What is the first song or piece of music you can remember hearing on the radio (or)?

[Neo-Scholastic]

I understand.  Barry Manalow could have taken any of our listening cherries if we were born at the wrong time.  That must be so humiliating.  Let me help you with that.  Maybe it was Homer's favorite?

I have all forgotten about him. Thankfully he's quiet since the late 70ies. At least the stations don't play him anymore. I think the last time I heard something from him was an anti smoking commercial in the early 80ies. He didn't sing, thankfully, just talk.

He wrote the songs. Too bad I can't forget them.

[Thumpalumpacus]

'Twas my older sister who hipped me to Jimi Hendrix and Led Zeppelin, both acts before my own time.

You were born in the 60ies, weren't you? So you should at least have some fleeting memory of what was on the radio back then. Not that Hendrix or Led Zeppelin would have interested me much at the age of four or five. I certainly prefered the more easy on the ears tunes in a manner of speaking.

As I posted above, my first musical memories came about in 71. And thanks () to parents who liked classical, American country, and schmaltz, I had no exposure to good rock until we moved overseas and I became a feral child. Most of my early musical exposure, and I'm not complaining, was Bach, Mozart, Willie Nelson, Townes Van Zandt, and the Carpenters (okay, I'm complaining about the last on that list ).

The first rock I heard was in Iran, on AFRTS -- Boston, Kansas, ELO, Kiss, during their three hours' rock program in the afternoon. No Zeppelin, no Hendrix, because it was oriented towards current hits rather than songs five or six years old.

True story: I didn't hear "Stairway to Heaven" until 1979.

Odd, the cavities an expatriate life gives you.

[Thumpalumpacus]

I don't recall listening to a lot of radio when I was very young. The first music and song I clearly remember, both came from my parents' album collection....my father's stuff.

See, that's some good raisin' right there. Not such a big fan of "A Love Supreme" myself -- it's a bit outside for even me -- but with 'Trane, loves me some "Naima" or "Favorite Things". Wish my parents had that bent to their tastes ... would have saved some years understanding this music that lands on me so deeply.

True story: when my upstairs neighbor in SoCal took to waking me up at six in the morning with conjunto accordion music on Saturdays, I would flip my speakers upwards and turn my 150w stereo up to stun with ALS. Took about two weeks to train him.

[chimp3]

Born in 1959. I would never be able to remember a specific first song on the radio. My folks had a diverse record collection. Chuck Berry, Fats Domino, Tony Bennett, Sinatra, Sarah Vaughn,, Elvis, Carl Perkins, Duke Ellington,  Dean Martin, Miles Davis, Johnny Cash, Ella Fitzgerald, Hank Will!iams. I listened to those records and wore the grooves out. On the radio we listened to the Beatles, jazz, bluegrass, rock and rhythm, John Lee Hooker. Mozart.

[The Valkyrie]

[Whateverist]

Born in 1959. I would never be able to remember a specific first song on the radio. My folks had a diverse record collection. Chuck Berry, Fats Domino, Tony Bennett, Sinatra, Sarah Vaughn,, Elvis, Carl Perkins, Duke Ellington,  Dean Martin, Miles Davis, Johnny Cash, Ella Fitzgerald, Hank Will!iams. I listened to those records and wore the grooves out. On the radio we listened to the Beatles, jazz, bluegrass, rock and rhythm, John Lee Hooker. Mozart.

Wow, it's between you and Thena for the title of parents with the most enlightened taste in music.

I've already revealed how meager my musical heritage was so why not seal the deal with this classic?

https://youtu.be/Wtyx8wG8BsI

I would have been between 5 and 7 when I heard this, and yeah I was officially a xtian still at the time, and would be for another 5 years or so.

[c172]

I don't have very many memories of radio from my early childhood. I'm not sure if it's because my mother would listen to tapes rather than radio, or that she would sing or hum really loudly over whatever was playing. A baby sitter of mine one day had the easy listening station on, and this was playing:

(Chariots of Fire)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CSav51fVlKU

Also: in what I think was some first grade talent show at school, a girl danced (or did something to) Xanadu:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDxcfTm1QTc

[Whateverist]

You'll earn 10 bonus points if you have any video footage of you as a wee tyke dancing around to this.

[chimp3]

Born in 1959. I would never be able to remember a specific first song on the radio. My folks had a diverse record collection. Chuck Berry, Fats Domino, Tony Bennett, Sinatra, Sarah Vaughn,, Elvis, Carl Perkins, Duke Ellington,  Dean Martin, Miles Davis, Johnny Cash, Ella Fitzgerald, Hank Will!iams. I listened to those records and wore the grooves out. On the radio we listened to the Beatles, jazz, bluegrass, rock and rhythm, John Lee Hooker. Mozart.

Wow, it's between you and Thena for the title of parents with the most enlightened taste in music.

They were in dance contests together. Then became pentecostal preachers. Now in their 70's. We called a few weeks ago and heard "Sympathy for the Devil" in the background. They were on vacation in SoCal. Woo woo , Woo woo!

[Whateverist]

I don't have very many memories of radio from my early childhood. I'm not sure if it's because my mother would listen to tapes rather than radio, or that she would sing or hum really loudly over whatever was playing. A baby sitter of mine one day had the easy listening station on, and this was playing:

(Chariots of Fire)

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CSav51fVlKU

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Given your obsession with sports that so fits you.