What’s the songtrack from your earliest memories?

Definitely cartoon theme songs.

Good 70s rock mixed with the tacky 80s shit my dad loved. I remember being 5 in the car alone with him and he was blasting Van Halen. It assaulted my ears. Jump brings back terrible memories. My dad also liked Rick Astley

"Happy Birthday", "I‘m Popeye the Sailor Man", "Found a Peanut",

Waylon & Willie. My dad was a big country music fan.

Me, too, OP! Kingston Trio, lying on the floor in front of my Grandma’s console stereo.

oh and: "On Top of Spaghetti All Covered With Cheese"

This was the first thing I remember buying online. I don't like it much anymore but I think I was only 9 when I bought it.

King of the Road. My dad played it as I rode beside him in his old Chevy.

I remember hearing Up, Up and Away on the car radio repeatedly and making a connection that popular songs were played and repeated often for a certain time frame. I think I was about four and it may have been on a long drive to the Jersey shore, otherwise I can’t think why we would have been in the car for such a long period to have heard it so much?

I learned all the words to this when I was about four.

Songs from classic Disney movies ("Pinocchio," etc.) that I played on Little Golden Records.

This. I wanted to be Ms.Peggy Lee!

[quote]This. I wanted to be Ms.Peggy Lee!

Peggy Lee co-wrote the "Lady and the Tramp" songs I played on my Little Golden Records.

Didn’t she voice the singing dog number in the dog pound in Lady and the Tramp?

^^Peggy Lee voiced the dog (named Peg, I think) who sings "He's a Tramp," and she also was the voice (double-tracked) of the two Siamese cats.

Wow! Good info! Thanks!

R15 I recall that being quite racist, she must be up for cancellation like Kate Smith then.

I remember my parents liked listening to this album and his TV program: "Sing Along with Mitch".

This was the first pop song I remember being aware of, which is funny because it's quite sexy.

My parents didn't play any albums - it was just radio or classical. When I read about people praising what their parents played while they were young, it's almost with disbelief. I'm so jealous they had some sort of musical influence.

I had NONE and had to learn about music and most everything by myself.

Also this one, although it was slightly an oldie already by the time I heard it (early 70s):

This was the first pop song I genuinely liked, because it had a child's part in it. Only when i was older did I realize it was dreck.

I remember my mother and I dancing in my bedroom to Petula Clark's "Downtown."

Stop! In the name of Love....it was probably the hand gestures from TV appearances by the Supremes that stuck out in my mind. Lots of Motown, California pop & soul, Dionne, Johnny Mathis...

Mine

Oh yes, I recall "Here We Are.Again".

This one sticks out in my memory.

Michael, Row The Boat Ashore.

My mother taught me to sing "High Hopes" when I was under five years old. She called me her "little old ant."

Day-O by Harry Belafonte. I sang along with gusto.

"Theme From A Summer Place," which always seemed to be playing on the car radio when I was a child and we were driving to the beach in the summer, something we did quite often.

What the hell is a "songtrack?"

David Cassidy & crew:

R32 I assume a soundtrack of one sine?

Steppenwolf -- "The Pusher"

Yes, soundtrack. My bad.

The song about me.

My oldest sister taught me all the words to American Pie when I was 4.

If I Had A Hammer - Peter, Paul & Mary

My folks played the film soundtrack to Hans Christian Anderson, with Danny Kaye for me. My memory is of Inchworm, lying on the floor on my tummy, singing along. Except I didn’t know what a marigold was, and I thought he was saying merry-go....(round).

[quote]My folks played the film soundtrack to Hans Christian Anderson, with Danny Kaye for me . I generally find Danny Kaye fairly insufferable, but "Hans Christian Andersen" has a lovely score by Frank Loesser.

The Beverly Hillbillies theme song, The Aristocats, Elvis.

Peter and the Wolf...bittersweet. Mother used to play it while she sewed. I feel extremely sad when I hear it ...which is rare, of course

"I Want To Hold Your Hand" and "She Loves You" by The Beatles; "Stop In The Name Of Love" by The Supremes; "It's Not Unusual" by Tom Jones; "Georgy Girl" by The Seekers; "Up, Up And Away" by The Fifth Dimension; "Nothing But A Heartache" by The Flirtations; "Winchester Cathedral" by The New Vaudeville Band. Dionne Warwick's "What The World Needs Now" version; and folk music like OP. The Seekers' song was first one I remember playing off the radio in my parents' car.

I was a romantic

[quote] ^^Peggy Lee voiced the dog (named Peg, I think) who sings "He's a Tramp," and she also was the voice (double-tracked) of the two Siamese cats.

And she sued Disney for a share of the video royalties and won.

"Moon River", I have an aunt that would play it on the piano and make me sing along with her. That song was everywhere, radio, commercials, even the soundtrack to "Breakfast at Tiffany's"

[quote]That song was everywhere, radio, commercials, even the soundtrack to "Breakfast at Tiffany's"

*Even* the soundtrack to "Breakfast at Tiffany's"? "Moon River" was written for "Breakfast at Tiffany's."