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What was your first favorite song?

Pretty interesting question that I've never really thought on. This is the first song I remember hearing on the radio and asking mom to turn it up. I think I was around 5 when it came out. So either this one or "Do the Bartman" or "Can't Touch This"

 
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I was never much into music, but I reckon it would be Honky Tonk Blues by Hank Williams. I recall as a kid, there was a small grocery store a mile or two down the road. Sometimes I would go there with dad and get a bottle of coke for 6 cents and that song would be on the radio. The grocers son would be there sometimes. He was seven foot tall and played basketball at Vandy, if memory serves. It was all pretty impressive to a little kid.
 
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I don't know. I loved all of John Williams's Star Wars and Superman music, so possibly that.

I was barely four when MTV debuted in '81 and the first major video that I remember is Michael Jackson's Thriller in '83. It's never been my favorite song, but it was always an event when it was on, especially when it played on the big screen at the local pizza place.
 
Since it got radio play, the theme from The Greatest American Hero is the first I remember. Played the 45 on my little record player.

Beat It is the first real song I remember playing over and over.
 
I was born in 73 so I remember my first song I loved being the good ol boys theme from the dukes of hazzard. Loved that show and still love the song. Probably why I love Willie, Waylon, Cash etc so much!
 




These two take me back to when I was very young.

That is funny, we must be about the same age, but I vaguely remember "Downtown" as a very young boy, maybe the first song I can remember on the radio.

First song I remember really catching my ear as to Rock was "Get Off My Cloud" by the Stones, which I still think is one of their best early tunes.
 
My sister (5 years older than me) bought this 45 single when I was about 6 or 7 (first grade), and I used to bug the crap out of her to play it constantly. Just loved it. And I still do. I had the lyrics memorized, and would belt it out. Which, in retrospect, considering the subject matter, was probably a constant source of amusement to her and her friends.

Learned, much later in life, that Randy Newman wrote this.


 
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Downtown by Petula Clark (even though I didn't know who it was then) is the first song I can consciously remember hearing on the radio (in our car, going somewhere) I couldn't have been more than 3 years old, but for some reason, I remember that.

I think I was 4 or 5 when I liked that song.

ABC and different songs from the Jackson five were songs I liked as a kid. I remember really liking Jim Croce and Steve Miller as I approached 10. Elton John, Queen, ELO, Kiss in my pre-teen years.
 
I just thought of another - 'Hey there, Georgy Girl' by the Seekers (had to look that up). It was released in '66 (I was 3) so I know I couldn't have remembered it from its initial release. But, I'm guessing it was still being played in '68 or '69 every so often as I distinctly remember hearing it when I was young. Hello, I Love You was '68 and Honky Tonk Women was '69 so I definitely remember those two from the same time period.
 
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