10 Childhood favourite tracks!

[Charger]

So songs that you remember from your childhood that have made an impression.

Lets say songs that you listened to before you turned 15. Or there about. Before your music taste evolved into what it is today...or maybe some songs that made it into what it is today...either way it works.



I don't have a whole lot of memories from my early childhood...music or otherwise so this is going to be a bit of a task for me...I do have few songs in mind.

My mom wasn't that big of a music lover but she did have few albums that she listened to and one of them was this one:


And I do remember quite often listening to this song from the album:

Gosh haven't played that one in over 25 years I think....it's still a pretty darn groovy track.

[Vyn]

Boney M! - I had never heard that song before, but have heard - of - the group.

I don't really like this song I am posting.

But, I did when I was a little kid - it is the first song I can remember hearing & knowing what it was called and who performed it. It for sure left an impression! When I went looking on YouTube for it just now, the ATCO 45 stuck right out, it's the same one my parents had. I keep thinking I still have it, but it's not in the small stack of 45's in my office, maybe one day I'll find it in a box somewhere.

In any event, I present Bent Fabric's, "Alley Cat":

[Zzzptm]

I've heard that song before, but not from my mom's collection.

My mom had several musical passions - folk music, classical music, and the rock and roll she grew up with.

Now, because me and my brother were little in the 70s, there was nothing really she could do in the way of screen time when she needed to take a rest. Sesame Street was only an hour long and the rest of what was on teevee was either over our heads or inappropriate or both. So, she turned to her collection of 45s.

My dad had a pool table in the house that was big enough to define a racing circuit in the living room. It was from a bar, so it had a mechanism for returning balls to the front rather than leaving them in the pocket so that it could be properly coin-operated. After he bought it, he removed the coin operation part and the balls would rumble and clang and ding and come out in the front. I LOVED THOSE SOUNDS. But, they could drive parents up the wall if they went on for longer than once in a while. We go back to that racing course I mentioned.

One thing little kids like to do is just run around for no reason. My mom would pop on a 45 and let it rip. These were songs so good, you didn't mind if you heard them 10-15 times in a row, which is how she served them up. Me and my brother would run in circles around the pool table and sing along. We would sing along because the words were easy and the song was FUN!

"Do You Love Me" by The Contours was a favorite in our house and it still is to this day. It absolutely slams. This was recorded at the dawn of the electric bass and the decent bass amp, so there is plenty of bottom and groove in this tune. Even after I stopped running around pool tables, I still wanted to move when this song came up for a listen. I think it's hilarious that I grew up with these songs even though they were already "oldies" by the time I came into the world. They're evergreens, as far as I'm concerned. Evergreens.

[Zzzptm]

^ Interesting version of "Still I'm Sad" on that Boney M. album. Still prefer the live Rainbow version, though...

[Vyn]

I think it's hilarious that I grew up with these songs even though they were already "oldies" by the time I came into the world.

I can relate - most of what I heard as a kid was 50s-early 60's rock music. Although I was around when the Beatles did their thing, and when the SanFran sound took over the airwaves, I was listening to classical music on the local radio public station because I was tired of anything with a groove or a guitar haha. My folks hosted parties just about every weekend for years - I learned the words to every damn Everly Bros, Chuck Berry, Paul Anka, et. al. song. Not much Elvis, though - they were not fans. They did, however pick up some Rolling Stones as the years went by. So, I get growing up on music that was not contemporaneous to one's "time".

As I got older and my peers would talk about music like "I Got a Line on You," by Spirit, I was at a loss, but I could speak in-depth about Wallace's, "Primrose Lane" lol.

I eventually caught up.
 

[KiloDeltaCharlie]

Cool, doing it as songs rather than bands/singers, that makes it easier...!

I don't have much input from my parents as dad was into his classical/opera and mum didn't listen to much. I was brought up on Radio 1 and Top of the Pops on the TV.

I was 15 in 1980 which is when I discovered Black Sabbath and as a result heavy metal in general. I still wasn't familiar with Prog and up until that point it was softer rock, pop and punk.

I'll try to keep my choices contemporary to when they came out. I don't think at 15 I liked anything from before I was maybe 7 or 8.

My first choice is a well known bands first massive hit... 1973s

Killer Queen by Queen

Ridiculously catchy, until about 1977 my favourite group.

[Zzzptm]

Queen's a tight rock band, I can respect that. In the mid-70s, they were at the top of the rock and roll food chain.

[KiloDeltaCharlie]

I've never been much of a fan of Boney M. They were pretty big in the UK in the late 70s and in 1978 had 3 huge hits with Rivers of Babylon, Rasputin and Mary's Boy Child. I thought them harmless but really not to my taste even at that age. They did do one song I rather liked and that was 1977s Ma Baker about a gangster/mafia criminal family and their matriarch!

Do You Love Me (the title) just reminds of a song by the Macc Lads but it's not for polite company!

[Charger]

Killer Queen I know the others never heard!



Sorry in advance for this next one.

But this came out before I had found metal and it was quite popular with the children around that time so naturally I thought I liked it too...it's still a fun song but not something I'd listen to more than once a year.

Product of it's time...it's crazy to think that these 90s hits are now considered classics by people of my age....yikes!

[Zzzptm]

^ BARBIE GIRL!!!

Oh man I had a daughter whose friends would spontaneously break into that song, that's how I got introduced to the song. It's a fun bubblegum tune, I have some sweet memories with the kids singing it.

[Zzzptm]

I'm now 5 years old, watching my Sesame Street. I already know all about the letters and numbers and stuff, I just like hanging with the Muppets and getting some laughs. The music on that show was top class, as well, with Joe Raposo leading the way with tunes that had a mellow, emotional touch to them. It was a good hour to be a kid, when Sesame Street came on.

And then...

One day...

THIS HAPPENS

I had no idea who this guy Stevie Wonder was, he just turned up in the rotation. Totally confident with a new audience, the band just started going and proceeded to MELT MY BRAIN. When you see the kids dancing and moving, that's me in my den. These guys knew they would rock it out and mine was one of many homes where this song toasted all the bread and cooked every steak perfectly inside of 6 minutes.

And now, 50 years later, I'm doing a weekly show about Classic Funk/Soul Grooves. 

[Charger]

Stevie Wonder! I like Stevie. Don't know a lot of his work but the ones I've heard I have liked...but not the kind of music I'd listen to a lot at a time.

[KiloDeltaCharlie]

Oh, good grief, I sometimes forget how young Charger is!!

Superstition, stone cold classic!

This was always going to be on my list. First time I've heard it in years though...

Manfred Mann's Earth Band - Davy's on the Road Again

Not entirely as I remember it, but still quite good!

[Vyn]

Z will get a kick out of this: I just got home after attending an all-day meeting concerning writing binary object files (BOFs) to enhance an organization's red team effectiveness. At one point I think the presenter stated rolling your own BOF would also help banjo players from drooling on themselves, but I may have not heard correctly.

This YouTuber video is not the version that got played on air back in the late 60's/early 70's. Not sure whose version did, maybe Art Smith, but I always liked it - my parents didn't own a recording of it, and as far as I can recall didn't much care for it. Then Deliverance came out and this tune somehow became a measuring stick of sorts regarding one's hillbilly proclivities.

[Charger]

Duelling banjos!!! 

That is exactly the kind of stuff a kid would like...grown ups...not so much! Damn it hurts my ears!