It’s FRIDAY FRIDAY GOT TO GET DOWN ON FRIDAY!
But don’t worry, that is NOT this week’s Friday Video.
HOWEVER. This week we are talking SONGS.
Specifically, what is your earliest favorite song that you can remember?
My earliest favorite song that I heard on the radio when I was with my friends and beginning to define my own taste was very 80s: “Into the Groove” by Madonna.
I was obsessed with this stupid movie, and boy, is it dumb and mostly a way for Madonna to pose and look terminally cool. I remember dancing my arms and legs off in the front yard of the church where we were holding a car wash fundraiser. I was probably 11.
But my earliest favorite song?
“Don’t It Make my Brown Eyes Blue” by Crystal Gayle
This song came out when I was about 3 or so, but it is the earliest song I remember LOVING. Full body adoration, similar to my incredible dance moves to “Into the Groove.”
What about you? What was your first favorite song? Do you remember?
Happy weekend, everybody!
My first favorite song?
“I’ll Have to Say ‘I Love You’ In a Song” by Jim Croce
First heard on 8-track.
Top of the World, by the Carpenters.
Ooh, I loved “Don’t It Make My Brown Eyes Blue,” too, but my first favorite was “Don’t Go Breaking My Heart” with Elton John and Kiki Dee. I used to sing the Kiki parts loudly on my rocking horse (I was 4) while my Mom played her Elton album. I still love that song, and will sing Kiki’s parts when I hear it on the radio, or when I play it.
Peaches by Presidents of the United States of America!
I can remember, as a very young child, spinning around the living room with my older sisters to the song “Dizzy”, and then falling down laughing. Good times.
@Carrie I was just listening to that song this morning, and I do the same thing, minus the rocking horse. And being 4. That’s so funny!
“American Pie” by Don McLean is my earliest remembered favorite song. I was obsessed with it to the point that I got the album as a present when I was three. I still know every word to that song. My earliest favorite I remembering hearing on the radio is “Amie” by Pure Prairie League. I could belt that one out loudly in the backseat of my mom’s Ford Maverick.
Delta Dawn by Tanya Tucker (she recorded it when she was 13!). I would’ve been about 4.
Red Sails in the Sunset. I know, I’m older than dirt.
I am 100% ashamed to say, the first song I remember calling my favorite was “Centerfold” by the J. Geils Band (1981, aka second grade). In my defense, I had no understanding of what it was about. My sister and I used to sneak MTV, and I probably liked the video because it’s set in a school and has lots of pretty girls walking around. I just looked it up and I can’t even watch it. The #1 comment is “No wonder we who grew up in the 80s were so well-adjusted😆”.
My bestie loved Desperately Seeking Susan too. We used to pretend she was Susan and I was Roberta. I was secretly glad she wanted to be Susan because I thought Dez was *so* much cuter than Jim.
I remember hearing Don’t It Make My Brown Eyes Blue as “Don’tcha make my brown eyes blue” and being very offended because I have blue eyes and I thought Crystal Gale was singing about not wanting to have blue eyes, lol. Also she had all that long straight hair and I had a little orphan Annie curly situation going on and I just really felt like I was already not living up to beauty standards. (My issues got started eeeeaaaaarly, clearly).
Puff, the Magic Dragon on Peter, Paul, and Mary’s album Moving. My first album, purchased at the grocery store for me by my mom. Is this memory accurate? Did grocery stores in the 60s sell current albums?
Can’t remember my first “favorite” song. Might have been “Groovy Kind of Love” by the Mindbenders. What I can remember is three songs that I had to own the first time I heard them.
The first was “Paradise Under the Dashboard Light” by Meatloaf. We were driving to New Hampshire with the kids & my husband & I kept cutting our eyes at each other going “Did he really just say that.” The second was “Common People” by William Shatner. Again, the spouse and I had a moment–an “Is that Shatner?” moment. and finally, the first time I saw the video of Johnny Cash’s cover of “Hurt” I was stunned. I still cry whenever I hear it.
Can’t remember my first “favorite” song. Might have been “Groovy Kind of Love” by the Mindbenders. What I can remember is three songs that I had to own the first time I heard them.
The first was “Paradise Under the Dashboard Light” by Meatloaf. We were driving to New Hampshire with the kids & my husband & I kept cutting our eyes at each other going “Did he really just say that.” The second was “Common People” by William Shatner. Again, the spouse and I had a moment–an “Is that Shatner?” moment. and finally, the first time I saw the video of Johnny Cash’s cover of “Hurt” I was stunned. I still cry whenever I hear it.
I have to go with Tanya Tucker’s Delta Dawn, too. OG GenX. My parents only listened to OG gospel and country, so I didn’t get my rock and pop vibes till later.