The first song
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Thank you, Niorah. You're the first and only person who's shown any signs of understanding it!
As did I. 
While I remember Puff, The Magic Dragon (the album it's on was one of the first albums I owned, and I still have it) and The Unicorn, I have clear memories of two different songs, either of which might have been the first to make an impression on me: Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody and Chicago's 25 Or 6 To 4. I remember being in the basement of the house I grew up in, with the radio on, and just soaking them in.
A bit of trivia about the Irish Rovers: one of its members opened a pub about 30 years ago that's about four blocks from where I currently live. No idea if he still has any business interest in the place, though, or if the Rovers ever perform there (the pub is known locally for live music). Of course, the pub is called The Unicorn. (I didn't even realize until I looked it up just now that they're still together - they've put out three albums in the last two years.)
A bit of trivia about the Irish Rovers: one of its members opened a pub about 30 years ago that's about four blocks from where I currently live. No idea if he still has any business interest in the place, though, or if the Rovers ever perform there (the pub is known locally for live music). Of course, the pub is called The Unicorn. (I didn't even realize until I looked it up just now that they're still together - they've put out three albums in the last two years.)
My parents played a lot of record albums of Broadway musicals when I was little, so some of the earliest songs I remember are from Gypsy, Goldilocks and On Your Toes. And I had a collection of children's songs on bright yellow 78-rpm singles with blue labels. They included “kid-friendly” versions of Eddie Fisher’s “Dungaree Doll” and Tommy Dorsey’s “My Friend the Ghost.” In fact, for decades I knew only the kiddie versions of those songs. I discovered the originals on YouTube just recently.
For some reason, another song that I remember hearing when I was very little just popped into my head - Last Song, by Edward Bear. It would have amused me had Last Song been my first song.
Sadly, no videos appear to exist online of the band performing this song (that I could find, anyway), though there's a clip from an old Canadian variety show featuring them singing another of their hits, Freedom For The Stallion:
[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nln2nNMISWc[/yt]
Sadly, no videos appear to exist online of the band performing this song (that I could find, anyway), though there's a clip from an old Canadian variety show featuring them singing another of their hits, Freedom For The Stallion:
[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nln2nNMISWc[/yt]
When I was very small, two or three, I remember "Old Black Joe" that my mother sang while doing laundry in the basement. The same era also brings back Glenn Miller and the like, particularly "In the Mood" and "Pennsylvania 6 5000". I'm letting my geezer show tonight.
Christ, I though I was old.
Yeah, they came out at the same time as well apparently. I like both, it's just a great song all round.
I do remember though that for a long time I thought Lonnie Donegan was an American singer putting on a British accent for a few bits in the song, it wasn't until I had to design a tour poster for a local gig for him (which incidentally was never used because he died before the gig) that I realised he was English.
The Macarena. And I was 23 at the time.
I danced the macarena at a minor league baseball game last year. I still got the moves.
Mine was The Boomtown Rats 'I don't Like 'Mondays'
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gw29fyDU9Uo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gw29fyDU9Uo
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