What's the first pop song / hit you remember?

[FMCoug]

Not something your parents or older siblings listened to but you and your peers?

For me it would probably be Another One Bites The Dust by Queen.

[Fiyero]

I got my first clock radio in 1983. I was little but remember Joe Jackson's Steppin Out, MJ's Billie Jean, and Journey's Open Arms were frequently played in the mornings on 98.7.

[MarkGrace]

It could quite possibly be Ice Ice Baby. I remember hearing that at my cousin's ice skating b-day party at the Ice Palace in Hawai'i. I'm pretty sure I was in 4th grade at the time and thought the song was just awesome.

Brutal, I know.

[Tim]

For my first several years all I heard was what my parents played: Carpenters, Manilow, Kenny Rogers, Harry Chapin, Cat Stevens, and John Denver. I got a radio when I was 5 or 6, and the first song I associate with that radio was by Hall and Oates. I don't remember what it was, but I know it was Hall and Oates.

[FMCoug]

It could quite possibly be Ice Ice Baby. I remember hearing that at my cousin's ice skating b-day party at the Ice Palace in Hawai'i. I'm pretty sure I was in 4th grade at the time and thought the song was just awesome.

Brutal, I know.

Good grief you make me feel old.

[cowboy]

Not something your parents or older siblings listened to but you and your peers?

For me it would probably be Another One Bites The Dust by Queen.

Put Another Log on the Fire, and Sundown. Both released in 73/74 when I was three years old. They were the first songs I remember learning the words to.

[byu71]

You ain't nothin but a hound dog

[falafel]

It could quite possibly be Ice Ice Baby. I remember hearing that at my cousin's ice skating b-day party at the Ice Palace in Hawai'i. I'm pretty sure I was in 4th grade at the time and thought the song was just awesome.

Brutal, I know.

That was the very first CD I owned. My parents got it for me for Christmas. It was a badge of honor in my elementary school if you knew all the words and could recite them at recess. That song was also the only thing my first girlfriend (same time period) had in common.

[MarkGrace]

Put Another Log on the Fire, and Sundown. Both released in 73/74 when I was three years old. They were the first songs I remember learning the words to.

3? Holy smokes.

[FMCoug]

3? Holy smokes.

That's why I tried excluding those ... for me it would have been Carpenters, etc. if I was counting parents stuff.

[All-American]

You ain't nothin but a hound dog

Huh. I'd have guessed yours would have been some sort of Gregorian chant.

[falafel]

Not something your parents or older siblings listened to but you and your peers?

For me it would probably be Another One Bites The Dust by Queen.

For me, I think it was a song that everyone knows, but that very few people (that I know) know the name of. Its an instrumntal synthesizer pop song that my friends and I used to try and break to. I want to say it was in an 80s Eddie Murphy movie. Its also in that Family Guy episode where Peter goes back in time to when he was dating Lois, but keeps ditching her to go clubbing with Cleveland, who's dressed like MJ with the red leather jacket and white glove.

You all know it. It went like this: Duh, duh, duh-ta-da-duh-duh, duh, duh, duh-ta-da-duh-duh, dut-dut-dut-duh-dut-duh-duh-duh; Duh, duh, duh-ta-da-duh-duh, duh, duh, duh-ta-da-duh-duh, dut-dut-dut-duh-dut-duh-duh-duh [insert synth drum riff here]. Then it went Nuh nuh na-nuh na-nuh nuh nuh, etc.

[All-American]

For me, I think it was a song that everyone knows, but that very few people (that I know) know the name of. Its an instrumntal synthesizer pop song that my friends and I used to try and break to. I want to say it was in an 80s Eddie Murphy movie.

You all know it. It went like this: Duh, duh, duh-ta-da-duh-duh, duh, duh, duh-ta-da-duh-duh, dut-dut-dut-duh-dut-duh-duh-duh [insert synth drum riff here]. Then it went Nuh nuh na-nuh na-nuh nuh nuh, etc.

Axel F.

You want to know the really sad thing? I read the second paragraph first and got the song before I read the first paragraph.

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[falafel]

Axel F.

You want to know the really sad thing? I read the second paragraph first and got the song before I read the first paragraph.

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That's it! I knew someone would know exactly what I was talking about. Axel F - if you hadn't included the clip, I would have said there was no way that was the right song. Axel F didn't even ring a bell for me. Funny.

My dad had the casette, and we always looked for it b/c trying to spin around on a cardboard box wasn't nearly as cool without it.

I just listened to the whole song. Funny, there's a whole middle section that I don't recall ever hearing. Its sort of like when a kid learns to play Beethoven's Fur Elise but only play the first part. Later, they (me) are surprised the hear the middle section that sounds almost like carnival music (I'm very refined).

[il Padrino Ute]

I had received a radio for my 10th birthday. I went to my room, turned it on to KCPX 1320 AM and the first song I heard was The Night Chicago Died by Paper Lace. Having been raised by parents who listened to crooners, this was something entirely different and I loved it.

For my first several years all I heard was what my parents played: Carpenters, Manilow, Kenny Rogers, Harry Chapin, Cat Stevens, and John Denver. I got a radio when I was 5 or 6, and the first song I associate with that radio was by Hall and Oates. I don't remember what it was, but I know it was Hall and Oates.

She's Gone
Sara Smile
Rich Girl
I Don't Wanna Lose You
Kiss On My List
You Make My Dreams
Private Eyes
I Can't Go For That
Man Eater
One On One
Family Man

Any of those ring a bell?