First Song You Ever Heard That Interested You

When I really think back, it was probably "Sherry" by The Four Seasons back in 62. I was very young but I do remember the radio airplay "Sherry" got back then was enormous and I was attracted to the simplicity of the lyrics, the catchiness of the beat and the harmonies. Everything the Four Seasons sang in the next few years sounded great to me. But a few years later when I heard "Wouldn't it be Nice" by the Beach Boys...my world changed. This week I downloaded the new Moon Safari album Himlabacken and I must say, all these years later,  I still really enjoy harmony.  

The first music I really remember really listening to was when I was very young (4, think) and it was a DC Talk record. I don't remember a thing about it (I remember liking a song about "time" or something). Then, when I was 9, I heard Switchfoot's Beautiful Letdown, which got me serious about writing music, although I had been writing diddlies since I emerged from the womb. Both these bands, I don't really like or listen to anymore, but I appreciate them for their impact on my music listening/writing. Radiohead, though, hit me like a train when I was 10 or 11, and I haven't gotten over them since.

When I was five or six I really liked "Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf" much to the annoyance of my parents I am sure. Then it was the Batman theme from the television show. But the first real song that struck me was Deep Purple's version of "We Can Work It Out," which I believe I actually heard before I heard the Beatle's original.

I think it was Satisfaction by The Rolling Stones. I've since outgrown a lot of their music, but I can still say I legitimately really like that song a lot.

I remember the first song i ever heard and liked was Petula Clark's hit "Downtown" while driving with my parents and sister in downtown Toronto in my parent's VW Bug in 1967 when i was only four years old.
        To this day, "Downtown" is a magical song for me. I don't particularly like the remake done of it, tho.

Edited by presdoug - September 08 2013 at 08:27

it was Mozart K.331 Third Movement

It's impossible to not know that song.

When I was a child, about six years old, there were three songs that hit me and since then music have become an essential part of my life: From my parents records was Mannheim Steamroller's 'Toccatta' from Fresh Aire III, from a local radio station here (in Mexico City) was Wallace Collection's 'Daydream' and finally from the a t.v. show a saturdayu morning was The Beatles' 'Hey Jude'.

Well this is a prog section, but the question says "first song" and to answer fairly that would be 60s pop songs....

My earliest 45s that I absorbed from my sister's collection when she moved out....I would have been 5-6 years old I'm guessing...I can remember

"Saturday Night" New Christy Minstrels
"The Last Waltz" Englebert Humperdinck
"Jennifer Juniper"  Donovan
"Dizzy"  Tommy Roe


The first single I ever bought myself was a silly pop song called "Seasons in the Son" by Terry Jacks.  I remember bring a quarter over to the neighbor girl and buying it from her.

It would have been the Beach Boys for me. When I was really young, I remember being familiar with their music, and my parents would tend to play their music when we went on summer vacations to the beach. This was in the early 90's though.

^ Nominee, Best Song Title Ever.