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

[TripletDaddy]

2 songs that Casey Kasem loved to spin:

Sugarhill Gang, Rapper's Delight: "the macaroni's soggy, the peas are mushed and the chicken tastes like wood..."

Rolling Stones, Miss You: "I've been stumblin' on my feet, shuffling through the street....asking people.....WHAT'S THE MATTER WITCH'YOU BOY?!"

I have pretty clear recollection of hearing these on my brother's stereo and thinking they were funny and cool because of the lyrics.

Well, that's all for now. Until the next time, keep your feet on the ground and keep reaching for the stars!

[marsupial]

We got satellite TV about the time MTV was born. I remember really liking the song Freeze Frame by the J Geils Band. I would have been about 4 when the song came out and the paint fight in the video sticks out in my mind.
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I also remember liking Hit Me with Your Best Shot by Pat Benatar and Jump and Panama by Van Halen.

The first tape that was my very own was Tina Turner, Private Dancer. My cousin was sick of it and gave it to me. Second was John Cougar Mellencamp, Scarecrow. This I begged for in the store. I was in third grade.

[Babs]

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

you give love a bad name.

[SteelBlue]

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

That's probably mine as well. The first records I bought were singles on 45 and were "Whip It" by Devo and "Woman" by John Lennon.

[Donuthole]

Kokomo. I was in 4th grade, and I recorded it off the radio. Then I recorded it onto another tape 10 times in a row. The last time it played on side A, it stopped right at "We'll perfect our . . .", and then picked up with ". . . chemistry, by and by we'll defy . . ." on side B. I listened to that thing so many times that, even today, every time I hear that song I expect it to stop in the same spot.

[UtahDan]

Beat it.

[Jarid in Cedar]

Mr. Roboto

[YOhio]

Joan Jett - Bad Reputation

[MarkGrace]

Kokomo. I was in 4th grade, and I recorded it off the radio. Then I recorded it onto another tape 10 times in a row. The last time it played on side A, it stopped right at "We'll perfect our . . .", and then picked up with ". . . chemistry, by and by we'll defy . . ." on side B. I listened to that thing so many times that, even today, every time I hear that song I expect it to stop in the same spot.

I remember that one well, too.

[Sizzle]

Not sure. It could be "Jump" by Kris Kross, "Can't Touch This" by Hammer (or at that time MC Hammer) but there is probably something before that that I am forgetting.

Kokomo could be it, but since it was "Beach Boys", it may fall under my parents music.

[falafel]

Kokomo. I was in 4th grade, and I recorded it off the radio. Then I recorded it onto another tape 10 times in a row. The last time it played on side A, it stopped right at "We'll perfect our . . .", and then picked up with ". . . chemistry, by and by we'll defy . . ." on side B. I listened to that thing so many times that, even today, every time I hear that song I expect it to stop in the same spot.

I remember that one well, too.

Hey, we all remember it. But we didn't all put it on perpetual repeat. Jeez!

[YOhio]

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.

I LOVE that song!

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[TripletDaddy]

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.

I love the attitude of this post. It basically says, "Everyone must like the same music as me and everyone should know exactly what song I am talking about."

By the way, there is only ONE Eddie Murphy movie.

[falafel]

I LOVE that song!

*sigh, shakes head*

I said "Duh, duh, duh-ta-da-duh-duh, duh, duh, duh-ta-da-duh-duh, dut-dut-dut-duh-dut-duh-duh-duh"

That song goes "Dut-dut duh-da, dut duh-da duh, Dut-dut duh-da, dut duh-da duh, etc."

They couldn't BE more different.

[YOhio]

I love the attitude of this post. It basically says, "Everyone must like the same music as me and everyone should know exactly what song I am talking about."

By the way, there is only ONE Eddie Murphy movie.

Hold your fire man. I know you want to zing Falafel for basically destroying you and embarrassing you in front of all your friends, but that just wasn't the right time.