When you were a kid, what was the first "grown-up" song you liked?

[JimmyJazz]

Mine was "Sweet Caroline" - Don't hold it against me. I learned from my parents'mistakes: my kids are parrotheads

[RebelYell]

1. "Devil in a Blue Dress"

Seriously. LMAO

[RubyDuby in GA]

3. "Another One Bites the Dust"

It's the first song I really remember hearing.
Still smile when it comes on the radio....

[Squeech]

2. Stravinsky

Firebird Suite

Or maybe it was Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue. It was a long time ago.

[mac56]

4. "Mack The Knife"

for obvious reasons.

[RebelYell]

6. Bobby Darin was the man n/t

[Phillycat]

5. Solid as a Rock--Ashford and Simpson.

What?

[Darth_Kitten]

7. Whole Lotta Love......Led Zeppelin......

:evilgrin:

also, anything from CCR.....Mom played it all the time. ;)

[livetohike]

8. "Blue Moon" and "Blue Skies" these were songs my

Dad would sing in the car. There were others, but these must have been his favorites.

[Blue-Jay]

9. "Dialog" by Chicago

Terry:
Are you optimistic
'bout the way things are going?

Peter:
No, I nver ever think of it at all

Terry:
Don't you ever worry
When you see what's going down?

Peter:
No, I try to mind my business,
that is, no business at all

Terry:
When it's time to function
as a feeling human being, will your
Bachelor of Arts help you get by?

Peter:
I hope to study further,
a few more years or so. I also hope
to keep a steady high

Terry:
Will you try to change
things, use the power that you have,
the power of a million new ideas?

Peter:
What is this power you
speak of and this need for things to
change? I always thought
that everything was fine

Terry:
Don't you feel repression just
closing in around?

Peter:
No, the campus here is very, very free

Terry:
Does it make you angry
the way war is dragging on?

Peter:
Well, I hope the President
knows what he's into, I don't know

Terry:
Don't you ever see the starvation
in the city where you live, all the
needless hunger all the
needless pain?

Peter:
I haven't been there lately,
the country is so fine, but my
neighbors don't seem hungry 'cause
they haven't got the time

Terry:
Thank you for the talk,
you know you really eased my mind
I was troubled by the shapes
of things to come.

Peter:
Well, if you had my
outlook your feelings would be
numb, you'd always think
that everything was fine

Part II

Group:
We can make it happen
We can change the world now
We can save the children
We can make it better
We can make it happen
We can save the children
We can make it happen


Chicago V was the first album I bought with my own money as a kid. I still love it.

[bobbobbins]

10. toys in the attic - aerosmith

i was about 4 years old when i got the album

[skygazer]

11. All I heard were grown up songs

My dad played in a country western band - he used to get out his guitar and play every night. Good times.

I guess, though, the first song that I really got addicted to was "Orange Blossom Special" played by my dad's friend Ed on his fiddle. Man, that guy can play a fiddle!

By the time I was 6 or 7, I was a Beatles fan - I had 5 older brothers and sisters so I got introduced to a lot of good music early.

[JimmyJazz]

13. You are lucky to have that background. We are trying to

raise our children the same way. My friends had to take their kids to see the Wiggles and we just laughed at them. My kids don't even know about the Wiggles!

I'll bet you play an instrument (at least one).

[skygazer]

23. Surprisingly, no

I wish I did. My dad tried to teach me guitar when I was little but I had no interest. When I was older, I wanted to learn, but HE had no interest. Timing is everything, I guess!

I am somewhat self taught on a piano but it's been a long time. Love to sing, though. :)

[fudge stripe cookays]

12. "Yummy Yummy Yummy"

or the theme song to "Jesus Christ Superstar."

:-)

[kcwayne]

14. King of the Road - Roger Miller

Sigh, my parents were hillbillys

[mac56]

15. Your parents were hip.

Roger Miller is hip.

[kcwayne]

21. No, they are definitely hillbillys

no matter how hip Roger may be

[mastein]

16. The Stranger by Billy Joel

[DemWitch]

17. The entire "Tommy" album by the who...

I was 6 or 7 and used to sing along at the top of my lungs... very offkey

[Ron Green]

18. Benny Goodman's "Don't Be That Way"....

and other swing classics. I was lucky to have this stuff in my ear from an early age. Also, there was great hillbilly stuff around East Texas, as well as R&B (REAL R&B, not the manufactured product that claims that title now) - Willie Mitchell, Wynonnie Harris, Lowell Fulson.

[HEyHEY]

19. Hmmm - I'm geussing Super Trooper by Abba

[gollygee]

20. Rock the boat, don't rock the boat baby

rock the boat, don't tip the boat over

LOL

[politicat]

22. Sweet Dreams by Eurythmics.

It's also the first song I really remember clearly.

Also, the soundtrack from Zeferelli's (sp) Romeo and Juliet.

Pcat

[Moonbeam_Starlight]

51. I was in eighth grade when that came out

and I choreographed an entire interpretive dance to that song! LOL!

[flamingyouth]

24. "I'm Eighteen" by Alice Cooper

I was three and saw them on TV.

[drumwolf]

25. I think the first pop song I remember liking was

"You're The One That I Want" by John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John from the "Grease" movie soundtrack. It was in 1978 and I was eight at the time.

[tsakshaug]

26. yellow submarine

does that count as a grown up song?

also hank williams, eddie arnold and tennesee ernie ford stuff

[JimmyJazz]

27. No - Yellow Submarine does not count! Any song that had it's

own cartoon and lunchbox is automatically disqualified. :7
Oh, AND, it's own bathtub toy line.

The Hank Williams, Eddie Arnold and TEF songs qualify. (Quite a stretch from yellow submarine, though)

[tsakshaug]

30. Well....

I had a sister who is much older than me (can you say Catholic birth control?) and parents that were old time country fans

[YellowRubberDuckie]

28. I loved George Michael.

And I was five. My sister was eight years older and listened to him all the time.
Duckie

[Blue-Jay]

37. Duckie, this is a thread about "adult" songs.

[fudge stripe cookays]

38. Well, we all know

that duckie's favorite song was "I Want Your Sex", squirrel-boy. :D

[YellowRubberDuckie]

47. Indeed.

:evilgrin:

[YellowRubberDuckie]

46. George Michael wasn't an adult?

[ghostsofgiants]

29. ...

Probably "Copperhead Road" by Steve Earle.

[FunBobbyMucha]

31. "Eleanor Rigby."

Mom used to play their red double album GH's all the time and then when I was on a parade float in first grade, the marching band behind us was playing ER. I couldn't get the string part out of my head and within a month Mom gave me the album, with a warning that though she liked their music, the Beatles were all gay and/or had been married to each other and a thousand women each.

Of course, I was in love.

This one song, though, had the effect of propelling a bright, oblivious kid, however briefly, into a world of loneliness and missed opportunities. It's probably had more of a profound effect on my view of life than even I have ever really considered.

[ronnykmarshall]

32. Stop! In the Name of Love

I was a Supreme fan at the age of 4.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

33. "Gita" by Raul Seixas (nt)

[kick-ass-bob]

34. Where Eagles Dare - Iron Maiden.

I don't fuck around...

[Quahog]

35. "Fly Me To The Moon"

Sinatra staple, my dad sang it around the house all the time. I still like that song.

[Mika]

36. Mr Bojangles

Something about it stirred me.

Still does.

I knew a man Bojangles and he danced for you in worn out shoes
With silver hair, a ragged shirt and baggy pants, the old soft shoe
He jumped so high, he jumped so high,
Then he lightly touched down

I met him in a cell in New Orleans, I was - down and out
He looked at me to be the eyes of age as he spoke right out
He talked of life, he talked of life, he laughed, slapped his leg a step

Mr. Bojangles, Mr. Bojangles
Mr. Bojangles, dance!

He said his name, Bojangles, then he danced a lick across the cell
He grabbed his pants a better stance, oh, he jumped up high,
Then he clicked his heels
He let go a laugh, he let go a laugh,
Shook back his clothes all around

Mr. Bojangles, Mr. Bojangles
Mr. Bojangles, dance!

He danced for throws at minstrel shows and county fairs
Through out the south
He spoke with tears of fifteen years how his dog and him
Had traveled about
His dog up and died, he up and died, after twenty years he still grieves

He said I dance now at every chance in honky tonks
For drink and tips
But most of the time I spend behind these county bars
'Cause I drinks a bit'
He shook his head and as he shook his head
I heard someone ask him `Please'
Please ..........

Mr. Bojangles, Mr. Bojangles
Mr. Bojangles, dance!

Mr. Bojangles, Mr. Bojangles
Mr. Bojangles, dance!

[HEIL PRESIDENT GOD]

39. hmmm....

Hard to say which from the following list:

"Nanook of the North" by Frank Zappa
"Another One Bites the Dust" by Queen
"Bungalow Bill" by the Beatles

I think the first album I bought on my own was Twisted Sister's "Stay Hungry".

[sangh0]

40. I was a very cool kid

At about 4 years of age, I fell in love with Cream's "White Room" which I found far superior to the repetitive "Sunshine of Your Love".

[GoddessOfGuinness]

41. Saint-Saens Organ Symphony

From the time I was 2 or 3...

[Hobarticus]

42. "Left My Heart in San Francisco"...mimed by my sisters.

[Pithlet]

43. "Band on the Run" by Wings

I liked the whole album. I was 2 and a half. My mom had it on cassette, and she played it a lot until my sister pulled the tape out of it.

[Taverner]

44. "Stairway to Heaven"

Heard it when i was 8...loved it

[Tikki]

45. In 1958..."Willie and the Hand Jive"

Johnny Otis

[bigwillq]

48. "Crazy for You" by Madonna

It was in that movie "Vision Quest" which was the first Rate R movie I saw. I think I was like 8 or so.

[Moonbeam_Starlight]

49. "Torn Between Two Lovers" by Linda Rondstat

and "Fifty Ways To Leave Your Lover."

Strange things for a five year old to be singing non stop but I did. Loved both songs. Knew them by heart.

[fudge stripe cookays]

52. Sorry sweetie...

"Torn Between Two Lovers" was actually a lady named Mary MacGregor.

Close though!
FSC

[nini]

50. Louis Prima - Jump, Jive and Wail!

My parents played Louis Prima all the time.. I Loved his albums even as a kid.