Name that Song!

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This is about songs that placed high enough on the charts that we heard them and liked them. (So, Happy Birthday, I'm a Little Teapot, and Jesus Loves Me This I Know don't count.) Mostly, I'm asking because the variety in our ages and tastes in music ought to make this entertaining.

But, with that, growing up, it was impressive whenever someone remembered all the words to a song. I don't know why. It was also impressive to catch bees by their wings and then let them go without getting stung. Maybe we were easily impressed when I was young.

Soooo,

1. What was the first popular song you memorized, and how old were you? (Vaguely, if you can't remember if it was before or after your birthday that year.)

2. What was the hardest song you ever memorized and why do you think it was hard?

3. Do you still remember them?

To get some idea of what I'm asking, here are my answers.
1. Love Me Do by the Beatles and I was 6-7 years old.

2. I have two "the hardest." American Pie -- long version -- by Don MacLean because it's a long song. And We Didn't Start the Fire by Billy Joel because it's fast. (And, that was also the last one I did memorize. I guess I grew out of that phase in my 30's. lol)

3. I can't remember the Billy Joel song anymore, but still remember the other two. (Love Me Do isn't that hard to begin with. lol)

But, in honor of the one I forgot...
[video=youtube;eFTLKWw542g]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFTLKWw542g[/video]

 
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It took me a while to try to remember the first popular song I learned. I THINK it was "We Are the World". I remember in elementary school, we'd have programs and plays all the time. At the end of the year, the whole elementary school one year sang "We Are the World" complete with swaying. I believe it was 1986, which would have made me seven.

The hardest popular song I think I memorized was "Bohemian Rhapsody" by Queen. I was not a cool kid in school. The cool kids listened to country (Garth Brooks was extremely popular when I was in high school), I was a nerd and on the fringe. I also had friends with the druggie and goth kids. For some reason that I can't quite figure out, nerds and druggies often become friends in high school. Anyway, my druggie acquaintances introduced me to classic rock like Queen and Pink Floyd. I didn't get into Metallica, but I liked the old music.

I only remember the chorus to "We Are the World", but I remember all the words to "Bohemian Rhapsody" except the German part, because I don't know German.
 
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It took me a while to try to remember the first popular song I learned. I THINK it was "We Are the World". I remember in elementary school, we'd have programs and plays all the time. At the end of the year, the whole elementary school one year sang "We Are the World" complete with swaying. I believe it was 1986, which would have made me seven.

The hardest popular song I think I memorized was "Bohemian Rhapsody" by Queen. I was not a cool kid in school. The cool kids listened to country (Garth Brooks was extremely popular when I was in high school), I was a nerd and on the fringe. I also had friends with the druggie and goth kids. For some reason that I can't quite figure out, nerds and druggies often become friends in high school. Anyway, my druggie acquaintances introduced me to classic rock like Queen and Pink Floyd. I didn't get into Metallica, but I liked the old music.

I only remember the chorus to "We Are the World", but I remember all the words to "Bohemian Rhapsody" except the German part, because I don't know German.
You didn't lack "cool." You were simply wrongly-located. In the Northeast, country isn't cool. (Some of us buck cool and like country anyway -- coughbrothercough.) But Bohemian? Definitely a must-memorize song of my youth. (And, in this case "youth" was my college years through into my 30's.)

That was German? I just did phonetic and thought it was gobbledygook. (I so hope Demi doesn't kick me for thinking German is gobbledygook. lol)

"I see a little silhouette of a man. Got a moosh, got a moosh, do the fandango."
"Galileo. Galileo. Galileo. Picalo. Magnifico!"
"Mish mill laugh, NO! We will not let you go!"

See? It makes perfect sense! lol
 
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1. What was the first popular song you memorized, and how old were you? (Vaguely, if you can't remember if it was before or after your birthday that year.)

Sneaky Snake by Tom T. Hall. I must have been about 3 years old, but I have an old cassette tape that proves I knew that song back to front.

2. What was the hardest song you ever memorized and why do you think it was hard?

Hotel California by The Eagles. I was very young when I memorized this, and it was hard for me because I didn't understand some of the words or the imagery of the lyrics. When I was a young shaver, I had no idea "warm smell of Colitas rising up through the air" meant "it smells like Marijuana".

3. Do you still remember them?

Yes, for Hotel California. Now, it's one of the easiest songs. I used to be able to rattle off the beginning part of Rosetta Stoned by TOOL. Uff-da.
 

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The popular song i remember memorizing is Top of the World by Carpenters, at 8 yrs old; it was a teacher's favorite, it seemed=) Yes, i can sing it now

There is no hardest song memorized i can say,,, most of them were quite simple but there is one i tried to learn on piano maybe in high school called Once upon a time, The words were not really hard, but i found the notes on the piece a bit hard to reach/play and so equated the song with something hard=)

I could not find piece online but here is an arrangement with voices that seems hard with all the flats!


For those who care to see the words: Tony Bennett Lyrics - Once Upon A Time
 

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Note: i was editing my post with dangling modifiers when laptop power went off, so bear with my post,,,
 

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The first popular song i memorised was ACDC's Jailbreak back in 1974...


The hardest song to memorise was Hardware Store... The first part of the song was not that hard but the part between 2:22 minute mark and 2: 54 the was hardest 32 second burst ever to nail down.. LOL

[video=youtube;sN-ZX8-IXYI]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sN-ZX8-IXYI[/video]
 
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I was (3) and would stand on a stool in front of the jute box in my
grandparents restaurant and sing to 'The Tennessee Waltz'...
it's still one of my favorites...
I can remember events even further back as a toddler...
 
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Note: i was editing my post with dangling modifiers when laptop power went off, so bear with my post,,,
I'm embarrassed to say I couldn't find a modifier dangling. (And this is why I'm not an English teacher. lol)
 

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It seems like I was always singing along with songs... don't really remember the first song I "memorized"... I do remember arguing with my brother over the lyrics of "Fun Fun Fun Til Her Daddy Takes Her T-Bird Away"....... also "Honey" by Bobby Goldsboro.

Hardest song? Can't think of one, really. Probably something by Creedence.... "Lookin Out My Backdoor"...?

"Giants doin cartwheels, statues wearin high heels...." nonsensical stuff....
 
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Written about six years before I was born, my mother used to sing this to me.
[video=youtube;541HKD8alfg]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=541HKD8alfg[/video]
 
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My mother has told me I learned a song in Kindergarten and came back home teaching it to her.
Can't remember which song it was though.

I don't think I ever memorized one as in intending to learn it, I just heard some songs many enough times to learn them :p
 
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It seems like I was always singing along with songs... don't really remember the first song I "memorized"... I do remember arguing with my brother over the lyrics of "Fun Fun Fun Til Her Daddy Takes Her T-Bird Away"....... also "Honey" by Bobby Goldsboro.

Hardest song? Can't think of one, really. Probably something by Creedence.... "Lookin Out My Backdoor"...?

"Giants doin cartwheels, statues wearin high heels...." nonsensical stuff....
But... was there "a bathroom on the right?" (CCR's famous misconstrued lyric. lol)

And did you think "bearded women ain't got no soul?" (Zep song, but to this day, I prefer that line to whatever the real line is. lol)
 
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Written about six years before I was born, my mother used to sing this to me.
[video=youtube;541HKD8alfg]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=541HKD8alfg[/video]
Ohhh! Mom used to sing that too, but she didn't know words, so the only words I remember are "And they swam and swam all over the dam" along with "boop boop ditty ditty waddachew." Thank you!

She had a lot of little ditties I remember, but couldn't place them in real songs. Until now, I always thought that came from an early Disney cartoon. (Steamboat Willie or Betty Boop era.) Cool!
 
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Written about six years before I was born, my mother used to sing this to me.
[video=youtube;541HKD8alfg]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=541HKD8alfg[/video]
Nice, that song was / is popular here too (translated and used as a children's song),
it even was used in a commercial not too long ago

our fish didn't meet a shark though, they "ended their days in a fish- mongers tank"
 
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1. What was the first popular song you memorized, and how old were you? (Vaguely, if you can't remember if it was before or after your birthday that year.)

2. What was the hardest song you ever memorized and why do you think it was hard?

3. Do you still remember them?
Let's see...

1. Field's of Athenry age 6. I memorized a lot of hymns before that time, though.
2. Ah Chloris. Because it is hard to memorize words when they're in a different language, and French is darn hard to sing!
3. Yes :)
 
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My mother sang this one to me. too. It was written the year before I was born.

[video=youtube;t3oSyr8mHY4]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3oSyr8mHY4[/video]
 

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I'm embarrassed to say I couldn't find a modifier dangling. (And this is why I'm not an English teacher. lol)
Oh... there is none? If you who write do not find something wrong w/ the post, then there might not be one... I thought the Carpenters seemed to be 8 yr old=). There have been times i reread posts and realized errors not noticed when posting too fast. I dont mind others pointing out errors if something needs to be corrected or edited.
 
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Oddly enough, THIS was the first song this Baptist-raised boy remembers learning to sing on his own.

[video=youtube;uSTOcyevIOE]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSTOcyevIOE[/video]
 
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I fell in love with this one..... but, in English, first. LOL

[video=youtube;XH1fERC_504]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XH1fERC_504[/video]