# What is your first real song that you remember? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 18, 2000, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-first-real-song-that-you-remember/33638 "2000-09-18T18:22:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2000, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-first-real-song-that-you-remember/33638/1 "2000-09-18T18:22:42Z")
My first big person song that I remember is " Roll over Beethoven" by the Beatles. I am about 2.5. It was probably the only time rock and roll was ever played in my house. ---
**Author:** ![Mamapotomus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/94ad74/32.png) [@Mamapotomus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mamapotomus)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2000, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-first-real-song-that-you-remember/33638/2 "2000-09-18T18:30:10Z")
Flock of Seagulls- “I Ran”. I was about three. ps, Flock of Seagulls and Jem are probably the reason I think it’s ok to have purple hair. ---
**Author:** ![struuter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b9e5f3/32.png) [@struuter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/struuter)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2000, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-first-real-song-that-you-remember/33638/3 "2000-09-18T18:33:46Z")
My sister taught me ‘Stepping Out With My Baby’ and ‘My Heart Belongs to Daddy’ when I was really little. My other sister used to sing ‘The Locomotion’ and ‘Up, Up and Away’ when I was little too. I grew up in a musical family so there was always a radio/stereo on or someone at the piano. I was really lucky to be exposed to so much music like that. ---
**Author:** ![xizor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xizor/32/102_2.png) [@xizor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xizor)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2000, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-first-real-song-that-you-remember/33638/4 "2000-09-18T18:37:11Z")
I had a teenie bopper older sister when I was a toddler, and the first song I remember was “Saturday Night” by the Bay City Rollers. ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2000, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-first-real-song-that-you-remember/33638/5 "2000-09-18T19:07:32Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by xizor \* > \*\*I had a teenie bopper older sister when I was a toddler, and the first song I remember was “Saturday Night” by the Bay City Rollers. \*\* Thanks xizor, now I have " S-A-T-U-R-D-A-Y Night" stuck in my head. ---
**Author:** ![Simetra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/278dde/32.png) [@Simetra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Simetra)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2000, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-first-real-song-that-you-remember/33638/6 "2000-09-18T19:13:18Z")
She’s A Man-Eater, Artist unknown. i remember crying to my mom cause I thought there really was a man-eater, and for the first three years of my concious life (Read: From when I can remember) I was scared to death of fat women. Thought they were the man-eaters… Good thing I was just a little boy… ---
**Author:** ![racinchikki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/eada6e/32.png) [@racinchikki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racinchikki)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2000, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-first-real-song-that-you-remember/33638/7 "2000-09-18T19:14:31Z")
Shirley – Do you mean the song by Lonestar? Because now i have THAT one stuck in MY head! As per the OP: The first song I clearly remember is that one that goes “Splish-splash I was takin’ a bath” (something about a Saturday night) song. My mom listened to a lot of oldies. I was probably 2 or 3 when I first heard it. A lot of the time now I’ll hear old stuff and remember having heard it before. Everybody in my family listened to something different, so I got a pretty eclectic taste from my folks. Mom listened to oldies, Dad listened to country, my sister listened to soft rock, her boyfriends (she’s about 7 years older than me, so she had boyfriends for most of my childhood) listened to hard rock and metal. I listened to pop, of course. NKOTB ruled. Two other early song-memories: “I like that old time rock’n’roll”, when I was about 4 my favorite TV show was ALF, and in one episode Alf sang that song using a cucumber as a microphone. And “The Dance” by Garth Brooks, I was 6 when it came out, and it’s haunted me ever since. Finding out who it was by and buying the album when I was 14 was like coming home musically or something. ---
**Author:** ![racinchikki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/eada6e/32.png) [@racinchikki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racinchikki)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2000, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-first-real-song-that-you-remember/33638/8 "2000-09-18T19:16:11Z")
One last, this is getting out of hand: I recall being quite young, maybe 5, possibly younger, and hearing Pink Floyd through the walls as I lay in bed tryign to sleep. “Hey you… is there anybody OUT there?” It scared the CRAP out of me, because I thought there was somebody IN the walls talking to me. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Cynical](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ee59a6/32.png) [@Mr.Cynical](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Cynical)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2000, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-first-real-song-that-you-remember/33638/9 "2000-09-18T19:17:42Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Simetra \* > **She’s A Man-Eater, Artist unknown.** Sounds like **Hall and Oates** to me. As for me, the first song that I _really_ remember was Detroit Rock City. ---
**Author:** ![Spider\_Woman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cdc98d/32.png) [@Spider\_Woman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spider_Woman)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2000, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-first-real-song-that-you-remember/33638/10 "2000-09-18T19:34:04Z")
Perry Como: “Catch a Falling Star” I think one of my parents had the record, and played it around the time I was about three. My mother used to sing “Cockles and Mussels” (traditional Irish ballad). I don’t remember a time when I hadn’t heard that song. ---
**Author:** ![Kiki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/dc4da7/32.png) [@Kiki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kiki)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2000, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-first-real-song-that-you-remember/33638/11 "2000-09-18T19:48:54Z")
The first song I remember was Elvira by The Oak Ridge Boys! Yuck! ---
**Author:** ![Odieman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/a87d85/32.png) [@Odieman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odieman)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2000, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-first-real-song-that-you-remember/33638/12 "2000-09-18T19:50:06Z")
“Obla di obla da” by the Beatles. I remember hearing it at Klondike Days in Edmonton. I think I was about 6 or 7 at the time. ---
**Author:** ![lucie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ed8c4c/32.png) [@lucie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lucie)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2000, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-first-real-song-that-you-remember/33638/13 "2000-09-18T20:05:43Z")
“Lola” by the Kinks. I was maybe 5 or 6 and thought it was a great song because I loved cherry cola. ---
**Author:** ![jb\_farley](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9d8465/32.png) [@jb\_farley](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jb_farley)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2000, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-first-real-song-that-you-remember/33638/14 "2000-09-18T20:56:42Z")
Count me in w/ Simetra. It was either Maneater, or “I’m moving my sunglasses at night.” That, coupled with the fact that my first concert was a Billy Joel, really ruins my rock cred. racinchikki, the song is “Splish Splash”, by Bobby Darrin. This song is his proto-Eminem persona. First of all, he sings do’ and flo’ (for door and floor) as a semi-black affect. And references to current music abound. and i quote: “Bing Bang I saw the whole gang, dancing on my living room rug, Bip bop they was doin’ the hop all the teens had the dancin’ bug, There was lolly-pop, and-a Peggy Sue, Good golly, Miss Molly was-a even there too.” I know all this because that was the first song I ever memorized! fearful symmetry, folks… ---
**Author:** ![Danalan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/76d3ee/32.png) [@Danalan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Danalan)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2000, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-first-real-song-that-you-remember/33638/15 "2000-09-18T21:39:35Z")
I memorized the Beatle’s “Eight Days a Week” at about age 4. Come to think of it, I’ve still got it down cold. ---
**Author:** ![Tabithina](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f04885/32.png) [@Tabithina](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tabithina)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2000, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-first-real-song-that-you-remember/33638/16 "2000-09-18T21:51:02Z")
“Leavin’ on a Jetplane” by Peter, Paul and Mary (I think). I was around three years old. ---
**Author:** ![MikeG](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mikeg/32/4329_2.png) [@MikeG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MikeG)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2000, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-first-real-song-that-you-remember/33638/17 "2000-09-18T21:56:08Z")
1. “Dance With Me” by The Orleans I remember dancing (Mom swinging me as I was all of 4-5 yrs) to this song. 2)“You’re So Vain” 1. James Taylor and Paul Simon- my mom loved them so I was saturated w/it. I still love them ---
**Author:** ![Inky\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/7feea3/32.png) [@Inky\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inky_1)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2000, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-first-real-song-that-you-remember/33638/18 "2000-09-18T22:00:59Z")
“It’s not Easy Being Green” by Kermit the Frog. ---
**Author:** ![Spider\_Woman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cdc98d/32.png) [@Spider\_Woman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spider_Woman)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2000, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-first-real-song-that-you-remember/33638/19 "2000-09-18T22:01:20Z")
MikeG lists “Dance With Me” by Orleans. . . I **love** that song! I used to sing it to my babies, too. My youngest baby is 17. ::sniff:: ---
**Author:** ![MikeG](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mikeg/32/4329_2.png) [@MikeG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MikeG)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2000, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-first-real-song-that-you-remember/33638/20 "2000-09-18T22:03:56Z")
yeah, I get a sniffle when I hear it too Spider Woman! [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-first-real-song-that-you-remember/33638.md?page=2)