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

[Brian]

"Run Joey Run" by David Geddes

[BoylenOver]

Seal - "A Kiss From a Rose"

I also remember jumping up and down on the couch as a 6-year-old to Air Supply's "Lost in Love". I could still sing the chorus today, even though I haven't heard the song in at least 8 years.

[falafel]

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

Didn't they make a sequel to Daddy Day Care? Oh that's right, Cuba was in the second one.

[Borg]

The first real song that I got all geeked up about was: "The Show Must Go On" - Three Dog Night.

I was pretty young but it's still a cool song.

"Telephone Line" got me hooked on ELO and I've been one of their fans ever since.

[Jeff Lebowski]

Hmmm... I think I'll sit this one out.

[RC Vikings]

The Beatles "I Want to Hold Your Hand" because of the Saturday morning cartoon.

The Jackson 5 "ABC" I would sneak into my sisters room and play this when they were gone.

Zager and Evans "In the Year 2525" For some strange reason I really liked this song as a kid.

[wuapinmon]

"The Devil Went Down to Georgia," The Charlie Daniels Band.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3FRtkek-Et4 (Linking disabled) This is the Primus version, cool animation.

[Mr Incredible]

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.

Probably the Carpenters or John Denver.

[Surfah]

I remember my buddy Ernesto (Ernie) had INXS Kick and we'd listen to it all the time. So I'd say New Sensation off that album. It seemed to be fairly popular from what I remember. We didn't listen to a whole lot of music in our home aside from Christmas music, my mom's Johnny Mathis albums, the Carpenters and old school Hawaiian music like the Brothers Cazimero, C & K, and Keola and Kapono Beamer.

I don't remember the first tape. I remember having Bon Jovi Farneheit 7800 and Slippery When Wet as some of the first. Man that is embarrassing. My first CD was a birthday gift: Another Bad Creation. I also remember getting Vanilla Ice and my mom returning it to Tower Records after she listened to it. To this day I am not sure if that was her musical taste or mullahness kicking in on that one.

[HuskyFreeNorthwest]

This is the first song I remember being excited to hear when it came on the radio.
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[SoCalCoug]

"In the Navy" - the Village People.

[I.J. Reilly]

I was pretty young, but I bought my dad this cd for Christmas.



I'm pretty sure he wasn't a Hammer fan, but I was. My mother later made me return it. Something about inappropriate lyrics.

[jay santos]

I started listening to America Top 40 Casey Kasem late 1981/early 1982. The combination of the stats/numbers stuff and the coming of age listening to my own music instead of mom and dad's was pretty thrilling to the young Jay Santos.

I remember hearing the 1981 year end show with Kim Carnes Bette Davis Eyes as #1. I also remember the stunning change at the top of the charts around Feb 1982. Joan Jett I Love Rock n Roll had been #1 for 6-8 weeks in a row, with Journey Open Arms #2 for a few weeks in a row and J Geils Centerfold #3. Unexpectedly when I Love Rock n Roll was finally unseated it was Centerfold vaulting to #1 with Open Arms staying at #2 for a few more weeks before falling.

I googled to see if my memory was right and from what I could gather, it is.

Journey Escape was the first album I bought with my own money.

[jay santos]

3? Holy smokes.

My baby was doing the oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh to Coldplay Viva La Vida before he turned two. Cute stuff.

[SoonerCoug]

Thriller. A kid brought the music video to kindergarten for show and tell.

On an unrelated note, Johnny Miller's son was in my kindergarten class, and he brought his dad for show and tell.