your favourite song from Childhood.

Spiritoftheseventies · 03-07-2009 2:16pm #1

what was your favourite song dating back to your childhood. Mine would be Sugar Baby Love by the Rubettes. Falsetto vocal at the beginning was amazing.

cashback · 03-07-2009 7:41pm

My favourites before I reached the age of ten or so:

I just called - Stevie Wonder
Walk of Life - Dire Straits
Smooth Criminal - Michael Jackson

Great White · 03-07-2009 7:46pm

Baby Love by The Supremes. I was 5 when i started to play it on my own. My parents bought the single in I think 1964. I played back to back til my mother hid it

rednik · 04-07-2009 12:51am

Baker Street - Gerry Rafferty. Always on the jukebox in Ben Halls in Dun Laoghaire if anybody remembers it.

Robbo · 04-07-2009 1:02am

Paul McCartney & the Frog Chorus - We All Stand Together

And I still rank it above pretty much anything else he's been involved in.

ro810 · 04-07-2009 1:08am

Queen - bicycle

use to run around the room in circles

davylee · 05-07-2009 10:53am

used to love yellow submarine.
not so much now

SwirlsAllAround · 05-07-2009 11:09am

cashback wrote: »

Walk of Life - Dire Straits

Definitely one of mine.

Also really liked "Right Here Waiting" by Richard Marx and some Chris de Burgh songs I can't bring myself to admit to. Bear in mind it was the 80s.

luke999 · 05-07-2009 4:59pm

Santo and johnny - sleepwalkers. Heard it on the movie sleep walkers when i was probably 6 or 7, the scene where the girl is forced to dance with charles dead body.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWJ4FOCgw-8&feature=related
You can kind of hear it in the background. Great stuff, never forgot it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_bFp-DlVNtk

joeduggan · 05-07-2009 5:01pm

yeah. mine was probably walk of life by dire straits and everthing i do by bryan adams. and as odd as it seems the shoop shoop song by cher.. even though im straight. i know thats strange

Photi · 05-07-2009 5:03pm

The Seekers - Morningtown Ride.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6YP7GCXqdqU

Latchy · 05-07-2009 5:07pm

Photi wrote: »

The Seekers - Morningtown Ride.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6YP7GCXqdqU

Ah Bingo ...that was mine to

.

I was forever singing it at home as a kid

I also met Judith Durham in person after a concert she gave in Liverpool about 10 years ago

Twee. · 05-07-2009 5:39pm

I adored Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds. I used to dress up in my ballet gear and dance around the kitchen.

Beth1978 · 05-07-2009 5:48pm

Give It Up by KC and The Sunshine Band was a favourite of mine, reminds me of summer holidays at home, on the beach with my little shrimp net....the sun always shined when I was younger....well that's how it seemed anyways! : )

JP Liz · 07-07-2009 4:25pm

American Hero theme tune

keefg · 07-07-2009 4:55pm

This is (one of) mine.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJOLwy7un3U

Spiritoftheseventies · 07-07-2009 4:57pm

keefg wrote: »

This is (one of) mine.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJOLwy7un3U

A neigbour of mine was mad into them. The band that is. Not the baggy trousers, they still in style?

keefg · 07-07-2009 5:51pm

bayviewclose wrote: »

they still in style?

What? Baggy Trousers or Madness?

Spiritoftheseventies · 07-07-2009 5:55pm

keefg wrote: »

What? Baggy Trousers or Madness?

baggy trousers.

keefg · 07-07-2009 6:40pm

bayviewclose wrote: »

baggy trousers.

This guy says...."Baggy Trousers will never be out of style"

Larianne · 07-07-2009 7:40pm

Ace of Base - All That She Wants

Dexterm99 · 07-07-2009 7:55pm

Peter and the Wolf. Brings me back to when I was about 10. ahhh

Spiritoftheseventies · 07-07-2009 8:12pm

Dexterm99 wrote: »

Peter and the Wolf. Brings me back to when I was about 10. ahhh

yeah think i had that on record actually. from the early seventies wasnt it

Dexterm99 · 07-07-2009 8:18pm

bayviewclose wrote: »

yeah think i had that on record actually. from the early seventies wasnt it

Yes that's it

Do you happen to know who released it? I can vaguely remember it being a 7" single?

Spiritoftheseventies · 07-07-2009 8:25pm

Dexterm99 wrote: »

Yes that's it
Do you happen to know who released it? I can vaguely remember it being a 7" single?

all i remember is the kid with the little gun trying to shoot the wolf. was very young at the time.

ballybay_eh · 07-07-2009 8:31pm

Seem to be a bit young for this thread but mine is probably Someday by the Strokes. It just encapsulates a period for me and it always evokes happy memories when I hear it.

Spiritoftheseventies · 07-07-2009 8:36pm

ballybay_eh wrote: »

Seem to be a bit young for this thread but mine is probably Someday by the Strokes. It just encapsulates a period for me and it always evokes happy memories when I hear it.

jesus how young where you when you heard that.

ballybay_eh · 07-07-2009 8:42pm

bayviewclose wrote: »

jesus how young where you when you heard that.

14 or so I think. It was on one've those cd things that were all the rage at the time. No 7" singles for me.

Spiritoftheseventies · 07-07-2009 8:45pm

ballybay_eh wrote: »

14 or so I think. It was on one've those cd things that were all the rage at the time. No 7" singles for me.

sorry did say childhood but will make this one exception!

Latchy · 07-07-2009 8:48pm

bayviewclose wrote: »

sorry did say childhood but will make this one exception!

That will put him into the 80s/90s section of the poll

Spiritoftheseventies · 07-07-2009 8:50pm

actually think the strokes where in the noughties! know the album well.

ballybay_eh · 07-07-2009 8:57pm

Ah, but my musical tastes were less credible back then. If I was to choose something from when I was very young you'd probably end up with something like...

I couldn't find an embeddable version with the original video. This one is good in its own way. The lyrics are still as effective, I feel.

bayviewclose wrote: »

actually think the strokes where in the noughties! know the album well.

You're correct. 2001.

Spiritoftheseventies · 07-07-2009 9:02pm

not looking for credible songs. songs from your childhood. first song that you heard or something like that.

keefg · 08-07-2009 8:00pm

bayviewclose wrote: »

not looking for credible songs. songs from your childhood. first song that you heard or something like that.

Before my "got my pocket money so down to the record stall down the market" age.....these are a few songs that always remind me of being a young brat.

*Note* These weren't necessarily songs I liked, just what I remembered from the radio at the time

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zW2-_01i48w

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7O7zZDNBKks

And for some weird reason I remember being really scared by this song when I was a kid

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZqs1d-NHXk

Mr.Nice Guy · 08-07-2009 8:35pm

Let's hear it for the Nineties!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gzyFmilkd80

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SjJwqDa1QVI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96jFtzVa80A

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BjwZ_9n4DVE

Spiritoftheseventies · 08-07-2009 8:38pm

keefg wrote: »

Before my "got my pocket money so down to the record stall down the market" age.....these are a few songs that always remind me of being a young brat.

*Note* These weren't necessarily songs I liked, just what I remembered from the radio at the time

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zW2-_01i48w

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7O7zZDNBKks

And for some weird reason I remember being really scared by this song when I was a kid

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZqs1d-NHXk

Glam was great fun!

keefg · 08-07-2009 9:17pm

bayviewclose wrote: »

Glam was great fun!

I was only a young sprat during the glam era but I do have a very vivid and very horrible memory of my mum wearing bright yellow flares *shudder*

And I have no idea why that Elvis song scared me

but it did.

oldyouth · 08-07-2009 9:44pm

Alvin Stardust - Jealous Mind

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zw0pJ45wdi8

I'll get my coat.............

Scubadevils · 08-07-2009 9:53pm

So many but a couple without doubt...

(ps. Bayviewclose, is that Killiney?)

Joe Jackson - Steppin Out

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnbj0w8iOeM

Blancmange - Living On The Ceiling

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

Scubadevils · 08-07-2009 10:02pm

And some more...

Men At Work - Down Under (loved, loved, loved this as a kid, such happy memories now still of how I felt listening to this as a child.. shivers)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNT7uZf7lew

Pink Floyd - Another Brick In The Wall

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Py5aPLG348

Spiritoftheseventies · 08-07-2009 10:19pm

Felixdhc wrote: »

And some more...

Men At Work - Down Under (loved, loved, loved this as a kid, such happy memories now still of how I felt listening to this as a child.. shivers)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNT7uZf7lew

Pink Floyd - Another Brick In The Wall

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Py5aPLG348

Folks one song please. makes the page very hard to load if people post multiple vidoes. hard i know but just think longer about your favourite song

niallon · 09-07-2009 12:27am

Photi wrote: »

The Seekers - Morningtown Ride.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6YP7GCXqdqU

Yup, the Mammy used to sing me to sleep with this one nearly every night, one of the only songs guaranteed to bring a smile to my face no matter where or when or what the circumstances.

PrivateEye · 09-07-2009 2:47am

To do it in 3, I've gone for.

Mams Influence
Dads Influence
and then What I Was Listening To.

Mam:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l5zFsy9VIdM

My Ma's a cool woman. Still one of my favourites.

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Dad:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHcDWOAIj2o

My Dad was always playing Moving Hearts, Planxty and the sort around the house, but it was Christy Moores solo-stuff I really remember hearing. This song is one of his more political numbers, but it stuck with me growing up. By far the best Moving Hearts number, and I love the above updated version.

I grew up with his music, and to this day wish he'd feck the Joxer type rubbish out of the set for good.

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As for me: