Earliest recollection of music....

[marie3]

Johnny Cash and any 50's rock and roll or country music. My dad played albums all weekend when he was home from work. If the turntable wasn't going, the radio was on the oldies station.

[geoffolehane]

Well the first record I bought was "Strangers in the Night" by Frank Sinatra when I was about 6.

But I remember "She Loves You" by the Beatles being the first rock and roll song I really liked. I was about four.

[JCSalomon]

[quote][i]Originally posted by scramjet[/i]<br>... a single with songs about Babar the elephant including one whose lyrics still stick with me:

Have you ever lost and elephant?
It's really quite a silly thing to do
But there's one thing even sillier
And that is losing two.
And that's what we have done today
Arthur and Celeste have run away
Their mothers cry and worry so
Oh where oh where can our elephants be?

I'd love an mp3 of that one - it would take me way back.[/quote]
An MP3 you want? Your post is one of two mentions of the song that Google could find on the entire internet! (That's how I found this board.)

Although IIRC the last lines go something like:[quote]Their mother's crying, worried so;
Oh where, oh where did my elephants go?

We have lost two little elephants,
We're looking north and south and east and west
For two thousand pounds of dear little elephants
Named Arthur and Celeste.[/quote]Then there was a Sesame Street record with Oscar the Grouch wishing:[quote]A very unhappy birthday to yo-ou.
May none of your wishes ever come tru-ue.
May you get a tummy-ache
From eating birthday cake!
A very unhappy birthday to you.[/quote]Or something like that.

[glokstadt]

[quote][i]Originally posted by coop41[/i]
<br>"76 Trombones make the big parade....."
[/quote]

So was it the "Music Man" soundtrack, or did you see it performed live???


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[glokstadt]

Early music for me was:

1960s to 1982: My Parents (mainly Dad) playing the old German marches, polkas, waltzes, and folk songs that they would sing along to, and I learned to sing with them through my Dad's old reel-to-reel Grundig player that he brought over with him from Germany. I'm guessing when he passes I'll take the player and play the reels for my son Max.

1975: Attended a Los Angeles Philharmonic concert for all the local school districts at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in downtown LA, and heard for the first time Beethoven's 5th Symphony and Tchaikovsky’s "The Nutcracker" excerpts... so I ran out to the record shop (Licorice Pizza, I think) with my Mom and bought the complete ballet music to "The Nutcracker," (three-record set!) and Ludwig v. Beethoven's 5th and 8th Symphonies on one platter. My parents thought I went nuts over classical music, then bought J.S. Bach, Mozart, Schumann, Schubert, Händel, etc., etc.

Summer of 1978: My cousin takes me to a party at a house, he was either a junior or senior, me in 8th grade hanging with older youth at this party where I was first exposed to "punk" music because Butch & The Haircuts was performing in the living room, and everyone was pogoing to the beat of the songs, what FUN!

Summer of 1979:
My cousin Klaus takes me to see The Who at the Nürnberg Zeppelin Field on the back of his Vespa—too bad many of the opening bands were like Triumph/The Scorpions, et al. So I’m hooked on scooters and the Mod scene in Germany, and as soon as I come back to the States I start my own scooter club and seek out like-minded Mods, Skins, and Rude Boys/Girls...

1980+: Within the year I get sick of all the Power Pop, Northern Soul, Motown, Soul, R+B, etc., etc. and branch out to the new wave stuff coming out, and catching up on the old releases from punk and new wave bands like Blondie and Dev-O…

1991: I get very interested in Opera, and have season tickets to the LA Opera and Opera Pacific all at the same time!



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[scramjet]

[quote][i]Originally posted by JCSalomon[/i]
<br>[quote][i]Originally posted by scramjet[/i]<br>... a single with songs about Babar the elephant including one whose lyrics still stick with me:

Have you ever lost and elephant?
It's really quite a silly thing to do
But there's one thing even sillier
And that is losing two.
And that's what we have done today
Arthur and Celeste have run away
Their mothers cry and worry so
Oh where oh where can our elephants be?

I'd love an mp3 of that one - it would take me way back.[/quote]
An MP3 you want? Your post is one of two mentions of the song that Google could find on the entire internet! (That's how I found this board.)

Although IIRC the last lines go something like:[quote]Their mother's crying, worried so;
Oh where, oh where did my elephants go?

We have lost two little elephants,
We're looking north and south and east and west
For two thousand pounds of dear little elephants
Named Arthur and Celeste.[/quote]Then there was a Sesame Street record with Oscar the Grouch wishing:[quote]A very unhappy birthday to yo-ou.
May none of your wishes ever come tru-ue.
May you get a tummy-ache
From eating birthday cake!
A very unhappy birthday to you.[/quote]Or something like that.
[/quote]

Yes, I'd love an mp3 of the Arthur and Celest song. It's great to see that someone else remembers that song too.

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