Hello hello! For tonight’s DUAN party theme, I would like you to submit the songs you loved as a kid.
Rather than choosing the songs you bonded to in teenage years, instead I want to hear the preteen and elementary age stuff that thrilled you when it came on the radio or tv. Your own kidself jams playlist.
What two or three iconic-for-you songs can bring you instantly back to your childhood as soon as you hear them play?
Thanks for playing DUAN and stopping by Deadsplinter tonight!
When Barracuda by Heart came out, I was six years old and I loved it immediately.
it never stopped being a favourite for me
(edit oh wait…i get 2 or 3?..weeeheeell..alrightythen)
(eh..tbh..theres a hundred more…but pretty much that era of music was what little me loved)
96 Tears
For What It’s Worth
Got To Get You Into My Life
O.o
96 tears took me back…..i never knew what that song was called…but theres no forgetting that tune
Little Hannibal was obsessed with Motown.
I couldn’t get enough Stevie Wonder. The second musical instrument I bought was a chromatic harmonica. I now own a couple dozen of them. Still can’t sound like Stevie though.
Stevie can still set my feet tappin’.
Where I lived this was probably the better-known version:
Courtesy of two older brothers
Styx
Molly Hatchet
Kiss
Styx played at my high school.
These three were the favorites of 2-4 year old Emm;
And these three were my late-elementary gateway into the music I STILL love today–the 80’s & 90’s style rock & rap sounds…
ironically, all THREE of them were fallen in love with, on the same field trip to a “sleep-away wilderness camp” we went to as 5th or 6th graders (my class was the 5th grade, the year we went)…
and YES, this is where my love of alllllll the ‘Jovi songs REALLY got rolling😉;
I WAS WORRIED YOU’D BEAT ME but other than The Gambler, mine are a bit different:
The Jovi song:
Of course BELINDA!
And @hannibal and @megmegmcgee LOVE this:
I COULD GO ALL NIGHT WITH THESE IF YOU WANT, GUYS?!
Great DUAN!
I was with you up until Air Supply!
Fat Boys were fucking awesome.
YES! 4 year old me favourite song:
Belinda Carlisle almost made my list too!
I feel like we could’ve been very good music pals as kids 🙂
Bad Bad Leroy Brown – Jim Croce
Joy to the World – Three Dog Night
Free to be You and Me Theme –
Banana Splits Theme –
Well, I suppose “childhood” is relative. But I had an older sister who dated greasers and they listened to soul music and Tom Jones and the Grass Roots. When she was out of the house, I’d get into her 45s. To this day, I refuse to recognize the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame because they still haven’t inducted the Grass Roots.
LOVE that Grass Roots song, @luigi-vuoto.
These are all because of my mom’s record collection.
John Denver – Mother Nature’s Son
Gordon Lightfoot – Carefree Highway
Neil Diamond – Cherry, Cherry
Linda Ronstadt – Silver Thread and Golden Needles
I would be somewhere around 6-8 years old, playing these on a HUGE console stereo with turntable in the living room.
I know it might be weird, but I listen to Carefree Highway almost everyday. There is something deeply soothing about Ol Gord’s voice.
I like the Gordon Lightfoot going on around here!
I have more…
…can’t forget the Mini-Pops records played on my Mickey Mouse record player!
I still have the movie Fame soundtrack – I pull it out every once in a while. I loved the tv show.
I once saw Ronnie Milsap performing at the Waukesha County Fair as a kid. Some 25 years later I’m interviewing him for a radio syndicator. He carries a portable Braille typewriter around with him and whenever he meets someone new he takes a second to type their name so he can be sure to remember it.
That is so cool. My mom took me to see him live when I was really young and I loved his songs so much that I took the tape my mom bought at the show to my friend’s place, who had one of those super-advanced dual cassette decks, so I could dub it onto side B of my tape. I can’t remember what was on side A at the time because it soon became Run DMC Tougher Than leather on side A and Ronnie Milsap on side B. 7 or 8 years old wearing that tape out on my walkman. I still know every damn word!
My earliest memory of hearing a song on a radio and liking it, to the point where I still, so many years later, remember exactly where I was, in a certain neighbor’s backyard at a small cookout:
The first album I bought (with gifted money) had this song on it (I think this was the title of the album actually):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wBqMbefDgys
The first time I got drunk I was at a house party and someone had Fleetwood Mac’s “Rumors” album. Somehow I have never heard this but in my drunken state I fell in love with it:
These are my three.
These three are quite excellent.
A repeat from someone else’s road trip music. Every return trip home, for some reason this song came on. Where I lived the radio station played everything because it was in the middle of nowhere. My family would sing this in the car. One of my happier family memories.
Only because the local radio station played this on so much.
My father the Beatles fan. We had their greatest hits.
When I was 5 or 6 my grandmother had a copy of Folsom Prison on 8-track and it was my absolute favorite, so she bought me my own copy.
Later in 4th or 5th grade when I was a latchkey kid I would come home from school and listen to Bill Cosby records:
New Kids?
I know someone who will be excited to see that song which might, unfortunately, lead to more of them…I’m like
but if we’re going there the
so take it
Oh boy. “Step by Step” would have been my second NKOTB choice…I cannot deny that this was perpetually in the cassette player.
When I was about 4 my much older bro would play Hendrix all the time & I would sing along to Foxy Lady. He got in trouble when my Mom had friends over & started singing that for the ladies.
I also loved his Zappa collection
he was responsible for much of my early taste in music.
Age 5:
Age 9 (or so):
Age 12: