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  28th Mar 2018, 8:44 PM#1  REPORT  
JWMmusic

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Mine was, "Paperback Writer" by the Beatles, played the evening of July 2, 1966, at about 7pm.


  28th Mar 2018, 9:08 PM#2  REPORT  
getalife

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Hard one to answer, brother ten years older and remember he had Lonnie Donegan, Buddy Holly, Pat Boone, Everly Brothers records so one of them, but also remember Tulips from Amsterdam, all mid 50s.

Remember buying Paperback Writer, along with other Beatles records.


  28th Mar 2018, 10:01 PM#3  REPORT  
ppint.

Member since Aug 2012
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probably my mother singing "golden slumbers kiss your eye/smiles awake you when you rise/hush, little baby, don't you cry/and i will sing a lullabye./ oh loola, loola, loola, loola bye-bye/do you want the moon to play with,/the stars to run away with?/oh loola, loola, loola, loola bye-bye/hush, now, don't you cry/sleep, little darling, don't you cry/and i shall sing a lullabye./"

she had a sweet, melodious voice, but sfaicr knew no other lullabye - nor, possibly, any other song well enough to sing.

at some stage, yr still very little hmbl srppnt. insisted that it should be "stars to play with" and "the moon to run away with" cos there were far too many stars to run away with...



  29th Mar 2018, 12:06 AM#4  REPORT  
Gill Sans SUBS ●

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@JWM, if you hadn't heard a tune until July 2, 1966 I guess you were born on July 1, 1966 :wink:

Really, if you weren't born deaf you will have heard, and learned, several 'tunes' while in the womb. Of course you won't remember any now, after all you didn't know what a tune was, or why you were hearing it. You probably also heard it the day after you were born, and it just became part of normal life, but if you didn't hear it again until you are in your teens you will be overcome with unexplained emotions while your stomach jumps up and down inside. I still have that response to a short orchestral suite which I am sure my mother would have liked.

Quote from The Secret Life of the Unborn Child by Thomas Verny and John Kelly
"At twenty-five weeks the baby can kick in time to music"


  29th Mar 2018, 3:27 AM#5  REPORT  
JWMmusic

Member since May 2015
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I'm listening really hard right now, because I know something must be left in the brain...
I remember, "Baby I Love You" by Andy Kim in the summer of '68
..."Hey Jude" in September of '68, and
..."Brown Sugar" in the summer of '71.
That's all for now.
I was born in 1963. :whistle:


  29th Mar 2018, 5:16 AM#6  REPORT  
mojofilter

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I was born in 1958. My mother says the first song I sang was the TV ad jingle for "Mr. Clean" household cleaner... while I remember how it goes, I have no memory of singing it.

My earliest memories of music are my father's album of Gershwin's Rhapsody In Blue and its flip side, Symphony For Blues by the Hamburg Philharmonia Orchestra on the Somerset label. That, and the Dot 78 of Come Go With Me by The Dell-Vikings that one of my uncles bought and kept inside the record player cabinet at my grandmother's house (which I've owned since before I was a teenager).


  29th Mar 2018, 6:29 AM#7  REPORT  
Lee Wrecker

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It's "These Boots Are Made For Walkin'" (1965) by Nancy Sinatra for me . I would have been very young and would have heard it on the radio in Cyprus. I would have heard other stuff before but it was "Boots" that made me sit up and take notice. I sought the song out as a teen and still have that copy to this day.

Edited by Lee Wrecker on 29th Mar 2018, 6:37 AM

  29th Mar 2018, 6:43 AM#8  REPORT  
mrblond ●

Member since Sep 2014
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Back to Bradford by Smokie and Ma Baker by Boney M.
I mean these were among the first ones I've played over and over again as a kid in the 70's on our family gramophone.


  29th Mar 2018, 7:33 AM#9  REPORT  
getalife

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Gill Sans wrote:
@JWM, if you hadn't heard a tune until July 2, 1966 I guess you were born on July 1, 1966 :wink:

Really, if you weren't born deaf you will have heard, and learned, several 'tunes' while in the womb. Of course you won't remember any now, after all you didn't know what a tune was, or why you were hearing it. You probably also heard it the day after you were born, and it just became part of normal life, but if you didn't hear it again until you are in your teens you will be overcome with unexplained emotions while your stomach jumps up and down inside. I still have that response to a short orchestral suite which I am sure my mother would have liked.

Quote from The Secret Life of the Unborn Child by Thomas Verny and John Kelly
"At twenty-five weeks the baby can kick in time to music"


O so true, my daughter born 1980 knows all my 60s music word for word. Today, expecting our second grandchild, so guess it already has a list to add here. :headphones: :thumbsup:

If its today’s music, maybe will not remember any songs, unless she been listening to capital gold on the radio. :whistle:

Edited by Getalife on 29th Mar 2018, 7:40 AM

  29th Mar 2018, 8:00 AM#10  REPORT  
LouisSidney

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"Le petit chemin" by Mireille; then "La complainte de la Butte" by Cora Vaucaire. And a little later "Day-O" by Harry Belafonte.


  29th Mar 2018, 11:11 AM#11  REPORT  
zabadak

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Probably "My Bonnie", as sung by my mum :happy:


  29th Mar 2018, 12:15 PM#12  REPORT  
Quad5point1 SUBS

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Can't remember the first one I heard but the one that sticks in my memory from the late 50's has to be this one. Often played on the childrens hour radio



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