maroon barchetta said:

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"…and I looked out the window and dreamed I was a cowboy".

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Now everytime I hear a John Denver song, I think of Mom and Dad and road trips and being a kid without a care in the world, and I tear up a little... nostalgia is at the same time happy and sad.

SpreadsheetAg said:

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maroon barchetta said:

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"…and I looked out the window and dreamed I was a cowboy".

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Now everytime I hear a John Denver song, I think of Mom and Dad and road trips and being a kid without a care in the world, and I tear up a little... nostalgia is at the same time happy and sad.

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For sure.

My brother and I sang the crud out of a John Denver 8-track. When he learned to play guitar, he bought a cheap Ovation 12-string and we had a John Denver songbook for piano and guitar and those are the first songs he learned.

We used to sing Grandma's Feather Bed a lot!

"I best think again about the gal down the road"

MW03 said:

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My dad had an old school cabinet hi-fi, and growing up he always had Elvis, the Beach Boys, or surf rock (Dick Dale, the Ventures, etc.). When mom got a turn, it was always Neil Diamond and Elton John.

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This made me want to chase these tunes down on youtube. Pretty sure I had a visceral reaction to each one

For Elvis, the 68 Comeback Special was the one, and in particular this one:


Dad loved surf rock, and I think he loved Tarrantino for putting Dick Dale in Pulp Fiction.


I don't really remember Dad playing "Wipeout", but I remember he and I trying to drum out wipeout and never getting it right. This song (and "Pipeline") were ones I remember him playing.


The Beach Boys got a lot of run, and I think this one got the most play because I think it was side 1/track 1.


Of all the music I listened to, my Dad hated it all with one exception...Sublime. He thought Sublime was alright, and that makes me laugh to this day.

For my mom, it was this one:

safety guy said:

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I have very few things I can remember prior to second grade but I when I hear We Can Work It Out by The Beatles, my mind checks back to the playground when I was in kindergarten as the day care program I was in always had that song playing on the speakers outside. First song I can remember.

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"We Can Work It Out" was the first 45 I bought with my own money...7-years old.

It was probably the third grade that I remember back and and consistently and appreciated different types of music. What I remember listening to: Def Leppard, AC/DC, REO Speedwagon, STYX, Van Halen, Toto, Michael Jackson. What I listened to because my parents were listening to: Alabama, Kenny Rodgers, Barbara Mandrell, Neil Diamond, Bing Crosby

Remember mom playing this on the record player when I was in the play pen.

Three little fishes. Uncle had a fender and was in a band, so songs like "Downtown" and "Hey there Georgy Girl" made a big impression. We were mostly big fans of his Fender guitar. I've got a second cousin about the age of our son that's currently in a "country" band and is an Aggie. Sadly, I have not caught one of his shows.

Maybe not my earliest musical memory but the most memorable. It's probably 1980 or 81. My parents just bought a 1980 Honda Accord. They took it back to the dealership a couple weeks later to have a stereo cassette player put in. First car with a cassette player. Big deal. They get home and my older brother says he just bought a new cassette and that we should go listen to it in the car. We then sit in the driveway and I listen to Back In Black for the first time. 7/8 year old me was blown away.

I can still remember being 4 years old in 1976 and listening to Hotel California on the radio in my parents car. Loved that song then and I still do.

94AGBQ said:

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I can still remember being 4 years old in 1976 and listening to Hotel California on the radio in my parents car. Loved that song then and I still do.

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Glenn Frey's passing was one of the big shocks for me. It seems like the Eagles were destined for one last reunion for what seemed like forever but that dream is over.

5th Dimension in 1970. I was struck how bad it was. I was 2.

My parents' Dean Martin and Guy Lombardo records!

Too many to list. When I was very young (1-4) my Dad was a Saxophone player in a big band that would play gigs on the weekends. Heard lots of music live.

We always had lots of music playing at the house:
Herb Alpert
John Coltrane
Sonny Rollins
Ornette Coleman
Glen Campbell
Jim Croce
Bobby Goldsboro
Arthur Fiedler and the Boston Pops play The Beatles (still an album I love).

Little Orphan Annie

Probably Jim Croce's greatest hits on my dad's 8 track.

NoahAg said:

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Probably Jim Croce's greatest hits on my dad's 8 track.

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My aunt had a brand new '76 Camaro with an 8 track in it, I loved that car. I never understood why the 8 track was replaced by cassettes, 8 tracks were so much better because you just hit a button to skip to the next track and they didn't come unspooled pike the cassettes did.

Hank Williams
I love a rainy night
Grease soundtrack