra-vivid, even from an 8 yr old's memories - dad and his fellow Spec Forces going off on their special missions to Nam, GI's circulating thru and desperating wanting to go home, B-52s taking off from the air base...phew!

Some of these were the rest:
1. Lots of Elvis, like Jail House Rock
2. Lots of Beatles, Yellow Sub of course
3. Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto #1 which I was trying to learn
4. Lots of Peter Paul and Mary, Puff the Magic Dragon
5. My dad's Dylan records, Blonde on Blonde!
6. My mom's Puccini records (with Madame Butterfly of course way up there with her being Asian)
7. Lots of schmaltzy movie soundtracks, Moon River, Sound of Music, Lawrence of Arabia, Summer of '42, LOL.

[quote][i]Originally posted by waukena[/i]
I gotta be the only old punk around who knows all the words to this shit...ugh...
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No, you're not the only one.

Songs I remember from when I was little...keep in mind, my whole family were farmers, ok?

1. Jim Reeves - He'll Have to Go
2. Patsy Cline - any of her stuff
3. Johnny Cash - Boy Named Sue
4. Eddy Arnold - Most of his stuff
5. Tom Jones - most of his stuff - my mother LOVED him.
6. Hank Williams - most of his stuff
7. Tony Orlando & Dawn - Tie a Yellow Ribbon
8. New Seekers - I'd Like to Teach the World to sing (I hate that the new coke ads changed it from "sing" to "chill")
9. Lobo - Me & You & a Dog Named Boo (we had a dog named Boo, so obviously we bought the 45!)
10. Dean Martin - Grren Green Grass of Home

Wow, this evolved into something fun, eh?

Ok, I'm in...from the back of my Dad's 64 Chevy Wagon on my earliest paper route to those precious moments spent listening to WABC under the covers on my totally cool AM transistor radio, waaaay after bedtime I might add...these come back...

The Monkees 'Valerie'
Artie Shaw 'Frenesi'
Tommy James and the Shondells 'Draggin the Line'
Dick Hyman and his HiFi organ (I kid you not)
Ottorino Respighi - Symphonic Poems/ Fountains of Rome'

and about a million more but these are the things that jumped in fast...then as my 2 sisters got older the Stones and rock and some truly girly stuff got mixed in...then in 74 or so a band called Kiss got in and changed everything...boy I still wish I had that transistor job and could listen to Cousin Brucie and Dan Ingram again...

I love this thread!
Earlier I listed the things my parents made me listen to. As I got a little older & discovered AM Radio - things were a little different.

Some things I listened to on my cool transistor radio (which looked like a cheeseburger...)

Spinning Wheel
Joy to the World - 3 Dog Night
Me & Mrs Jones - Billy Paul (once, it came on the radio in art class & the teacher turned it off!)
Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia - Vicky Lawrence
Cherokee Nation
DOA (which really freaked me out, so much so, I still remember every detail of when I heard it at a friends house. It will always be tied to Cherokee Nation because we played the 45s back to back.)

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!

[quote][i]Originally posted by WolverineSyr[/i]
<br> DOA
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HOLY SHIT MAN!!!!

I haven't thought of that song in years, but reading it brings it all back...my oldest sister had that on a 45 and played it over and over...it's about a plane crash...

...pain is flowing out my body...pain is flowing out with my blood...we were flying low and hit something in the air...

shit, I gotta get a copy of that...it had a really creepy harmony to it...wow...wow...

DOA:
thump thump...thump thump....thump........thump........

ack that heartbeat in the song creeps me out!

[quote][i]Originally posted by whistledog[/i]
<br>Wow! Baker Street. I haven't heard of that song in years!
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The Foo Fighters did a passably good cover of this one a few years back.

Tess[8D]

For me as a kid it was lots of the following:

Hank Williams, Sr.
Charley Pride
Glenn Campbell
Johnny Cash

My father was a huge country fan - at least I grew up with the classics and not all of this alt.-country-crossover shite.

And then songs that have left their indelible imprint upon my mind as a child:

Puff The Magic Dragon
The Unicorn Song (don't know the exact title of this one - but you know what I mean)
MacArthur Park ("...someone left the cake out in the rain..." - and I was always sure it was my freakin' birthday cake)
Do You Know The Way To San Jose?
Up, Up & Away
Wichita Lineman (which goes with the Glenn Campbell listing above)
Billy Don't Be A Hero
Seasons In The Sun
The Night Chicago Died

Bear in mind, I didn't say these were all great songs - just ones that I mark certain times in my childhood by.

Tess[8D]