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

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'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.