Favorite songs growing up

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maxed out 77 posts Mar 15, 2009 12:54 PM	Some of my best memories are the great songs when I was growing up. Most of the Beatles songs brings back great memories when I was growing up in Xenia. "In My Life" , one of my favorites... And who could forget BTO's "Let It Ride" What great times.
SeeDavid 193 posts Mar 15, 2009 8:05 PM	White Album- Beatles - I Will. Tapestry Album - Carole King Mud Slide Slim & The Blue Horizon - James Taylor This doesn't apply to Dayton, so let's throw in the Ohio Players of Dayton. ~Cindi
SeeDavid 194 posts Mar 16, 2009 8:34 AM	How about kid songs in the Dayton area: Pickin' up PAW PAWS put 'em in his pockets/her basket? Roses on my shoulders, slippers on my feet, I'm my Mommy's darling, don't you think I'm sweet? Hole in the ground and the green grass grew all around all around. There was an old woman who swallowed a fly, I don't know why she swallowed a fly? Perhaps she'll die......about seven verses later, she swallowed a horse, SHE DIED OF COURSE. (It's a real song, Curt, don't delete me..fun and informative and I teach it to my grandkids about an old woman who lived in Dayton!!!) ~Cindi
historymom 14 posts Apr 29, 2009 11:07 AM	The earliest song I remember hearing on the radio was "Cinnamon". I hadn't heard it for years and then I recently heard it on an internet radio stream of teen idols. I loved Bobby Sherman, David Cassidy and The Partridge Family, of course. I was a bubblegum pop girl!
Curt Dalton 137 posts Jun 11, 2009 7:01 PM	What's New Pussycat? was the first song I ever remember hearing on the radio. We didn't own one while I was young and the neigbor was playing his in his garage. I loved it. Born Free "as free as the wind blows" Old Man River "it just keeps rolling along" Old Rivers "that mule, Old Rivers and me" by Walter Brennan Thirty Thousand Pounds of Bananas... As you may guess, I didn't have a radio but I did go to a garage sale and pick up an old record player and a bunch of 78s and 45 records. A strange bunch of songs, that's for sure. Which reminds me of the first time I saw a sign that said Garage Sale and I asked if I could buy the garage... I wanted to use it as a club house.
SeeDavid 260 posts Jun 11, 2009 10:03 PM	Alley Cat...???? Sixteen Tons- Tennessee Ernie Ford Mule Train - Frankie Layne Taste of Honey- Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass It's Not Unusual- Tom Jones...Curt both our Moms For Max and Keugene; Red Roses for a Blue Lady, Bob Braun.... ~Cindi (Dave will post his cowboy songs later, I already took Frankie Layne from him. ~Cindi
Becky73 125 posts Jun 14, 2009 9:56 AM	Lets see... Big Girls Don't Cry - Frankie Valle & the Four Seasons - from the mini-juke box at Parkmoor Itsy Bitsy Teeny Weeny Yellow Polka Dot Bikini - was my first 45. I broke it by sitting on it. Tears Alley Cat - from the band at North Dayton Anglers club Anything by Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass - on the charter boat fishing on Lake Erie Mack the Knife by Bobby Darrin - on the car radio of my parents Hudson driving my Dad to work at Union Depot Summer in the City - sitting in a group of Jr. High kids at Glen Helen during our week "camp out" in 6th grade Downtown by Petula Clark - coming from the Wurlizer juke box at my Aunt's Mille Lacs, MN resort Hang on Sloopy by the Mccoys(?) - I never heard it there buy I associate the song with my Mother. She used to yell it at her bowling ball at Bowlero lanes and always said it was her favorite song. My kids now associate it with the Grandmother they never knew. OMG - I never realized how many songs I associate with specific places or events. Great topic!
SeeDavid 265 posts Jun 14, 2009 10:36 AM	I loved Mack the Knife and Bobby Darren....and also Beyond The Sea. (smooch) Sandra Dee's hubby, too. Mack is how I learned about loan sharks and the complications involved in non payment of debts owed. Beyond the Sea - Reminded me of France My Uncle Bobby and his Everly Brothers repertoire...Wake up Little Susie, Bye Bye Love, Cathy's Clown, Down at Bowling Green, and his collection of Pat Boone records and his white bucks that I used to unsnap...memories and rides downtown with him in his 57 Buick. (He worked at the HandyMan on Woodman and would eat lunch with me and rock me every day)... Tijuana Jail- Kingston Trio (thought of them in there and would laugh as a kid...funny song too) Don't Let the Rain Come Down...my roof's got a hole in it and I might drown - The Brother's Four- snappy and make me build my treehouse with actual flashing and shingles. All of this reminds me of my Grandparent's and Aunts and Uncles in Meadowdale and also Clayton, N. Dayton, W. Dayton, etc. Black Bakelite record player (Aunt Cark's) RCA, with a fat 45 "tall spindle changer, or as I called it the 45 tower of power). Leslie Gore - It's my party!!!!!! Oh I felt her pain! Hey, Paula..Paul and Paula (actual names were Ray and Jill)....Demmitt Elementary School cafeteria.) Now to Jr. High- For What It's Worth - Buffalo Springfield. (about Viet Nam and anti hippiness by the dreaded police)- Morton Junior High Field House...Vandalia, Ohio, More....to come like the movies. Back to you guys.. This is a great topic, Maxedout!!! - Cindi
SeeDavid 269 posts Jun 14, 2009 10:02 PM	*sidebar: dave is gonna come in here and do something like Cream, The Allmann Bros., Eric Burden, and Muddy Waters..betcha!!! ~Cindi
SeeDavid 270 posts Jun 14, 2009 10:04 PM	Dear Curt, No radio? I think you already know that I would have babysat for Magilla Gorilla for a radio then. Awwww. Good Garage Sale Story, too. ~Cindi
Keugene48 42 posts Jun 18, 2009 7:19 PM	I also listened to my parent's music while growing up - mostly the 50's Patti Page and whatever was on the Hit Parade. One big exception: my mom's name was Carmel and she liked the opera Carmen because it was so similar to her name. So we had a 78 that we listened to a lot. We never had a radio in the house either so when transistor radios came out I had one with a white leather cover. I fell in love with "Soldier Boy" first and "Sukiyaki" "Telstar" also "Mission Bell" by Donnie Brooks. I was asked to go steady to the sound of "I Will Follow Him" on the car radio. My first boyfriend lent me his 45's, anybody remember the song "Angela Jones" by Jay Ferguson, I believe. Also liked "Palisades Park", reminded me of a date I had at Le Sourdsville park when I rode a roller coaster for the first time. Yes Memories Are Made of This! Last Edited by on Jun 18, 2009 7:23 PM
rfk61 32 posts Sep 05, 2009 6:08 PM	When I was 6 or 7 I used to love "There's A Kind of Hush" by Hermans Hermits. I had a little transistor radio and I would put it under my pillow when I went to bed and listen to the radio through my pillow. I could be wrong, but it seems to me that they always played the same songs in the same order because I always knew it would be on at bedtime.
rodat6 84 posts Sep 06, 2009 2:35 PM	We grew up listening to songs by Phil Harris, Hank Williams, Frankie Lane and a few others but the first time I really heard music was from the Sgt. Peppers album, Beatles. During that era I got way into music, even bought a Hohner Harmonica C scale and played it a lot like Bob Dylan style. I would have to say that music from the late Sixties changed my world. We went from bubble gum to psychedelic , from Itsy bitty teeny weenie yellow polka dot bikini to The Times They are a-Changing and so many more. Then music seemed to die and here it is 2009 and we sure could use another music revolution in the world. In the Sixties the music kept us alive almost. lol
bowa 68 5 posts Dec 13, 2009 9:16 PM	Hign school, 1965-68. Bob Dylan's "like a rolling stone". The Door's "Light my fire."
mem 53 posts Dec 15, 2009 12:09 PM	Great songs from the memory bank: I'm Available, Buleberry Hill, I'm Walkin', Hey School Girl, Peggy Sue,Put A Light In The Window, Walkin To New Orleans, Treat Me Nice, Pussy Cat, In The Mood, String Of Pearls, Mabeleen, Popcorn Song, Stairway To Heaven, Do What You Did, Alley Oop, and on and on.
clamper 30 posts Mar 30, 2011 6:47 AM	It sounds weird but the first song I can recall is 'Volare' by Dean Martin. My dad had it on the HiFi along with other songs of course but thats the one that stuck with me.
FAITH 28 posts Mar 30, 2011 7:50 AM	The first song I really remember was 'Hey Jude', as I was just a toddler. 'My Sweet Lord' and 'Horse with No Name' carry significant memories. "I Am Woman" became my mom's anthem as she dealt with a seriously ill husband and an uncertain future. I learned about the really good stuff in 1973-74 when every Friday in the summer our family went to play Putt-Putt and they played Alice Cooper and Aerosmith on the PA. Good times...
delcodude 103 posts Mar 30, 2011 11:46 AM	Hang on Sloopy, by The McCoys and Rick Zehringer (Derringer) Go Buckeyes!! O-H!?! The theme from The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly The theme from Peter Gunn Summer In the City by the Lovin Spoonful Wipeout by the Surfaris Mellow Yellow by Donovan Honey by Bobby Goldsboro Grazin in the Grass by Hugh Masekela Long Haired Country Boy by Charlie Daniels The one I remember most is Blackwater by the Doobie Bros. though Last Edited by delcodude on Feb 18, 2013 11:21 AM
AllenN71 177 posts Mar 30, 2011 1:55 PM	Before there was "Deep Purple"'s "Smoke on the Water" (but after "Louie Louie" and "Gloria") the song every budding guitarist had to learn to be considered at least competent was "Little Black Egg". (as far as Deep Purple is concerned, I think their cover of "Kentucky Woman" was da bomb! I love the guitar riff in the middle. And by the by, remember how the "top-forty" stations kept irritatingly cutting out Terry Kath's BRILLIANT guitar riff from "Make Me Smile"? Sacriledge, I say, SACRILEDGE!!) If you couldn't tell, I speak as a guitarist. And while Jimmy Page's solo on "Heartbreaker" was and is a master classic, what really got me into Led Zeppelin was his work in DADGAD tuning on "Black Mountain Side". On the other hand, there was "Black Sabbath". While I sorta liked the group, you could probably train a chimp to play Tony Iommi's guitar work on any of their albums. Most idiotic song of the late '60s? Noel Redding's "Little Miss Strange" on Axis: Bold as Love. No wonder Hendrix got a new bassist. (and Buddy Miles was a much better fit for Hendrix as a drummer, IMHO; but then again, sez me.
rodat6 132 posts Mar 30, 2011 3:46 PM	Songs from when I lived in Dayton, 42 thru 59, Feuding, Fussing and Fighting, Roll out the Barrel, Smoke that Cigarette, Phil Harris, The Box, Phil Harris, Boney Maroney, Who wrote the book of Love, Handyman, Along came Jones, Rocking Robin, Bobbie Day. Glow little Glow Worm. Mule Train, Frankie Lane. Cheating Heart, Hank Williams.
RCINKY 37 posts Mar 30, 2011 7:58 PM	Does your Chewing Gum loose it's flavor on the bed post overnight. Itsy, Bitsy, Teeny, Weenie, Yellow Polk-a-dot bikini, but maybe even before that, the old' Chisolm Trail, Coma-a-tie-yi-yippi-yippi,-i- yippy-a...loved cowboys when I was a little guy. Later on Neil Young, Beatles, Stones, Beach Boys.
clamper 31 posts Mar 30, 2011 9:16 PM	i remember listening to the Vanilla Fudge album 'The Beat Goes On' over and over and well, you get the message. Also, The Chambers Brothers (Time Has Come Today), Electric Prunes, you know, that genre.
CLee 8 posts Mar 31, 2011 9:29 AM	Popsicles and Icicles Johnny Angel Long Tall Sally First song I remember hearing Yellow Rose OF Texas--I ended up living in Texas.
Perry401 42 posts Mar 31, 2011 10:32 AM	Back in the "old days" around 1970, each AM top 40 stations tried to outdo each other by playing more songs per hour than the others. To do this, they didn't cut back on commercials, news, or DeeJay chit-chat, they did it by cutting out parts of some songs. I know, I worked as a "music editor" for a few months as a student employee for WONE. As an example, I created a 43 second version of the normally about 3 minute long Simon and Garfunkel song "The Sound of Silence". This was I think the most extreme editing I did. I didn't think much at the time about what I was doing to the performers art -- more about the $5.00 per song bonus I made with each edited song that was used on the air. The station really pretty much left it up to the editors what to cut out, and how extreme to go. Occationally I was able to create an instrumental only song version by cutting out the lyrics. This they would use when a DeeJay wanted to talk over the music. The process was to take a 1/4" reel to reel tape and physically cut it with a razor blade, then re-assemble it. Very few people -- except a few long-time station engineers -- could do this and hit the beat accurately enough that listeners did not notice the splice. After the song was completed, it was put on a Cart -- an 8-track like cartridge -- that each contained a single song or commercial. The DeeJays used the carts and almost never played an LP or other record, unless it was very new, an odd request, like the "B" side of a popular song, or and "oldie goldie". I think the same process went on at most AM top 40's stations, but to his credit, Gene "By Golly" Berry never bought into it, and only played full cuts. This did not always mean the audience heard everything, since most record companies distributed multiple versions of the same work, and they sometimes varied in length or were what we now call "edited for content", meaning objectionable lyrics were eliminated or changed. As an example of an early studio edited work I think of Country Joe McDonald's live Woodstock performance of "I-Feel-Like-I'm-Fixin'-to-Die Rag" (AKA "Vietnam Rag") Several versions were pressed by the record label, most if not all had some editing. One starts with him yelling "Give me an F..." to the audience. The song was released with all the letters up to "C", then immediately cut to McDonald yelling "What's that spell" -- but the record company cut out the audience response when they shouted the "F" word back in response, skipping immediately back to Country Joe yelling "What's that spell" again and again. I worked this job long enough to make $500, which I used to buy my first car from Johnnie Walker (from Channel 22 fame). With a car, I was no longer limited to jobs on the bus line, and so I said goodbye to WONE.
jazzbass 11 posts Mar 31, 2011 10:33 AM	"Hang on Sloopy, by Dayton's own The McCoys and Rick Zehringer (Derringer)" Really???? I thought they were from Union City Indiana. They sure played a lot of gigs around Dayton as Rick and the Raiders but I don't recall them claiming Dayton as home, maybe I'm wrong.. :-) I do know that every garage band had better know Hang On Sloopy back then... ~~~~~~~~~~~~ Let's see.. Junior high was surf music.. Beach Boys, Jan and Dean, Dick Dale (Misirlou) and Ventures to name a few. Then on to high school... Nearly anything from Stax/Volt.. Otis Redding, Wilson Picket, Sam and Dave and Rufus Thomas (Do the Funky Chicken). Then the Beatles!! Wow!!! Actually I was a bigger fan of the Stones and Yardbirds.. Blues based music!!! Think about it, British bands introducing American kids to American based music.. Wow, the irony..
delcodude 110 posts Apr 01, 2011 7:17 AM	jazzbass: ^^^^^^^ You're correct. Rick Derringer was born on the Ohio side of Union City, In., he's been quoted as saying. The McCoys were a high school group from Union City, In. from all accounts. But, the Zehringers, Rick, Randy and family, supposedly settled in Dayton (near Kemp School I've heard) some time after their move to Fort Recovery, Oh., when Rick was in the 8th grade. Does anybody here recall? Anyway, hah, if North Carolina can claim to be the 1st in Flight(pffffft!!, If we only had an ocean breeze...), then we Daytonians should be able to claim The McCoys as our own. After all, the Zehringers lived here and the McCoys made their mark here. They bought their instruments at Hauer Music and Hang On Sloopy was re-done during their time here. Which happens to be the official rock song of our state, not Indiana...jmo Anything by the Beach Boys was a good song and I've probably hummed more of their tunes than any others. And, just about everything from the Beatles was great back then. Later on and to this day, Led Zeppelin has joined The Beatles as my all-time favorite bands. 'I've been told' though, that Sugar Shack was my first favorite song, along about the age of 1. This is a cool topic Last Edited by on Apr 01, 2011 7:01 PM
marty58 26 posts Apr 23, 2011 7:02 PM	my first song i remember singing was high hopes lol..i have to agree w/delcodude though as far as led zeppelin goes. can't seem to outgrow them. fav song "the song remains the same." high school days were bob dylan,joni mitchell,janis,crosby,stills nash&young and america.
AllenN71 183 posts Apr 24, 2011 11:31 AM	My kid sister used to think the McCoys were singing about Snoopy the "Peanuts" dog. The garage band of older boys down the sreet heard her singing, "Hang on Snoopy" so they wrote a parody to make fun of her. It backfired, since she thought the lyrics finally made sense (she was like, six at the time).
victoryopera76 15 posts Apr 24, 2011 9:26 PM	In the early 60's Love Me Do by the Beatles & alot of Motown songs on WING Radio A.M. of course but I really loved WVUD from about 1970-1976 man what a great commercial free non stop Rockin station!!! Love music to this day and actually still have all of my record albums from high school on and most are still in great condition. Great topic!!!!
JeffN 383 posts Apr 27, 2011 11:26 AM	I loved everything Beatles as a kid, especially Hey Jude. In the 70s, I loved soul ... the Spinners, Barry White, Al Green, Harold Melvin ... great stuff. And the rock was fantastic as well...America, Aerosmith, Doobie Brothers...
PaulH 15 posts Apr 27, 2011 3:43 PM	First rock and roll songs were, Rock Around the Clock; Blue Suede Shoes; Hound Dog. Later it was anything by the Beach Boys; the Beatles and tbe Rolling Stones. Listened to top 40 stuff on WING with Steve Kirk and then almost exclusively WVUD(?) FM and hours of commercial free music. That was when I got hooked on anything by Frank Zappa. To this day, I have a complete collection of the Stones and Zappa.
AllenN71 323 posts Oct 05, 2011 8:39 AM	Let's not forget the "novelty songs": "(One eyed one horned) Flyin' Purple People Eater" "Short-Shorts" (Who likes short-shorts? We like short-shorts!) "Itsy-bitsy Teeny-weeny Yellow Polka Dot Bikini" (That one was written by a guy who would have a heart attack if he had travelled time and seen the beach today); "Ahab the A-rab" (Which I played at max volume with the windows down on 9-12-2001 when some of the Moslem cab drivers were openly celebrating the attacks - no lie). And my favorite, by Napoleon - something - the III, "They're coming to take me away, ha ha". Man, I'll tell you, that speaks to my mood right about now.
thomas6 54 posts Oct 06, 2011 8:13 AM	anything from peggy lee,and someone i still can't figure out where my head must have been on this one,but wayne newton's L.O.V.E.use to play the 45 alot,i still talk to my therapist apout it.......oh wait a minute my therapist won't talk to me anymore.i also remember singing different lyrics to One Eyed One Horned,but you know the ole young and dumb thing,when i got my first walkman.......actually a Arvin A.M with a head set err i mean earphone so i didn't bother anyone with that awful music WING AM was always playing,i think i liked it all
tim.trochelman 4 posts Oct 06, 2011 9:41 AM	Red Rubber Ball by the Seekers Every time I hear that song, it takes me to a moment in my childhood and makes me feel great. It was a hot Dayton summer and my sister and I went with some close family friends to a house that they were house-sitting. It had an in-ground pool, which was rare in those days, and we had a wonderful day. Great memories!
Bigmo 69 posts Oct 06, 2011 11:42 AM	I listened to Elvis as a little kid but really came of radio age at 9 when all my new friends listened to WING non-stop in the summer of '63. The play list was: It's my party - Lesley Gore Judy's turn to cry - Lesley Surf City - Jan & Dean Drag City - Jan & Dean Surfin USA - Beach Boys Shut down - Beach Boys Surfer girl - Beach Boys Little deuce coupe - Beach Boys I will follow him - Little Peggy March The end of the world - Skeeter Davis Rhythm of the falling rain - The Cascades Blue on blue - Bobby Vinton Easier said than done - The Essex Sukiyaki Dominique - Singing Nuns Hello muddah, hello faddah - Allan Sherman Devil in disguise - Elvis Wipeout - Safaris Fingertips - Little Stevie Wonder Last Edited by on Oct 06, 2011 11:50 AM
AllenN71 325 posts Oct 06, 2011 5:32 PM	Hey Tim: "Red Rubber Ball" was by the CYRCLE and not the Seekers. The Seekers did "World of our Own". And BTW who can forget "Wild Thang" by the Troggs?
hunt69 312 posts Oct 06, 2011 8:53 PM	Lou Christie,my favorite by him was "Two Faces Have I." That song reminded me of a few people I knew over the years. Especially the Two Faces part. Del Shannon was great also.Remember "Runaway?"To bad he shot himself in 1990. Last Edited by on Oct 06, 2011 8:55 PM
AllenN71 327 posts Oct 07, 2011 2:21 PM	One thing about Lou Christie was the way he sang so sweet and mellow and in the next verse it sounded like someone had grabbed him by the u-know-whats with a pair of vise-grips. "Two faces have I-ahI" and then "Yi yi yi yi yihi yi". Indeed. Sounded like it hurt.
tim.trochelman 6 posts Oct 07, 2011 5:08 PM	AllenN71, you are absolutely correct. I had Googled the song and saw that, in addition to Cyrcle, the Seekers had done it, too. The Seekers was what on my mind and my fingers just typed that in. OOPS! Anyway, I loved that song.
hunt69 414 posts Jan 24, 2013 9:02 AM	I"m sitting her listening to "Reflections of my life,"by Marmalade. I just thought I'd stop by the site and say "HI!" I hadn't been around for a little while.
FAITH 81 posts Jan 25, 2013 7:00 AM	A good song for today in VA would be "Snowbird" by Anne Murray. Hey hunt69, nice to see a post from ya!
hunt69 415 posts Jan 29, 2013 6:52 PM	The Cassinos "Then you can tell me Goodbye." This song came out in '67.It will always be special to me because after '67,I had to grow up real quickly.I love this song,it reminds me of a simpler time. Have a good life folks.
PaulH 139 posts Jan 29, 2013 9:36 PM	@hunt69: I saw them play at a night club down by LeSourdsville park. Thought they were great. CDs are available on Amazon. I bought one a couple os years ago. ----------
Billd1952 40 posts Feb 15, 2013 4:57 PM	Mohair Sam, by Charly Rich was my one of favorites in the 60s, Silver Wings, Merle Haggard was another, but, the Country Elvis, Conway Twitty, ruled, Hello Darlin, On Our Last Date, Tight Fittin' Jeans..... Last Edited by Billd1952 on Feb 15, 2013 4:59 PM
luv my dayton 233 posts Feb 17, 2013 7:14 AM	This goes way back to the 40's when my sister and I would be playing and we would singing A tisket a tasket and Little Brown church in the wildwood. Oh the innocense there was back in those days. Last Edited by luv my dayton on Feb 17, 2013 7:16 AM

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