The Eagles - Hotel California Led Zeppelin - Stairway To Heaven Styx - Renegade
When I was a kid I had a little AM radio by my bed I'd have playing every night as I went to sleep. It was always on an AOR station (if they even had a term like that back in the 70's) and those three songs were the earliest ones I can remember. I mostly remember "Renegade" because for some reason it kind of scared the crap out of me as a kid, all that talk of the hangman and just the eerie opening of the song.
My brother and sister and I copped 4 45s when I was about 4 years old. They were on endless repeat. Christmas Song Chipmunks Battle Of New Orleans Johnny Horton Beep Beep Playmates Boweevil Brook Benton
They were all novelty songs, even if that was not the artistic intent on 2 of them.
My step-grandfather, Guisseppe "Joe" Iconetti had some 45's that I listened to as a kid....Sam Cooke "Everybody Loves The Cha Cha Cha" and Hank Ballard "Let's Go, Let's Go, Let's Go" are the two I remember best.
He also had some Redd Foxx and Skillet & Leroy LP's hidden in the closet.
All night long! (all night) All night long! (all night) All night long! (all night)
i thought this was a serious jam. and still do.
There is this book out right now that my coworker keeps telling me to get, about how music and our mind works. There is an interesting section supposedly that details how we start forming our musical tastes for the rest of our lives when we are little kids.
The Eagles - Hotel California Led Zeppelin - Stairway To Heaven Styx - Renegade
When I was a kid I had a little AM radio by my bed I'd have playing every night as I went to sleep. It was always on an AOR station (if they even had a term like that back in the 70's)
Shoot, that's when the term AOR was invented. And it meant "album oriented rock," so most of them stations were gonna be on FM. :-)
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As for me, I don't remember THE first song, nor do I remember whether I "liked" them or not (I just absorbed them) but here are some of the earliest cuts I recall hearing as a kid, either from parents or my friends' older siblings:
"Hungry Country Girl" Otis Spann "Rock Steady" Aretha Franklin "She's All I Got" (there was a soul version and a country version of this song out around the same time - I probably heard both, since dad played country radio and mom listened to soul stations) "Walking In The Rain With The One I Love" Love Unlimited "Let's Stay Together" Al Green "Sugar Daddy" Jackson Five "What's Going On" Marvin Gaye "Gimme Some More" JB's "Dancing In The Street" Martha & the Vandellas
All of these were popular songs on the radio at the time, with the exception of the Martha/Vandellas song, which was a 45 played around the house. The most obscure song here is the Otis Spann, a downhome blues that somehow became a big regional hit on soul stations in '71 (even though Spann was already dead by then).
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Led Zeppelin - Stairway To Heaven
Styx - Renegade
When I was a kid I had a little AM radio by my bed I'd have playing every night as I went to sleep. It was always on an AOR station (if they even had a term like that back in the 70's) and those three songs were the earliest ones I can remember. I mostly remember "Renegade" because for some reason it kind of scared the crap out of me as a kid, all that talk of the hangman and just the eerie opening of the song.
I used to play it as loud as I could with my little boombox when I was in the shower when I was little. haha, wow, memories
Christmas Song Chipmunks
Battle Of New Orleans Johnny Horton
Beep Beep Playmates
Boweevil Brook Benton
They were all novelty songs, even if that was not the artistic intent on 2 of them.
He also had some Redd Foxx and Skillet & Leroy LP's hidden in the closet.
i thought this was a serious jam.
and still do.
Itsy Bitsy Spider?Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star?
Teddy Bears Picnic?
oh wait... as a child...
not a baby.
lemme get back to you
true story.
There is this book out right now that my coworker keeps telling me to get, about how music and our mind works. There is an interesting section supposedly that details how we start forming our musical tastes for the rest of our lives when we are little kids.
All Night Long = early afro-caribbean disco vibes
This theory makes perfect sense.
Shoot, that's when the term AOR was invented. And it meant "album oriented rock," so most of them stations were gonna be on FM. :-)
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As for me, I don't remember THE first song, nor do I remember whether I "liked" them or not (I just absorbed them) but here are some of the earliest cuts I recall hearing as a kid, either from parents or my friends' older siblings:
"Hungry Country Girl" Otis Spann
"Rock Steady" Aretha Franklin
"She's All I Got" (there was a soul version and a country version of this song out around the same time - I probably heard both, since dad played country radio and mom listened to soul stations)
"Walking In The Rain With The One I Love" Love Unlimited
"Let's Stay Together" Al Green
"Sugar Daddy" Jackson Five
"What's Going On" Marvin Gaye
"Gimme Some More" JB's
"Dancing In The Street" Martha & the Vandellas
All of these were popular songs on the radio at the time, with the exception of the Martha/Vandellas song, which was a 45 played around the house. The most obscure song here is the Otis Spann, a downhome blues that somehow became a big regional hit on soul stations in '71 (even though Spann was already dead by then).