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.
Should be “tastes just LIKE Coca-Cola”.
>>>>>>>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
The first song I recall hearing is “Help Me Rhonda” by the Beach boys.
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.
By Barry Manilow. No, I didn’t choose it.
“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.
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.
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.
Might that be “I wear my sunglasses at night.” by Corey Hart? Damn, I know WAY too much about 80s music.
“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.
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.
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.
Rhinestone Cowboy.
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).
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…
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.
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.
“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.
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…