Your earliest childhood musical moment?

Subject: RE: Your earliest childhood musical moment?
From: Mark H.
Date: 25 Jul 07 - 09:58 AM

Belting out snippets from singles by the Monkees, the Dave Clark Five, and Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Titch.
First things that blew me away were "Venus" by Shocking Pink, and "Na Na Hey Hey, Kiss Him Goodbye" by Steam. Possibly "Oh Happy Day" by the Edwin Hawkins Singers too.
Early experiences of folk music were all school-based and bad. You folks who heard good traditional music at an early age and enjoyed it are really fortunate.

Subject: RE: Your earliest childhood musical moment?
From: Davie_
Date: 25 Jul 07 - 08:19 AM

As a three year old, watching and following the local pipe band...dad caught up with me at end of street...been addicted to folkie music and pipes ever since

Subject: RE: Your earliest childhood musical moment?
From: GUEST
Date: 25 Jul 07 - 05:20 AM

Making up a song called "Car Bonnet Sat Carefully" on all the black keys of the piano when I was two. It was pretty crap, but it went: Car bonnet sat carefully, car bonnet sat again.

Not sure what that means?

Subject: RE: Your earliest childhood musical moment?
From: GUEST,Paul Burke
Date: 25 Jul 07 - 04:14 AM

When Mum sang Poor Dog Tray, I used to beg her not to sing the last part where the dog dies.. I would have been three or so.

Subject: RE: Your earliest childhood musical moment?
From: Cluin
Date: 25 Jul 07 - 12:21 AM

So, my earliest mondegreen memory too.

Subject: RE: Your earliest childhood musical moment?
From: Cluin
Date: 25 Jul 07 - 12:20 AM

Listening to my parents sing, Ian & Sylvia -style, when I was little. Dad on guitar, Mom played piano and some banjo. They had friends who sang & played too and we often had guests.

Remember my sister could never keep quiet either; at the age of around 2, singing along to my parents harmonizing on I&S's "Hey, What About Me", but singing "Heeeeeeeeeeey! Bobbadooooooooooo!"

Subject: RE: Your earliest childhood musical moment?
From: RangerSteve
Date: 24 Jul 07 - 10:54 PM

The radio in our kitchen was almost always on my Mom's favorite station (WHLI - the voice of Long Island) which played Hit Parade music - Perry Como, Patti Page, that stuff. Years later I discovered a similar station in New Jersey - it's since changed formats - and realized I actually like that format. "Wayward Wind" is definately a favorite. As for actually playing music, that would be the accordian, thanks largely to the popularity of the Lawrence Welk Show. My older brother and I started out with a full size piano-accordian, which was bigger than either of us. My teacher was an old Swedish man who was a real virtuoso, and somewhat cruel. I was in the habit of keeping my right arm close to my side - your elbow is supposed to be away from your body - so he'd hold a sharpened pencil near my back, and if I relaxed my arm, my elbow got poked with the point. I suppose he'd be arrested these days for child abuse.

Subject: RE: Your earliest childhood musical moment?
From: Rapparee
Date: 24 Jul 07 - 09:52 PM

We sang "She'll be comin' 'round the mountain" and "Billy Boy" and "Golden Slippers" and "Yankee Doodle" and many, many more. I don't remember a time when there wasn't singing: as Grandma washed dishes or Granpa worked on the car, as my twice-great aunt shelled peas or as we kids played. My father, I'm told, had a fine voice and I remember him singing "Toora Loora Loora" as we were put to sleep. And after he died the music went on, but after we got a television (in 1954 -- we were NOT the first on the block!) we eventually did more listening than singing.

Then a couple years later Mom made us all learn an instrument: I was on trumpet, my brother Tony on trombone, Ted on saxophone and then classical guitar, my sister on violin -- and all of us took piano lessons.

Subject: RE: Your earliest childhood musical moment?
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 24 Jul 07 - 09:02 PM

I remember singing songs in first grade while the teacher played piano. All the classrooms in my elementary school had pianos. Being able to play piano must have been a prerequisite for being an elementary school teacher in the 1950s.

Subject: RE: Your earliest childhood musical moment?
From: Azizi
Date: 24 Jul 07 - 08:49 PM

Besides, "patty cake" and "this little piggy went to market" children's rhymes that my mother taught me, my earliest memories are singing in my church's children's choir.

I also remember this lady coming through our neighborhood and gathering children to go to summer vacation Bible school at another church other than the one my family belonged to. part of my memory of that summer is that the "vaction Bible school lady" {as I have come to refer to her} paired the kids up with a partner. And then she walked in front of us and led us in songs as we marched down sidewalks and across streets till we got to her church. One song we sang was:

B-I-B-L-E
That's the book for me
The Bible teaches right from wrong
So B-I-B-L-E

-snip-

After we finished that verse, the lady would say "Once again now!" And we'd sing that song again.

Whenever I sing that song now, I have to add "Once again now!" . That song doesn't feel right if I don't add that line.

Subject: RE: Your earliest childhood musical moment?
From: Bert
Date: 24 Jul 07 - 08:40 PM

I remember when I was three and I was going to marry Vera Lynn when I grew up.

Subject: Your earliest childhood musical moment?
From: dulcimer42
Date: 24 Jul 07 - 08:31 PM

One of mine was listening to mom "harmonize" with the songs on the radio.... loving the sound, and trying to figure out just how she did it.