Had a funny thought tonight, and thought it might make for an interesting thread.

What are the very earliest songs you can remember liking as a child? It doesn't matter whether it's kids' music or not. If you remember a song you knew and enjoyed frequently as a kid... what was it?

Embed youtube for bonus points. Here are some of mine.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MIEQ6hWfv34
I wigged out every time I heard this on the radio when I was four or so, for some reason. I really liked this song.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6iaR3WO71j4
This was the friggin' song for four- and five-year-old me.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-evJ0J08Jw
I used to have this on an old 45 that I played to death on the record player when I was 5. I even found a scan of the label.




http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xc1PHk9FhIk
Another 45 I played to death when I was 5. For the record, this song has one of the single most hardcore organ solos I can think of in a song ever. This may have singularly influenced my later musical tastes.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_FA85RO89HA
The most embarrassing entry in this list. I heard this song on the radio and loved it so much that my parents bought me the 45. (It has Woolly Bully on the flipside, which I also liked.)


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XIycEe59Auc
And the last of my stack of records I remember liking when I was younger, though I think I liked this more when I was getting closer to 7 or 8. This, and Do It Again by Steely Dan really jut out at me for those years.



Oh, and I really liked Eye of the Tiger, but I don't need to link to that.

Wha'bout'chu guys?

My mom spun Sam Cooke a lot, so some of my favorites were:








Until two minutes ago, I thought this was Cooke, too, and while it was his song, this covered version was the one I heard as a kid. Dig those 'burns, man.

Additionally, I loved


and my two lullabies:

Steely Dan - 'Do It Again'
Really, the entirety of Countdown to Ecstasy, but this being the first track on the album, and me being a child with a very short attention span
wellp
and since Matt didn't link it


Steely Dan - 'F.M.'
More Steely Dan because they are practically all I listened to as a child
funny story, tho', here. I remember loving this song at like age 4, but then I didn't hear it again until I was 12.


Donald Fagen - 'I.G.Y.'
it's
not quite Steely Dan? ... ah close enough
For the rest of my life I will associate this song with cloudless days in the middle of summer. A glorious feeling.


The Chieftains - 'Setting Sail'

This is another where I could say 'the entire album this is on', that being The Chieftains' collection of songs they did for films, but. I distinctly remember this was my favorite.
Said entire album fostered my appreciation for celtic-y music, and my brother's. The latter of these ruined the rest of my life (I still hear tin-whistles in my dreams), but


Loreena McKennitt - 'The Highwayman'
... I'll be frank, I have absolutely no idea. I know it's an album my dad had but I have no clue why this'un stuck out to Tiny!Kazz so much.

This one has always been one of my faves.



This one... because my father used to listen to it in the car all the freaking time...



There are more, but I was too young to remember (or care about remembering) the names of them. If I heard them again, I would. lol

It took me until about middle school before I started developing tastes in music.

I remember liking this one when I was around five years old.



Though, I have pretty much never liked country music otherwise. Except Johnny Cash, who is a king.

And one of the first CDs my parents picked up for me was Guns N Roses greatest hits.




My musical tastes have...expanded, to say the least, and I'm happy about that.

I dont know about you guys, but only two songs come to mind (my memory is terrible) but theses are the songs I remember loveing as a kid (and still do.) The following is obvious. Who doesn't love the muppets? And I know I've always loved this song though I can't remember where I heard it first.


And finally this one. I have a distinct memory of hearing this song. When I was a kid and in the car with my father this came on the radio, and I remember he sang along to it (which is rare given he was the military type...) and I knew I heard the song before then, and I've always liked it. So this one goes up here too.


and I don't know if this counts... but I was 3 when this movie came out and always loved this song.


Aside from that my memory is too faulty for me to say for sure when I heard what song.