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Hippiekinkster -> RE: Reminiscing about music (12/17/2008 12:22:58 AM)

This really brings back some memories. I mean, early childhood memories.

This is the first one I remember. This was before there were separate stations for rock and such. I was maybe 5 or so and had a babysitter named madeleine mayewski. I remember she took me to a friends or relatives houre and I was left out on the screened porch with a big old toy locomotive. This was playing, and I think it was a record. I seem to recall it kept repeating.
http://kids.niehs.nih.gov/lyrics/tomdooley.htm
This must have been around 1958 or so.

I remember after my mother left that my pop would have some station in Rochester tuned to morning Mass. "Hail Mary mother of God..." that's all I can remember now. I must've been 3 or 4.

And I remember later Johnny Cash's "Ring of Fire" because that's what the radio was always tuned to at that time. WNYR - Western New York Radio.

My old man had a really nice Martin guitar and he used to play all these old standards.
"Down in the Valley..." and stuff like that.

There was all this stupid shit on WNYR by Ray Stevens, and I remember "Tiger by the Tail" and some other song "smokin cigarette after cigarette and watchin' Captain...Kangeroo ...now look at me... I've nothin' to do..." at least that's how I remember the lyric.

Then it's all kind of blank until; Ed Sullivan.



Vendaval -> RE: Reminiscing about music (12/17/2008 12:40:39 AM)

I heard a lot of big band and crooner type of music growning up as my folks have a good sized album collection.  And they liked musical and showtunes.



ScooterTrash -> RE: Reminiscing about music (12/17/2008 1:04:23 AM)

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ORIGINAL: Hippiekinkster

................. and some other song "smokin cigarette after cigarette and watchin' Captain...Kangeroo ...now look at me... I've nothin' to do..." at least that's how I remember the lyric.

Hippy, Pssst....it's "Countin flowers on the wall"
I'm guessing, but if it was early to mid 60s it was likely Nancy Sinatra's version, but the Statlers (and several others) made it popular later on.




Hippiekinkster -> RE: Reminiscing about music (12/17/2008 2:09:51 AM)

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ORIGINAL: ScooterTrash

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ORIGINAL: Hippiekinkster

................. and some other song "smokin cigarette after cigarette and watchin' Captain...Kangeroo ...now look at me... I've nothin' to do..." at least that's how I remember the lyric.

Hippy, Pssst....it's "Countin flowers on the wall"
I'm guessing, but if it was early to mid 60s it was likely Nancy Sinatra's version, but the Statlers (and several others) made it popular later on.


You are right. Statler Brothers. I only remember "These Boots Are Made for Walkin" and I just remembered "Billy Joe McAllister went off the Tallahasssee Bridge". 

I could google all this shit, but it's better to try and remember. Recapture stuff.



Lucylastic -> RE: Reminiscing about music (12/17/2008 4:59:38 AM)

Growing up, my mum was into stuff like musicals, the rat pack, the crooners, the seekers, the andrews sisters, glenn miller and the like, always playing her records or the radio(radio 2) dancing around with a hot iron in her hand
Dad used to make us listen to early jazz( and blues, but also shirley bassey, the beatles, humph littleton, kenny ball and his jazzmen, Herp Albert and the tijuana jazz band, and stuff like the late fifties rock and roll andmore english stuff like lonnie donnegan and skiffle stuff along with Max Bygraves!!!! Grandad was into the classical music
I started ballroom dancing when I was four, and fell in love with rockin robin as well as latin music and waltzes. I ached over glam rock bands in the early 70s, Marc Bolan, Sweet,Bowie, then came JM Jarre and oxygene, then punk, but my first single I ever got was band of gold by Freda Payne.
I loveeee music..... its always been a huge part of me
Lucy




IrishMist -> RE: Reminiscing about music (12/17/2008 5:02:28 AM)

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ORIGINAL: ThundersCry

J R Cash...
 
Cocaine Blues...
 
Darn...

OO that is one kick ass song lol



ScooterTrash -> RE: Reminiscing about music (12/17/2008 5:10:34 AM)

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ORIGINAL: Hippiekinkster

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ORIGINAL: ScooterTrash

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ORIGINAL: Hippiekinkster

................. and some other song "smokin cigarette after cigarette and watchin' Captain...Kangeroo ...now look at me... I've nothin' to do..." at least that's how I remember the lyric.

Hippy, Pssst....it's "Countin flowers on the wall"
I'm guessing, but if it was early to mid 60s it was likely Nancy Sinatra's version, but the Statlers (and several others) made it popular later on.


You are right. Statler Brothers. I only remember "These Boots Are Made for Walkin" and I just remembered "Billy Joe McAllister went off the Tallahasssee Bridge". 

I could google all this shit, but it's better to try and remember. Recapture stuff.
Nodz.....I agree, remembering the song and even associating it with what you were doing, or where you were when you heard it, is a fun exercise....or sometime frustrating when it escapes you...lol. I'm far from a contestant for "name that tune" but from that time period, I'll get more right than wrong. My favorite version of the Billy Joe song (OK, I don't recall THAT title but I know the song) was by Vicki Lawrence who coincidently was the singing chick on the Carol Burnette show. 



ScooterTrash -> RE: Reminiscing about music (12/17/2008 5:16:03 AM)

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ORIGINAL: Hippiekinkster

I could google all this shit, but it's better to try and remember. Recapture stuff.
Hey Hippy, here's a memory jogger I bet, where were you the first time you heard "Don't bogart that joint"?



Aneirin -> RE: Reminiscing about music (12/17/2008 5:19:47 AM)

I guess when I was younger I was not exposed to that much music, either that or I wasn't that interested so I would remember, but I think early seventies it was The Carpenters with this song ;

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=mq5pLi0huhw&feature=related

And this one, by I don't know who ;

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=rBL2kzKg4nY&feature=related

And this sad song ;

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=pfm-17pu6SQ&feature=related,  Though it is a departure from the usual faire


Then silence , until this ;

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=vdQZ4EHn0kE&feature=related

After all that, I got to choose my own music and it was Queen, ELO and Jethro Tull, of and later Adam and the Ants and Ultravox.

A much loved Tull, a song I still love ;

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=Hr11elAmIKE&feature=related





slaveluci -> RE: Reminiscing about music (12/17/2008 5:38:51 AM)

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ORIGINAL: ScooterTrash
My favorite version of the Billy Joe song (OK, I don't recall THAT title but I know the song) was by Vicki Lawrence who coincidently was the singing chick on the Carol Burnette show. 

Here's the most "famous" version of "Ode to Billy Joe" and my own personal favorite:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZt5Q-u4crc

luci




ScooterTrash -> RE: Reminiscing about music (12/17/2008 5:44:48 AM)

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ORIGINAL: slaveluci

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ORIGINAL: ScooterTrash
My favorite version of the Billy Joe song (OK, I don't recall THAT title but I know the song) was by Vicki Lawrence who coincidently was the singing chick on the Carol Burnette show. 

Here's the most "famous" version of "Ode to Billy Joe" and my own personal favorite:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZt5Q-u4crc

luci


Wow...Bobbie Gentry, completely forgot that version and you are certainly correct, it was way up on the charts at the time.



Lucylastic -> RE: Reminiscing about music (12/17/2008 5:45:01 AM)

I think Bobby Gentry was one of my dads favourite singers, thanks for the link:)
never seen the vid before, but he wore out his copy of this record.
and who can forget this
The goons and the ying tong song http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nebe1zuEtbc
one day I will find copies of all his rugby songs tooo
Lucy




lusciouslips19 -> RE: Reminiscing about music (12/17/2008 5:51:39 AM)


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ORIGINAL: ScooterTrash

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ORIGINAL: slaveluci

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ORIGINAL: ScooterTrash
My favorite version of the Billy Joe song (OK, I don't recall THAT title but I know the song) was by Vicki Lawrence who coincidently was the singing chick on the Carol Burnette show. 

Here's the most "famous" version of "Ode to Billy Joe" and my own personal favorite:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZt5Q-u4crc

luci


Wow...Bobbie Gentry, completely forgot that version and you are certainly correct, it was way up on the charts at the time.


I forgot all about that song. It has always been riveting!



slaveluci -> RE: Reminiscing about music (12/17/2008 5:54:56 AM)

My life seems to have been so immersed in music and my love for it that it truly is difficult to really remember what "first" impacted me.  My mom had a rather extensive collection of 45's that I loved listening to.  Two of the ones I remember wearing out are:

"At the Hop" by Danny and the Juniors
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1aXnc3LqxQ

and "Tossin' and Turnin" by Bobby Lewis
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exxEGemFHyQ

I still love "Tossin' and Turnin" and can remember my Mom dancing like these folks in our living room[:)].  That and classic 70's country is what I "first" remember. 

I have a sister who is 7 years older than me and I learned all about KISS from her.  My favorite was "Charisma:" 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mo7lti7LPOQ
I was the only second/third grader who knew it[:D]

I can also remember sis having an 8 track of the Commodores and I loved this one:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zg-ivWxy5KE

I could list hundreds and hundreds but these are some I remember as "firsts."  Great memories....................luci



SilverMark -> RE: Reminiscing about music (12/17/2008 6:13:56 AM)

Grew up listening to Frank,Nancy Wilson and Dean....still listen to Frank and Nancy at least weekly. First rock n roll I remember was all the pop bubble gum stuff they played on WIFE A.M. in Indianapolis....The Monkees in particular...First music I bought with my own money....there were two 45s Bobby Sherman and the Four Tops. I still listen to the Tops a lot!...Bobby not so much!....first real Rock I bought was the Immigrant Song by Led Zepplin...Loved so much and so many different types of music and still do today, but my all time favorite is R&B. I wanted to wear one of those suits and dance in line like the Tops and the Temps....went on to love Earth Wind and Fire and always wished I could hit the high note in reasons like Phillip Baily on the live version of Reasons(still the greatest slow dance song of all time)....and for a mood....were there ever any 2 like Barry and Teddy Pendergrass....all that wonderful music from Gamble & Huff and Motown....just brings a smile thinking of it.



Thunderbird56 -> RE: Reminiscing about music (12/17/2008 10:00:40 AM)

One of my first "what was that?" music moments was when I was around 10-11 hearing "Run Run Run" by The Who on AM radio in the car while we were on family vacation circa '67. So unlike The Beatles and the other "Pop" music of the day that I had heard. "When I was Young" by The Animals, had a similar effect on me around the same time.

Probably a good thing I had not heard The Velvet Underground in those days ... I'm certain I wouldn't have gotten it at all, and probably would have hated it, spoiling me for it a little later in life.

The real "ear opener" came when I was 17 in late '74 early '75. A friend invited me over to listen to an album he had borrowed from another friend on a snowy Saturday. After a little 'herbal enhancement' he put on side 2 of an album that changed my musical life forever. I knew instantly that there was nothing else like this anywhere on the planet.

"All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us". Gandalf



subrob1967 -> RE: Reminiscing about music (12/17/2008 11:50:15 AM)

I grew up listening to your typical "pop" stuff like Foreigner, Toto, and Journey, with a bunch of oldies from the "super hits of the 70's" thrown in.

But my musical awakening came when my older brother and a cousin played this for me.

That led me to this, and still the best Sabbath line up ever (fuck you Ozzie).

And finally to the Gods of Metal music



Aneirin -> RE: Reminiscing about music (12/17/2008 2:30:06 PM)

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Probably a good thing I had not heard The Velvet Underground in those days ... I'm certain I wouldn't have gotten it at all, and probably would have hated it, spoiling me for it a little later in life.


Oh come on, on hearing this,  http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=AwzaifhSw2c  even me at my then young age worked out what it was all about, which lead me years later to get the film by Jess Franco and then the book.

Funny thing is, the song turned up on a tv advertisement for tyres, and what an advert, the cinematography to that music was awesome. Interestingly, I remember at the time maybe there were complaints about the ad, as later it only appeared on tv seriously clipped and without the lyrics. Mind I am not surprised given those lyrics, especially when they were coupled with fetish imagery, (I just love the ' nail ' suit).

enjoy ;

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=MNAAPP0a8SI







lusciouslips19 -> RE: Reminiscing about music (12/17/2008 2:58:06 PM)

This song is about 10 years old but it really talks of the nostalgia of growing up in the 70s and the music. This song just takes me back. Enjoy!
AM Radio by Everclear

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8JEoFzvxiyI





Vendaval -> RE: Reminiscing about music (12/17/2008 3:20:56 PM)

Some of the first songs I learned to play on the piano were showtunes.  One is the theme from The Pink Panther and the other is the theme from The Good, the Bad and the Ugly.



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