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| From | Dave Seaman <seamand@upmc.edu> |
| Subject | First favorite songs |
| Date | Wed, 19 Oct 2005 14:40:07 -0400 |
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<<<From: "doowop365" <doowop365@yahoo.com>
Perhaps the first song that truly WAS my favorite, although I guess
I didn't think about it until this thread came up, was The Banana
Splits "The Tra La La Song". >>>
I can't remember which song was my FIRST favorite song, but the Archies'
Sugar Sugar was certainly ONE of the first. All the cool kids asked Francis
the DJ (aka Francis the school janitor) to play it over and over again at
our sixth grade "dance party" in the Churchill Elementary cafeteria. It was
at that same party that one of the cool boys in the class was confiding to
me and a few others how fun it was to play spin the bottle and kiss Patty
Fawcett and some of the other grade 6 hotties. I remember thinking, yuck...
But didn't admit it at the time. How times change, I can only guess what
sixth graders are doing these days.
<<<By the way, I may be a little late with this, but Tony Orlando &
Dawn DO rule!! "Summer Sand", "Knock Three Times", "Candida", "Look
In My Eyes Pretty Woman", etc. >>>
I like "Knock 3x" just fine, and don't dislike some of their other hits -
but I think I was permanently scarred at a young age by "Tie A Yellow
Ribbon". When I was 13, I started to take keyboard lessons, as I had
visions of rock and roll stardom - by this time I was starting to understand
what was fun about "spin the bottle", and girls in general, and had some
vague idea that maybe chicks would dig me if I played in a band. So, I had
a piano teacher - this 70+ year old lady with shaky hands and arm flaps that
hung as low as I would guess other parts of her hung. After a year of
scales and beginner songs that were older than my piano teacher, I asked her
if I could try something more contemporary -- at that point, my ears were
being opened to the whole wide world of rock music, from the Beatles and
Beach Boys to the Raspberries to Mott the Hoople, Alice Cooper and Blue
Oyster Cult. To my chagrin, she said, well here's a good modern song for
you to play, "Tie A Yellow Ribbon Round The Old Oak Tree!" I dutifully
learned it and played it as part of my lessons, but I never asked her to
play a "new" song again...
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