# 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:** 13\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![vanilla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/f19dbf/32.png) [@vanilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vanilla)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2000, 1:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-first-real-song-that-you-remember/33638/41 "2000-09-19T13:18:08Z")
It was Happy Birthday. ---
**Author:** ![vanilla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/f19dbf/32.png) [@vanilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vanilla)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2000, 1:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-first-real-song-that-you-remember/33638/42 "2000-09-19T13:20:43Z")
Okay, if you mean on the radio or bought at the store, it would be…Yesterday by the Beatles. Hated it. ---
**Author:** ![brachyrhynchos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/brachyrhynchos/32/376_2.png) [@brachyrhynchos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brachyrhynchos)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2000, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-first-real-song-that-you-remember/33638/43 "2000-09-19T15:02:03Z")
But I was seven. **I Saw Her Standing There** - first song to which I learned the words (other than mom’s Shrimp Boat song). Kiffa was a big Beatles fan and bought all their early albums. I still have them and occasionally play this song. ---
**Author:** ![TwistofFate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/cdc98d/32.png) [@TwistofFate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TwistofFate)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2000, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-first-real-song-that-you-remember/33638/44 "2000-09-19T15:17:18Z")
2 out of 3 aint bad, by Meatloaf I must have been about 2. My sister used to play that song while I went asleep. I think thats what’s to blame for my current mental state. btw, I love that song. ---
**Author:** ![Voorvie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/22d042/32.png) [@Voorvie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voorvie)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2000, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-first-real-song-that-you-remember/33638/45 "2000-09-19T15:24:43Z")
Besides the Czech song my mother used to sing to me: “Holka modra oka” or “Girl with the blue eyes”, I think its a toss up between “Puppy Love” by Donny Osmond or “No No Song” by Ringo Starr. (I also have fond childhood memories of “Rock the Boat” and “Take a Letter, Maria”.) ---
**Author:** ![Sister\_Vigilante](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9de0a6/32.png) [@Sister\_Vigilante](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sister_Vigilante)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2000, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-first-real-song-that-you-remember/33638/46 "2000-09-19T18:06:07Z")
The first song I can remember is either “Blinded by the Light” or something by Captain & Tenille (a cover, I think). Those two were my two favorite songs when I was very young; I don’t recall which came first. ---
**Author:** ![Trout\_Mask\_Replica](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a88e57/32.png) [@Trout\_Mask\_Replica](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trout_Mask_Replica)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2000, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-first-real-song-that-you-remember/33638/47 "2000-09-19T18:47:11Z")
‘Jammin’ Me’ by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers. The video for it was the first thing I saw on MTV after we got our cable hooked up. I think I was six or seven at the time. ---
**Author:** ![Vestal\_Blue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/5e9695/32.png) [@Vestal\_Blue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Vestal_Blue)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2000, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-first-real-song-that-you-remember/33638/48 "2000-09-19T19:06:00Z")
Wow! Memories! Some of these make me feel old, and some young. Mine was Little Arrows, by Leafy Lee, in 1968. I was 8. I still like that song. ---
**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, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-first-real-song-that-you-remember/33638/49 "2000-09-19T19:45:10Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by spooje \* > \*\*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…\*\* The song was, obviously, “One Toke Over the Line” by Brewer & Shipley. It was, also obviously, about sitting downtown in a railway station while one toke over the line. A state I remember, uh, poorly. Sheesh, kids these days… ---
**Author:** ![Samonek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/47e85d/32.png) [@Samonek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Samonek)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2000, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-first-real-song-that-you-remember/33638/50 "2000-09-19T19:50:57Z")
“The Thong Song” by Sisqo. (I have a really bad memory.) ---
**Author:** ![DarbyV](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/779978/32.png) [@DarbyV](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DarbyV)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2000, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-first-real-song-that-you-remember/33638/51 "2000-09-19T21:17:34Z")
Mine was about a dog that drowned and nobody wanted to tell the mother. Does anyone know this song because it always made me cry as a child and I would LOVE to find it? ---
**Author:** ![Scribe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Scribe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scribe)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2000, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-first-real-song-that-you-remember/33638/52 "2000-09-20T03:06:31Z")
I remember when the teen girl next door would play “Me and You and A Dog Named Boo” on her radio, as she sat in our back yard. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2000, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-first-real-song-that-you-remember/33638/53 "2000-09-20T17:29:19Z")
I remember singing snippits of songs but had no idea what I was singing, primarily the opening lines of “Barbara Ann”. The first “adult” song I remember that I could actually understand, my sisters singing along to “Beep Beep” by the Playmates. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-first-real-song-that-you-remember/33638.md?page=2)