Earliest recollection of music....

[scramjet]

[quote][i]Originally posted by WolverineSyr[/i]
<br>My first real recollections are the Mitch Miller & the Gang Christmas Album which my mom played every year over & over. I still play it a lot.[/quote]

My parents also had the "Sing Along With Mitch" Christmas album. I picked up a cheap Mitch Miller Christmas CD a few years ago, but was disapointed that it doesn't contain "Must Be Santa".

[DreamRedux]

(Raises hand.) Yeah, I remember Mitch Miller, too, but I think my earliest recollections of music are those little educational ditties from Sesame Street.

Ma-na ma-na
Beep beeee ba dee dee!

Very educational. [:D]

The most memorable piece of music from my childhood has to be the THEME TO 2001. It absolutely terrified me. And they played it on Sesame Street ALL THE TIME. I would run away. (I still don't like it very much.)

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[WolverineSyr]

[quote][i]Originally posted by scramjet[/i]
My parents also had the "Sing Along With Mitch" Christmas album. I picked up a cheap Mitch Miller Christmas CD a few years ago, but was disapointed that it doesn't contain "Must Be Santa".
[/quote]

Do you want it?

[scramjet]

It would be great to hear Mitch & the Gang belt out "Who's got a beard that's snowy white..."

[birdmadgirl]

My earliest memory is from when I was about 3-4. My grandmother had a big boat of a car with an 8-track player in it. We listened to her MAGIC ORGAN Penny Arcade tape all the time.

I really don't remember much about it other than it made me incredibly happy when she put the tape in because it meant that she and I were off to doing something fun. I can vaguely still hear parts in my head. (And now, I've got to hunt it down in a form I can listen to again. I'm a dork--I like organ music!)

She once said she'd get weirded out because I'd fall into a trance listening to it. It makes sense to me; I do the same thing now. When I really listen to music for enjoyment, and not for background noise, I dissect it and try to pull out all the parts and layers. And then I lose touch with everything around me. Maybe I'm not good at multitasking.

As far as the earliest music I picked out for myself, I was 5 and bought "Smokey Mountain Rain" by Ronnie Milsap with my birthday money to play on my little red record player. My parents were, and remain, huge country music fans, so no surprises with that choice.

[wherewereuin82]

The first song I remember was Otis Redding, Sitting On The Dock Of The Bay. I was probably about 5. I still love that song when I hear it. My dad was a really big Johnny Cash fan and also a huge Tex Ritter fan. My mom was into whatever was big at the time, Beatles, Stones and Motown. Lots of Motown. I can't remember the first album I bought. But I do remember being in first grade and not believing everyone didn't know the words to Zager & Evan's In The Year 2525.

"If I thought I had anything interesting to say I'd say it"

[i_like_lectric_motors]

The first songs I really remember hearing are by The Jackson 5 and The Band (a good start) and The Beatles (thankfully I didn't let their suckiness ruin all music forever for me).

[deethelurker]

My mom was, like whereweuin82's mom, a big Motown proponet, only she didn't like the Stones or The Beatles or any guitar-based pop/rock group; she preferred easy listening (e.g. Perry Como) or 1960 and beyond era R&B, e.g. the aforementioned Motown, Gamble & Huff/Philly sound stuff, etc. So the very first music memory I have is getting into one of Mom's Motown singles, "Bernadette" by The Four Tops. Soon thereafter I remember listening to oldies radio (what my parents listened to) and being blissed out by The Doors, which is where my mom's tastes and my tastes began to diverge. Another early memory is bonding with my dad over old movies, including biopics on the big band greats; my dad was interested in this because he loved big band and would watch movies such as [i]The Glenn Miller Story[/i] any time he saw them on the cable TV schedule. So I got introduced to big band from a very early age and remember being keenly aware of songs such as "Pennsylvania-65000". And then there were the expected 45s of children's nursery rhymes I had in my own little record collection and played on my Fisher Price record player along with the aforementioned Motown/Stax/Volt-type singles. BTW, all of this took place in the '80s, roughly around 1983 and beyond. Prior to that year I don't think I was old enough to fully absorb music or have music memories.

[New Wave Dave]

THEEEE very first song I remember hearing is also The Royal Guardsmen's Snoopy v The Red Baron from around '66 or '67. TFF!!

I also remember a song or two from The Beatles' Yellow Submarine as well as various am hits on the car radio ("Aquarious/ Let The Sun Shine In", The Who's "Overture" and Mason Williams' "Classical Gas").

Funny how hearing those songs (or just thinking about them) take you back to the carefree days of your youth.

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[wherewereuin82]

[quote][i]Originally posted by deethelurker[/i]
<br>pop/ I had in my own little record collection and played on my Fisher Price record player BTW, all of this took place in the '80s, roughly around 1983 and beyond.
[/quote]

A child of the 80's. The best I could hope for was a really sharp rock, my mother's lazy susan, some string and a couple of tin cans. Other than that it was a.m radio.

Who remembers their first transistor radio?

"If I thought I had anything interesting to say I'd say it"

[DonGately]

...probably at four or five years old, my father singing along to 8-tracks of Olivia Newton-John (pre- Grease) and John Denver (pre-flying lessons, I'm sure).

My first favorite vinyl album was probably "Peter and the Wolf", though it was probably not the Bowie version. Loved the music on that...

[Moparmark]

My parents did not dig rock and roll but my mother had a 45 of Leapy Lees "Little Arrows" which she let us play every now and then.I recall being captivated by Eric Burdon and The Animals doing 'Sky Pilot" on Ed Sullivan (1967?).I also remember liking "Where the Action Is" by Freddy Cannon and I believe this was a theme song from a sixties teen tv show.This would have put me about seven years old.Very good post indeed.

[deethelurker]

[quote][i]Originally posted by wherewereuin82[/i]
A child of the 80's. The best I could hope for was a really sharp rock, my mother's lazy susan, some string and a couple of tin cans. Other than that it was a.m radio.

Who remembers their first transistor radio?
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Literally "a child of the 80's"! Although I didn't absorb much of the '80s pop culturally. Even when virtually every one of my classmates was into Madonna and Michael Jackson, I preferred The Kinks or The Rolling Stones. I only watched whatever movies Mom was interested in (though that meant going to see R-rated fare when I was 7) with occasional forays into child-friendly fare (e.g. [i]Labyrinth[/i]), and the bulk of my commercial TV watching was on Sunday night (the NBC lineup from 7 - 9 p.m. Eastern time). But I was keenly aware of what a status symbol Garbage Pail Kids trading cards were, got into the Rubik's Cube craze, played Pac Man and Centipede every time I visited Pizza Hut, dressed up as Rainbow Brite for Halloween (they had RB books and stuffed dolls so I knew who she was even though I never watched animated programs), and had a Strawberry Shortcake bedroom. So yeah, child of the '80s. Anyway, back to music.

[Bitter Almonds]

<p align="justify">Music in English sounded strange, but good. I remember hearing F.R. David's "Words" and trying to sing along "Words don't come easy" as "borrontonisi"[:I] What's even weirder is that I never heard the song again nor did I know the name of the artist or had any clue about the real lyrics until 20 years later, so in the intermittent decades, I had been looking for this song with the tune in my mind as "borrontonisi"[B)] It is because of my quest/search for F.R. David's "Words" that I got into Roxy Music in a big way, so my nostalgia for a crappy Italo Disco song led me to a world-class band. Alls well that ends well[:)]

[sunzgem]

I remember living in Colorado and being under the age of five. My parents were into what is now considered classic rock. I didn't really care for it then and I don't now either.

Then in the 80's they listened to alot of new wave and fortunatly let me listen to the radio and MTV.

Once I remember being in the car around Christmas time and Pink Floyd's Another Brick in the Wall was on the radio. I swear being that young and listening to the lyrics of that song is some really scary stuff for a kid! I also remember listening to the lyrics of Hotel California.. that song still gives me chills.[:0]

"So Lonestar, now you see that evil will always triumph...because good is dumb."