The first song

[Gov Kodos]

Bopping around youtube vids I came across White Rabbit, an old time favorite. It occurred to me that it was the earliest song that I clearly remember from my childhood. I must have been 5 or 6 and sitting in the kitchen when this came on the radio. It was the Alice in Wonderland character references that stuck so clearly as well as the beat. What of you folks? [yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WANNqr-vcx0&feature=related[/yt]

 

[Kestra]

A long time ago when the earth was green ...

 

[Gov Kodos]

A long time ago when the earth was green ...

The Irish Rovers do put on a great concert, too.

 

[Miss Chicken]

It would have been either The Unicorn Song or Puff the Magic Dragon. I loved both as a small child.

 

[Australis]

Sittingh in the car waiting for my parents (you could in this days) with the radio on, I can still remember clear as a bell, Roy Orbison's 'Pretty Woman'. When the drum break came in the middle, I thought five year old equivalent of, "Wow, how cool is that?!"

 

[ares93]

Probably heard others before, but this is the only one that I remember. To this day, its one of me favorite songs.

EDIT: Bugger. Wrong link. There yer go.

[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Vf48D5ONa4[/yt]

For the record, the movie that clip is based on is one of the best movies ever made. (Attila, the Hun.)

 

[spockrocks]

Sealed with a kiss

 

[MANT!]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puff,_the_Magic_Dragon

 

[Gov Kodos]

Puff and the Unicorns, sounds like they should start their own band. Probably be a brony band to boot.

 

[Locutus of Bored]

My Mom used to sing me to sleep as a child. She had several favorite songs she would sing but the one that I liked the most was Rocky Mountain High by John Denver (which came out shortly before I was born), so that song still resonates with me and holds a special place even after all these years. Her singing it to me is not just my earliest musical memory but one of my earliest memories, period.

[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2Z8BpyE9LM[/yt]

 

[Captain Ice]

When I was little, Mom used to play The Candy Man by Sammy Davis Jr. to get me to sit down and eat my lunch.

 

[C.E. Evans]

"My Country, Tis of Thee." I had to sing it with my classmates every morning in elementary school before we began our first lesson.

First song I learned to sing on my own, "Fly Like An Eagle" by Steve Miller Band. All I knew was the first part of the chorus, which I repeated over and over again.

 

[Tora Ziyal]

Harry Belafonte's version of the Banana Boat Song.

Edited because I'd forgotten about the theme from Davy Crockett. I had a Davy Crockett hat, too. Cute little tomboy.

 

[Niorah]

I remember listening to Kim Carnes's Bette Davis Eyes on the car stereo, while my dad was driving. I also remember being mesmerised by the Fantasia classical soundtrack when I saw it at the cinema as a toddler. I wasn't even in school yet. And my mum was always humming or singing songs too, Italian classics mostly.

Music was always a big part of my days when I was a child, with both my mum and my dad loving it. I was dancing to the Beatles' songs as soon as I could walk (which was at a pretty early 11 months of age. ). That and my dad's opera and classical music vinyls were my earliest musical experiences.

 

[Kestra]

My Mom used to sing me to sleep as a child. She had several favorite songs she would sing but the one that I liked the most was Rocky Mountain High by John Denver (which came out shortly before I was born), so that song still resonates with me and holds a special place even after all these years. Her singing it to me is not just my earliest musical memory but one of my earliest memories, period.

[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2Z8BpyE9LM[/yt]

That's such a sweet memory. I remember my mom singing a lullaby to me, but I never actually liked it. I've never told her that. Funnily enough though, when I was working at the DV shelter there was a baby that no one could get to sleep (his mom wasn't there) and I found myself singing that exact Indian lullaby to him. And it worked! Guess he didn't hate it.

 

[thestrangequark]

I was born deaf but had my hearing restored through surgery by the time I was 5. I was also born into a family of musicians, so there was always music around and that makes it difficult to pinpoint exactly what the first song I heard was. I do know that I could "sing" "Baby Baluga" in ASL (and I still remember a bit of that).

 

[Pingfah]

I had a 7" of Lonnie Donegan singing The Battle of New Orleans, it was my only record apart from the Birdie Song which places me at about 5 years old, and it was the first record I can remember really digging.

[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=umcEYz9LJm8[/yt]

 

[tomalak301]

I think my first song was This:

[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-diB65scQU&ob=av3e[/yt]

It was either that or a Beatles song, but the McFerrin is the first one that came to mind.

 

[Tora Ziyal]

That and my dad's opera and classical music vinyls were my earliest musical experiences.

Yeah, I mostly grew up with opera and other classical music, too.

I had a 7" of Lonnie Donegan singing The Battle of New Orleans, it was my only record apart from the Birdie Song which places me at about 5 years old, and it was the first record I can remember really digging.

[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=umcEYz9LJm8[/yt]

Wow, it's interesting to hear it sung by a British singer. On this side of the Atlantic, the best-known version is Johnny Horton's.

 

[Davros]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=itJric_XTvc&feature=related

My parents were not big music listeners