The oldest song you remember.

[Pixie]

Don McLean: American Pie

Bye, bye miss American Pie
Drove my Chevy to the levee but the levee was dry
And good ol' boys were drinking whisky and rye?
Singing this will be the day that I die
this will be the day that I die.

I was about 5. I didn't know what it meant then - don't know now.

It was about Buddy Holly's death in a plane crash

[Beemer]

The ones I remember the strongest are Lola by The Kinks and Ob-la-di Ob-la-da by The Beatles - I was aged somewhere between six and nine because I know where I was living at the time.

I also remember all the old country ones as my Dad was a big Jim Reeves fan. Mum loved Elvis so there was a lot of that too!

[hazard02]

Puff the majic dragon

Hell yeah.
Or maybe its was that one about that dog; bingo, i believe, was his name-o.

[Goblin]

No it was Jennifer Rush that sang Power of Love. Then Celine Dion brought out a version too but I much preferred Jennifer.

Have the Laughing Gnome on vinyl too. "What's that clicking sound? It's Fred, he's a metrognome!!"

What's that about getting out more!!

Of course it was Jennifer Rush... senior moment

Heard another oldie on the radio in the cage, Me & You & a Dog Named Boo.

[yungatart]

Mum playing "little Brown Jug" on the piano, "Morning town ride" by the Seekers- saw them at the Mission a coupla three years back and I swear that girl hasn't aged at all. Shhesh I reckon she even had on the same dress!!!

[Skyryder]

It was about Buddy Holly's death in a plane crash

One of the greatest songs ever written.

Skyryder

[Skyryder]

The first song that I can remember is the Teddy Bears Picnic.

If you go down to the woods today, You're sure of a big surprise
If you go down to the woods today, You'd better go in disguise.

http://12121.hostinguk.com/teddybear.htm

Had an xylophone when I was four and could play the tune.

Skyryder

[BuFfY]

The first song that I can remember is the Teddy Bears Picnic.

If you go down to the woods today, You're sure of a big surprise
If you go down to the woods today, You'd better go in disguise.

http://12121.hostinguk.com/teddybear.htm

Had an xylophone when I was four and could play the tune.

Skyryder

Oh man yep totally that one! I remember going to the Teddy Bear's picnic in Christchurch at Hagley Park.... not sure if they still have it but man it was cool!! I took my big teddy called fuzzy wuzzy who was bigger than me!

I remember dancing around the living room in Gore to Love Shack by the B52's with my babysitter. I was like 5 or 6. My sis just had her 21st and my babysitter came and that song came on! The three of us dancing our lil butts off!!

[MSTRS:Me]

First music memories are of my old man trying to give me an appreciation of 'good' music. The Student Prince I'm only now getting past the abhorence of 'old people's music'

[MisterD]

My Grandad had a Val Doonican record with "Paddy McGinty's Goat" and "O'Rafferty's Motor Car" on it, which (apparently) I would demand to hear within about 30seconds of getting through the front door everytime we visited.

My Dad was happy that we lived 4-hrs drive away!

***edit***
here it is..isn't the interweb great?

[The_Dover]

"Hot Hot Hot" by Red Arrow, I was about 3 and living in Trinidad.

The carnival scared the shit out of me.

[Oscar]

Oldest song I can remember?
"Don't Sleep in the Subway" by Petulia Clarke.
One of my earliest memories, hereing it on the car radio on a hot Sydney day on the way to the beach...

[scumdog]

The Ballad of Davey Crockett when I was in Glasgow in the '50s.
Even got a Davey Crockett 'coonskin hat! (well I believed it was 'coon skin, when you under 10 years old you tend to believe a lot of shit eh?)

Never figured out what the 'wild front ear' was though!

BTW A lot of you guys 'first songs' seem to be ones I remember when I was in my 30s, are some of you realy that young? (Or sadly am I really that old?)

[Motu]

Wow,a coon skin cap (possum or rabbit),you could of swapped that for all the treasures a kid had at our school - would of got at least a Phantom ring and a hand grenade I reckon.

Our primary school was opposite Sylvia Park....grenades and 303 shells were legal tender...

[Krayy]

James Blunt - You're Beautiful


(The last 38 years have been a blur)