Stay In My Corner by the Dells

I was the youngest of six. I remember being fed while sitting in a high chair by my older brothers and sister and they'd sing along to the part of the song that goes "I love you..stay, I love you..stay"

My real first name is Stacy, or Stay for short. Cute, huh?

more songs that I remember as a small child.

Michael Jackson - Thriller
I remember thinking that the characters from the video lived inside if the radio. When the song was on the radio, I wouldnt go near it. I was terrified.

George Benson - Turn Your Love Around
My uncle plays the trumpet and he would always play this song.


J Geils Band - Centerfold
My aunts would rock out to this song. I was in charge of putting the needle on the record. I ususally scratched the record up though and got yelled at. I remember the album cover very well. Wasnt it the one where they were painting and there was paint all over the place?

Patti Labelle - If Only You Knew
It seemed like this song was always on.




Prince - Dirty Mind
What can I say?

Whip It-Devo
Being With You-Smokey Robinson
Off The Wall (Entire album)-Michael Jackson
Saturday Night Fever Soundtrack
Touch Me When We're Dancing-The Carpenters
Suavecito-Malo
Together-Tierra
Anything by Rigo Tovar Y Su Costa Azul
Sabor A Mi-Edie Gorme?
Kung Fu Fighting-?
Mickey-Toni Basil
Second Time Around-Shalamar
Hit Me With Your Best Shot-Pat Benatar
Brakes-Kurtis Blow
On The Radio (entire 2 albums)-Donna Summer
I'm Coming Out-Diana Ross
Physical-Olivia Newton John

DANG I'M OLD!!!!

thekidsgirl said:

YAY ! lol

Dance Dance Dance by Chic. I must have been an infant when this was popular. It's my earliest memory of music.

Others that stand out-

Puttin' On the Ritz (Taco)
I Can't Go For That (No Can Do), (Hall & Oates) - a favorite when I was 5.
Solid (Ashford & Simpson) - I can recall the background guitar perplexing me
Material Girl (Guess who)
Treat Her Like A Lady (The Temptations)

Gosh there are so many that make me flashback to ages 5-9.

Too Much Heaven - The Bee Gees
Angel in Your Arms - Hot
Native New Yorker - Odyssey
You Light Up My Life - Debbie Boone
I Was Made for Lovin' You - KISS
Gloria - Enchantment
Rise - Herb Alpert
With You - The Moments
Take Me I'm Yours - Michael Henderson
Don't Cost You Nothing - Ashford and Simpson
Got To Get You Into My Life (back then I hadn't heard of The Beatles)/Serpentine Fire - Earth, Wind & Fire
Reaching For the Sky - Peabo Bryson
The Groove Line - Heatwave
Love Rollercoaster - Ohio Players



Looking at some of the 45's, most of the songs were out around 1977 & 1978, which is a trip cuz I associate most of those songs with being in Kindergarten and 1st grade.
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too many to list. But this one comes to mind.

Summer Breeze by Seals and Croft
...something must've happened to me when I was a child around the time that this song was popular...because everytime I hear it I feel really sad and depressed...and I think of my (normally happy) childhood.

Loving You by Minnie Ripperton
...was my favorite song as a little kid (Kindergarden?) because of the birds chirping in the background.

Rhiannon by Fleetwood Mac
...reminds me of the school bus ride to my elementary school 'cuz the bus driver had a tape player/radio that was ALWAYS playing Fleetwood Mac!

Yep...those 3 always take me back to my childhood whenever I hear them.

"When Will I See You Again" by the Three Degrees(1974)---I remember they were on 'Soul Train' singing this song,and my mother turned the volume up really high.This song was a favorite in our household.

When I was very young, my mother used to listen to mostly country music and a little pop/rock in the car. I don't even know the name of the artists but I do recall some of the songs.

Delta Dawn - Tanya Tucker
Joy To The World - Three Dog Night?
The Streak - ?
When You're Hot You're Hot, When You're Not You're Not - Jerry Reed?
Sneaky Snake - ?
D-I-V-O-R-C-E - Tammy Wynette
Why Can't We Be Friends - War
The Night The Lights Went Out In Georgia - Vicki Lawrence
When We Get Behind Closed Doors - Charlie Rich
Stand By Your Man - Tammy Wynette
Hey Good Lookin', What You Got Cookin' - Hank Williams?
Crazy - Patsy Cline
Did You Happen To See The Most Beautiful Girl In The World - Charlie Rich?
Let Me Be There - Olivia Newton John
Warm And Tender Love - Percy Sledge
Take Time To Know Her - Percy Sledge
When A Man Loves A Woman - Percy Sledge
Hunk-a-Hunk-a Burnin' Love - Elvis Presley
The Thrill Is Gone - B.B. King
Never Make Your Move Too Soon - B.B. King
I'm On The Top Of The World Looking Down On Creation - The Carpenters
Killing Me Softly - Roberta Flack
Crocodile Rock - Elton John
Half Breed - Cher

My parents played a lot of Led Zeppelin, Janis Joplin, Michael Martin Murphy, Gordon Lightfoot, Joni Mitchell, The Beatles and Hank Snow around the house. Also lots of "AM Gold" type music -a lot of songs that I'm not sure of the title or artist, but when I hear them I'm 3 years old again.

Also, "Blue Wing" -Tom Russell. It was what we played at my dad's funeral. I cry every time I hear it. Even typing this is making me tear up a little.



He had a blue wing tattooed on his shoulder
Well it might have been a blue bird I don't know
But he gets stone drunk and talks about Alaska
The salmon boats and 45 below

He said he got that blue wing up in Walla Walla
And his cellmate there was Little Willy John
And Willy, he was once a great blues singer
And winging Willy wrote him up a song. He said…

CHORUS:
It's dark in here; can't see the sky
But I look at this blue wing and I close my eyes
And I fly away beyond these walls
Up above the clouds where there ain't no fault
On a poor man's dreams.

They paroled Blue Wing in August1963
He moved North picking apples to the town of Wenatchee
Then winter finally caught him in a run down trailer park
On the South side of Seattle where the days grow gray and dark

And he drank and he dreamt a vision of when the salmon still ran free
And his fathers, fathers, fathers crossed that wild old Bering Sea
And the land belonged to everyone and there were old songs yet to sing
Now it's narrowed down to a cheap hotels and a tattooed prison wing

CHORUS:

Well he drank his way to LA; And that's where he died
And no one knew his Christian name and there was no one there to cry
But I dreamt there was a funeral; A preacher and a cheap pine box
And half way through the service, Blue Wing began to talk. He said…

CHORUS:

Hey hey, On a poor man's dreams;
Hey hey, On a poor man's dreams.
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I've always LOVED that song but never knew who sang it. Thanks Finess, I'll be in the record store this weekend.

I was never a small child.

Cloudbuster said:

no one asked u asspenguin

My mother used to have an 8 Track tape of Percy Sledge and she used to wear that thing out in the car. She played it so much it until finally it got tangled up the player. When we dug the tape out, the player still worked but the speed was speeded up. She bought another Percy Sledge 8 Track to replace it, but Percy sounded like the damned chipmunks.

TheRealFiness said:

Suck a pole, cock-chugger.

You're So Vain- Carley Simon
Goodbye Yellow Brick Road- Elton John
Desiree or Sweet Caroline- Neil Diamond
Old Time Rock n' Roll- Bob Seger
Rock n' Roll/Prime Jive- Queen
Sir Duke- Stevie Wonder
Heart Of Glass- Blondie (the first record I owned after "Winnie The Pooh")
Just The Way You Are- Billy Joel

TheRealFiness said:

"Dream Weaver" was a hit in 1976,and "Love Will Find A Way" was a hit in 1978.Surely,by then,you were no longer a "small child"?

DavidEye said:

10 in 76 and 12 in 78 lol.. i was young, man

Damn, Finess, you're only about two years older than me. After reading your posts, I thought you were a little older. You know your stuff.

vainandy said:

Music's in my Blood and thank u for the compliment. u know you're stuff pretty damngood yaself

Groove Me--King Floyd

Do you feel like I do - Peter Frampton (that "talking guitar..." )
The Last Waltz - The Band
Angie Baby - Helen Reddy
You're so Vain - Carly Simon
Stairway to Heaven - LZ (everyone was tryin to learn it on the piano...eek!)
House of the Risin' Sun - The Animals (only understood the lyrics years later...)
Ben - MJ
a song with windmills in it I think by Jose Feliciano
and one about escaping horses? Wild Fire?
Who did Tie a Yellow Ribbon

oh yeah and Rhinestone Cowboy - Glen Campbell
It's all a little hazy...it was a while ago.

Nice thread.

This ain't even fair. Jeez, where do you start?

With my grandmother playing...



...Didn't It Rain, I Will Move On Up A Little Higher or Walk Over God's Heaven?


From my dad's Jazz collection the 1st jazz trumpeter (not Miles) and drummmer (not Elvin)...



...What Is This Thing Called Love? or Love Is a Many Splendored Thing
(their take on "Splendored Thing" showed how a tune could be rearranged.)


Or the 1st jazz guitar instrumental (not Wes)...



...Wait Till You See Her or 0500 Blues.


Or the 1st female Jazz vocalist I heard...



...that showed how to interpret and then re-interpret a melody (Cottontail).


Or my Mom giving to opera and pop vocalists...


Marian Anderson - Attended one of her farewell concerts at the Brooklyn Academy of Music.
Don't remember what she sang but I do remember her elegance and the power and beauty of her voice.




Johnny Mathis - Chances Are



Nat King Cole - Ramblin' Rose


Probably most of all my early musical memories revolved around a new best friend...

...a pocket transistor radio that stayed on all night under my pillow.

It provided me with some of the greatest pop tunes ever created.

I Only Have Eyes For You - The Flamingos
Misty - Johnny Mathis
The Twist - Chubby Checker
Only The Lonely - Roy Orbison
Quarter To Three - Gary U.S. Bonds
Hit The Road Jack - Ray Charles
Green Onions - Booker T & The M.G.'s
He's A Rebel - The Crystals
Do You Love Me - The Contours
Big Girls Don't Cry - The Four Seasons
Playboy - The Marvelettes
On Broadway - The Drifters
It's All Right - The Impressions
Heat Wave - Martha & The Vandellas
Be My Baby - The Ronettes
Our Day Will Come - Ruby & The Romantics

and on and on and on
All courtesy of WMCA, WABC, WWRL, WLIB, WOR-FM, WNEW-FM and WBAI-FM

That radio took me through the Motown era, the British Invasion (I still have my 45 of I Want To Hold Your Hand).

And that eventually led to this pivotal record...



...heard while listening to Murray the K one night on WOR-FM via that transistor radio through my pillow.

"Brian Epstein just sent me a tape of this wildman from England..."


tA

Tribal Disorder

http://www.soundclick.com...rmusic.htm

DavidEye said:

oh, so that's who sings that song. I hear it at work all the time on the intercom. That song has something about "Precious moments" right?

lyecry said:

yes,it does.

theAudience said:

ive said it before and i'll say it again.. even tho im influenced by all of it man. you were there and thats damn cool in itself.

Just a couple off the top of my head -

Heart of Glass - Blondie
(I shared a room with my sister & although she was 6 yrs older she would put makeup on me and we would dance to this all day)

Endless Love - Lionel Richie, Diana Ross
(my sister had broken up with her first real boyfriend that year and we got bombarded with this song!!!

Master Blaster - Stevie Wonder
(great memories driving in the car with my family going to our farm in the bush)

Guilty - Babs & Barry
(What - I still do duets to this one

Solid - Ashford & Simpson
I love this song - my brother gave me his copy just before he left home - I kept it in mint condition b/c it meant so much to me.

Do Me Baby - PRINCE
Controversy LP - big arse turntable dancing in the living room (would always skip Ronnie Talk to Russia I could never get into it back then)

Iam definately a child of the 80's