T&C Posted July 8, 2019 Share Posted July 8, 2019 I was 4, sitting in the front seat of a 1961 Ford Falcon with my Dad. We were at the Twin Fair kind of near the airport ... Mom went in to get whatever we needed. We sat in the car with the radio on. Usual stuff was playing until This one came on. Even at that age it caught me right away, I just stopped whatever I was doing and listened. First song I can remember where I was the first time I heard it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Another Fan Posted July 8, 2019 Share Posted July 8, 2019 This one at 5 in front of the TV Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ExiledInIllinois Posted July 8, 2019 Share Posted July 8, 2019 Under my mother's sewing machine: And to get it out of the way... First recollection of TV. But... It was in B&W on a 19" Admiral TV: What else do you want to know? First dog? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
T&C Posted July 8, 2019 Author Share Posted July 8, 2019 22 minutes ago, ExiledInIllinois said: Under my mother's sewing machine: And to get it out of the way... First recollection of TV. But... It was in B&W on a 19" Admiral TV: What else do you want to know? First dog? You've got to admit, you left yourself out in the open with this... men's swimming and raindrops keep falling on my head by B.J. sounds a little risque. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Augie Posted July 8, 2019 Share Posted July 8, 2019 I remember a lot of that. The only song I remember the first time and place was Bruce Springsteen, Born To Run at a buddy’s GF’s apartment while in college. That hit me immediately. Wait......with a friend of the same friend....Santa Claus is Comin’ To Town, again by Bruce on the way to buy a keg I n college around Christmas break. I remember hearing a lot of music at specific times from pre-teen years, but those are the “first time” examples. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stony Posted July 8, 2019 Share Posted July 8, 2019 Oasis Wonderwall. Blew me away then and still does in the right setting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ExiledInIllinois Posted July 8, 2019 Share Posted July 8, 2019 22 minutes ago, T&C said: You've got to admit, you left yourself out in the open with this... men's swimming and raindrops keep falling on my head by B.J. sounds a little risque. Yeah... But they ain't nude. Oh... And please don't tell @Gugny. When he gets a bee in his bonnet, we all get stung! The sewing machine was interesting. I'd always bump my head. Why that song I remember playing. Same age as in 1972... About 4 years old that summer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Augie Posted July 8, 2019 Share Posted July 8, 2019 1 hour ago, T&C said: I was 4, sitting in the front seat of a 1961 Ford Falcon with my Dad. We were at the Twin Fair kind of near the airport ... Mom went in to get whatever we needed. We sat in the car with the radio on. Usual stuff was playing until This one came on. Even at that age it caught me right away, I just stopped whatever I was doing and listened. First song I can remember where I was the first time I heard it. I DO remember the girl that goes along with this song, but not the first time hearing it. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
T&C Posted July 8, 2019 Author Share Posted July 8, 2019 We were leaving Lancaster in the car heading up Central Ave. heading to my Grandparents house in Clarence when this came on... just after the train tracks overpass by St. Joseph street. To this day I'm amazed that my parents let it play, but they did. I loved Mariska Veres less than Michelle Phillips but she was my other rock babe for a few years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
T&C Posted July 8, 2019 Author Share Posted July 8, 2019 14 minutes ago, Augie said: I DO remember the girl that goes along with this song, but not the first time hearing it. Well... we're WAITING. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Augie Posted July 8, 2019 Share Posted July 8, 2019 3 minutes ago, T&C said: Well... we're WAITING. You can keep on waiting, as she made me do...... ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ExiledInIllinois Posted July 8, 2019 Share Posted July 8, 2019 (edited) 1 hour ago, Augie said: I remember a lot of that. The only song I remember the first time and place was Bruce Springsteen, Born To Run at a buddy’s GF’s apartment while in college. That hit me immediately. Wait......with a friend of the same friend....Santa Claus is Comin’ To Town, again by Bruce on the way to buy a keg I n college around Christmas break. I remember hearing a lot of music at specific times from pre-teen years, but those are the “first time” examples. College? That's a bit old? But then again, you were probably raised in a sod house on the prairie where tending chores came first. (I) can't find fault in that! I am surprised you don't remember Pa Ingalls playing a weekly Saturday night lullaby on the fiddle via oil lamp after all your chores were done and prayers were said. Probably all that hard work drowned out all the memories of music until you went off to College in Charleston with John Boy Walton... Glad to get away from that hectic life on Walton's Mountain and collect your thoughts @ University! I suppose other Dudes like @Cripple Creektell a similar hard scrabble youthful tale. Now... @BringBackFergy, he was raised in the lap of luxury... He probably remembers being sung to in utero this: Even if it was first published in 1990... What's 20 or so years between friends! LMAO. ? Edited July 8, 2019 by ExiledInIllinois Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bills4everNY Posted July 8, 2019 Share Posted July 8, 2019 So many times I couldn't mention all. I will mention one. First time I heard "Time to Pretend" by MGMT I was driving into a Stewart's shop and I waited in my car for it to finish. Then I waited through a couple more songs for the DJ to give the name and artist. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Jokeman Posted July 8, 2019 Share Posted July 8, 2019 I was at some Cub Scout function when I first heard I Love Rock & Roll by Joan Jett. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Philly McButterpants Posted July 8, 2019 Share Posted July 8, 2019 Ha ! i just re-connected with a friend from high school, and he related the story of the first time we heard "Come Dancing" by the Kinks, sitting in a car outside of a house in So. Buffalo buying weed.. Good times...... good times. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mead107 Posted July 8, 2019 Share Posted July 8, 2019 First song ??? I remember turning 4 and sitting in the kitchen at the table waiting to blow out the 4 candles on my birthday cake when my brothers, sister, and parents were singing happy Birthday to me. Might have been 3 blind mice in my crib but, can’t be sure. I have CRS. Can’t remember shi Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChevyVanMiller Posted July 8, 2019 Share Posted July 8, 2019 Conception. This was playing for some unknown reason. 9 months later I was bummed that I had to move. 4 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Augie Posted July 8, 2019 Share Posted July 8, 2019 9 hours ago, ExiledInIllinois said: College? That's a bit old? But then again, you were probably raised in a sod house on the prairie where tending chores came first. (I) can't find fault in that! I remember SO MUCH of the old music, but I can’t clearly say I remember the FIRST TIME I heard it. And don’t make fun of sod houses! They will be coming back around! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Misterbluesky Posted July 8, 2019 Share Posted July 8, 2019 The banana splits intro song.'68 or so. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
T&C Posted July 8, 2019 Author Share Posted July 8, 2019 23 minutes ago, Misterbluesky said: The banana splits intro song.'68 or so. Heh Heh nice call... came on right after the Monkees. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
row_33 Posted July 8, 2019 Share Posted July 8, 2019 16 hours ago, stony said: Oasis Wonderwall. Blew me away then and still does in the right setting. who did the parody of this with his ending line repeating 12 times screaming "by ripping off the Beatles!!!!!" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stony Posted July 8, 2019 Share Posted July 8, 2019 17 minutes ago, row_33 said: who did the parody of this with his ending line repeating 12 times screaming "by ripping off the Beatles!!!!!" Probably Liam to screw w his bother. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Halloween Land Posted July 8, 2019 Share Posted July 8, 2019 All Star by Smashmouth Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gray Beard Posted July 8, 2019 Share Posted July 8, 2019 The Ed Sullivan Show with my family all gathered around the TV... She Loves You Yeah Yeah Yeah - Beatles I Wanna Hold Your Hand - Beatles I’m Henry the 8th I Am - Herman’s Hermits Probably several other songs in that era the debuted on the Ed Sullivan Show Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Royale with Cheese Posted July 9, 2019 Share Posted July 9, 2019 I was in my bathrobe and I accidentally shot a dart in my neck. For some reason after that, I started feeling really woozy. I started walking and fell into the pool. As I was under water, I heard Simon and Garfunkel's "The Sound of Silence". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rico Posted July 9, 2019 Share Posted July 9, 2019 On 7/8/2019 at 4:39 PM, Gray Beard said: The Ed Sullivan Show with my family all gathered around the TV... She Loves You Yeah Yeah Yeah - Beatles I Wanna Hold Your Hand - Beatles I’m Henry the 8th I Am - Herman’s Hermits Probably several other songs in that era the debuted on the Ed Sullivan Show I don't know if they were the 1st I ever heard, but those were my 1st 2 favorites lol. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WhoTom Posted July 9, 2019 Share Posted July 9, 2019 My wife and I just returned from a road trip. Along the way, we listened to Led Zeppelin II. I was just telling her that this album was my intro to LZ back in the early 70s, and the first time I heard to it was at a friend's house. We had Whole Lotta Love cranked when his mom came home from work and said, "WHAT in THE HELL are you boys listening to???" Many years later, some college buddies turned me on to the Grateful Dead, mostly through bootleg tapes, so I didn't know any songs, but I loved the jams. When I went to grad school in Binghamton, I found a used record store where I stumbled across a copy of Blues for Allah, so I bought it. The first "song" (actually three songs with no stops in between) was Help on the Way/Slipknot/Franklin's Tower. I was immediately blown away, and to this day it's my favorite Dead song. (Live versions are even better that the studio version.) 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Augie Posted July 10, 2019 Share Posted July 10, 2019 I heard Wild Horses on the radio today. Had a little flashback to the Stones in 1975ish (?) at Rich stadium. I don’t think I had heard that song until that moment, and THAT was quite a moment! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gray Beard Posted July 10, 2019 Share Posted July 10, 2019 45 minutes ago, Rico said: I don't know if they were the 1st I ever heard, but those were my 1st 2 favorites lol. As a first or second grader at the time, She Loves You and Henry the 8th were definitely big favorites. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ExiledInIllinois Posted July 10, 2019 Share Posted July 10, 2019 The first I heard, but remember this, with my father in our '64(ish) beige convertible Plymouth Valiant: We'd go to the Coast Guard Exchange (CGX) for his cartons of tax free Camel cigarettes... I had to be about 4-5 years old... 1972-1973 He'd stop on/at the Ohio Street slip and let me wiz in Lake Erie... That's where it all began!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
T&C Posted July 10, 2019 Author Share Posted July 10, 2019 1 hour ago, WhoTom said: My wife and I just returned from a road trip. Along the way, we listened to Led Zeppelin II. I was just telling her that this album was my intro to LZ back in the early 70s, and the first time I heard to it was at a friend's house. We had Whole Lotta Love cranked when his mom came home from work and said, "WHAT in THE HELL are you boys listening to???" Many years later, some college buddies turned me on to the Grateful Dead, mostly through bootleg tapes, so I didn't know any songs, but I loved the jams. When I went to grad school in Binghamton, I found a used record store where I stumbled across a copy of Blues for Allah, so I bought it. The first "song" (actually three songs with no stops in between) was Help on the Way/Slipknot/Franklin's Tower. I was immediately blown away, and to this day it's my favorite Dead song. (Live versions are even better that the studio version.) My first introduction to LZ. I was 9 or so... we lived in Lancaster and went to visit my Mom's friend in I think Cheektowaga, not sure on that though, it matters not nor does my spelling. Anyways, we arrive and her friend Claudia puts me in the recliner soon after with a headset... she puts LZ2 on and then headed back out to have coffee with my Mom. Her husband was a professor and had a huge reel to reel collection... so, the first time I heard Zep was on a reel to reel tape with whatever the most advanced headphones were out there at that time. As of this time though, I am Zepped out... no corners to turn anymore. Like a lot of other bands. Sometimes I take a couple of years break... but of course that doesn't win out in the end. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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