1. What is the 'very first song' that you can remember??
2. And what is the first song that really blew your mind??

For me:
1. First song: "How much is that doggie in the window".
2. The first song that really blew my mind and started my love of music was: "Girl from Ipanema" by Antonio Carlos Jobim with Astrud Gilberto.

Brazilians Jobim and Gilberto still blow my mind even today! Just bought Jobim's "Wave": very nice indeed! :thmbsp:

First song I can remember: You are my sunshine.

First song that blew my mind: The 1812 overture. I WORE OUT that record as a kid. The string chorale at the beginning sent literal shivers down my spine.

First song I remember was Me & Bobby McGee by Janis Joplin.

First song that blew my mind was Immigrant Song by Led Zeppelin. There have been many more since :music:

First song I remember was "Wichita Lineman" by Glen Campbell. Mom says I danced in my diapers to that tune. Didn't hear it again, to the best of my knowledge, until 1997 when I saw Glen. I knew the words, and wasn't sure how I did.....very very weird. Great tune.

I also remember riding in the rear deck of my mom's '75 Bonneville, being AMAZED by Gerry Rafferty's "Baker Street". I was about 6.

first i can remember is def leppards pour some sugar on me and the first one that blew my mind i cant remember lol

A tie between Surf City and Puff, The Magic Dragon. It was 1963. I was in first grade and surf-rock and folk music were all over the radio. I quickly became a Top 40 addict. My mom will tell you she distinctly remembers me humming This Old Man when I was about a year old. I'll have to take her word for it.

The first song I remember learning was the Tigger Song from Winnie the Pooh

The first two songs that really blew me away were " One of These Days" & "Echoes" from Pink Floyd's "Meddle"

I had never heard of Pink Floyd. I was 7 years old and heard this "8-track" at a "record" store with my 19 year old uncle. I wore out a half-dozen 8-tracks before finally getting a turntable to use for a vinyl copy. I actually bought the turntable to listen to "Meddle".

"Kim" by Charlie Parker

song was zep stairway to heaven

first song: sound of silence

song that literally blew me off my car seat: sultans of swing

first song: Honky Tonk Woman
first song that blew me away: Too Rolling Stoned (Trower Live)

First song I remember is Van Halen - Jump
First one to blow my mind Shpongle - A New Way To Say Hooray!

John Williams, Memoirs of a Geisha (The album was produced in 1997, but I'm sure I did not buy it until well after 2000).

Not only did it blow my mind, It completely changed my listening habits. This in return, changed the direction I was going with audio equipment.

Whats weird, is that I can listen to the same album today, and do not hear the same qualities in it, that I once admired.

But, It is this one album, that broke me away from the strictly classic rock scene, and forced me to explore other forms of music.

First song I remember was Georgie Girl in the 60's and the 1st Song that blew me away was side one of "A Passion Play" by Jethro Tull and I haven't been the same since!

-Mike

First song? Tough one... I come from a musical family, where nearly everyone sung and played an instrument so I really can't recall a time when I suddenly encountered music. I can only theorize that my first song was most likely a hymn, or a Christmas carol.

First song that blew my mind? Purple Haze. I was 13 years old, and for some reason it was the the first song I had ever really heard. Amazing.

The one that blew my mind was, High High High by 'WINGS'. :D Followed by 'Cocaine' by 'ERIC CLAPTON'. :music:

First song that I can remember blowing my mind was "Rockin' Robin" with a young Michael Jackson. The last one that blew my mind was Focus by Hocus Pocus, two days ago.

First song I remember? Hell, I dunno. I think it was "Another One Bites the Dust."

First song that blew my mind? I definitely remember that. I was riding my big wheel around the corner, where I wasn't supposed to be, and some kid was cranking Black Sabbath's "Electric Funeral" out of his bedroom window, second floor of his house. I had to have been three, four tops. I remember just hanging out until it was finished.

First song- "Majorette" by Monte Kelly, c. 1955 (No, you've NEVER heard of it-OR him)
First Song to blow me away-"Family Affair" by Sly & the Family Stone, 1971

1. What is the 'very first song' that you can remember??
2. And what is the first song that really blew your mind??


The Raspberries "Please Go all the Way" is the first in terms of earliest definite memory of a song. I was addicted to radio practically from birth. My first tape recording was off the radio with my portable cassette recorder and that song was first on the tape- the one that made me first press "rec."

before that, I know I had Beatles '65 and a few Beatles singles. I have a really faded memory of taking a radio into the front foyer and listening and dancing to some beatles special on the radio. I was four or five. I liked the peppy ones, but I can't say "I Saw Her Standing There" or "Any Time at All" for sure, but it's one of them.

The first song to blow my mind was "Strawberry Fields Forever." I would like to say "Tomorrow Never Knows," which REALLY blew my young mind, but I bought the "Strawberry Fields/Penny Lane" single before I got Revolver. I distinctly remember listening to that over and over and feeling my pulse quicken as the first section ended and the second section began. I couldn't express it in as many words but I could tell magic lived in that single moment, and, as brief as it is, it was a profound listening experience for me as a kid. As others have stated here, it's when I started really LISTENING to music.


2. The first song that really blew my mind and started my love of music was: "Girl from Ipanema" by Antonio Carlos Jobim with Astrud Gilberto.

Brazilians Jobim and Gilberto still blow my mind even today! Just bought Jobim's "Wave": very nice indeed! :thmbsp:

Oh yeah, Brazilian music blows my mind too. I remember first hearing Os Mutantes, one of the first truly out-there bands I'd heard and just thought, man, there is a whole world out there I know absolutely nothing about. And after that there was no turning back!

Pat-a-cake, pat-a-cake
Baker’s man
Bake me a cake as fast as you can
Roll it, and pat-it and mark it with a “B”
And put it in the oven for baby and me.


"Money" by Pink Floyd

I actually bought the turntable to listen to "Meddle".


I can't think of a better reason for buying one!:thmbsp:

Great post!
First song..Something from k-Tel.
Gary Weaver blew my mind at a stereo shop next to my house when I was 12 and then on to Genesis.
Zap

first i can remember is def leppards pour some sugar on me and the first one that blew my mind i cant remember lol

I guess mine is the other way around lol. Can't remember the first song I ever heard but remember when I borrowed my brothers tape of Hysteria and hearing Pour Some Sugar On Me. WOW! :music:

I can't remember the first song I heard.I can remember the first song that blew me away.Not because I particularly liked it but because of some microdot.Love Hurts-Nazaruth

My mother recalled that I loved Baby Sitting Boogie by Buzz Clifford and Shimmy Shimmy Ko Ko Pop By Little Anthony and the Imperials when I was a little baby.
First song that blew my mind was Brown Sugar by the Rolling Stones. Reason why is that is the first time I got a transistor radio.

First song that blew my mind?

Man on the Silver Mountain - Rainbow

The first song I knew the words to was "Maxwell's Silver Hammer" by The Beatles. The first one I recognized on the radio was "Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" (!) by Gordon Lightfoot.

I've always loved music, but the first song that left me dumbstruck was "Welcome to the Terrordome" by Public Enemy. It totally changed what I thought was possible with music. Hank Shocklee is an overlooked producer....

Isaac

First song- "Majorette" by Monte Kelly, c. 1955 (No, you've NEVER heard of it-OR him)


Wrong. He's in the CCDB tags for a 101 Strings Orchestra cd I ripped from the public library in middle school. Tag is in Notes: Arr. Monte Kelly. Postwar ballroom-type music. Montovani-esque. Every track essentially very bad.

Remember: Andy Williams: On the Street Where you Live (I've actually grown tolerant and somewhat like that song....)

Blew my mind: I'm Going Home (Ten years After)/Star Spangled banner (Jimi), that I spun on vinyl on a Sony linear TT, STR-AV1070 and heard theu Bose 10.2 speakers...

I'm still hooked on 'Meddle'. It's just in my brain. It is my brain, it's me. :music::thmbsp:

First song, Down on the Corner, CCR
Blew my mind? Immigrant Song, Zep.

Stop, Hey Whats that sound - Buffalo Springfield. Pops into my head all the time.
Regards,
Jim

Can't remember first song ,but the firsty song to blow my mine - MONEY - Pink Floyd

1st memory- Mack the Knife, Bobby Darin.
Blow my Mind-Run by Night, Midnight Oil.

My first ones as a kid also was the Overture of 1812...My dad used to play the Mercury Living Presence LP all the time, and for me, some special effects LP with sounds from the aircraft carrier Enterprise.

My first rock music was Yes's Relayer...my brother used to listen to it late at night, and I would stare at the dark ceiling transmogrified.

Not really songs, but here is my contribution:

1) Beethoven's violin & piano sonata No 9 ("Kreutzer"). I was, 2 years old, I remember a vague vision of a sunset in the living room of my home, where I was with my mom.

2) Mahler's Symphony No 6, last movement. I was 12. I couldn't speak or listen to anything aftwards. It still produces on me a very deep emotional experience.

All the best

More than a feeling - Boston
Bohemian Rhapsody - Queen

One of those

Can't remember the first song, Probably the theme song from Gilligans Island.
but the first song that made me think hey this is different...was Santana Black Magic Woman...remember hearing in on WLS back in the early 70's and it had an strange sound. Actually kind of scary.

First sond I remember distinctly is "Sweet City Woman" by the Stampeders

First to knock me over was "Stone Free" by Hendrix...and it still blows me away! :thmbsp:

I'm 50 now. 1'st song I'm embarrased to say was Partridge Family "I Think I Love You".
Later in life, Zep took over. "Whole Lotta Love".

I'm 50 now. 1'st song I'm embarrased to say was Partridge Family "I Think I Love You".
Later in life, Zep took over. "Whole Lotta Love".

:thmbsp: for "Whole Lotta Love"!!! I first heard it on a K-Tel Sounds of the Seventies viynl set.

also jammed out to Three Dog Night's "Jerimiah was a Bullfrog"

Black Sabbath Vol. 4 was the beginning of the end

First song I can really remember... Don't Rock the Boat - Hues Corporation, That would have made me 10 years old, as it was the year it came out. 1974 Probably right after that the song I remember the most was Feel Like Making Love - Bad Company, released the same year. BOth songs I remember where I was at, who was with me, and what I was doing... freaky...

First song that blew me away: Electric Funeral - Black Sabbath. Heard that in probably 1976 or 77...

There were other songe before Electric Funeral that I really liked such as Rollercoaster(Ohio Players) Holy Ghost(Barkays) 50 Ways to Leave your Lover (Paul), but Electric Funeral just had the darkenss and speed that I seemed to suddenly crave all in one song.. BTW.. Alice Cooper was the first LP I ever bought, so yep, I was hooked on dark heavy R&R

First song I can remember hearing is aypples and banaynays back in kindergarten, or any of the theme songs from the shows my parents and grandparents used to watch when I was really little, but the first pop song would be any of the countless number of new wave songs my mom played back in the 80s when I was a little kid. I used to request aqualung and carly simon's coming around again from my dad a lot too when I was really little. This is a tough question...

First song that really blew my mind and took me to another place would be Burning of the Midnight Lamp by Jimi Hendrix. I used to listen to this song over and over again with headphones after participating in a "common teenage ritual" ;)

First song I really remember rocking out too was Summer of 69 remember it vividly and the first song to really blow my mind and send shivers down my spine is S.R.V. Live at the El Macombo - Lenny .... Friggin amazing live performance by a man looking like he's about to die but pure soul pouring out .... If you haven't seen this performance I suggest you search for it .... A close second for me is S.R.V. again but playing Riviera Paradise

First song, songs were when I was three or four listening to my Mom play her old Elvis 45's. Love Me Tender still sticks out.

Blows my mind. Rush 2112, or Hemispheres. They both still give me goose bumps

First song, songs were when I was three or four listening to my Mom play her old Elvis 45's. Love Me Tender still sticks out.

Blows my mind. Rush 2112, or Hemispheres. They both still give me goose bumps


The eastern-tinged guitar flourish following the MEGA drum solo on YYZ still amazes me :thmbsp:
That older RUSH kicks major ass!!!

First song? Tough one.... "Yellow submarine" by the Beatles.
Song that blew my mind? I think "Hey Jude" by the Beatles.

Yeah... the older RUSH stuff is awesome. My High School years.

The first song was "Wake up Little Suzie" by the Everly Brothers. I'd walk around singing it all day. I was 4.

The first song that blew my mind was Jenny Take a Ride/ Good Golly Miss Molly: Mitch Rider and the Detroit Wheels!

The first song I remember was That Happy Feeling by Bert Kaempfert at my grandmother's cottage. The first song that did it was Chest Fever by The Band.

"American Pie" by Don McLean

"Stairway to Heaven" by Led Zepplin

"Heard it Through the Grapevine" version by Creedance Clearwater Revival

first song i remember - springsteen's "jungleland", the sax solo especially
first song that blew my mind - "hey jude"

Beatles "Come Together" got it on 45 for christmas. My mother has always had good taste.

1st song i remember: nat king coles, 'ramblin' rose'.

to 'blow my mind': beach boys, 'do ya wanna dance'.
in the '60s/'70s , we lived on a lake in sw nh and in the summer everyone had their docks, boats, and floats in the water.
there was a hot looking girl 'bout 4 years older than me (i was ~14 or so), susee, who sunbathed in a bikini every nice day on their float.
i used to play 'do ya wanna dance' on our old victrola windup hoping she could hear it. i doubt she could-float was a few hundred yards away.

but i sure put some big grooves in the '45 from the old victrola.:music:

1. Judy in Disguise (with Glasses) - John Fred and His Playboy Band

2. 2112 - Rush

Flying Purple People Eater-- Sheb Woolley

Hava Nagila- King of the Surf Guitar, Dick Dale and the Deltones

1st song
Ramblin Rose--------Nate King Cole

Blew me away
Purple Haze--------Jimi Hendrix

Funny I was just recalling this last night, for me it was Jerry Rafferty "Baker Street"..............this was the first song that really had me excited and tho it may not make many lists I still love playing this song and album.

My parents really liked the Dire Straits so.......

The first song I remember is Money For Nothing, and I guess my mom was really embarrassed at Church one time when I was a little over 2. She was dropping me off to Jr. Church and I broke out in to "get your money for nothing and your chicks for free":D

The Dire Straits bias passed on to me, and when I was a little older (probably 5 or 6) I was listening to the title track off Brothers In Arms and was just blown away! I cranked it and listened to it quite a few times, my father said, and I still faintly remember it.

The next time was Daydream by Robin Trower, and He has been my favorite ever since!

Besides church music or nursery rhyme type songs, I remember as a little tyke being called into the living room to watch Elvis sing to a dog....yep, "Hound dog"....Steve Allen, right before my 4th birthday...I had my stuffed hound dog in my grubby little hands watching him sing....

First song to blow my mind?
The Beatles, "I wanna Hold Your Hand"...it was so different from the Hillbilly crap that pervaded the airwaves, and worlds apart from the "Bobby Sox" type of rock prevalent then...

.

First non "kiddie song" would be... Crystal Blue Persuasion...Tommy John and the Shondels...I was 9 or 10, and my brother bought a "20 Solid Gold Hits" album...It ended up being my first album, and I still have it. About 1971.
First song that blew my mind (AMONG A FEW OTHERS) "Moving in Stereo" by the Cars. Listened to it for the first time on a Dual TT /Pioneer SX -780 that were a month old. Good test song for your speakers.

My early childhood memories of songs bring a few to mind with very strong emotions & memories attached.There was Motown/fifty's stuff my Cousin used to play at my Grandpa's home with her friends but I can't remember any of the song titles.I would remember them if I heard them.I believe the very first songs that got me naturally high were both performed live.
My Uncle Chuck sung "When you Wish Upon a Star" at a Family get together,I think it was my Grand Mother's Birthday,(If I remember correctly Jimminey Cricket used to sing this regularly at the end of Walt Disney show or maybe it was at the end of a Season Special? I had never knew my Uncle could sing so well!
The other song was "76 Trombones",performed in Vancouver Canada at the 1958 Grey Cup Parade my Mom took me too.Five year olds like Marching Bands and I was no exception.
The real "Awakening" to something special about to unfold was Scott McKenzie's San Francisco(Be sure to Wear Flowers in Your Hair).
I remember it like it was yesterday.The Song had a definite "Feel" to it.I had been given a small pocket transistor radio for my birthday which I listened to all kinds of Music on.I had it in one had in one hand up to my ear,the other hand was on the wheel of a soap box racer I was blasting down a local dead end hill in.
The song started playing right when my friends pushed me off and I listened to the rest of the song after coasting to a stop.
Funny thing was shortly after that my best friends' older brother grew his hair long and there was always a funny smell lingering in the garage where my friend kept his bike.
Not long after that the mystery of the funny smell revealed itself to us by my friends older brother & we all got to hang out in the Garage playing Music and fooling around with his brothers band instruments.
The Song that later blew my mind later on was John Sebastien's "Do you Believe in Magic"...Lets just say it was a coming of age song and blew way more than my mind!...Triode Altec Concert Kenny

My parents listened to Peggy Lee and Tennesse Ernie Ford.
I got a 45rpm record player for Christmas when I was 12.
Everly Bros, Connie Francis and Pat Boone all came with it.
The one that blew me away, though, was Ritchie Valens - Oh Donna. I've never looked back. Geez, I'm old...

The first song that comes to mind was on 45 and called "Psychotic Reaction" by Count Five. :banana: The guitar sounds blew me away.

First song that i remember or should i say album- Blood on the tracks by Dylan
song that blew me away? I would have to say close to the edge by yes

Time in a Bottle by Jim Croce. Age 11

I'm like fotno. Mom played piano and sang a lot. Her favorite composer was Beethoven and she regularly shook the house with his music on an old Curtis-Mathes console for as far back as I can recall. My dad was a radio DJ all throughout my childhood so I was constantly surrounded by music. It's kind of hard to single out one song I recall before any others but "Dear Liza" is one and "My Bonny Lies Over The Ocean" is another.
As to what song really blew me away first: Gosh, at age 12 or so (1972) the prog-rock was all over the radio so Yes, ELP, Genesis and the like all grabbed me pretty hard. I guess it was probably a toss-up between Trilogy and Roundabout as the first song which really floored me.

The funny thing is that I literally discovered I could play drums the year I graduated from HS so all my intentions of going to college, studying electronics, being a test pilot, etc all got tossed aside to be replaced by being a professional musician for almost 20 years. I guess being submerged in music somehow subconsciously taught/trained me to be a musician without my realizing it till that fateful day I sat down at a set of drums in a music store and ...played.

The first song I remember was Alvin and the Chipmunks' The Chipmunk Song (Christmas Don't Be Late)
It took until I was 34 to hear a song that "blew my mind": Sarah McLachlan's Possession in 1993.

Tom

First one I can think of was Boots Randolph
"Yakity Yak-Don't talk back"
Mind blower was Quicksilver "Have another Hit?"
Quess I was taking it too literally,
hence the blown mind..............

Devo "Freedom of Choice" I was five, knocked my socks off

1) Bloody Red Baron

2) Toss-up:
a) Steppenwolf - Magic Carpet Ride
b) CCR - (any song) Cosmos Factory

1. Tennessee Ernie Ford: "Sixteen Tons"
2. Frank Zappa: Willie The Pimp

yeah, I guess my first song would be patty cake too.
The first one to blow my mind was Light my fire, by the Doors. Went out and bought the 45. The only 45 I bought in my life. Chrystal ship was on the flip side.

After that I started buying Hendrix Albums. My brain was ruined after that.

First song would have been something in church, since that was my main source of music as a small child. I'll venture a guess it was "Jesus Loves Me."

First song to blow me away: The Beatles on the Ed Sullivan Show - "She Loves You." I remember the energy and the girls screaming and fainting. I thought, even at the tender age of 6 that it must be cool to get that kind of attention from the girls. I never had the ear or coordination to do much with music, but my son has had the focus to pull it off. He believes that chicks dig musicians.

Regards,

D-Ray

First: During the 50's my mother would hum/sing while doing housework. Like the first poster I remember "Doggie in the Window", and one that hasn't been mentioned, "Side by Side".

The first two songs that really got my attention in a big way were "Walk Don't Run" by the Ventures, and "Runaway", with Del Shannon's falsetto and Max Crook's great organ solo on the keyboard of his own invention.

Great thread.

Earliest memory of a pop song would have to be Alley oop by the Hollywood Argyles.
Song that blew my mind: Light my fire by The Doors

Wow, first memory...Have to be the Beatles.. Ed Sullivan, 1964 "I want to Hold Your Hand". That did it for me. I was hooked.

First one that really blew me away.. Deep Purple.. "Wring That Neck" After that all hell broke loose. I was obbsessed with Ritche Blackmore. The Master of The Stratocaster. I still am. Even the stuff he's doing today with Blackmore's Knight. Different but interesting.

First song that I remember hearing was Big John by Jimmy Dean – I think it on the AM radio in my dad’s work car 1969 rambler I think I was about 4. That car met a strange demise.

The first song “blew my mind” was Bad Bad Leroy brown by Jim Croce in 1973 when I was 7. My great aunt gave me a late 1940’s Bakelite Emerson radio with a broken dial, cracked case, and hummed a little. I would go thru the stations up and down the dial listening for that song. That was the start of that behavior until I could afford to buy my own records and cassettes in the late 70’s. I remember that radio would shock the hell out of me if I tried to move it while it was plugged in.

It’s hard to think of a song without triggering many other memories of that same time period.

One of the first I ever heard, and probably the first one to really blow my mind, was Iggy Pop’s “Lust for Life.” Never had I heard such a snotty, f*ck you voice before. I’ve been modeling my life on that voice ever since. :D

Happy Birthday and it blew me away.

My mom listened to Jerry Vale, a lot, so, his songs were the first ones I heard as a baby. I distinctly remember Two Purple Shadows.

Many blew me away, but to pick one, I'd say NIB, Black Sabbath.

Very tough. But I would say the Snoopy Red Baron Christmas song

And the first to blow my mind was Kiss-Detroit Rock City

1) Tie me kagaroo dowm sport

2) Black Sabbath, Black Sabbath. Scared the hell out of me but it was great

My Mom had a bunch of 45s' in the 50s' and I remember hearing them. Peg Of My Heart comes to mind (Mom's fav).
First song to really get my attention was Walk Dont Run by the Ventures in the early 60s'.

1. "I'm too sexy" - Right Said Fred
2. I would say "Romance for Violin" by the very sonically challenged Ludvig Van

First song I Rememer: Downtown - Petula Clark (1965)

First Song that Really Blew my Mind - Little Willy - Sweet (1973)

First pop song: "Ghost Riders in the Sky." (1949)

First pop mindblower: "Sally Go 'Round the Roses." (1963)

Uff da! Gammel! :sigh:

The first song I remember is "Papa Oo Mow Mow," by The Rivingtons, 1962. I was 6 years old. I went around singing it all the time and my mom thought it was so cute. She got me to do it in front of her friends.
The first song that blew me away was "Please, Please Me," by The Beatles. I remember just how I felt when I heard it. I was impressed with the energy of the song, and the vocal harmonies blew me away. Even now, I think about how it shows how talented they were, that they could take such a simple song and make it sound so transcendent. They did that with everything they performed.:thmbsp:

First Pop Song : All Day And All Of The Night - The Kinks.....I was about 3 years old
First Song To TOTALLY Blow Me Away : Wouldn't It Be Nice - The BeachBoys.....The mandolins in the begining especially are so chilling, the harmonys, and so many different parts and changes, and the "wall of sound" mystified me.....and still does today !!!

I had a 45 of Darlin' (the BB) that I played over and over again for hours...another Brian Wilson gem !

Earliest song remembered I couldn't possibly say, but it's probably something holiday-related. The first song which made what I regard as a discernable impact on me was Creedence Clearwater Revival's Fortunate Son, a song that inspired me to take up guitar at/near age seven.

Easy. "Tom Dooley" by The Kingston Trio. I was five years old and the song absolutely held me spellbound everytime it was on the radio.

SPOKEN INTRO.: Throughout history there have been many songs written about the Eternal Triangle. This next one tells the story of a Mr. Grayson, a beautiful woman, and a condemned man named Tom Dooley. When the sun rises tomorrow, Tom Dooley must hang.

Hang down your head, Tom Dooley
Hang down your head and cry
Hang down your head, Tom Dooley
Poor boy, you're bound to die

I met her on the mountain, there I took her life
Met her on the mountain, stabbed her with my knife

Hang down your head, Tom Dooley
Hang down your head and cry (ah-eye)
Hang down your head, Tom Dooley
Poor boy, you're bound to die

This time tomorrow reckon where I'll be
Hadn't-a been for Grayson, I'd-a been in Tennessee (well now, boy)

Hang down (your head, Tom) your head (Dooley) and cry
Hang down your head and cry (ah poor boy, ah well-ah)
Hang down (your head, Tom) your head (Dooley) and cry
Poor boy, you're bound to die (ah well now boy)

Hang down (your head, Tom) your head (Dooley) and cry
Hang down your head and cry (ah poor boy, ah well-ah)
Hang down (your head, Tom) your head (Dooley) and cry
Poor boy, you're bound to die

This time tomorrow reckon where I'll be
Down in some lonesome valley hangin' from a white oak tree

Hang down your head, Tom Dooley
Hang down your head and cry (ah-eye)
Hang down your head, Tom Dooley
Poor boy, you're bound to die (ah well now boy)

Hang down your head, Tom Dooley
Hang down your head and cry (poor boy ah well uh)
Hang down your head, Tom Dooley
Poor boy, you're bound to die
Poor boy, you're bound to die
Poor boy, you're bound to die
Poor boy, you're bound to...die

First song I remember is Ole Slew-Foot by Jim and Jesse, used to sing it all the time when I was still a wee lad.

First song to really blow me away was Carry On Wayward Son by Kansas, still love that song.

First song I really remember:
Hound Dog - Elvis Presley

First song to blow my mind (5 years old at the time)
Witch Doctor - David Seville

Ooo eee,ooo ah ah ting tang
Walla walla, bing bang
Ooo eee ooo ah ah ting tang
Walla walla bing bang...
Ooo eee ,ooo ah ah ting tang
Walla walla ,bing bang
Ooo eee ooo ah ah ting tang
Walla walla bing bang
:D

First song that I remembered/memorized was "Folsom Prison Blues" by Johnny Cash. My older sister told my parents I was singing a "dirty song" so my parents made me sing the song to them. I remember standing in the kitchen singing it. They loved it! From what I recall my sister got smacked for lying. :D

First song to blow my mind? That's tough. Lot's have done that. Explains a lot about my mind. :yes: Probably The Doors "Riders on the Storm." Or something off of "Live at Leeds" by the Who.

Actually now that I think about it ...my mother also had some 45s. My first record player was an old 45rpm from the 50s? It looked like bakelite with a fat tonearm. It was a stacker. Anyway when I was 6 I played the hell out of a 45. I believe the title was "Exodus" not sure of the spelling. Also played these little yellow vinyl 33s ...Alvin and the chipmunks and others I want to say Popeye... cant remember other than that yellow vinyl.

Aside from the children's lullaby tunes and such, the first song I distinctly remember hearing as a child was "Take The Last Train To Clarksville" by the Monkees. I had to have been five or six years old at the time and I had just figured out how to put an LP on the family stereo.

The first song that blew me away was "Fortunate Son" by CCR. I still can't get enough of that tune. :music:

First song I clearly remember was John Denver - Sunshine on my shoulders

The first one that blew me away was Neil Young - Cinnamon Girl

Mountain's -"Mississippi Queen" , was a hand me down from my sister.

One of the first I ever heard, and probably the first one to really blow my mind, was Iggy Pop’s “Lust for Life.” Never had I heard such a snotty, f*ck you voice before. I’ve been modeling my life on that voice ever since. :D

Then why are you still alive? :D

i don't really recall the first i heard, but my first record was a 45 of the doobie brothers "china grove". i'd have to say the first tune to blow my mind was steeley dan's "my old school". i've been a dan fan ever since. gswallow, i believe i bought something from you on that auction site once, your user name sounds familiar.

First song to really blow me away was Carry On Wayward Son by Kansas, still love that song.

Hey, I have a blown-away memory of that song too. I was at an audio boutique in the seventies and demoed a big pair of JBLs for fun. I can't remember which model anymore. Big chunky ones. The guy cued up "Carry on" on the turntable and proceeded to blow me away. Big, HUGE, solid bass- like I had never before and totally unobtainable thanks to my part-time-evening-shift financial plan. What I remember most vividly is that kick drum- like the band was playing right there in front of me. Nice memory.

live version of "Get Ready" by Rare Earth was the one I recall, my uncle had it and I used to ask him to play it every time I went to his house.

hey, I like the vote for Mississippi Queen. Along those lines, the last song that blew my mind was Love is Worth the Blues by West, Bruce and Laing. But it's been a long time since I rock and rolled :D considering that I've been in Basic training for the last 6 weeks. but that's done now. :yes:

My dad taught me how to use a turntable when I was 3. The song that got me hooked, a biggie in 1956, was "The Ballad of Davey Crockett". I wore out the needle and also my mothers patience. When the needle was finally fixed I had to content myself with everything Glen Miller ("Little Brown Jug" and "In the Mood" got a lot of play), as my favorite 45 had disappeared.


I loved all sorts of music, and have fond memories of quite a number of songs. I well remember the British Invasion, and the first time I heard songs by Jimmie Hendrix and The Doors. But the first songs that literally blew me away were at my first live concert. I got a last second chance to go see the Association. I bought my ticket 10 minutes before the concert started and found they had one seat dead center in the front row of an old (large) movie theater.

They opened with "Along Comes Mary", followed by "Requiem For The Masses" and "Cherish". To say they were ON was the understatement of the century. I had NEVER before heard harmonies like what they did live that night. In fact, about the only other groups that has ever matched the harmonies live were CSN & Y and The McGarrigles (who I will get to go see again next week :music: ).

I ultimately became an audiophile as part of a quest to get music in my home that approached what I heard live during that first concert. I didn't realize until then just how much I was missing.

live version of "Get Ready" by Rare Earth was the one I recall, my uncle had it and I used to ask him to play it every time I went to his house.

I have that version also--I'd hadn't realized until recently, that Rare Earth did that song, I always thought it was a Motown group.

When I was a wee little tott all of three-years old my father took my four sibs and I to a small local airport where nothing bigger than a Lear Jet could land.

Dad got enough money together to take us kids for an airplane ride in a high wing Cesna that one of the pilots hanging around would offer. Now I was pretty nervous but still wanted to go. It was when we where in the air that I found that me singing could quell my fright. I sang the only song I knew, "Jingle Bells". The higher we went the louder I sang.

About 20 miles worth of laps around the airport we landed and it didn't even feel like I left the ground. My fear was only driven by what I could see from the window.

First song that I remembered/memorized was "Folsom Prison Blues" by Johnny Cash. My older sister told my parents I was singing a "dirty song" so my parents made me sing the song to them. I remember standing in the kitchen singing it. They loved it! From what I recall my sister got smacked for lying. :D

First song to blow my mind? That's tough. Lot's have done that. Explains a lot about my mind. :yes: Probably The Doors "Riders on the Storm." Or something off of "Live at Leeds" by the Who.

that's a funny story.
i love cash...i mean johnny cash. :D

blew my mind : gerry rafferty : baker street played on a music box in a bar back than omg

1st group - The Archies. Dad and I went to the local drugstore and it also had a small music section there, and I picked that album out. I wanted Sugar Sugar, but this was the 2nd album of theirs, so I settled for the tunes on it. The album was "Everything's Archie".

Blowing my mind...I distinctly remember I was riding around on my bike singing "Playground in my Mind", a bubblegummy song of the day, and my parent's friend heard me from his back garden, all concerned, (an audiophile) asked my parents if he could sit me down and give me a "musical education" since that's what I chose to listen to (I was only 8 or so!).

So, one afternoon he sat me at his stereo with Sennheiser headphones on (I think he had a Yamaha turntable and Definitely a Yamaha receiver, circa mid 70's - [edit]after searching the web, it was a Yamaha CR-600) and played me Cream's Disraeli Gears. I distinctly remember being blown away by "Sunshine of your Love". Then, he put on Sgt. Pepper and I'm now a Beatle fanatic for life.

Come to think of it, he's also why I like older audio equipment, too. :)

1st song I remember: Can't Buy Me Love - The Beatles (I was 4 when it came out and can still remember to this day watching my older brother singing along with the radio).

1st song that blew my mind: In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida - Iron Butterfly (pretty mind trippin' for an 8 year old). :)

1. First song: "Mr. Custer" Larry Verne

2. The first song that really blew my mind: "Sunshine Superman" Donovan

Mississippi Queen - Mountain / Heard it playing on the radio when I was a kid and there was no turning back.

1 st => Fats Domino and "Mockingbird Hill"

Blew => Moody Blues "Search for the Lost Chord" closely followed by "Days of Future Past". I come from the late night long cut or LP side FM days :)

And then "Time" by the Chambers Bros :)

first song I remember: you are my sunshine first song that blew my mind:Won't get fooled again by THE WHO. I heard that from a crown pre/amp sepperates with a T.T. made by thornes and small JBL's [10" woofer 2" tweet]the song and the system BLEW MY MIND!

My first song was likely a Christmas classic from a family get together.Blew my mind? Other than the Beatles in '64, I'd have to go with " Happy Jack" in '66- I think it was Moon working that kit that got me!

For What it's worth by Buffallo Springfield

Also the first time I heard some Black Saboth music - that was the music that really angered my parents - I can still hear my mother screaming at me to turn that junk off.

The first song I clearly remember is Dinah Shore singing "Buttons and Bows" , mom was hanging laundry on the clothes line ( yes they did that then) and gave me control of an old wind-up portable victrola set on a picnic table in the yard (I was about 3, 1950). I don't think I had figured out how to turn the record over at that point. all I rememeber is playing that song over and over and over. And yes I still like Dinah, and have a lot of her albums.

First song I remember - Jesus loves me this I know, for the bible tells me so...

First song that blew me away , Air Force Academy Cadets, all Mens chorus sing "Bless the Lord, O my Soul" - Rachmanioff - Vespers , live and acapella. It was truly powerful ! - 1973

a very fun read!! brings back memories!!

I have that version also--I'd hadn't realized until recently, that Rare Earth did that song, I always thought it was a Motown group.

Rare Earth WAS a Motown group.

This is a great thread. Pretty clear that a lot of the members here are my contemporaries. What a great era for music.

Regards,

D-Ray

Remember: Michael Jackson's Thriller (that is honestly the first song that i remember, i don't recall any music before 5 years of age)

Blew me away: Led Zeppelin Babe I'm Gonna Leave You

1) The Itsy-Bitsy Spider (...climbed up the water spout.)

2) Thunder Road (Robert Mitchum)

On both counts, would have to be Laura Branigan's Self-Control

If it "blew my mind" I must have been high and therefor don't remember it.

The first record I remember having is "Puff and Toot" which was basically the story of the little engine that could. The first actual music record I remember was a 45 my dad bought, the song was an instrumental called "Raunchy". I don't know who the artist was.

:tears: I can't remember! I'm still puttin' my mind back together 'cause it done blowed up!! :banana:

The first song that gave me "chills" up the spine, was "Welcome to the Machine" from Pink Floyd's "Wish You Were Here" album. I distinctly remember hearing it as a teenager at my friend's house. His father had what was probably an audiophile setup and had "very careful" permission to use it occasionally. My friend put on the vinyl album and said "you gotta hear this really wild song"...

And I'll never forget it. Those initial buzzes and clicks of "the machine" that gathered and built up, as if you were walking through some massive machine, getting closer and closer to the heart of it. Then the vocals started. "Welcome my son. Welcome to MACHINE! Where have you been? It's alright, we know where you've been..." ;)
The basic pulsing guitar track along with the cacophony of space age synthesizer sounds... a unique sound to Pink Floyd. And of course, "Wish You Were Here", the title track, was also quite amazing, along with "Shine On You Crazy Diamond." After that, I was hooked on Pink (and always will be).

The next feeling I had that came close was listening to Dark Side of the Moon. Classic, timeless, and mesmerizing rock music...

The first song that gave me "chills" up the spine, was "Welcome to the Machine" from Pink Floyd's "Wish You Were Here" album.


Great selection. I honestly was a bit disturbed, but enthralled by that song as well.

There have been many mind-blowing "firsts" for me. among them:

Rush: Cygnus X-1 (from "A Farewell to Kings")

Tchaikovsky: Telarc 1812 Overture

Tool: Flood (from "Aenima")

Bob Marley: Satisfy My Soul (from "Kaya")

Led Zeppelin: Stairway to Heaven (from "Zeppelin IV")

Mahler: Symphony No. 9, Fourth Movement (Berlin Phil., von Karajan cond.)

Marilyn Manson: The Beautiful People (from "Antichrist Superstar")

Nirvana: Smells Like Teen Spirit (from "Nevermind")

Patti Smith: Privilege/Set Me Free (from "Easter")

Moody Blues: Nights in White Satin (from "Days of Future Passed")

The Cure: "Disintegration" (THIS ENTIRE ALBUM IS GREAT!!!)

Pink Floyd: "The Dark Side of the Moon" (AS ABOVE!!!)......this album will be on many lists!

Bach: Toccata & Fugue in D minor

For me its probably a toss-up between Maybe Tomorrow by the Jackson Five, and Chest Fever by Three Dog Night. I was around 15 years old at the time.

Maybe Tomorrow: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xnbI-YbSsVQ
Chest Fever: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=suPuJkB9SG4

I can't really pin down a song that I remember per se, but the one that absolutely blew me away to a life changing point was Rush "2112", pretty much the whole bleedin thing.

It was at that point where musically I grew out of top 40 bubble gum crap of my day and realized that real music was so much more than a 3 minute ditty song by people who depended more on marketing than talent.

As a boy I was pretty shocked by the strange sound of Eight Miles High by the Byrds.

Then I was stunned by Purple Haze.

Then stunned again by Good Times, Bad Times.

I was lucky having grown up when I did... Yeehaw!!!!! :yes:

My first post on AK!

First song that blew me away? Black Sabbath, Iron Man. My older brother had the 8 track when he came back from boot camp. As a young teenager I had never heard ANYTHING like THAT!

The very first song i remember would probabally be "Knights in White Satin", by the Moody Blues. My mom loves the Moody Blues, and used to play their records all the time when I was a little kid.
but it could also be "I can see for miles and miles", or "The kids are alright" by the Who. My dad loves the who, and he would also play their records when I was a kid.

(And the funny thing is, this is the late '80s we're talking about haha)

First song that blew my mind though? I'm not sure, but the first song that blew my mind when I started smoking pot was "5D (Fifth Dimension) by The Byrds. That song described exactly how I was feeling at the time, and that blew the fuck outta my mind.

First Song I recall everyone was singing was at age 3-1/2: "She Loves You" - the Beatles
First Song to blow my mind (in high school) - a tie: "The Voice" from I Robot or "The Raven" from Tales of Mystery and Imagination both by The Alan Parsons Project.
I heard these two albums at a friend's house and had to go out and get the albums of this new "group" I discovered. Been a fan of Alan's ever since!

A Toss up between Stairway To Heaven and Maggot Brain :smoke:

First song I can remember: Probably "Jesus loves me" First record was probably an old chubby checker hit.

First song that blew my mind: Pink Floyd's "Time" on DSOTM. As I recall it there was also some sloe gin involved. The next album that made that kind of impact on me was Boston's debut album.

The first one I remember is "The Teddybear's Picnic" on a 78, of course. I played that one to death, although I was careful to use sharp steel needles, I didn't have access to the audiophile's choice: bamboo needles.

The one that "really got to me" is a toss-up between Vaughn Monroe's "Ghost Riders in the Sky" and later, Gogie Grant's hit "The Wayward Wind."

Best Regards,
TerryO

I grew up in a very musical household. My Sister, who is 7 years older than me was always buying and playing 45's, and before I was school age, My Mom was always playing music while doing chores and singing along. It's hard to say what first song I remember, but Motown sure had an impact especially being a kid in and around Detroit in those days!
But, what really blew me away was "The Green Manalishi" by the original Fleetwood Mac. My musical tastes then took new directions away from comercialized/marketed pop as I seeked out music from "the other side"!

There have been many mind-blowing "firsts" for Moody Blues: Nights in White Satin (from "Days of Future Passed")

Ah, how could I forget?? Amazing song. The orchestral accompaniments that the Moody Blues employed were gorgeous. What a great band that sort of faded out into obscurity, like so many of them eventually seem to do.

There's another one I forgot to mention... it wasn't the first song that blew my mind, but it also had quite an impact on me when heard on a quality musical system.
Emerson Lake & Palmer: From The Beginning

Ah, how could I forget?? Amazing song. The orchestral accompaniments that the Moody Blues employed were gorgeous. What a great band that sort of faded out into obscurity, like so many of them eventually seem to do.

There's another one I forgot to mention... it wasn't the first song that blew my mind, but it also had quite an impact on me when heard on a quality musical system.
Emerson Lake & Palmer: From The Beginning

The Moody Blues still tour, but I don't know how many original members are still in the band? :scratch2:

ELP's From the Beginning is an absolute gem. The keyboard solo is so sublime. :music:

1st song I remember is probably I want to hold your hand

1st to blow my mind is Come Together. I had just got back from a train trip to Illinois and had been musically isolated for a couple of weeks. I heard it in the car and couldn't believe what I was hearing. I didn't even recognize it as the Beatles at first.

Can't remember the first song I heard. I did get on the Beatles bandwagon at an early age, but I was a little kid and just didn't get how great it was at the time.

First album that got truly me into listening to music was Carole King's Tapestry. First song that blew my mind was likely Elton John's Funeral For A Friend/Love Lies Bleeding....

I can't remember the first song, probably something my parents where playing on the living room turntable, perhaps Zorba the Greek?

The song I most remember blowing me away was Jethro Tull's "Aqualung".

I heard it blasting out a window from a beach house on the street we where staying on vacation and when I asked, it was Aqualung.

Now for the funny part-

When I got back home, I went to Corvettes and could not think of the name and having never seen the album cover, could not find it by sight ether.

After wandering around the racks for what seemed like days, an "over dressed" security person (he didn't look like any customer I ever saw, looked like a store dummy cowboy come to life) came over to me and asked "Can I help you, you look like you can't find something", and I answered "Yea, I can't remember the name of the group or the song, the only word coming to mind is "SCUBA GEAR" (BTW, I know the word GEAR is technically un necessary) and he laughed and said "you mean Jethro Tull's Aqualung!":banana:

Mark T.:music:

my older brother playing Elvis 45's i remember his voice but which songs, they are all jumbled in my head..all of them

Frank Sinatra Three coins in a fountain

First 45 I brought was "The monster mash" back so long ago I can't remenber the year:scratch2: but I was making 25 cents an hr babysitting.

Grew up listening to "Beautiful Music" FM on the parent-controlled Silvertone stereo, and LP's by Mitch Miller, Ray Coniff, and the like, along with Gershwin, Chopin, and many other classics, and broadway musicals.

So, when I built my crystal radio at about 9 or 10, I could listen to the top 40 stations at night in bed, privately. It was the Stones' "Satisfaction" that first blew my mind, it was so different from anything else on at the time. I had no idea what it was about, but it just resonated.

Agree with the many songs you folks have listed as being great. As far as "mind blowing", the one song that comes to my thoughts, was back in '73, hearing Steve Miller's "Song of our Ancestors" on the Sailor LP (later I believe the LP was renamed "Living in the USA") Mark

I think it was Jimminy Cricket singing When You Wish Upon A Star.Now THAT was music!! I got blown away when my friends got me stoned for the first time (1976),wrestled me into the trunk of Ricks Mustang and hit me with Pink Floyds Dark Side Of The Moon album.You could say I emerged changed.

First remembered - Spinnin' Wheel

First to blow me away - Queen "Brighton Rock"

The first I can remember as a child was "Don't Mess With Bill" by the Marvelettes.

The first song I remember that blew me away was Pink Floyd's "Money" I heard on a RTR system. Outstanding!

Also, about the same time I heard "Maggot Brain" from the group Funkadelic that is just amazing. The guitar riffs & overall feel of this song will mesmerize you. I still have a 45 copy of it, but was cracked during a move.

Rome

First song remembered: "Thunderball" from James Bond Movie Soundtrack. Sung by Shirley Bassy I believe.


First song that blew my mind: a toss-up between "Dark Lady" from Cher, and "Detroit Rock City" by Kiss. My aunt had the Cher record in her collection and played it until I became brainwashed and didn't know any better. Oh yeah, the Kiss thing...

I remember the first song that went in my ears and made me want to jump up and down and all around until the needle left the record ! It was a 45 that my father had brought back from Cleveland Ohio in the mid 50's. Little Richard singing Long Tall Sally. WOW He brought the Elvis 45 of Heartbreak Hotel back too.
Little Richard could make a lil' feller like me ignore my Erector Set! Or destroy it !

Some early songs that still make me laugh:One was probably the original "Workout" song,1962(?) with Robert Preston,star of the movie The Music Man.It was called something like "Chicken Fat"...."Go you chicken fat go".Then there was the album Peaches and Cream by Herb Alpert and The Tijuana Brass.The album cover has a nude woman covered with whip cream.I was 5 years old and it was the first naked lady i'd ever seen! Before this girls had cootties...

First song remembered: "Thunderball" from James Bond Movie Soundtrack. Sung by Shirley Bassy I believe.

I have distinct memories of lying on the carpet with my father in front of the radiogram listening to Shirley Bassey. I must have been about 4 or 5 years old then. She had quite a few hits back then.

But the song that blew my mind a few years later was Fantasy by Earth Wind & Fire. I dunno why this particular song did this to me, as there are many other grat songs that I liked before and since.

First song is tough, but one of the first I remember loving to hear and sing along to was Johnny Horton - Battle of New Orleans.

First one to blow my mind was Def Leppard - Rock of Ages.

First song that I can remember?

It was a Mary Poppins song, Supercalifragilisticexpealidocious. I was maybe 6 or 7 and my sister and I had a small childrens turntable to play records on.

First song that blew my mind?

I really don't remember.

First song I remember was Bits and pieces - Dave Clark Five.
First song that blew my mind, Hay Joe - Jimmy Hendrix

first song is a tuffy. first song that blew me away had to be Zepplin's Whole Lotta Love or Cities On Flame by BOC.

The first song is either Can't Get Used to Losing You (Andy Williams, amazing pizzicato strings, though I didn't know that's what they were at the time!) or Move Over, Darling (Doris Day, recently rediscovered this, incredibly sexy though again I didn't realise at the time!). Both heard c.1960 on the BBC 'Light Programme' (now Radio 2) in Edinburgh.
Mind was first blown by Elvis's His Latest Flame or The Girl of My Best Friend or Richard Harris's MacArthur Park, all heard for the first time c.1968.