# 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:** 2
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2000, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-first-real-song-that-you-remember/33638/21 "2000-09-18T22:05:46Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by lucie \* > \*\*“Lola” by the Kinks. I was maybe 5 or 6 and thought it was a great song because I loved cherry cola. \*\* You must have heard the post-lawsuit version. Originally, it was “tastes just Coca-Cola”, but the Kinks were sued by the Coke company. Guess they didn’t want anyone to think they supported the transvstite “lifestyle”. As for the OP, “Help!” by the Beatles. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2000, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-first-real-song-that-you-remember/33638/22 "2000-09-18T22:07:10Z")
Should be “tastes just **LIKE** Coca-Cola”. ---
**Author:** ![Rich\_G7subs](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/85e7bf/32.png) [@Rich\_G7subs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rich_G7subs)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2000, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-first-real-song-that-you-remember/33638/23 "2000-09-18T22:56:08Z")
\>\>\>\>\>\>\>The first song I remember was Elvira by The Oak Ridge Boys! Yuck!\<\<\<\<\< Great,now BESIDES feeling old (I was 17 when that song came out).I can’t get the damn “oompoppa,oommpoppa mou mou” outta my head.Thanks a BUNCH Rachelle ---
**Author:** ![Rich\_G7subs](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/85e7bf/32.png) [@Rich\_G7subs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rich_G7subs)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2000, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-first-real-song-that-you-remember/33638/24 "2000-09-18T22:58:48Z")
The first song I recall hearing is “Help Me Rhonda” by the Beach boys. ---
**Author:** ![Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spectre_of_pithecanthropus/32/12343_2.png) [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2000, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-first-real-song-that-you-remember/33638/25 "2000-09-18T23:32:21Z")
I definitely remember seeing the Beatles on Ed Sullivan in 1964, when I wasn’t quite 6. But possibly a little while before then my brother and I had the above mentioned single. I used to turn some boxes and an empty metal wastebasket over and try to play drums with the record. Funny, I play guitar now. ---
**Author:** ![aenea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c68b51/32.png) [@aenea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aenea)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2000, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-first-real-song-that-you-remember/33638/26 "2000-09-18T23:46:30Z")
By Barry Manilow. No, I didn’t choose it. ---
**Author:** ![Juniper200](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df788c/32.png) [@Juniper200](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Juniper200)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2000, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-first-real-song-that-you-remember/33638/27 "2000-09-18T23:52:19Z")
“What’s Love Got to Do With It?” by Tina Turner. I remember sitting in the car with my mom while we were stopped on the road by a train. This song came on the radio, and I said to her “I really like ‘What’s Sluv Got to Do With It’.” She tried to be patient, saying, “No honey, it’s ‘What’s LOVE.’” I was adamant. “No no NO! It’s What’s SLUV.” At that point, she just sort of rolled her eyes and gave up. I was about 3, so I guess I can be forgiven. ---
**Author:** ![Catfood\_Purrito](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Catfood\_Purrito](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Catfood_Purrito)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2000, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-first-real-song-that-you-remember/33638/28 "2000-09-19T00:36:48Z")
The first song I remember hearing was Hey Jude by the Beatles. I remember hearing Hey Jude while riding in the back of my parents’ old Thunderbird, which means I must have been about 3, I would think. ---
**Author:** ![Yossarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/9de0a6/32.png) [@Yossarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yossarian)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2000, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-first-real-song-that-you-remember/33638/29 "2000-09-19T00:52:16Z")
Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Heart’s Club Band The opening track I have a distinct first memory of. My folks _only_ owned three albums: Sgt. Pepper, Bridge Over Troubled Waters, and some Bing Crosby Christmas Album. But when I was a wee one, I recall prefering Sgt. Peppers; I could dance to it. ---
**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 19, 2000, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-first-real-song-that-you-remember/33638/30 "2000-09-19T02:40:24Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by jb\_farley \* > **"I’m moving my sunglasses at night."** Might that be “I wear my sunglasses at night.” by Corey Hart? Damn, I know WAY too much about 80s music. ---
**Author:** ![Persephone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ecc23a/32.png) [@Persephone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Persephone)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2000, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-first-real-song-that-you-remember/33638/31 "2000-09-19T02:49:10Z")
“Lido Shuffle,” by Boz Scaggs. I was visiting my grandma & grandpa, and one of my uncles had to go to the store. He was in high school then, I think I was maybe 7 years old. He offered to take me along. As we pulled in to the parking lot, that song came on the radio. I remember him saying “Oh man, I LOVE this song!” and then he just cranked it, and sang along. He and his twin brother both have excellent singing voices, so it was great to listen to him sing, and I felt sort of more grown up for a minute. He was letting me share one of his favorite songs. To this day, I positively adore that song, and I cannot listen to it at anything less that full volume. ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2000, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-first-real-song-that-you-remember/33638/32 "2000-09-19T03:02:13Z")
Earliest were German lullabies sung by my mother and grandmother–I never thought of myself as “ethnic” until I realized the first words I recall hearing were not in English. First that had a copyright was probably something like “Catch a Falling Star.” I was big on Como when I was three. First of many to stick in my head to the exclusion of all other thoughts, mercilessly keeping me awake all night with its moronic repetition, was “High Hopes.” I may have been the first one here to contemplate suicide, in 1958, just to stop the music. I was four. ---
**Author:** ![timmar68](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/97f17d/32.png) [@timmar68](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/timmar68)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2000, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-first-real-song-that-you-remember/33638/33 "2000-09-19T03:04:51Z")
The first song I remember hearing is “Silly Love Songs” by Paul McCartney and Wings. I remember it well because my sister played it as we went to sleep. I also remember hearing “Admiral Halsey(?)”. You know…“We’re so sorry, Uncle Albert…” The first song my parents played for me was “Snoopy and the Red Baron” by the Royal Guardsmen. ---
**Author:** ![Kvallulf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/898d66/32.png) [@Kvallulf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kvallulf)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2000, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-first-real-song-that-you-remember/33638/34 "2000-09-19T03:08:02Z")
Rhinestone Cowboy. ---
**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 19, 2000, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-first-real-song-that-you-remember/33638/35 "2000-09-19T03:26:10Z")
I was four in 1958 also, and was born in Springfield, IL (I looked up in your profile that you now live in Lombard. Where is that relative to Springfield? I hope you don’t mind that I ask.) Did you remember the song “You Could Be Swinging on a Star” also as being from around that time? I had a babysitter who adored Elvis around then also, but I remember not liking him then (later I liked him better). ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2000, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-first-real-song-that-you-remember/33638/36 "2000-09-19T03:33:24Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Spider Woman \* > \*\*I… you now live in Lombard. Where is that relative to Springfield? > > Did you remember the song “You Could Be Swinging on a Star” also as being from around that time? \*\* Western burbs of Chicago. But I’m from St Paul, so we sorta switched places. Thanks for reminding me. :mad: That was the SECOND one that got stuck in my head. :: reaching for the Trazadone :: No Elvis was allowed in my house. my mom had been hep, but my dad was the biggest square on the planet. I wonder what would have happened if she had married that boogie-woogie piano player… ---
**Author:** ![Catrandom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7bcc69/32.png) [@Catrandom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Catrandom)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2000, 4:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-first-real-song-that-you-remember/33638/37 "2000-09-19T04:07:47Z")
The first song I have a specific memory of is “Galway Races” by the Clancy Brothers. I guess that would be about 1965 or so. Still love that kind of music, although my folkie interests now sway more toward American music. ---
**Author:** ![pepperlandgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f17d59/32.png) [@pepperlandgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pepperlandgirl)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2000, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-first-real-song-that-you-remember/33638/38 "2000-09-19T04:42:08Z")
I memorized “Have Mercy on Me” by The Judds when I was about 5, but the first song I remember recgonizing is “Fishing in the Dark” by the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band. ---
**Author:** ![poohpah\_chalupa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/91b2a8/32.png) [@poohpah\_chalupa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/poohpah_chalupa)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2000, 5:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-first-real-song-that-you-remember/33638/39 "2000-09-19T05:25:42Z")
“Lemon Tree”-Peter, Paul and Mary “I Wanna Hold Your Hand”-the Beatles “Strangers in the Night”-Frankie Well, at _least_ it’s not Flock of Seagulls errr, no disrespect Mamapotomus. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2000, 1:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-first-real-song-that-you-remember/33638/40 "2000-09-19T13:13:35Z")
It was an AM radio standard. Still don’t know the name or understand the lyrics. Went like this (or reasonable facsimile thereof) One toke over the line, Sweet Jesus One toke over the line Sittin downtown in a railway station One toke over the line Horrible… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-first-real-song-that-you-remember/33638.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-first-real-song-that-you-remember/33638.md?page=3)