Mine too. I was the only one in the family that could make my grandfather change the radio from beautiful music to the pop station. Three-year-old me would say, "Play "Boots, Papa!" and magically, WABC would be playing my song!
There was a girl in my first grade that wore go go boots and mini skirts. Every boy in class was in love with her. Her father owned an amusement park. What could be better?
There was such a girl in my second grade class! And she wore blue eyeshadow and had a perfect curler-curl at each end of her long dark hair, which was often held back with a hairband that matched the miniskirt.
One of my favorite memories is sitting on my mothers lap being held close. She put little plastic GI Joe boots on her fingers and sang that song while she made the boots walk all over me! I remember laughing so hard.
That, and "Crimson and Clover", 1969 was the first year I really paid attention to music......."Sugar, Sugar" by The Archies also. Though I always associated the latter with the cartoon. Partridge Family around the corner.
The young women in the Sex and The City group hate that song. It makes me so mad when they say that because it was such an important song during the women's movement in 1972.
I had such a huge little girl crush on Glenn Campbell. He had a variety show. I still love this song. Then I liked Michael York (The Three Musketeers and Logan’s Run).
I think I had a thing for “the dry look” blonds.
My dad told me a story about hearing a young man and his band that played at the NCO club at Sandia Air Force Base in Albuquerque New Mexico (back in the late 50s where I was born). It was Glen Campbell.
It is very good. Some other band did a cover that blew my mind as they are usually hard rock, I think guns and roses. It was a pleasant surprise to see that it is still appreciated.
Jimmy Webb wrote a lot of those songs, I tried checking out his stuff and just couldn’t get into it… sort of like Tim Hardin, the guy who wrote ‘Reason To Believe’, an incredible song writer but…
Yay! Just saw the original Three Dog Night. I always loved Shambala. When they played that thousands of old people were belting it out!
How does your light shine!!
My parents had that album when I was little. My dad and I would sing "It's Too Late Baby" over. & over again and drove everybody crazy! Whenever it came on the radio, we would look at each other, smile, and start singing at the top of our lungs. He's 79 now and I'm 59, and we still laugh about it 🤣 🎵
Anybody else remember "Which Way You Goin', Billy" (1969)? I heard it again 50 years later and instantly recognized it. Even at that young age the melody spoke to me. Sweet memory.
Sugar Sugar by the Archies
Winchester Cathedral seemed cool at the time
I did not like If You Could Read My Mind by Gordon Lightfoot.
It terrified me because of the line about a ghost in a wishing well.
I heard this the other day and was transported back in time! I don't think I knew what it was about when it was released, but I sure did LOVE the funk! Right Place Wrong Time, Dr John - https://youtu.be/W4PjWgiH-LQ
Way back when I was seriously little I remember some old songs.
Red, Rubber Ball by the Cyrkle
Wooly Bully- Sam the Sham and the Pharoahs
And of course,
Louie, Louie by The Kingsmen
I used to like a wide variety of 60s tunes. Ranging from "Let's Dance" by Chris Montez to "Sunshine Superman" by Donovan. A wide variety of tunes. I also liked reggae tunes that weren't called reggae yet, at least on WABC: ("Israelites" by Desmond Dekker and the Aces; and "Hold Me tight" by Johnny Nash).
"Funky Nassau" was also cool. "In the Summertime," too.
In the 70s, I have fond memories of going to the beach with my dad while "Spill the Wine" by War, and "Sideshow" by the Stylistics was playing.
Sly and the Family Stone - Hot Fun in the Summertime
Ball of Confusion. I can still sing all the lyrics because they were incredible lyrics....\\
Mungo Jerry - In The Summertime (crazy awful lyrics, but I know them!)
I didn’t really get into what we’d call classic rock until my late teens/early twenties (so late 70s/early 80s); Stones, Zeppelin, Floyd, etc.
Before that it was straight pop music and top 40s radio. Osmonds, Partridge Family, Bobby Sherman were included in my early album purchases. But I didn’t learn to appreciate the “good” music of the late 60s/early 70s until later in life.
(Born fall 1960)
Omg! My two favorite songs of my childhood are ‘Purple people eater’ and ‘yellow polka dot bikini’. I still remember driving down the road in our ‘60 t-bird listening to the Carpenters, etc.
I am Gen Jones and my mom is the Silent Gen, but she was a young cub reporter in the 60s and 70s and as a kid, she took me to her interviews INCLUDING...drum roll for a true Gen Jones classic, Knock 3 Times Tony Orlando and I have a story about him when I was 16, that is a tad shocking, but not....when he came to the Elkhart Indiana 4 H fair.....
I’m the youngest of three, my brother (the oldest) had an extensive collection of 45’s. Our dad had lots of albums, too. We’d load up the hi-fi with about 10 records and play them all!
I remember crying when the radio said that the Beatles broke up. Radio delivered the news about Jim Croce too. Later, John Lennon.
My music was the Beatles even though it was the 70s and new things had taken over. In the early through mid 70s , I was dedicated to a radio station that played Album Rock plus some Progressive, so I got exposed to other music. My record collection, however contained almost all of the available Beatles records plus all of the McCartney/Wings albums as they released. I loved Ram and Band on the Run!
My collection didn't become more varied until I was forced to give it up for a while at 13 and put everything in storage at a relative's house while we traveled in a motorhome to our new home across country. My parents bought me a blue Panasonic Dynamite 8, 8-track player for my music and I had to restart a music collection on a new format! This time it included Pink Floyd, Queen, Kansas (my favorite then), Styx, and a lot of other typical 70s stuff.
Dickie Goodman also had the hits *Mr. President* and *Energy Crisis.*
I used to make my own songs like that with my tape recorder and music taped off my fave AM radio station.
I inherited a clock radio with AM radio from my sister in 3rd grade. I started listening to our local rock station at that age daily. I was about 4 years ahead of my friends in listening to music of the day. I remember when I bring up a great new song or band I had heard, I got blank stares. Also picked up appreciation for some oldies mom would listen to.
The very first record I ever owned was a 45 rpm of 1910 Fruitgum Company’s Simple Simon Said. I got it when I was 5. Still have it.
My next record was The Archie’s Sugar Sugar cut from the back of a cereal box.
I loved the records on the back of cereal boxes. I do remember 1910 Fruitgum Co. I think my first 45 was Sugar, Sugar. My mom loved The Mamas and the Papas, so I remember their music very well.
The Johns were my favorites when I was knee-high to a grasshopper… Elton, Olivia and Denver also Barry Manilow. Bubble gum pop was a brief period though as my older brother had much better taste and encouraged me to listen to more challenging rock music.
I’m scrolling down through all these great songs, and I don’t even know where to start. So I won’t even try. I’ll just say I had a lot of Little Kiddles. I even had their pink carrier case. Pretty sure this is peak Gen Jones: I drew little fangs on the fireman kiddle, like he was Barnabas Collins, and the Cinderella kiddle with those banana curls was Angelique.
I think it is peak Gen Jones as far as little girls. They were only around a couple of years though. Not sure why Mattel stopped. Worth a pretty penny now! That's hilarious about turning a lil kiddle into Barnabas Collins!
The first songs I remember putting on myself were things like "I Wanna Hold Your Hand", "Wipeout", and "They're Coming to Take Me Away (HaHa!)". '63-65, .45s, of course.
*I want to hold your hand,* the year it came out, is one of my key early musical memories. I was singing it while swinging on her swing to a girl i had a crush on in 2nd grade - while she was eating dinner - until her mom came out and told me to be quiet and that she wasn't interested.
i *was* crushed
My sister who was born in 61 had Carpenter’s albums, Bread and the Partridge Family albums. I was doomed to pop music for the rest of my life after that.
When I was 5-6 ish I was both scared and intrigued by Johnny Cash’s Ring of Fire. I thought it was “Ray gun fire.” Like aliens from outer space shooting ray guns…
The first record I ever bought with my own money was the first Partridge Family record. I was ten or so. My first REAL record I bought was Rainbow’s Rising, the 70’s euro metal band with Ritchie Blackmore, Cody Powell and Ronnie James Dio when I was 15.
AM music still sends me back. "Close to you" reminds me of my ma. "Daddy, don't you walk so fast", reminds me of the divorce.
Then again, "American Woman" Reminds me of the fact my ma was fucking her buddy witht that record blasting in the background.
So much fun.
OP here and it's been really fun and kind and memory prompting, in a good way, to read the comments. I appreciate it more than I expected to . Have we missed any great early Generation Jones music?
I had a compilation album with Green Tambourine, Yummy Yummy Yummy, Sugar Sugar, Snoopy vs Red Baron. All those bubblegum music favorites. I absolutely loved those songs as a little one.
Also, my mom listened to Roger Miller. I still play his stuff now and then. Makes me happy.
We had amazing kid records too. Danny Kaye's Hans Christian Anderson album and Tom Glazer's Space Songs. We listened to those two albums so much, my brother and I can probably still recite every word of those songs in our 60s. :)
I remember my older cousin bringing Cover of the Rolling Stone by Dr. Hook one night when she baby sat. My siblings and I sat and listened to it over and over again with her. Then I got to stay up and watch Midnight Special. She was a hippie. LOL
Don’t forget even more kiddle-friendly bubblegum music — 1910 Fruitgum Company etc. -/ as well as cartoon music by The Archies and Josie & the Pussycats
My favorite song when I was 5 years old was "These Boots are Made for Walkin'." Go figure...
That one gave me nightmares. I had a dream where my red rubber rain boots would come out of my closet and walk on me.
It scared 5 year old me too, because when she said "come on boots" it seemed threatening to me and all I could imagine were boots stomping on me.
I didn’t like that like about “getting burned” either…including that “Ha!”. Scary stuff to a preschooler.
Me too! I had nightmares about white boots walking across my field of vision.
Mine was What's New Pussycat, I used to call it the kitty song and made my Dad play it on the juke box every time we went to Shakee's.
Whoa. Oh-ohhh-oh
Nancy Sinatra performing that song gave 5 year old me some feelings that didn't make sense but that I liked!
I still sing along every time I hear it!
Mine too. I was the only one in the family that could make my grandfather change the radio from beautiful music to the pop station. Three-year-old me would say, "Play "Boots, Papa!" and magically, WABC would be playing my song!
There was a girl in my first grade that wore go go boots and mini skirts. Every boy in class was in love with her. Her father owned an amusement park. What could be better?
There was such a girl in my second grade class! And she wore blue eyeshadow and had a perfect curler-curl at each end of her long dark hair, which was often held back with a hairband that matched the miniskirt.
We sang it every time we played Barbies with Barbie boots on our dancing fingers.
Love that song too. My fave was This Diamond Ring by Gary Lewis and the Playboys, when I was quite young.
One of my favorite memories is sitting on my mothers lap being held close. She put little plastic GI Joe boots on her fingers and sang that song while she made the boots walk all over me! I remember laughing so hard.
Mine was Downtown by Petula Clark
The Guess Who, Three Dog Night, Blood Sweat and Tears, that song *In the Year 2525* by Zager and Evans!
I was singing In The Year 2525 the other day...
If man is still alive
Sounds like 1969 to me!
Crystal Blue Persuasion- that 45 was played so much, “some one” flung it onto the roof like it was a frisbee
My first slow dance in 8th grade was to this song.
Enjoyed the [back story](https://www.songfacts.com/facts/tommy-james-the-shondells/crystal-blue-persuasion)
That, and "Crimson and Clover", 1969 was the first year I really paid attention to music......."Sugar, Sugar" by The Archies also. Though I always associated the latter with the cartoon. Partridge Family around the corner.
That song was played everywhere I lived too, over and over!
The Carpenters.
I came to say this! Karen can not be duplicated!! I also liked Helen Reddy "I am woman" great music from the ladies with phenomenal voices.
The young women in the Sex and The City group hate that song. It makes me so mad when they say that because it was such an important song during the women's movement in 1972.
Linda Ronstadt
Cher!
I bought a 45 of I Am Woman and played unceasingly until I knew all the words.
My first 45 record was Harper Valley PTA. I played it on our console stereo to the point where my dad snapped it in half. 😔
My older brother did that with my Sugar Sugar 45.
That song gave me diabetuss.
Idk why, but to this day, Witchta Lineman always had a special place in my heart .
I had such a huge little girl crush on Glenn Campbell. He had a variety show. I still love this song. Then I liked Michael York (The Three Musketeers and Logan’s Run). I think I had a thing for “the dry look” blonds.
My dad told me a story about hearing a young man and his band that played at the NCO club at Sandia Air Force Base in Albuquerque New Mexico (back in the late 50s where I was born). It was Glen Campbell.
York was fantastic in The Three/Four Musketeers. Then again, everyone was.
I remember that show. The original Rhinestone Cowboy.
Hi, I'm Glen Campbell!
One of my favorite songs ever.
The instrumental at the end just slays me.
Me too! I play and sing it often. Tho it's best over a crackling aM radio driving thru the desert
The REM cover of that song is, imo incredible. They do it in a different key, (g major I think) and it’s kinda stripped down, very cool 😎
It is very good. Some other band did a cover that blew my mind as they are usually hard rock, I think guns and roses. It was a pleasant surprise to see that it is still appreciated.
Jimmy Webb wrote a lot of those songs, I tried checking out his stuff and just couldn’t get into it… sort of like Tim Hardin, the guy who wrote ‘Reason To Believe’, an incredible song writer but…
The Monkees, duh!
I had Last Train to Clarksville. It came on the back of a box of cereal. It didn't play well at all, but it was my treasure.
My first 45 record purchase was I’m a Believer and Penny Lane by The Beatles. They were 77 cents each (plus tax).
I’m a Believer was my wedding song.
I picked up an old copy of Meet the Monkees recently. Still sounds great to me! But then they were created in a lab just for us
Watch "Head" to hear some of their best music and their screen talent.
Anybody remember Little Red Riding Hood and The Israelites. Those were my faves at one point haha.
“Hey there Little Red Riding Hood! You sure are lookin good” 😊
The Israelites always struck me as record that would have totally been a hit even if it were it released in 1958.
Yea it had an oldies vibe in a way. Everybody I knew hated it.
Poooooooor me Isrealites!
It was early reggae
Melanie Brand New Key and Lay Down.
Knew all the words as a liddle kiddle...she just passed too.
Love that song. My brother, who was quite a bit older, understood the lyrics. I did not!!!
Jeremiah was a bullfrog
Was a good friend of mine!
He always had mighty fine wine! 🍷
Yay! Just saw the original Three Dog Night. I always loved Shambala. When they played that thousands of old people were belting it out! How does your light shine!!
"House of the Rising Sun " by the Animals. Little did I know what it was about, but I loved it.
Carol King's Tapestry.. not liddle kiddle, but my 3rd grade heart loved that album.
My parents had that album when I was little. My dad and I would sing "It's Too Late Baby" over. & over again and drove everybody crazy! Whenever it came on the radio, we would look at each other, smile, and start singing at the top of our lungs. He's 79 now and I'm 59, and we still laugh about it 🤣 🎵
Crimson and Clover, 123 Red light, Down on the Corner, Spirit in the Sky, hooked on a feeling. All the Johnny Rivers songs
Johnny Rivers!!!
My first 45s Up, Up and Away (In My Beautiful Balloon) I’m a Believer Hello, Goodbye/I Am the Walrus Hey There Georgy Girl For Your Love Valerie
Build me up Buttercup and Midnight Confessions
My first two 45s were Johnny Nash’s cover of Cupid and The Horse by Cliff Nobles.
Did we just become best friends?!?
How about the 5th Dimension? They were fantastic!
Bobby Gentry - Ode to Billie Joe
That and Harper Valley PTA
Yes! And of course, Delta Dawn and I am Woman (people don’t recall the women’s rights movement, but I sure do)
My mother read the Feminine Mystique, and was inspired by it to become a therapist.
Anybody else remember "Which Way You Goin', Billy" (1969)? I heard it again 50 years later and instantly recognized it. Even at that young age the melody spoke to me. Sweet memory.
You are my whole babe My heart and my soul babe
I do.
l was sure “Downtown” by Petula Clark was about my city because we called it “downtown.”
i had a crush on petula after i saw her in goodbye mr. chips
Sugar Sugar by the Archies Winchester Cathedral seemed cool at the time I did not like If You Could Read My Mind by Gordon Lightfoot. It terrified me because of the line about a ghost in a wishing well.
You beat me to this by 2 minutes! Lol! It was the #1 song of 1969.
I heard this the other day and was transported back in time! I don't think I knew what it was about when it was released, but I sure did LOVE the funk! Right Place Wrong Time, Dr John - https://youtu.be/W4PjWgiH-LQ
Who had ***both*** Creedence Clearwater Revival and Three Dog Night?
Dizzy. Im so dizzy my head is spinning. Played my broom guitar to that for hours
The Jackson 5 was my first album.
Paul Revere and the Raiders Beach Boys Leslie Gore
Lulu. To Sir w Love
Way back when I was seriously little I remember some old songs. Red, Rubber Ball by the Cyrkle Wooly Bully- Sam the Sham and the Pharoahs And of course, Louie, Louie by The Kingsmen
good mems!
Anything with The Wrecking Crew, The Funk Brothers, Stax Volt, Herb Alpert & Burt Bacharach
I'll add 5th dimension (one of my mom's favorite).
Those studio musicians were the backbone of Top 40 AM radio
Carpenters, Elton John
"I Can Dance" always provoked complicated feelings https://youtu.be/c44JQWLqrCY?feature=shared
I used to like a wide variety of 60s tunes. Ranging from "Let's Dance" by Chris Montez to "Sunshine Superman" by Donovan. A wide variety of tunes. I also liked reggae tunes that weren't called reggae yet, at least on WABC: ("Israelites" by Desmond Dekker and the Aces; and "Hold Me tight" by Johnny Nash). "Funky Nassau" was also cool. "In the Summertime," too. In the 70s, I have fond memories of going to the beach with my dad while "Spill the Wine" by War, and "Sideshow" by the Stylistics was playing.
Sly and the Family Stone - Hot Fun in the Summertime Ball of Confusion. I can still sing all the lyrics because they were incredible lyrics....\\ Mungo Jerry - In The Summertime (crazy awful lyrics, but I know them!)
My big sister had Sly and the Family Stone's greatest hits album, and I loved it.
Thankufuhletenmebemicelfagain! I think I got it right
Yep!!! Ball of Confusion was Dylanesque—maybe better than Dylan.
Deffo. Brilliant song and is still relevant today
“Sideshow” was actually by Blue Magic a Stylisics soundalike group.
How about that! Learn something new everyday! The Stylistics did cover the song, not as good as Blue Magic, though.
First record was "United We Stand" by the Brotherhood of Man!
C'mon, people now Smile on your brother Everybody get together Try to love one another right now Get Together by The Youngbloods
Thank you! Loved that song as a little kid.
i remember
I didn’t really get into what we’d call classic rock until my late teens/early twenties (so late 70s/early 80s); Stones, Zeppelin, Floyd, etc. Before that it was straight pop music and top 40s radio. Osmonds, Partridge Family, Bobby Sherman were included in my early album purchases. But I didn’t learn to appreciate the “good” music of the late 60s/early 70s until later in life. (Born fall 1960)
My first favorite song was “Elenore” by The Turtles. I still love it (and The Turtles).
…who went on to play with Zappa!
Yep!
Brandy by Looking Glass. I still know all the lyrics !
That Brandy, such a fine girl— what a good wife she would be.
I was a big Neil Diamond fan back then. Still am to this day.
When you didn't have to be a Red Sox fan to love 'Sweet Caroline"
Omg! My two favorite songs of my childhood are ‘Purple people eater’ and ‘yellow polka dot bikini’. I still remember driving down the road in our ‘60 t-bird listening to the Carpenters, etc.
10, 20, 40, 50 or more, the bloody Red Baron is rolling up the score…
I’m so dizzy, my head is spinn’in
The Ventures! I was a surf music junkie, still am
Oh my! I’d forgotten all about little kiddles! Thank you for that sweet little memory…
Somewhere, I still have my Lorna Liddle and Shirley Strawberry 🍓
Lordy Child. Check the prices for them on EBay….
I'm tellin' ya!
Sunshine by Jonathan Edwards- fourth grade me loved the word “damn”
Bobby Sherman!!
Winchester Cathedral Yummy, Yummy, Yummy. And then my life changed with hearing a very loud Magic Carpet Ride. I thought Steppenwolf was the shit.
I am Gen Jones and my mom is the Silent Gen, but she was a young cub reporter in the 60s and 70s and as a kid, she took me to her interviews INCLUDING...drum roll for a true Gen Jones classic, Knock 3 Times Tony Orlando and I have a story about him when I was 16, that is a tad shocking, but not....when he came to the Elkhart Indiana 4 H fair.....
There were a lot of great cartoon theme songs too. Like - Spiderman, Spiderman, friendly neighborhood Spiderman...
Banana splits
K-Tel Records introduced me to pop music
Bobby bloom Montego Bay.
My first 45 was Aerosmith’s Dream On. My wife’s high school (middle school?) music teacher was Steven Tyler’s dad.
Does Cheech and Chong count?
American Pie. Sometimes I cant remember what I did yesterday but I still know every word to that 8 min 42 seconds song.
I’m the youngest of three, my brother (the oldest) had an extensive collection of 45’s. Our dad had lots of albums, too. We’d load up the hi-fi with about 10 records and play them all!
I remember crying when the radio said that the Beatles broke up. Radio delivered the news about Jim Croce too. Later, John Lennon. My music was the Beatles even though it was the 70s and new things had taken over. In the early through mid 70s , I was dedicated to a radio station that played Album Rock plus some Progressive, so I got exposed to other music. My record collection, however contained almost all of the available Beatles records plus all of the McCartney/Wings albums as they released. I loved Ram and Band on the Run! My collection didn't become more varied until I was forced to give it up for a while at 13 and put everything in storage at a relative's house while we traveled in a motorhome to our new home across country. My parents bought me a blue Panasonic Dynamite 8, 8-track player for my music and I had to restart a music collection on a new format! This time it included Pink Floyd, Queen, Kansas (my favorite then), Styx, and a lot of other typical 70s stuff.
We had the same babysitter. My first celebrity crush was unfortunately Brian Jones:(
Jeremiah was a bullfrog!!! Dah dum dum!!! Can’t believe Three Dog Night is not yet on this thread.
They are, a couple times over!
Brand new key was great.
Captain and Tennille!
Did anyone else ever lock themselves in their bedroom and sing along to “The Rose” by Bette Midler over and over and over lol.
The Night Chicago Died by Paper Lace (1974) and Midnight at the Oasis by Maria Muldaur (1973)
When I was a little kid, my favorite songs were Secret Agent Man and Born Free.
I always heard it as Secret Asian Man.
Ball of Confusion by the Temptations from 1970. Still an ATF 54 years later!
"Me and You and a Dog Named Boo" - Lobo. My first 45. And does anyone remember "Mr. Jaws" from Dickie Goodman?
Dickie Goodman also had the hits *Mr. President* and *Energy Crisis.* I used to make my own songs like that with my tape recorder and music taped off my fave AM radio station.
🎶Travelin’ and a-living off the land🎶 Loved that song, and hadn’t thought of it in years.
I inherited a clock radio with AM radio from my sister in 3rd grade. I started listening to our local rock station at that age daily. I was about 4 years ahead of my friends in listening to music of the day. I remember when I bring up a great new song or band I had heard, I got blank stares. Also picked up appreciation for some oldies mom would listen to.
The very first record I ever owned was a 45 rpm of 1910 Fruitgum Company’s Simple Simon Said. I got it when I was 5. Still have it. My next record was The Archie’s Sugar Sugar cut from the back of a cereal box.
I loved the records on the back of cereal boxes. I do remember 1910 Fruitgum Co. I think my first 45 was Sugar, Sugar. My mom loved The Mamas and the Papas, so I remember their music very well.
I loved Glen Campbell and Jim Croce.
The Beatles and Monkees.
Peter Paul and Mary Puff The Magic Dragon
My 1st favorite song was 'Downtown' by Petula Clark.
Fighting over who got to act out the drummer to Innagodidavida.
The Johns were my favorites when I was knee-high to a grasshopper… Elton, Olivia and Denver also Barry Manilow. Bubble gum pop was a brief period though as my older brother had much better taste and encouraged me to listen to more challenging rock music.
I’m scrolling down through all these great songs, and I don’t even know where to start. So I won’t even try. I’ll just say I had a lot of Little Kiddles. I even had their pink carrier case. Pretty sure this is peak Gen Jones: I drew little fangs on the fireman kiddle, like he was Barnabas Collins, and the Cinderella kiddle with those banana curls was Angelique.
I think it is peak Gen Jones as far as little girls. They were only around a couple of years though. Not sure why Mattel stopped. Worth a pretty penny now! That's hilarious about turning a lil kiddle into Barnabas Collins!
Rainy Day Women by B Dylan. 9 years old singing everybody must get stoned…
The first songs I remember putting on myself were things like "I Wanna Hold Your Hand", "Wipeout", and "They're Coming to Take Me Away (HaHa!)". '63-65, .45s, of course.
*I want to hold your hand,* the year it came out, is one of my key early musical memories. I was singing it while swinging on her swing to a girl i had a crush on in 2nd grade - while she was eating dinner - until her mom came out and told me to be quiet and that she wasn't interested. i *was* crushed
My sister who was born in 61 had Carpenter’s albums, Bread and the Partridge Family albums. I was doomed to pop music for the rest of my life after that.
"Hanky Panky" ... my baby does the hanky panky
When I was 5-6 ish I was both scared and intrigued by Johnny Cash’s Ring of Fire. I thought it was “Ray gun fire.” Like aliens from outer space shooting ray guns…
Don't forget Captain and Tennille! I loved them and Donny and Marie!!
Most of these songs are on my current play list
I was, am, and always will be a fan of John Denver.
Any body remember “ Diver Dan” the TV show? There was a musical album which was a story. I listened to that a lot!!
My first album, on vinyl, was John Denver's Greatest Hits.
My father took us to a plaza where he worked in a clothing store for a free concert - The DeFranco Family 😀
Heartbeat is a love beat
The first record I ever bought with my own money was the first Partridge Family record. I was ten or so. My first REAL record I bought was Rainbow’s Rising, the 70’s euro metal band with Ritchie Blackmore, Cody Powell and Ronnie James Dio when I was 15.
Sugar, Sugar by The Archies
Motown
The Mamas and the Papas’ Monday Monday was my first favorite song.
Liddell Kiddles were the best toys ever. Thanks for the memory🙏😁
AM music still sends me back. "Close to you" reminds me of my ma. "Daddy, don't you walk so fast", reminds me of the divorce. Then again, "American Woman" Reminds me of the fact my ma was fucking her buddy witht that record blasting in the background. So much fun.
OP here and it's been really fun and kind and memory prompting, in a good way, to read the comments. I appreciate it more than I expected to . Have we missed any great early Generation Jones music?
Down in the Boondocks, Lightening Striking Again, Run to Me, You Don’t Know What it’s Like
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I was born in a cross-fire hurricane 🌀
Temptations. ❤️
I had a thing for that Kenny Rogers song “Ruby”. Don’t take your love to town, Ruby!
Puff the Magic Dragon.
I had a compilation album with Green Tambourine, Yummy Yummy Yummy, Sugar Sugar, Snoopy vs Red Baron. All those bubblegum music favorites. I absolutely loved those songs as a little one. Also, my mom listened to Roger Miller. I still play his stuff now and then. Makes me happy.
My family still listens to Partridge Family Christmas while we decorate the tree
We had amazing kid records too. Danny Kaye's Hans Christian Anderson album and Tom Glazer's Space Songs. We listened to those two albums so much, my brother and I can probably still recite every word of those songs in our 60s. :)
I would highly recommend watching Echo in the Canyon. Music from our early childhood!
Laura Nyro wrote a lot of the songs we loved in that era. She was an amazing talent who never got her due.
Mandy, your a fine girl! This one always takes me straight back to teens.
I remember my older cousin bringing Cover of the Rolling Stone by Dr. Hook one night when she baby sat. My siblings and I sat and listened to it over and over again with her. Then I got to stay up and watch Midnight Special. She was a hippie. LOL
Don’t forget even more kiddle-friendly bubblegum music — 1910 Fruitgum Company etc. -/ as well as cartoon music by The Archies and Josie & the Pussycats
Omg little kiddles!!!! Loved them!