What was your favorite song as a kid?

Proud Mary Ike and Tina version. 

I have always liked a ton of different styles, and there's no way I could pick one single song. 

I had a cassette with various country artists doing their hits.

I can't remember any of the others, but Johnny Cash had two songs represented.

I Walk The Line on side A and Ring Of Fire on side B.

That tape went through major flipping and rewinding to find the treasures.

(I sometimes wonder what other possible gems I missed.)

Yummy yummy yummy I got love in my tummy

Seasons in the Sun

Dizzy

Sweet Pea (not the chuck berry version)

Crimson and Clover

Hank Panky

Then came the jackson five and I was on board, at that time at my age you were either in the Osmond camp or the jackson five

Im told....my very first favorite was a hit by Dave Clark 5....i forget which one now, but my older brothers and sister say...(and in our house at time..music was on 24-7, unless red sox were on radio)...no matter what beatles, stones, dylan, or who song they played...i would literally dance, scream, and basically lose it,  everytime they played this certain song

You Can't Rollerskate in a Buffalo Herd by Roger Miller

https://youtu.be/q6WjfuxfIiw

Western Town- Pet Shop Boys

Reflex-  Duran Duran

Peter Piper- Run Dec

I play the 70s channel on Sirius a lot lately to hear BeLoved songs that would play me through the dark fucked up nights of my childhood. 

Dream weaver

Year of the Cat

Midnight at the oasis

So many...

 Oh shit i missed there rhinestone cowboy link!

Good times

Night that the lights went out in Georgia 

It was the decade of the story song  (;

Surfer Girl

American Pie

Billy, Don't be a Hero (for real)

NO real fave, but some that stand out:

Winchester Cathedral

The Happening

The Syncopated Clock (?)

Uncle John's Band (Had no idea who it was; I just liked it.)

Proud Mary

Midnight Special

City of New Orleans

The Night The Lights Went Out In Georgia (That's right!  And I'd have done Vicki Lawrence, too.)

All of which kind of grabbed me before I ever had control of a radio knob.  Or used it to play more than a Mets game.

I Wish You Knew,  Jim and Jesse and the Virginia Boys

Play that Funky Music---Wild Cherry

I liked the Beatles  a lot as a kid. Begged & pleaded until my parents bought me the 'Alpha - Omega' 4 LP set from TV ads. (Still have it!)

In Music class where they taught us all to sing, my faves were 'Don't you Remember Sweet Betsy From Pike',  'Camptown Races' and 'Streets of Laredo'.

I still remember most of the words to Dave Clark Five's, Listen People.

Yellow Submarine then American Pie a few years later.

{Then My Sweet Lord by George Harrison}

Roger Miller - King of the Road. 

(I was a weird kid) 

https://youtu.be/OmOe27SJ3Yc

I remember liking Eye Of The Tiger enough to request it on a radio station when I was 7 or 8. 

I also remember really liking Rats In The Kitchen by UB40.

Candy man Sammy satisfying and deliscious

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8iIraEbr6NE

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Wendy beach boys    Left Me Alone... 3rd point Malibu..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZeCXh0hLWc

Toy Town #TOYTOWN

Rapper's Delight -- Sugarhlll Gang

25 or 6 to 4. Chicago was great.

and Dead Skunk...

bennie and the jets.

goodbye yellow brick road.

the eagle and the hawk... john denver

puff the magic dragon

In the 70's cruising around w my mom in her brown chevy wagon ---  Baker Street, Levon, Keep on Dancing(the gentrys),  Ode to Billy Joe, We've Only Just Begun, New York Groove(Kiss) & lots of other cheesy classics.

so hard. How bout some personal kinda obscure ones:

Sunshine (go Away Today) - Jonathan Edwards

Snoopy vs. Red Baron - Royal Guardsmen?

Crocodile Rock  - sir Elton

Suite: Judy Blue Eyes- CSN

And what Jonas said.  Rolling around in the back seat of some big Detroit steel - without a seat belt.

My parents had a 45 of Duane Eddy, it had Because They're Young on it. I played that thing for hours and hours, still one of my favorite songs (and favorite guitarists). Then came The Beatles on Ed Sullivan - everything changed.

Johnny Horton - Battle Of New Orleans

Although, according to family legend and prior to my memory, The Lovin' Spoonful Nashville Cats apparently was a happy song for me as toddler. (I have a feeling my dad simply played the 45 a bunch and I seemed to like it.)

My very 1st was "Michael Row Your Boat Ashore" I was 5 or 6 years old, it was a Hymn, & my Mom was devout Catholic.  A few years later I was partial to General Noriega's favorite, "These Boots Are Made for Walkin'" (Nancy Sinatra).  I also recall "Winchester Cathedral", "Ode to Billie Joe", "The Monster Mash", and, strangely enough "New Orleans" (which the GD covered rarely of course).  Oh yeah "Yellow Submarine" was my 1st Beatles song.  Then I got into Creedence Clearwater Revival . . .

And oh yeah the Banana Splits Song . . . & the "Knock 3 Times" song they used for the end credits to Speed Racer . . . .

Monster Mash

Wipe Out

Doug E Fresh The Show

Run DMC Wake Up

LL Cool J Jack the Ripper

I still have a pile of 45's in the basement, all from when I was pretty young, I started buying lp's around age 11-12-13 (early '70's).

Here's some interesting info from Wikipedia about the Banana Splits music, I never had the album:

The Banana Splits' bubblegum pop rock and roll was provided by studio professionals, including Joey Levine ("I Enjoy Being a Boy", "It's a Good Day for a Parade"); Al Kooper ("You're the Lovin' End"); Barry White ("Doin' the Banana Split"); Gene Pitney ("Two Ton Tessie") and Jimmy Radcliffe provided his songs ("I'm Gonna Find a Cave", "Soul", "Don't Go Away Go-Go Girl", "Adam Had 'Em" and "The Show Must Go On") but did not contribute vocals to Splits recordings.

The music director was music publisher Aaron Schroeder, while production duties were mainly handled by David Mook. When a heavier R&B vocal was needed, the music producers usually turned to singer Ricky Lancelotti, who was billed in the show credits under his stage name Rick Lancelot. Lancelotti went on to record several songs with Frank Zappa.[10] In 1968, The Banana Splits released an album on Decca Records titled We're the Banana Splits.

https://youtu.be/GGU1P6lBW6Q

I can't possibly listen to that & not picture the battle scene in Apocalypse Now.

But that reminds me that I had the 1812 Overture on lp as a kid, as I loved the live cannon fire at the crescendo.

Ave Maria on violin, as a child I heard it in church and it moved me to tears at the age of 7 ...

Here is one of my favs David Garrett
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9XrTbWr0tFE




Also Somewhere Over the Rainbow will always be in my <3. 

Here is my favorite artist singing it
Eva Cassidy

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2rd8VktT8xY

probably something from Alan Sherman.

Hello mudda.....

No brainier. 

"Billy, Don't be a Hero" by Paper Lace 

Dr My Eyes - Jackson Browne 

I would just stare at the grooves of the 45 as it spins past the needle, good times

When I was about 6 in 1957 I had a 45 of "Davey Crockett - King of the Wild Frontier". Loved that song - it was the only one I had!

Free Bird

Got a cherry red portable cassette player for my 9th birthday.

Carol King - Tapestry was inside.  Me and Carol, oh the songs we sung together....

Battle Of New Orleans:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=50_iRIcxsz0

And Ramblin Man, loved the guitar solo, set me up for a life time of chasing that sound.