What are songs/music that you loved as a child that you still love to this day?

me via You Tube... | February 15, 2015 | beaversmom

[dfwgator]

I think one of the first songs I was really conscience of when I was a child was the Beatles’ “Penny Lane”, and it’s always been one of my favorites.

[greene66]

I had a kid’s phonograph when I was only 4 or 5 years old. Most of the records I got were second-hand items from garage sales in the neighborhood, and were usually from earlier generations. Included things like Benny Goodman’s “Swing Angel,” Harry James’ “East Coast Blues,” and Les Paul and Mary Ford’s “How High the Moon.”

Also eventually got my great-grandparents’ Victrola, and put it in my room as a teenager. Used to listen to a lot of the records that accompanied it, like a recording by The Virginians (a small Paul Whiteman contingent) of “Memphis Blues,” circa 1922, which was my favorite of the bunch. Still enjoy hearing it.

[Mears]

I never like Carole King-——and I know I’m in the minority.

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[SierraWasp]

Jesus Loves Me This I Know!!!

[Zeneta]

David Essex - Rock On

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7x6SYcGLJ_Y

[chajin]

I wrote words to “Farandole” in honor of my beloved Border Collie, Torey(RIP)

What a fascinating story! Thank you for posting it; it adds even more to my experience of the music now.

[GopherIt]

Zip a dee doo dah

[chalkfarmer]

TOOTIE TA

[Zeneta]

Seasons In The Sun - Terry Jacks 1974

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cd_Fdly3rX8

[Dr. Bogus Pachysandra]

They got me hooked on harmony, and not just melody. Made a difference in my musical career, and choice of instrument.
Also loved this as a little kid. My Mom would put on a stack of Boogie Woogie when I was in the playpen. It was the only way she could shut me up!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kcvvUWhckww

[the OlLine Rebel]

Too many to list.

Seriously, it is rare that I stop liking a song, or start liking a song. Although frankly the latter has happened more.

[yldstrk]

The Green Beret
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PX4Flhw0HSA

Kicks
Paul Revere and the Raiders

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=84L7wRSg2Vk

Hungry

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8Ba-WYmppk

[SamAdams76]

One of my finest musical memories of a child was the first day of my summer vacation, between the 2nd and 3rd grade. June of 1971. I was eight years old and I can still remember exactly the circumstances. I was allowed to sleep on the couch in the downstairs living room which was a privilege because at the time, I shared my bedroom with my brother. So it was a big deal for me do be able to do that. I felt like I had the whole house to myself.

Also, from the vantage point of an 8-year-old child, September and the return to school seemed years away. As school had just let out, I had the ecstatic feeling of lazy summer days stretching off into eternity.

Being school vacation, I got to sleep late and so I was sleeping when my mother came down to the kitchen and turned on the top 40 station on the radio - her morning routine. As I laid on the couch, with the mild breeze blowing through the screens and the curtains billowing, these three songs played in order:

"My Sweet Lord" by George Harrison
"I Woke Up In Love This Morning" by the Partridge Family
"Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In" by Fifth Dimension

It was the perfect running order for those three particular songs and I just laid on my couch, still in that quasi-dreamland between being asleep and being awake. As those upbeat pop songs played, I was thinking of all the lazy summer mornings that were still ahead of me and how I didn't have a care in the world.

Now I wouldn't know the artists of those songs until years later but those three songs stuck in my memory and even when I hear one of them today, they always remind me of endless summer days and the complete freedom from responsibility that a summer vacation represents for an 8-year-old child.

[Nachum]

Well, since you asked :)

Love potion number 9, The Searchers

Sam the Sham the Pharaos - Wooly Bully

WITCH DOCTOR (David Seville) 1958 original version

Alvin and the Chipmunks- Christmas song[original]  (and Im Jewish, ha)

 

[mountn man]

I got my license in '79.

I remember cruising around with my buddy in his Jeep CJ-5, with the top and doors off, with the Beach Boys or Jan and Dean cranked.

I saw the Beach Boys a couple of times in the mid 80's, in outdoor venues. What a hoot. People from their 60's to 6, up and dancing. HUGE conga lines going up and down the aisles.

No need for anything stupid. Just people of all ages having a GREAT time.

[left that other site]

Thank YOU for your kind words!

There aren’t too many that I can share that story with, because people would think I am nuts.

But they underestimate the incredible power of Classical Music and the profound intelligence of Border Collies!

Torey also disabled an electric fence so she could escape the yard.

She had to dig a 12” hole to find the wire and break the circuit, then she tunneled under the fence to spend the day with her Golden Retriever boyfriend.

All while WEARING the shock collar.

[yldstrk]

Les McCann

Real Compared to What

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4qNJfVXxrQU

[Fiji Hill]

Here are a few:

• Them Bones (Dry Bones)--Waring's Pennsylvanians (1947)
  I learned to sing this at an early age from a a 78 rpm record. After the record broke, I never heard this version again until adulthood.

• A-Tisket, A-Tasket--Chick Webb & His Orchestra (with Ella Fitzgerald) (1938)
  Another song I learned as a child--even though the Peck and the Truck, mid-30's dance crazes, had gone out of style.

• The Middle of the House--Rusty Draper (1956)
  This was featured on Captain Kangaroo.

• Two Different Worlds--Don Rondo (1956)
  My mother used to like to sing this song as she accompanied herself on the piano.

• Biology--Sue Raney (1960)
  I heard this on the radio of our 1958 Edsel Villager station wagon when the song was popular. I wouldn't hear it again until I bought the record about a quarter century later.

• Po' Folks--Bill Anderson (1961)
  I heard this in August, 1961 on the radio of our 1958 Edsel--the last day we rode in it before we sold it. Somehow the tune stayed in my head. I didn't hear it again until 2012, when it was played on Willie's Roadhouse on Satellite Radio.

[Dr. Bogus Pachysandra]

The original Who Do You Love, Bo Diddley;

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8w9Eii9ZFsQ

[FreedomPoster]

I remember learning that and the poem Der Erlkönig in high school German class.