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First music memory
Topic Started: Nov 1 2012, 05:17 AM (201 Views)
Caro

I was listening to a tape in the car today and the announcer, a man of about my age, said the song he was about to play was the first one he has any cognisance of. It was Doggy in the Window. And that is probably the first song I recall too - my sister and I used to "entertain" visitors with our rendition of it; I suppose we were about 4 and 5 at the time. No doubt it is the sort of song that appeals to children. Another one I remember was Sinatra's Love and Marriage but that was later. (Or maybe not much - I see it is a 1955 song when I would have been five.) The phrase "you can't have one without the other" seemed to bother me for some reason.

But what song do you remember as the first one that impinged on your consciousness?
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Norm Deplume
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My recollections are of Family Parties in the 1930s. Being of Welsh extraction, at least half of the family were convinced that they had missed their vocationby not being at Covent Garden..or at the very least in the local chapel choir. The song I remember most was my Grandmother and grandfather dueting "When You Wore A Tulip". I have a lump in my throat at the moment just thinking about them.
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Hugh Jampton
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I can't be certain, but this was one of the first.
I've still got the 8" record. Honest.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EGGkq3N48Mc
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waiting4atickle
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Maybe this or this or even this.


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Hugh Jampton
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When old Hutch came on the wireless singing Begin the Beguine, my dad used to leap across the room to switch it off.
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Well, it was a bit revolutionary. Interestingly, according to Wiki, a copy of Hutch's recording of Begin the Beguine was given to the Indian spiritual teacher Meher Baba, who later asked that it be played seven times at his tomb when his body was laid to rest. Other sources have it being played repeatedly throughout the week between his death and his interment.


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Norm Deplume
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On reflecting on this subject heading while in bed last night, another early memory came to mind of the family listening around the Philco radio with me being stood on the kitchen table with a wooden spoon in my hand, conducting the Henry Hall Dance Orchestra...I must have been four or five at the time.
At the other end of our life spectrum, what would you like played at your funeral?
Edited by Norm Deplume, Nov 2 2012, 08:30 PM.
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Caro

I've told my son to play Blue Smoke by Pixie Williams - first NZ song fully produced and recorded here, and quintessentially Kiwi. And Roy Orbison's Crying.

In early days we had a book of songs - a large red book it was - which we sang round the piano. The first song in it was Daisy Bell, but there were lots of WWI songs in it too, like It's a Long Way to Tipperary and Take Me Back to Dear Old Blighty (with exotic places like Liverpool, Leeds and Birmingham which meant nothing to me at the time), and then there was Two Little Girls in Blue, Riding Down to Bangor, After the Ball and The Gypsy's Warning that I liked.
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May-Cee

The first voice heard on The Smiths' "The Queen Is Dead" is Dame Cicely Courtneidge singing "Take Me Back To Dear Old Blighty".
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dai Cottomy
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I discovered my Father's old wind-up gramophone, and stash of 1920s and 30s records in the loft at the age of about 7. Here are a few that I remember


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBrZ8bfqUv0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97e29BL88fM

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



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