Earliest recollection of music

Faramir

Joined Apr 2020

2,082 Posts | 809+

London

Discussion Starter
• Jan 30, 2024

• #1

The first song I recalled liking was Wandrin Star sang be Lee Marvin in the film Paint your Wagon in 1970. Not that I remembered as I was just three, Mum told me.

Now my daughter loved Shania Twain at about 2-3 years around the turn of the millenium now when I told her (she is now in her 20's) she was shocked.

What songs have you been told you liked as a young child that surprised you?

 

efftee

Joined Jan 2019

305 Posts | 199+

Northumberland-England

• Jan 30, 2024

• #2

My earliest?...Bill and Ben the Flowerpot Men. Not a classic, but I still hum it when I'm gardening.

 

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retexan599

Joined May 2018

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Houston, TX

• Jan 30, 2024

• #3

My mother was an avid fan of opera. Until she died in 1952, opera was always played around the house. Records and the radio (mostly 1940's era). And on Saturday afternoons in the autumn/winter, don't even think about listening to sports on the radio, when the Metropolitan Opera had its broadcasts! We only had the one radio of course.

Although she tried to interest me in that genre, I was at an preteen age where I knew everything and thought it was all nonsense (Italian language sung plays set in Spain [Carmen] or Japan [Madame Butterfly], etc. Now...I realize what I missed.

 

johnincornwall

Joined Nov 2010

14,406 Posts | 4,143+

Cornwall

• Jan 31, 2024

• #4

efftee said:

My earliest?...Bill and Ben the Flowerpot Men. Not a classic, but I still hum it when I'm gardening.

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That's gotta be me too (but I don't still hum it).

But all the time I was a kid my parents always had Radio 1, later 2, on - there was nothing else to do whatever and I tended to know all the songs from that era, especially with the interminable shows where they played past charts, like the late unmentionable Jimmy Saville, so all these tracks were stuck in your head.

Now there is internet and games and stuff, no old chart shows, kids no nothing!

 

Faramir

Joined Apr 2020

2,082 Posts | 809+

London

Discussion Starter
• Jan 31, 2024

• #5

I caught this on a retro music channel the other day and again was catapulted back to the 70s and surprised to realise this a male vocalist,

 

DingBat

Joined Nov 2020

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Canuckistan

• Jan 31, 2024

• #6

This was the first album I ever purchased: