What was the first music you were consciously aware of

[foo]

Harlem Shuffle?

is it?

dunno but cheers soj - i'll do a search.

if i find it, i wonder if all my ultra-serious confusion and annoyance will seep back?

god i was a wierd kid.

 

[Sweaty Betty]

2-4-6-8 motorway!!!!!!!

 

[Wintermute]

lots and lots of old school folk music from my dad when he played his guitar.

Similar. My mum and dad were both into folk, we always had guitars and banjos laying about the house, and blokes smelling of leather turning up with accordions. I have no idea what I was listening to the first time I heard something and recognised it as music but there's a fair chance that it was some sort of traditional English folk, or ceilidh.

 

[jayeola]

Long haired lover from Liverpool by Jimmy Osmond, when I was a wee kid from my Uncles record collection.

Sheesh! I thought that I have killed and buried the last person to have mentioned that song in public

 

[citydreams]

2-4-6-8 motorway!!!!!!!

3-6-9 the goose drunk wine

 

[Sweaty Betty]

3-6-9 the goose drunk wine

Thats a different song, but i dig your style

 

[sojourner]

is it?

dunno but cheers soj - i'll do a search.

if i find it, i wonder if all my ultra-serious confusion and annoyance will seep back?

god i was a wierd kid.

Bob and Earl did it in 63, Booker T and MGs did a cover too

Lyrics:

You move it to the left
And you go for yourself
You move it to the right
Yeah if it takes all night
Now take it kinda slow
With a whole lot of soul
Don't move it too fast
Just make it last

You scratch just like a monkey
Yeah you do real cool
You slide it to the limbo
Yeah how low can you go?
Now come on baby
Don't fall down on me now
Just move it right here
To the Harlem shuffle
Yeah yeah yeah to the Harlem shuffle
Yeah yeah yeah to the Harlem shuffle

Hitch hitch hike baby
Across the floor
I can't stand it no more
Now come on baby
Now get into your slide
Just ride ride ride
Little pony, ride!

Yeah yeah yeah do the Harlem shuffle
Yeah yeah yeah do the Harlem shuffle
Do the Monkey shine
Yeah yeah yeah shake a tail feather baby
Yeah yeah yeah shake a tail feather baby
Yeah yeah yeah do the Harlem shuffle
Yeah yeah yeah do the Harlem shuffle
Yeah like your mother told you how
Yeah yeah yeah do the Harlem shuffle
Yeah yeah yeah do the Harlem shuffle

Let me know how the confusion goes

 

[citydreams]

Thats a different song, but i dig your style

I know.. they couldn't be much more different

 

[Epicurus]

Samba

 

[foo]

The Stones did it, which would fit your timing, but they covered it.

Yeah yeah yeah shake a tail feather baby
Yeah yeah yeah shake a tail feather baby

Let me know how the confusion goes

superb - soj thank you!

i s'pose i have to be thankful i didn't also spend time getting cross about babies not being ponies either.....


(i can hear the song in my head now - and phew, no sign of regressing!)

cheers soj - you've made me giggle. and i needed to. x

 

[Poi E]

Rita Streich. Dad loved her.

 

[sojourner]

superb - soj thank you!

i s'pose i have to be thankful i didn't also spend time getting cross about babies not being ponies either.....


(i can hear the song in my head now - and phew, no sign of regressing!)

cheers soj - you've made me giggle. and i needed to. x

Ah, you caught me before my edit. The version you heard was probably Bob and Earl, I got my years mixed up

But it is the same song, and I'm glad to be of service ma'am *doffs hat*

 

[Mation]

Lots of Donny Hathaway, Bob James and Bob Marley because my dad liked them and Dionne Warwick cos my mum liked her.

And Save All Your Kisses for Me which went down very well at my primary school disco and I liked cos I danced to it in my purple lycra peddle-pushers.

And Daddy Cool.

 

[northernhord]

My Mother playing Tom Jones Green Green Grass of Home on the radio when I was a nippa

 

[sojourner]

And Daddy Cool.

By The Darts?

 

[chemn]

The Thompson Twins, Marillion, Kim Wilde, The Beach Boys, The Beatles probably in that order between the ages of 2-3 I reckon (1987-1988). Good thread

 

[Mation]

By The Darts?

No, Boney M.

You had to make me say it, didn't you?

 

[LDR]

Traditional Scottish Music.

It was always playing at family gatherings as all my family were from Glasgow.

 

[Dubversion]

Elvis, Roy Orbison, Everly Brothers, the Beatles, Walker Brothers. All pretty obvious. And all good, save the fucking Beatles.

 

[littlebabyjesus]

Something by Shawoddywoddy, but I think I remember seeing them on TV more than hearing them. My very early childhood is strangely blank - my mum liked the Jimmy Young show so maybe I've blanked out the memory to protect my sanity.

 

[J77]

Elton John, or Bob Dylan.

 

[LDR]

Elton John, or Bob Dylan.

Yeah, I get those two confused as well.

 

[sojourner]

No, Boney M.

You had to make me say it, didn't you?

*points and laughs*

 

[Termite Man]

The first thing I can really remember was a song on Bridge Over Troubled Water by Simon and Garfunkel I believe it was Baby Driver which featured the sound of either a car or motorbike on it and I'd leap up to look out the window to see if I could see the car I wasn't a very bright kid

In terms of awarenes of further pop culture it has to be seeing punks hanging around the graveyard in the town centre drinking which really facinated me so it's not surprising when I was older and was able to link the image to the music I had a natural inclination to like it !

 

[Termite Man]

*points and laughs*

Boney M are fucking brilliant !

 

[sojourner]

Boney M are fucking brilliant !

You worry me sometimes

 

[LDR]

He worries me all the time.

 

[Termite Man]

You worry me sometimes

They are my one guilty pleasure ! To make up for it I have a severe hatred for all other disco

 

[saucisson]

Elvis, fleetwood mac, gilbert and sullivan (pirates of penzance etc), the planets - Holst, peter and the wolf, beatles

 

[Lisarocket]

Bay City Rollers and Rolf Harris

And my dads Stones and Donovan records, mums Beatles...