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     Someone used this phrase in a post recently, and it got to ramblin' around in my head. What finally precipitated down was music that I heard when REALLY young, that I still hear in my head; I decided to limit myself to five, and I'd like to see (hear) what y'all come up with.

! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OGNBBZDRqFo#)

! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=grf5LIFJ0xI#)

! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JSt0NEESrUA#)

! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vnLHP0EBfhU#)

! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8Tiz6INF7I#)

Here are my 5 titles.

The McGuire Sisters
"Sugar time"

Peter, Paul, and Mary
"Puff, the Magic Dragon"

Rolfe Harris
"Tie Me Kangaroo Down, Sport"

and 2 from my main man Captain Kangaroo (Bob Keeshan)
"Hi Diddle Dee Dee"
"High Hopes"

They ain't writin' music like that today, and I miss that.

Mine's a little weird, with a big backstory, but, I'll try:

What's On Your Mind by Information Society
http://youtu.be/UPuXvpkOLmM (http://youtu.be/UPuXvpkOLmM)

Road to Nowhere by Talking Heads
http://youtu.be/UPuXvpkOLmM (http://youtu.be/UPuXvpkOLmM)

Eat It--Weird Al
http://youtu.be/ZcJjMnHoIBI (http://youtu.be/ZcJjMnHoIBI)

Twist and Shout--The Beatles
http://youtu.be/iS0wuN_6wyw (http://youtu.be/iS0wuN_6wyw)

This is a good topic!
I recall hearing songs on the radio when I was REAL young-and to this day-I still sing them in my head.

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I heard this when I was real little snot nose in upstate NY in 1969. Of course I loved 'Ding Dong the Witch is Dead'...and" the Name Game"

http://youtu.be/h9nE2spOw_o (http://youtu.be/h9nE2spOw_o)

.This one-

https://youtu.be/HIWY8UyW9bw (http://youtu.be/HIWY8UyW9bw)

.the Young Bloods...


http://youtu.be/OCiLxRCBf40 (http://youtu.be/OCiLxRCBf40)

...and when I was a couple 3 years later-an eternity to a kid. When I was 7 and when I was 10 seemed like DECADES!!!! To be be young again...when summers felt like years...and you felt like a 13 year old was wise-and teenagers were a***oles.

.who does "the Lion Sleeps Tonight"-not the Tokens-the 70's version?

.Loretta Lynn!

http://youtu.be/yMzSYyjNb74 (http://youtu.be/yMzSYyjNb74)

This one?  Robert John.

http://youtu.be/Q7mDzwYcZiM (http://youtu.be/Q7mDzwYcZiM)

Heavily influenced by my sister's bubblegum music back in the 60s:

! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHSgHtoaiLQ#)

! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4aQiFaCod8#)

! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EivEoAWr-h4#)

! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kLVSmJmnyko#)

! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rp_eI23YFZY#)

You gotta love any music video in which the Pre-Fab Four are harassed by a gang of children bearing weapons.

Songs right around when I was born that were popular (and barely remember hearing on the radio a bit later when I was able to comprehend music:
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BDm1xD_Kwyc#)
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7T5hYlUsQ0s#)
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yf-d-Ka30EY#)
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-LVXR6rjXs#)
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rdF7o08KXw#)
Some I distinctly have memories of when they were at their peak and I was VERY little:
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKBttQmhDBw#)
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vwGlhKcEBjY#)
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=boAv-Bu4MrI#)

! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0trh9Y598fM#)

I love this song! I used to feel so dirty blaring it on my stereo driving home from Catholic school.

You nailed it, retrorussell!  That about sums up my high school years (and maybe first year of university).

Thanks Newt!

Others I distinctly remember as a kid when they were new:

DA DOO RON RON- Shaun Cassidy
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l1nTfgUbW48#)
YOU'RE THE ONE THAT I WANT- John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John
"Tell me about it, stud." (I was a bit too young to get an erection from Olivia back then.. not anymore!)
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7oKPYe53h78#)
MAKIN' IT- David Naughton
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F47AfASOnA8#)

These are just some of those songs where I can remember exactly where I was in life at the time.  I wore Garanimals, my hair (hair?  What's that?) was blond-ish at the time, and we had one of those god-awful giant stereo cabinets we'd hear the song blasting from.  My older sister tried to teach me how to dance to the songs.  I never much cared for dancing.  But we had fun.  I still like disco. 

Some late 70s stuff we owned 45s of:
SHAKE IT- Ian Matthews
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZgFUkyGkcQ#)
CRUEL TO BE KIND- Nick Lowe
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0l3QWUXVho#)
LE FREAK- Chic
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1qQ1SKNlgY#)
BAKER STREET- Gerry Rafferty
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fo6aKnRnBxM#)
I JUST WANT TO BE YOUR EVERYTHING- Andy Gibb
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-xfFqWaK1s#)

As a kid, I actually owned a few cassettes my parents gave me which I came to love...most where actually old music from the 50s-60s. Recall loving these tunes:

http://youtu.be/CX45pYvxDiA (http://youtu.be/CX45pYvxDiA)

http://youtu.be/NPBkiBbO4_4 (http://youtu.be/NPBkiBbO4_4)

http://youtu.be/tuoMYq_vQEs (http://youtu.be/tuoMYq_vQEs)

http://youtu.be/LTRfRK0ahYs (http://youtu.be/LTRfRK0ahYs)

Also listened a lot to my Dad's Jim Reeves records:

http://youtu.be/TvlUrNRRE4E (http://youtu.be/TvlUrNRRE4E)

http://youtu.be/W0qy5Zlkd7U (http://youtu.be/W0qy5Zlkd7U)

And finally this one stands out in memory as being very popular in the early 70s.

http://youtu.be/ho7796-au8U (http://youtu.be/ho7796-au8U)

By the 1980s, I started liking that music a lot more and it's probably the music I still like best with some early 90s stuff thrown in (some of my fave bands are still R.E.M., Living Colour, Midnight Oil, Jesus Jones, Genesis).