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I remember my Mum playing The Carpenters a lot.

My brain is a bit like a jukebox which my gf thinks is weird cause I can name the artist or group,song and year when I hear it on the radio LOL.

Every weekend my mom played Bill Withers while she cleaned the house.  I remember her explaining breath control because of the song A Lovely Day.  I would sing along and try to hold the note. "A lovely DAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY"

My first 45 (please tell me that everyone is old enough to remember 45's) was Fire by the Ohio players.  I played that thing until it warped.  :)

I was just out of the single digits, but my eighth grade graduating class sang "Imagine" by John Lennon with my grandmother playing piano.

This is fun!! Thanks!!

Candice

The songs I remember as a kid that could move me to tears was "Mandy " by Barry Manilow and

"Too Much Heaven" by the Bee Gee's. Shit how embarrassing is that! ;)

Certain songs just move me.  It's the pacing of the song, melodies, background vocals or a certain instrument I hear.

I love all that with your music. A shout out to Susannah and Cole for doing background vocals on your music. I love it! Work it girls!!!

Much love!

I guess Ill embarrass myself on this one(comes out of hiding):

My mom said when I was little I was a big.. wait take that back.... HUGE fan of the Mickey Mouse Club (back in the late 70's).

Everytime the show would come on I'd go get my mouseketeer ears, put them on and sing the Mickey Mouse Club song. My mom would watch me quietly and smile. I try and dance and do the steps on the show like Mickey was doing. I guess it was the Mickey Mouse theme song that was my favorite.

Ok I embarassed myself enough and now Im definately calling myself a D-O-R-K!!!!

*runs and hides from the hilarity of it all*

:P

S

spookly enough i'm with tripfaller on this one....puff the magic dragon was sung to me by my sister (she is 9 yrs older) and my brother would play me the Marlene Deitrich german version which sounded pretty surreal......i guess i should look for a copy of that - huh

I was raised on The Who. My father loved all kinds of music, including Sinatra, Harry Bellafonte, Rolling Stones, Beatles, Jimi Hendrix, Barbra Streisand but above all, there was The Who.

Despite it's story and theme, Tommy reminds my of my uncomplicated childhood years, it brings back warm, fuzzy feelings of a time all in the world, or more like in my world was right. Being Dutch, the lyrics went past me although from the photos in the album, I could figure out that it wasn't all giggles.

Another thing that fascinated me were long songs, never mind what they were. I remember taking my father's LPs (as in vinyl) out of the sleeves and looking for the songs that took up the most space. I don't know why (well, to be honest I have a suspicion) but that drew my attention and I could look at a track like that for minutes. When he let me play them, I would watch the needle go from the beginning to the end of it. At some point, I got a stopwatch and would time them.

Still, I love long songs. But I also took with me his love for a variety of music, it is even broader than my father´s was.

Believe it or not the first album I bought was Kiss "Destroyer" I was age 5. And the first single I bought was Prince "Sexuality" and I was 8. Upon reflection they were interesting choices and my parents were cool with me spending my pocket money on music. 5000 CDs later and the passion continues.

&e 

I called it the Apple song because on the 45 it had a green Apple on it. 

I LOVE your answers. They are all so beautiful and personal. Unique to each of you. THANK YOU for sharing these.

This is great.

I will be posting more questions and i'll give you a phone number where you can leave me a message too for our Radio Show! These stories should go out on the air!

Thanks.

xl

When I was REally little..

I thought the 5th dimension wrote "Up Up and AwaY"

for me...

it was so strange.

I felt like they were singing it to me..

I didnt even really like the song that much...

were talking i was like 5

wendy

My mom told me that I use to LOVE the Batman theme from the television show in the 60's.  She said that I would dance around in my pj's in the living room every time it was on.  lol I had to be about three years old.

My granny used to put my feet on her feet when I was really little and danced around their farm kitchen with me , her fave son was a very tacky song, Una Paloma Blanca by the George Baker Selection, I still love that song, it always makes me happy and it often even makes me cry.

And my dad used to cradle me in his arms and sway me to Three Little Birds by Bob Marley, that song still gives me the shivers.

I remember that "Songs in the Key of Life" was my very favorite album when I was three. This was before I traded it in for "Dreamboat Annie" at age five. I could sing that entire album, over and over, and made up my own lyrics for the bridge of "Magic Man".

Then there was the song my mom used to sing me on the way to school:

"I went to the animal fair - the birds and the bees were there. The old baboon by the light of the moon was combing his auburn hair . . .

"The monk, the monk, the monk - he sat on the elephant's trunk. The elephant sneezed and fell to his knees. And what became of the monk, the monk, the monk???"

Mine would have probably been most 'Sound of Music' or 'Annie' (don't laugh yet) and I remember taking a tape recorder into school and singing 'somewhere over the rainbow' to myself under a table ( I boarded)

I then moved on to the highly regarded realm of 'Pufnstuf's  "if I could" , in fact I heard that song for the first time (having sworn that I'd imagined it) 25 years later and the largest tear rolled down my face

Also a huge fan of the ugly bug ball and tubby the tuba   and glowworm

in fact I mainly seem to listen to children's music these days...

Enjoy Yourself by the Jackson 5. There is a home movie of me singing and dancing to this somewhere in the basement as well as the 45 of the song. And I can remember my sister and I listening to Captain and Tenille's Love will keep us Together while holding hands in the living room. If the song was playing we needed to hold hands and dance. Ahhh...good "ol times with the family record player.

Wow, as much music that I heard my mom play on her record player when I was little (this was back in the mid-late 70s), I can think of one that was a favorite song of hers that it seemed that she made a favorite of mine.

Do you remember those stereo-systems that were actually furniture pieces that one would put into their living rooms?  Hard to describe here, but there was a record player and speakers built into the inside of it.  We still have this furniture stereo system here in our living room now.  It doesn't work now, but back then, my mom would play a lot of 45s of her favorite songs - all soul music from the late 60s and early 70s.  (and remembering Soul Train Saturday afternoons too...Cole told me that she/you all grew up watching Soul Train too.)

Back to the question:  as I was saying, there was one song that was a favorite song of my mom's that it seemed she made a favorite of mine, which was "Last Dance" by Donna Summer.  I was 5 when I first heard this one song (ca. 1978), but this one registers with me as a real first song that I loved.

I got my love of listening to music from her.

My first song was "Schön ist es auf der Welt zu sein". I was 4, sitting on a swing in the garden and sang it out loud for the whole neighburhood.  ... If anyone wants to know - this is the song: http: //www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUZdHMju_A4

Later I got lost in all the songs from ABBA - that was when I was 13 ...