Tuned into the radio

[Bebeslut]

What's the earliest song you ever tuned into the radio to hear?

Mine was -- get this -- "Let's Get Together" by Hailey Mills from The Parent Trap.

The best song being played at the time was Hit the Road, Jack by Ray Charles, still one of my all-time favorites.

 

[sr71plt]

I think it was the Andrews Sisters singing "Sisters," because my older sister and her friend were preparing to sing it in a talent contest and played it over and over and over and over and over.

Either that or "How Much Is that Doggie in the Window." My older sister again. She played that and suggested that we act it out and made me the dog and sold me and then walked off and didn't come back for me. Such trauma.

 

[Ellafun]

"Hanky Panky," Tommy James & the Shondells. Suddenly the irony becomes clear.

 

[Weird Harold]

Either that or "How Much Is that Doggie in the Window." My older sister again. She played that and suggested that we act it out and made me the dog and sold me and then walked off and didn't come back for me. Such trauma.

Hey You, stay out of my childhood! Older sister, act out How much is that doggie..., didn't come back for me -- you're either me, or big sisters in that year were particularly like-minded.

Other songs I remember from the radio: Ahab The Arab, Sixteen Tons, and Ctach a Falling Star -- all from the last half of the fifties; ages six to eleven or so.

 

[Quiet_Cool]

Honestly, the song that comes to mind right now was "Walk the Dinosaur" by Was Not Was.

Q_C

 

[Bebeslut]

Honestly, the song that comes to mind right now was "Walk the Dinosaur" by Was Not Was.

Q_C

Wow, Quiet_Cool is a CHILD! LOL!

 

[oggbashan]

The first song that made an impression on me from hearing it on the radio, apart from children's songs such as Tubby The Tuba, was the 1956 hit Green Door.

I must have heard many others long before then but my parents radio was usually tuned to the Third Programme so my diet was classical music.

Og

 

[cloudy]

The only one that comes immediately to mind is Stairway to Heaven. The local LA radio station played it every single night without fail at 9:00 p.m.

 

[EmeraldKitten]

'Papa Don't Preach' and 'What's Love Got To Do With It'.
Must've been ironic hearing a 3 year old singing about 'keeping her baby', LOL.

And every Saturday night, my grandma and her boyfriend would listen to the Grand Ole Opry on the radio.
I can't place any songs in particular, but it happened every weekend, without fail, lol.

 

[Quiet_Cool]

Wow, Quiet_Cool is a CHILD! LOL!

A child? I'm 33, I just don't have so great a memory.



Q_C

 

[Stella_Omega]

I was raised on classical and folk music, my parents hated jazz and the rock and roll of the fifties.
The first time I tuned in to a rock and roll station, I heard;
"Incense and Peppermints" by the Strawberry Alarm Clock.
and
"I can see for miles" by the Who.
ETA; so that's 1967, via wikipedia

My parents were fascinated by this newer sound, and we all traipsed off to a record store. We came home with the strawberry alarm clock album-- which is pretty mediocre-- and shortly thereafter, the Who, the (new sound) Beatles, and Iron Butterfly made their entrance... and The Doors.

After that, all bets were off.