I don't usually throw a dirty diaper at young people, just Depends.

(October 27, 2016 at 12:04 am)BrokenQuill92 Wrote:

(October 26, 2016 at 11:24 pm)The Valkyrie Wrote: Even I know better than to poke the wrinklies with a stick.

They'll hit you with their walkers!

I have a walker in my closet! Care to duel?! Hee hee

Don't make me fetch my cane!

Would have been some mid 50's doo-wop shit my brother was playing.

The first song I can remember on the radio was either this.

https://youtu.be/UWdcZqG02Ls

or this

https://youtu.be/7z3FS71Tgzw

(October 26, 2016 at 7:08 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: True story: I didn't hear "Stairway to Heaven" until 1979.

Must be the same time when I first heard it. I wasn't into Led Zeppelin before and a school mate introduced me to the song.

Yeah, you know, we were talking about first remembered songs. That's certainly the Beatles. Not just Penny Lane but Yellow Submarine too, which I used to bawl at the top of my lungs without knowing the first thing about the lyrics. But being into music starts about the same time as in your case. In my memory Mark Bolen features very prominently on the radio of the early 70ies.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UWdcZqG02Ls

Don't judge, it came out 2 years before I was born, but for some reason it was still played on German radio more than half a decade later from time to time. I remember wondering as a kid what oblucheensn meant, and for that reason it's the earliest one I can actually still identify.

Holy shit, you too.

(October 27, 2016 at 6:08 am)abaris Wrote:

(October 26, 2016 at 7:08 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: True story: I didn't hear "Stairway to Heaven" until 1979.

Must be the same time when I first heard it. I wasn't into Led Zeppelin before and a school mate introduced me to the song.

Yeah, you know, we were talking about first remembered songs. That's certainly the Beatles. Not just Penny Lane but Yellow Submarine too, which I used to bawl at the top of my lungs without knowing the first thing about the lyrics. But being into music starts about the same time as in your case. In my memory Mark Bolen features very prominently on the radio of the early 70ies.

Yeah, when I was eleven -- this was 76 or 77 -- a buddy had the Beatles' 67-70 compilation. Now there's a primer for good rock!

(October 27, 2016 at 6:55 am)Little lunch Wrote: Holy shit, you too.

This is uncanny. I hadn't seen your entry when I posted mine. I think they simply played it to death back then...

Other strong contenders are

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DdWZKb659K0

- I am, after all, essentially a child of the 80s, and I was 5 when it came out and I remember hearing it, making it a plausible candidate -

and this older number, which was simply played very frequently during any summer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yG0oBPtyNb0

Running Bear - Johnny Preston - Original recording 1959.