Guest, if you don't want music theory don't ask questions like that! We'll never stop!

Misirlou is neither major nor minor in the Western sense -- it's not even Western after all. As best I can tell you it's in something like "double harmonic minor" but it should more properly be referred to as one of the Arabic modes -- but there I've gone off the reservation and will say no more, as I don't know anything really about Mideastern music.

Betsy, I say "no" on "The First Time." I hear that as a major key that happens to start on the second degree chord (dm if the key is C). Most of my theory sources say that it's where a progression ends rather than where it begins that defines its key, and TFTIESYF definitely ends each repeat on the major.

I think Phil Cunningham's "Eilidh" one of the saddest songs ever sung in a major key.

Cheers
-Glenn