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Bobby-G
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
USA
904 Posts |
 Posted - 11/04/2005 : 12:49:51 PM
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The thread about obtuse song lyrics got me thinking about old songs.
What are the first songs you remember being aware of? What was being played on the radio or records when you were just a wee critter that has stuck in your brain all these years (and may have set a foundation for the music you like now).
The songs I remember being played a lot at my house when I was around 2 or 3 years old (lived in California at the time -- not sure if that has anything to do with it (1962 - 65)):
RING OF FIRE - Johnny Cash
BLOWING IN THE WIND - Peter, Paul & Mary
PUFF THE MAGIC DRAGON - Peter, Paul & Mary
THE END OF THE WORLD - Skeeter Davis
APACHE - Jorgen Ingmann & His Guitar
BIG JOHN - Jimmy Dean
THE GREAT PRETENDER - The Platters
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AnnGora
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
252 Posts |
Posted - 11/04/2005 : 1:58:35 PM
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The first moldy oldies I remember:
1. Sweet Caroline - Neil Diamond
2. Crying Time Again - Ray Charles
3. In the Ghetto - The King
4. Old Rivers - Walter Brennan (does anyone else remember this one?)
5. When A Man Loves a Woman - Percy Sledge
She was bred in old Kentucky, but she's just a crumb up here. |
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twitterpate
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
Canada
1026 Posts |
Posted - 11/04/2005 : 2:02:03 PM
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Good golly, Bobby-G, we must be the same generation!
Along with your choices, I recall She Loves You and Westminster Cathedral. |
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Flangepart
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
USA
2329 Posts |
Posted - 11/04/2005 : 2:21:52 PM
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Nat King Cole's "Rambling rose", when i was pre teen, and my folks took me with them when they went out with their friends. ( mom distrusted baby sitters.)
Even then, i was impressed by his style. Cool dude.
"Reality is arguable...lunch time is not." H. Flangepart.
"One Weekend a month my ass!" Crow- The Beginning of the End.
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PaulaJohnson
Minister of the Sacraments of Jabootu
USA
32 Posts |
Posted - 11/04/2005 : 2:53:38 PM
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The first songs I really remember were the ones my family listened to.
I remember a lot of classic rock. Bohemian Rhapsody, American Pie, and A Fifth of Beethoven were three of my oldest sister's favorites.
Vincent and Rocket Man were two of my other sister's favorites.
Elvira and Barbara Ann were almost constantly piping out of my brother's room.
Then there was the constant barage of Dad's "Funny Bone Favorites" 8-track and Alan Sherman records. (Dad particularly loved "Pop Hates the Beatles" and "Camp Granada.")
Finally, the entire Carmen opera and a whole lotta Wagner pops through my head a lot, thanks to Mom.
We were an ecclectic household.
None of 'em have a foothold as the first, because they were all pretty much constant. It just happened to be whoever was home at a particular moment, that's what we listened to.
I came, I saw, I was really too tired to deal with it so I just went to bed. |
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Neville
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
Spain
1590 Posts |
Posted - 11/04/2005 : 5:01:20 PM
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| Mine would be a cover version of "Video killed the radio star2 that played in a Sanyo ad. |
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TVsGrady
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
USA
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Victoria Silverwolf
Diocesan Ecclesiarch of the Sacred Order of Jabootu
USA
80 Posts |
Posted - 11/04/2005 : 11:12:53 PM
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Back when I was just a little kid, my parents had a Marty Robbins album. I seem to recall hearing "El Paso" about a zillion times.
Not too much later, I can recall hearing the first releases in the USA of the early Beatles songs, and novelty songs like "Please Mister Custer," "Does Your Chewing Gum Lose Its Flavor On the Bedpost Overnight," "My Boomerang Won't Come Back," "Tie Me Kangaroo Down," "The Name Game," and the smash hit "Camp Grenada."
Reality is a crutch for people who can't face up to science fiction. |
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hbrennan
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
Philippines
1455 Posts |
Posted - 11/05/2005 : 01:20:30 AM
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Bobby-G wrote:
BIG JOHN - Jimmy Dean
Wow! That was the first 45rpm record I ever owned! It was purchased for me a child. I memorized the lyrics and just ran them through my head 2 days ago! Note: the other side of the 45 was "I Won't Go Huntin' With You Jake (But I'll Go Chasin' Women)"
Great tune for a kid to learn, by the way.
"...yet it hadn't destroyed his brain."
re: Charles "The Butcher" Benton (1956)
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Bobby-G
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
USA
904 Posts |
Posted - 11/05/2005 : 02:17:19 AM
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Yes, my parents had the 45 -- but I don't think they EVER played the flip side (I know I never heard it)! We also had CAMP GRANADA, but don't recall that being played much till I was older -- I think I was the first one to actually check out the "B" side (R-A-T F-I-N-K)some time in the early 1970s.
Oh, yes -- remember another one that was always played (and my mom would dance around to it): ROCKIN' ROBIN by Bobby Day.
As a little kid, I never messed with the records, so I only heard the stuff my parents wanted to play when they wanted to play it.
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jedimom
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
USA
1239 Posts |
Posted - 11/05/2005 : 07:41:33 AM
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My sisters singing pretty much the entire Joan Baez repertoire.
The Beatles, thanks to my brother.
Novelty songs--Tom Lehrer, Allan Sherman (The Laarge Daark Aardvark Song, Go to Sleep Paul Revere, and of course Camp Granada--and a shoutout for RATFINK; I had a toy made from a raccoon tail I named Ratfink in honor of the song). Also something my father used to sing that had the memorable lines, "Peeping out the window, the second-story window/Why do they put the shore so near the ocean?/Run get the axe, there's a fly on baby's head/A boy's best friend is his mother." If anyone can identify it and find me the rest of the lyrics I'll be eternally grateful.
"Oh, that is so lame! You will pay for your use of inappropriate dialogue!" --Mojo Jojo, "Power Prof" |
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Bobby-G
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
USA
904 Posts |
Posted - 11/05/2005 : 09:33:28 AM
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Found this, Jedimom:
http://www.contemplator.com/england/gogetax.html
there is a midi file one can download there.
Info at the site says:
This nonsensical tune dates back to the early 1900s.
This page also includes another set of lyrics The Horses Run Around.
GO GET THE AX
Peepin' through the knot-hole
of grandpa's wooden leg,
Who'll wind the clock when I'm gone?
Go get the ax
There's a flea in Lizzie's ear,
For a boy's best friend is his mother.
Peepin' through the knot-hole
of grandpa's wooden leg,
Why do they build the shore so near the ocean?
Who cut the sleeves
Out of dear old daddy's vest,
And dug up Fido's bones to build the sewer?
A horsey stood around,
With his feet upon the ground,
Oh, who will wind the clock when I'm gone?
Go get the ax,
There's a fly on Lizzie's ear,
But a boy's best friend is his mother.
I fell from a window,
A second-story window,
I caught my eyebrow on the window-sill.
The cellar is behind the door,
Mary's room is behind the ax,
But a boy's best friend is his mother.
The Horses Run Around
The horses run around,
Their feet are on the ground,
Oh, who will wind the clocks when I'm away, away?
Go get the ax,
There's a fly on the baby's chest
And a boy's best friend is his mother, his mother.
While peeping through a knot-hole
In grandpa's wooden leg,
Oh, who has put the shore so near the ocean, the ocean?
Go get the Listerine, sister's got a beau
and Grandma's false teeth will soon fit Jenny, fit Jenny.
While walking in the moonlight,
The bright and sunny moonlight
She kissed me in the eye with a tomato, tomato
A snake's belt slips because he has no hips
So he wears his neck tie around his middle, his middle.
Rob
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Flangepart
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
USA
2329 Posts |
Posted - 11/05/2005 : 11:29:11 AM
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GO GET THE AX.
And i wish Bugs Bunny had sung the entire thing!
"Reality is arguable...lunch time is not." H. Flangepart.
"One Weekend a month my ass!" Crow- The Beginning of the End.
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Pip
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
USA
333 Posts |
Posted - 11/05/2005 : 12:13:47 PM
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Like many, it's all relative.
Bio-Dad: Pink Floyd, (Wish You Were Here), Moody Blues (the classical rock opera thing that ends with "Knights in White Satin"), Rush (I just remember that singer), Genesis (some of this stuff later really took off for me like "Stagnation" and "Firth of Fifth")
Mom: the aforementioned Joan Baez, (Please Come to Boston...heard that endlessly), the previously discussed Steeleye Span (Cam Ye O'er Frae France), Simon and Garfunkel ("Only Living Boy in NYC"--I never could tell where the Simon and Garfunkel left off and the Paul Simon began.)
Step-Dad: Country, salted with bluegrass and rockabilly and the Eagles.
step-brothers: same as above. Sometime in the late 80s, AC/DC swept them up.
The first song that was my "own" was "Wishing for a Photograph of You" or some such by a Flock of Seagulls. Got hold of a tape of it when I was six.
Pip
Buy the book. You won't be (too) sorry. http://www.rpg.net/reviews/archive/11/11457.phtml |
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BradH812
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
USA
1294 Posts |
Posted - 11/05/2005 : 5:13:39 PM
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Rock the Boat by the Hues Corporation
Island Girl and Benny and the Jets by Elton John
Radar Love by Golden Earring
Band on the Run and Jet by Paul McCartney and Wings
Loving You by Minnie Ripperton
(cringing, then, in a tiny voice)
Disco Duck by Rick Dees |
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ELOrocks17
Preeminent Apostolic Prelate of the Discipleship of Jabootu
USA
131 Posts |
Posted - 11/05/2005 : 6:45:09 PM
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"Playin with the Queen of hearts"-Juice Newton
"Reminiscing"- Little River Band
"Silly love songs"- Wings |
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