3 songs you considered "iconic" at the time when you were 5-10 yo?

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#1 Rhinestone Cowboy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8kAU3B9Pi_U

 

#2 Star Wars Theme Song

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_D0ZQPqeJkk

 

#3 Sky High - Jigsaw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QjtD8A-MWBc

 

I can definitely remember #1 and #2 being in that order, but there could be another #3 I'm just spacing at the moment.

Red Roses for a Blue Lady by The Mills Brothers.  My folks played it a lot.

 

Age.

please dont fiddle with the Oreo middle, Lean on me( back seat of a chevy station wagon  3 boys... 

Bad Bad Leroy Brown

Time in a Bottle 

American Pie

Edmund Fitzgerald 

Blue Skies

The Boxer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aAqx8y6mOFY

my very first "favorite" song, from when i was 4-6yo. TBH this really explains quite a bit about myself.

In 1967 -68 I went to my cousin's wedding in Ann Arbor and I was 7-8 years old. All my Michigan cousins were older and most of them were hippies. My Uncle Hinney was probably in his 50's, long hair, who rode a motorcycle and he used to spend time at a commune even though he was married to my aunt. Uncle Hinney was a trip, and taught me how to tie dye shirts and he also gave me a chain with Peace Bells on it to wear around my neck, which I still cherish, and they are hanging in my garage to this day. His daughter Jerry married a musician named Terry and one of my most vivid memories from that time was at their wedding, on the dance floor, dancing to Light My Fire by The Doors, with them and all of their hippie friends. The band must of played that song 10 times that night it was a fucking blast. Iconic moment in my life and Light My Fire was the soundtrack.

 

Seasons in the Sun

Yummy Yummy I got Love in my Tummy by the 1910 Fruitgum Co.

Tommy James and the Shondells were the shit for me - crimson and clover, Hanky Panky, I think were alone now, Mony Mony,  Sweet Cherry Wine, Crystal Blue Persuasion 

anything on the radio by the Beatles or Credence Clearwater Revival  

not good at reading, I am 

Everybody is Kung Foo Fighting

A Horse With No Name

Smoke on the Water

 

All three released when I was 10 and I recall them on AM radio. 
Day After Day - Badfinger

Baby I'm A Want You- Bread

What's Goin' On- Marvin Gaye

 

Hey Jude

Last Train To Clarksville

Theme to Mission Impossible 

3 isn't enough

i could do radio songs

disney songs

saturnday cartoon songs (banana splits!)

fun topic

radiowise:

octopus' garden

midnight at the oasis

wildfire

always grew up with a clock radio, my night time secret delight

Where Have All The Flowers Gone 

Itsy Bitsy Teeny Weenie Yellow Polka Dot Bikini 

Sherry 

Bob, you must be one of us old people.

Sherry wasn't one for me but the other 2 were. I wish I remembered - so much good music in the '50s, '60s.

Mungo Jerry-In The Summertime

The Jackson 5-ABC 

Lou Reed-Take A Walk On The Wild Side

Smokey Robinson & The Miracles-Tears Of A Clown

The Spinners-Rubber Band Man

Wings-Band On The Run

KC & The Sunshine Bwnd-Get Down Tonight

Aerosmith-Sweet Emotion

The Bee Gees-Jive Talkin'

Elton John-Crocodile Rock

David Bowie-Fame

Lynyrd Skynyrd-Sweet Home Alabama

Kiss-Rock & Roll All Night

The Who-Won't Get Fooled Again

Led Zeppelin-Stairway To Heaven

Aretha Franklin-Rock Steady

 

 

Gosh, who knows at that age.  The first song I remember being deep into was

The Reflex

^^^
Yes Judit. I am a proud member of that tribe. Yes there certainly was. And most of it stands the test of time. For me, I guess it started with Folk and progressed from there to ultimately the Grateful Dead. A lot of the folk stuff I gravitated to was from my summer camp experiences. The Four Seasons were the first group I was into. Then came the Beatles and the British Invasion and again ultimately Jerry and the gang. I was fortunate to have gone on a 40 day and night cross country trip in the summer of 1968. It was my coming of age summer. Got to see the Doors in Vancouver. Then down the coast to Frisco and the rest is history. How fortunate were we?

Things don't become iconic until after the fact. At ages 5-10 I doubt if I knew what the word meant.

My first musical experience that I remember, other than hearing my parents classical collection, was when I got a 45 rpm record of "Davey Crockett - king of the Wild Frontier". This was at age 5 in 1956.

I started listening to "real" music at age 10 on the little transistor radio my grandpa bought me, after being introduced to such by our African-American teenage baby sitter.

At that time I liked everything I heard. Luckily I could listen to Arnie Ginsburg's Night Train show on WMEX Boston after the parents went to bed with my single ear bud. He would play music from all genres - R+R, Tex-Mex, blues. country, R+B,  folk, novelty songs.

It was pretty cool hearing all this new-to-me music, all in the same place.

Hello muddah, hello faddah, Here I am in Camp Granada.