When you were a child

what songs did you like?

i still like this

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I was still in the single digits when I called up KFJZ 1270am Dallas and requested this song...pretty cool being live on the radio as a kid. And I love tremolo to this day.

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I remember when I was 5 my parents had compilation of hits in NZ from 74 they always played in the car, all the following were on it, and today still trigger lots of memories

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Cannonball-Duane Eddy
Tie Me Kangaroo Down Sport-Rolf Harris
Runaround Sue-Dion
Canadian Sunset-Hugo Winterhalter
Exodus-Ferrante & Teischer & Henry Mancini
Sleigh Ride-Leroy Anderson

I loved a lot of those great instrumental hits from those days.

My parents had a 78 that I loved called "When You Leave, Don't Slam the Door" by Tex Ritter. Either me or my brother sat on it and broke it. I was bummed. I haven't heard it since.

The Supercar and Fireball XL-5 themes were on my personal Top 10 a little later on.

When I'd go on summer vacation with my parents and we stopped to eat someplace with a jukebox, I'd ALWAYS play "I Walk the Line" by Johnny Cash.

My parents had a 78 that I loved called "When You Leave, Don't Slam the Door" by Tex Ritter. Either me or my brother sat on it and broke it. I was bummed. I haven't heard it since.

The Supercar and Fireball XL-5 themes were on my personal Top 10 a little later on.

When I'd go on summer vacation with my parents and we stopped to eat someplace with a jukebox, I'd ALWAYS play "I Walk the Line" by Johnny Cash.

I always liked Johnny's hits.

Whenever I was in the car with my father, he always had on WNEW-AM radio that played sweet and swinging pop music as well as all those instrumental hits I mentioned before; Frank Sinatra, Tony Bennett, Sammy Davis, Jr, Bobby Darin, Sarah Vaughan, Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday, great big band stuff, etc. I developed a love for Frank Sinatra's music that continues to this day.

I never admitted to my father that I liked Frank Sinatra! It wasn't cool to do that.

I'm only 33 so they're pretty new.

Talking Heads, Peter Gabriel, Queen, Dire Straits, Neil Diamond. The Bee Gees.

Songs I remember as a kid? Well, I sang something in the play The King and I about 1957 ("I Whistle A Happy Tune"?) but not sure I liked it. I was recruited by the Intermediate School with some other little kids.

"Mack the Knife" by Bobby Darin, I think. My parents would put it on when friends were over and I'd dance to it. I was 8 years old. Geek city I'm sure with my dancing.

"Quarter to Three" by Gary US Bonds. I was 10.

"Ghost Riders in the Sky" on my accordion shortly after that for school assemblies etc.

"The Girl from Ipanema" by Getz/Gilberto early '60s.

After that about seven thousand songs.

Grew up in the 70's and it was anything KISS.

Pretty Woman by Roy Orbison. Still get excited hearing it- led me to play the beloved guitar- 5 of the best notes ever.

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All the world belonged to me.. when I was 6 yrs old....:wink:


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as a kid I guess I just heard radio pop...and the Beatles TV cartoon show and the Monkees TV show.... pop tv shows like Bandstand....:wink:

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We used to go to a diner that had those mini jukeboxes on every table. I only wanted to play 4 songs:

Mrs. Brown You've Got a Lovely Daughter.
I'm Henry the Eighth
She Loves You
I Want to Hold Your Hand.

Would drive my parents nuts.

When I was a kid, it was the 80's. not knowing any better there were alot of atrocities I listened to.
My 1st album is Lionel Ritchies dancing on the ceiling.....that should tell you alot!

I remember hearing the brothers in arms album on CD for the 1st time around my grandmothers house, and being blown away. So this :

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Ah, when CD players were a new thing, and as big as a VCR....and blocky 3d graphics in video clips were cool. Those were heady times.

When I was a child I listened to children's music, not rock music! :wink:

I started listening to rock'n'roll at the age of 10 though (1957). My very earliest favorites were Paul Anka and Tommy Steele:oops:, but soon Elvis took over.

From around the same time my father introduced me to black gospel and negro spirituals - especially artists like Mahalia Jackson and The Deep River Boys. I also soon discovered soul and r&b, and The Drifters were early favorites as well as Sam Cooke.

When I was a child I listened to children's music, not rock music! :wink:


Your cradle didn't rock? :smile:

When I was 5 I would sing this to the ladies from my stoop...
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Your cradle didn't rock? :smile:

Yeah, but it didn't sing ... :wink:

When I was 5 I would sing this to the ladies from my stoop...
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I remember that one very well, but I preferred the early ones like "I Love You Baby" and "Diana". Can't remember that I sang'em to the ladies though ...

Johnny Cash's boy named Sue

what songs did you like?

i still like this

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Completely forgot about that one! Thanks for reminding.
My dad played that a lot on cassette.

This is my favorite song when I was little:

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I liked rockabilly, while all my friends were into KISS, Led Zepp, BTO, what have you.

My Dad had one of those big stereo consoles and owned a lot of old folk records, country, old Swing stuff. He was pretty cool because I was only 6, but could put records on and play what I wanted. Listened to a lot of Tom Dooley, Ghost Riders, Frankie and Johnny stuff.

Being only 6, I couldn't read and went by the colors of the labels to put on what I wanted. Dad had gotten a copy of Meet The Beatles and I played that a LOT. One day I went to put it on and instead of hearing "All My Loving", "Chances Are" by Johnny Mathis came blasting out of the speakers. Same colored label!! Who knew? My Brother (5 years old) and I started laughing hysterically as the tinkling piano intro was NOT what we were expecting.

When I was in 4th grade I had a collection of 45's ( strange devices) including all the great rockers of the era. Everly's, Elvis, Jerry Lee, etc. but even younger still, I can remember hearing Hank Williams- Hey Good Looking

I used to love all the glam rock bands in the early 70s when I was a kid. This was one of my favourites:

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I remember being down in the woods near my house and singing it on day. Some kids came along and asked what I was singing but I thought they'd beat me up if I said Wizzard, so I told them I was singing Blockbuster by The Sweet.

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The WHO, My Generation.
That song made me want to play guitar.

I'd have to say this one... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vBOdvzt3-4&feature=youtube_gdata_player

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I used to love all the glam rock bands in the early 70s when I was a kid. This was one of my favourites:

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I remember being down in the woods near my house and singing it on day. Some kids came along and asked what I was singing but I thought they'd beat me up if I said Wizzard, so I told them I was singing Blockbuster by The Sweet.

Hard to beat a band with a bass player in skates, batsman's pads, angels wings and a blond mullet! (Not to mention a Teddy Boy on sax). Of course, I never heard that song over here.

When I was a child, we had children's records. I had a 45 of Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious when I was 5 or so. A couple years later, records were chosen for both me and my younger sister. I got no choice. I do remember On Top Of Spaghetti and What's In The Elephan'ts Trunk. I also liked the Chipmunk's Christmas song. The only thing my mother lsitened to that I liked was Rafael Mendez. No clue what my father liked.

Didn't listen to the radio until I found one in our stuff in storage. First song out of it was Philadelphia Freedom.

My mother worked in a department store. When I was 12 or so, my birthday present was that she'd buy 6 singles over the next year. I recall getting Band On The Run, Bohemian Rhapsody, Rock And Rool Music (Beach Boys version). Don't remember the rest, but I do remember the B-sides.

Did not buy an album until I was in my 20's. Didn't start buying lots of music until my 30's. No money.

The WHO, My Generation.
That song made me want to play guitar.

I think I already was in university when Ifirst heard that one...

The first song I can remember enjoying immensely when I was a youngster would be Don't Worry, Be Happy.

My parents had a Glenn Miller EP that I wore the grooves off. It had "String Of Pearls", "In The Mood", "Tuxedo Junction" and two others which I can't recall right now on it. I played it incessantly as a young 'un.

Beethoven piano concertos were my favorite. Didn't discover popular music until I was 14, at which time I really liked... okay, I'll say it: Grand Funk Railroad. Then the Mothers of Invention.

....now we're talking a loooonnnggg time ago... The Ballad of Davey Crockett.

I was born in '64 to a family that loved music. I am the youngest of three children (brother 7 years older, '57 and sister 4 years older, '60) my Mom always had the radio on or a record playing while she cooked and cleaned the house, things like Glenn Miller, Bobby Darin, Sinatra and Martin and so on. My dad was bout the same but also loved Dixieland jazz on old 78's. Through my Brother I was introduced to the Beatles, The Monkees, Stones, Buffalo Springfield and the like. My Sister listened to The Osmonds, Partridge family and things like that on her old "suit-case" stereo. The one thing my Sister and I did have in common was that we would walk to the local K-Mart and but new 45's all time time...by this time she was listening to the Runaways, Aerosmith, Bowie and KISS. So that is it, listened to AM radio, bought top 40 records and fell in love with KISS all by the time I was in fourth grade and it has been a wonderfuld journey ever since.

'Billy, Don't be a hero' was by Bo Donaldson and the Heywoods- my buddy had the 45 and they were on American Banstand.
I think Paper Lace did 'The night Chicago Died' my buddy also had that 45.

I'll never forget the afternoon at the home of same buddy, his sister played Seasons In Sun by T. Jacks 45 record- over and over over and over and over- gawd, she was annoying. we ended up dating years later.

These guys were big here when I was a tacker...

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Still play it now, to an audience who know all the words, and whose parents are younger than me...:mrgreen:

And this; the first single I ever got, when I was about 8yo...

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and later...

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On "Billy, Don't be a hero"...
'Billy, Don't be a hero' was by Bo Donaldson and the Heywoods- my buddy had the 45 and they were on American Banstand.
I think Paper Lace did 'The night Chicago Died' my buddy also had that 45.

The UK's Paper Lace (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paper_Lace) version came out first (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Don%27t_Be_a_Hero), according to the old Wiki. Never heard the Bo Donaldson and the Heywoods version on this edge of The Empire

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that created what I am today.

I remember the ladies:

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I used to love all the glam rock bands in the early 70s when I was a kid. This was one of my favourites:

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I remember being down in the woods near my house and singing it on day. Some kids came along and asked what I was singing but I thought they'd beat me up if I said Wizzard, so I told them I was singing Blockbuster by The Sweet.

+1 I loved the glam rock era. Never forget top of the pops circa 1975, so many great glam groups on.

Did none of you guys ever listen to children's songs when you were a child? :confused: Did you start listening to rock music?

Maybe it's just that I was born before the rock'n'roll era ... ?

Did none of you guys ever listen to children's songs when you were a child? :confused: Did you start listening to rock music?

Maybe it's just that I was born before the rock'n'roll era ... ?

Possibly. We sang children's songs at school, but at home it was AM radio in all it's ragged glory. And my older sisters were Beatlemaniacs, so from the age of 3 or 4 I was bombarded with pop music.

Possibly. We sang children's songs at school, but at home it was AM radio in all it's ragged glory. And my older sisters were Beatlemaniacs, so from the age of 3 or 4 I was bombarded with pop music.

In fact I had no older sisters - or older brothers for that matter - just two younger brothers ...

My Dad always had record players and tape players with a heap of older dance type records.. old time dance,country, polkas, jimmy stewart scottish reels, Xmas songs, fijian choir singing.. not a lot of R&R...
he also was a valve geek and had a PA that he made and fixed stuff for people.. radios/tv's etc...
He was the "DJ" at local dances, xmas parties and church functions,,, because he had a mic/PA and the sounds...
I was playing records before I listened to radio pop.. that came later.. we never had the radio on at home all the time...

My neighbours played music too.. the old grandad next door had an expensive Rotel system and played all the classic orchestral music at times...he had been a concert violinist..there was a certificate on the wall from the London music society WW1 days....
the back neighbour's house was above ours and back a ways on the big surburban blocks, he played piano of an afternoon.. just wonderful.. a bit jazzy at times.. his son became a bass player and he practiced as well...

When I think about it..I was surrounded by quality music while paying backyard footy and cricket with the local kids.. it would drift over the air from either neighbours houses as a sound track to our squabbles and serious sporting activities in the back yard.... Beethoven and Co, piano jazz tinkling and movie theme classics ... thump thump of bass going through scales and exercises...


The radio was a small whiney box on a sonic comparison, I guess... quick catchy, corny songs...
then the Beatles and 60's type pop started driving the airwaves.. Yeh... and we kids/teens started our own record collections played on our small cheap players...

Sometimes we snuck into old grandads Rotel room with my mates next door...when he was out.. and play our new sabbath and zep LP's...on a proper stereo... yeh...

Glam rock for me - T Rex, Bowie, Slade, Sweet etc.

I liked Ricky Nelson and Peter, Paul & Mary. Then The Beatles hit, game over!

It was all grown up music for me when I was a kid, lots of it. My Dad was a big rock'n'roll fan, in particular Buddy Holly. We also had a great double album of the soundtrack of the film That'll Be The Day, which I loved. On top of that, my Gran ran a pub and we would get all the ex-juke box 45s with the centres punched out. There were tons of them, from Booker T & The MGs to Eden Kane, Aretha Franklin the Stones, Jim Reeves and Dave Dee, Dozy Beaky, Mich & Tich. My Mum had quite a progressive taste in music and would buy LPs by Bowie, Queen and The Beatles. It was great to grow up with such brilliant music.

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Maybe 1952-3 Me about 5 years old. Same RCA 45 changer, a Heathkit system my Dad asembled... Record was Red. Wore the thing out... guess you could say this was the beginning of me liking good tone.
I used to get up and boogie to "South" loved that stinkin thing.

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We listened to country radio as kids and grew up liking mainly country music. I remember whistling to some song in the back seat of my dad's 56 Mercury and my parents couldn't believe I had learned to do that. I couldn't have been 4 or 5. I also, remember listening to American Bandstand on Saturdays, so I got a taste of R&R too. I got my first transistor radio when I was in grade school and I did like other kids did and took it to bed with me, listening to Marty Robbins, George Jones, Conway Twitty, Haggard, and The Beatles.

Did none of you guys ever listen to children's songs when you were a child? :confused:

I don't remember hearing a "children's song" except maybe Itsy Bitsy Spider at school. And they were getting rid of music in school, by the time I got there, so I probably heard that 2-3 times, max.

By some weird twist of fate and cosmic timing, I was born right before the British Invasion, and I had a sister and cousins who were about 8 years older than me -- teenagers. So if I heard music at all, it was generally AM pop radio (which, for a brief shining moment, was amazingly wonderful).

...it was very very long ago.

At age 5, I found several 45 RPM records at my grandfather's house that I really liked a lot...some guy named Les Paul.

Loved electric guitars ever since, have a bunch of them right now, almost 60 years later.


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