When you were a young'un, what was a song you inexplicably loved?

I was raised on classic rock from the cradle, but when I was four or five the ONLY song I could bear to hear was Rod Stewart's "Maggie May" from Every Picture Tells a Story. My mom would play the album, and I would go back to that one track again and again and again and again, literally ten or twelve times in a row. I remember sitting in the living room and just listening to that one song again, and again, and again when I could get the album away from my mom....

:P

Loved that song...still do.

:hi:

My mom used to play his albums all the time. I would hear them as I was falling asleep at night. :)

It's a fantastic song!

...loved ELO. I still do, but not like then. Any song by them and I would
just go bug-fuck crazy.

I was crazy for that song. :D

There exists home movies of me singing along to it, and other Springsteen songs, when I was about three years old.

I am still a HUGE Springsteen fan. HUGE.

I think it's my New Jersey blood.

:D

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and Lemon Tree

both were total earworms in my youth and i loved it :rofl:

Loved those songs.

i had forgotten that one...


... and they all looked just the same!


:rofl:

just before the George Washington Bridge that ALWAYS reminds me of that song.

I LOVED it. So much so my mom made my dad go out and buy the record for me.

:rofl:

Wish I could find it; it might be worth something.

:hi:

it was little boxes

1. Little boxes on the hillside,
Little boxes made of ticky-tacky,
Little boxes, little boxes,
Little boxes, all the same.
There's a green one and a pink one
And a blue one and a yellow one
And they're all made out of ticky-tacky
And they all look just the same.

2. And the people in the houses
All go to the university,
And they all get put in boxes,
Little boxes, all the same.
And there's doctors and there's lawyers
And business executives,
And they're all made out of ticky-tacky
And they all look just the same.

3. And they all play on the golf-course,
And drink their Martini dry,
And they all have pretty children,
And the children go to school.
And the children go to summer camp
And then to the university,
And they all get put in boxes
And they all come out the same.

4. And the boys go into business,
And marry, and raise a family,
And they all get put in boxes,
Little boxes, all the same.
There's a green one and a pink one
And a blue one and a yellow one
And they're all made out of ticky-tacky
And they all look just the same.

:rofl:

I LOVED that song. Now I have a MAJOR earworm.

lungs

:woohoo:

http://www.redrock.org/issues/2002_laing_homes/little_boxes_scime_lyrics.html

There'll be condos and apartments,
There'll be strip-malls and convenience stores.
There'll be houses by the thousands,
Nothing's ever gonna be the same.
=
See the Target and the Mervyns,
And the Wal-mart and the Wal-mart,
And the Sam's Club and the Wal-mart.
All the prices will be same

There'll be street lights, there'll be stop lights,
And gated communities.
There'll be lots and lots of rent-a-cops,
Security everywhere
=
See the drug lord and the crime boss,
And the fascist dic-tat-or.
Living in their winter houses,
Only three months of the year.

With their Volvos and their Bentleys
And their Lexus and Mercedes.
But they won't be driving anywhere,
Too much gridlock everywhere.
=
Gone the burros and the horses,
And the chollo and the tortoises.
Gone the sunsets and the starlight,
It'll all look just the same.

No more hikers, mountain bikers,
No more tourists or photographers,
Only boxes, little boxes,
And they'll all look just the same.
=
Little boxes in the Canyon.
Little boxes made of ticky-tacky,
And they're all made out of ticky-tacky,
And they all look just the same.

Save the Canyon, for our children,
Save the Canyon, it's our neighborhood.
If there's only little boxes,
It would be such a bloody shame.

blah shoo blah nique e nique e nique
dum dum da dumm da dum
enique
da dum da dah dah dum


That one?

From the Grease movie soundtrack! :applause:

But I have to tell you that your sigline reminds me of a nice memory - I fell in love for the first time to Countdown to Ecstacy. I was 15. I have a real soft spot in my heart for that album. ~sigh~

Will you still have a song to sing
When the razor boy comes and takes your fancy things away?
Will you still be singing it
On a cold and rainy day?

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and that Elton John Honky Chateau song that went "Get back, honky cat..." I didn't know what it meant then, nor do I now. This was when I was about four.

My taste got worse after that: I went through an ABBA phase, an REO Speedwagon phase (!), and loved the "9 to 5" soundtrack. Gahh! Since then it's improved, I like to think.

:shrug:

I went through the REO Speedwagon phase, too. And Styx. And Trooper. :scared:

I still like is 'Band on the Run'." WHich I do - I think the whole album's great.

And I do recall liking some Trooper song or other. And I had the "Mr. Roboto" 45.

though I'll admit when I was about 11 or 12, when Goodnight Tonight came out, I played it over and over again. I think I went through 2 singles of that damn song, I played it so much. My mother went just about nuts.

The song does nothing for me any more. If I ever hear it ever, I think my brain will short circuit. :crazy:

I got a Trooper earworm the other day...it took me 2 days to get "round round we go" out of my mind.

Oh, great! Here we go again...:banghead:

pretty much all the Abba songs rocked, lol.

:D :hi:

*** random groupie posting *** :hi: u4ic :loveya:

speaking of Band On The Run...

back in the day, I used to leave the radio on in my room at night while I slept. The summer that album was popular, I woke up in the middle of the night a couple times a week for about two months, because the song Mrs Vanderbilt was on the radio and infesting my dreams. I would wake up and listen to that song, then drop back to sleep before the end of the set, so for months and months, I never knew the name of the song, or the band. :crazy:

..........

but for a song I inexplicably loved as a youngun, I'll go with Puff The Magic Dragon, and a bit later, Green Tambourine.

only favourite groupie! Hello charming guy! :loveya: :hi:

Interesting...I don't remember Mrs Vanderbilt being played up here at all.

My dreams were infested with Edward Bear tunes at around the same time frame. I don't know if they made it down south...

I remember Green Tambourine, we used to have a single of it. Was Puff the Irish Rovers version?

:loveya:

I looked up Edward Bear. Freedom For The Stallion is a song title I recognize, presumably his version is what I've heard. :D

Puff, for me was Peter Paul & Mary.

( I had to lyric search to find the title for Mrs Vanderbilt. I didn't remember that title. )

:hug:

I did a bit of digging - just for you - and here are clips of some of their songs...their more recognizable ones.

http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=11:qauh6j8h71q0~T51


Wow! Last Song got to #1 on the Billboard charts in 73. Close Your Eyes was also quite popular. I wouldn't be surprised if you recognize either...:-)

it was only a bit of digging...

:blush:

I can get to the link, and there is a button that indicates it should play songs, but I can't get 'em to play, even after I went to the bother of signing up, and logging in. :shrug:

You're such a good :pals: to me, I'm sorry I can't say if I know more than one of their songs. I did figure out it was a them not him - named for the original name of the bear in the Pooh stories, is what I read. I tried really hard to find some place I could listen to songs by them... :cry:

(nah...:P)

Bah! x( It's a wonderful resource, I found out about the site from the links on my online library catalogue as a resource. It's my favourite site to find music info.

I'll see if I can find it elsewhere, though it probably won't be tonight. If you really do want to hear Last Song, I have it on my computer, I could email it to you (and some other Canuck music of the era you may not have heard). PM me if you do. :hi:

Addictive as all fuck. :hi:

It would bring tears to my eyes.

I remember in Kindergarten we made a paper mache dragon, pretty big (although we were small) and we got inside it and we did a show of some kind and sang Puff the Magic Dragon.

I still like that song

don't know if it's inexplicable, it's a good song. Peter Paul and Mary were great.

I used to get very teary eyed to that...I was just a little whippersnapper...used to drive my mom crazy asking her if there was really a dragon named Puff...

I played my Pet Sounds album until it finally wouldn't play anymore.
Carly

was "you lost that loving feeling". We would hear it on the radio and when it was over I would cry, LOL, this of course before the age of ten :)

I was a big time Tiny Tim fan.

I loved the Jungle Book soundtrack, and now I'm a Louie Prima fan. I just learned (this week) that Prima was the voice of the baboon in the Jungle book, singing "I wanna be like you-oo-oo!" Man. My tastes haven't changed in 40 years!

Okay, I just danced all over my kitchen and utility room!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TXJjQe3O0oI

I liked that "Lime in the Coconut" song too.

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that goes back to when I was a real young'un. I am told that the sight of a white three-year-old belting out "Tell your mama, tell your Pa, I'm gonna send you back to Arkansas" made quite an impression on the customers of a certain Baltimore grocery in the late '60s!

edit: threee?

There are quite a few that I loved.

Another favorite is 'Voodoo Child'
by Hendrix.

;-)

And the video scared the bejeezus out of me.

I was always in love with her voice, but when that one came out I melted.

Damn, I miss her.

Said you'd be coming back this way again maybe, baby baby baby oh baby I love you I really do...

I miss Karen too.

I just LOVED "Build me Up Buttercup"...not sure if that is the name.

Later I became a huge Diana Ross and the Supremes fan....Love Child, at nine, I loved that song.

It was in "There's Something About Mary" and it reminded me of how much I loved that song. I had to go find it and played it over and over, for days on end, after that :blush:

my mom would sit us all down and play music and tell us stories to go with the music. Our favorite was an album she had called "Exodus." I'm not sure why we liked it so much. It was very sad music and she would tell stories of soldiers going off to war. They didn't have very happy endings. :( That music still brings tears to my eyes.

Love that song. My Uncle used to sing it to me. It still makes me cry.

I found it dificult to stop replaying it every time it ended. I must have heard it 20 times in a row.

Not by B. Bumble and the Stingers, but by my cousin's band, the Tridents.

Those songs were my introduction to rock 'n' roll. I was 5 or 6.

I found a B. Bumble CD about a year ago and went absolutely out of my mind.

Oh — my cousin also taught me to sing the bass line on "Duke of Earl." :7

that wasn't all babyish or whatever. I remember my mom singing this one song of thiers I can't think of right now (it's like a lullaby, if thats any hint).

I still enjoy hearing it to this very day even though it is far afield from the music I usually enjoy.

I loved this song when I was very young. I even insisted my younger sister (born in 1975) be named Dawn.


Delta Dawn, what's that flower you have on
Could it be a faded rose from days gone by
And did I hear you say he was a-meeting you here today
To take you to his mansion in the sky

She's forty-one and her daddy still calls her "baby"
All the folks around Brownsville say she's crazy
'Cause she walks around town with a suitcase in her hand
Looking for a mysterious dark-haired man

In her younger days they called her Delta Dawn
Prettiest woman you ever laid eyes on
Then a man of low degree stood by her side
And promised her he'd take her for his bride

Delta Dawn, what's that flower you have on
Could it be a faded rose from days gone by
And did I hear you say he was a-meeting you here today
To take you to his mansion in the sky

It was a huge crossover hit from Country to popular.

I still remember that little 45 and it's watermelon colors :blush:

An instrumental by Les Baxter.

I remember it when I was 5 years old in late 1955 and/or early 1956. I would get excited whenever it was playing on the radio and tell my parents that I was hearing the Poor People of Paris. They bought me a 78 RPM record of it.

King of the wild frontier . . .

inexplicably, but there are definitely a few I could sing forever, over and over and over again. Three of them were from the Rodgers and Hammerstein Cinderella--Ten Minutes Ago, Are You wonderful and my personal favorite, In My Own Little Corner. Even at the tender age of 7, I was waiting for Prince Charming, and Stuart Damon THEN fit the bill quite nicely. I guess that's why I always ended up with major crushes on dark haired, dark eyed actors (David Hedison, Robert Vaugn, Stuart Damon, Robert Culp....)

Of course, my crush list was rather lengthy.

By the Rolling Stones. I loved that song. I must have been 8, with my ear glued to a little transistor radio I had. As I grew I went on to become huge Black Sabbath fan as well as an Alice Cooper fan. Also, '70's album rock, (Rush, ELP, Yes)
Anything dark and dreary that pissed my parents, or anybody else's parents off was always good, from the time I started to independently listen to music.

Now I'm in love with OTEP. And I'm old. Shit.

(Arf-arf)

I had it on a Little Golden Record.

comes to mind . . . when I was 10.

Marie
I can't bear to see the children without bread
Oh, Marie!
They deserve a decent roof above their heads
Trust me now
And when I leave for town, my darlin, don't decide
or ask me how
(dang I forgot the next line)

But if I'm not back there with you
by the time the sun goes down
take the train
change your name
and get the children out of town
yes if I"m not back there with you
by the time the sun has gone

Forget me
My Marie
and move on.

<<<whimper, snivvle, snort!>>>
that song just tore my stupid little heart out!

I was sick and got "wired" on penicillin and stood up all night long in my crib singing, "Put another nickel in, in the nickelodian, All I want is lovin' you and music, music, music!" by Theresa Brewer. I really don't remember, but it is a family legend. Bet not too many of you know who Theresa Brewer is.

As best I recall, this is how these songs go:

Witch Doctor:

ooo, eee, ooo ah ah
ding, dang
walla, walla, bing bang

repeat over and over until parents heads explode


Purple People Eater:

It was a one eyed, one horned, flying purple people eater,
..... something about eatin' purple people ....
repeat

And then of course there was the classic Little Yellow Polka Dot Bikini which has been so misused andbutchered in that commercial.
LOL

AND

Comet:
It makes your mouth turn green.
Comet:
It tastes like gasoline.
Comet:
It makes you vomit

So get some Comet,
and vomit
todaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay

funny thing is that my kids think they invented that song, when it was really created by Billy Throckmorton on the bus in the third grade. LOL

Why a gay child would love that song as I did I find odd.

(I was into reading science fiction a lot back then too)