Your first "favorite song"

Not counting music-class staples, or the national anthem, do you remember what your first "favorite song" was?

Mine was "Convoy," by C.W. McCall. I was 7 when it came out. I begged my parents to buy me the 45 and I probably played it 10 times a day.

 

Every song on the "Sound of Music" soundtrack album. I was 6.

 

Rhinestone Cowboy by Glenn Campbell. Parents even taped me singing it when I was like 3 or 4. Still got the tape. My lack of singing talent was apparent early.

 

It's probably not correct, but 'Devil Went Down to Georgia' because it had 'son of a bitch' in the lyrics and my father would play it for us while driving to Saturday afternoon Mass.

 

I hate myself for admitting this.

 

Song Song Blue--Neil Diamond

 

TSOP (The Sound of Philadelphia) - MFSB

Edited to add: I still have the 45.

 

Ugh. I was the youngest and was always being taken on errands with my mother. She listened to the local station that played the soft hits or whatever they were called like 'Song Song Blue.' There wasn't one I liked, but I could hum along to most of them to this day.

 

Same song. Our stories diverge from there.

 

The one that comes immediately to mind is Petula Clark, 'Downtown', but that would have been well after it's original release.

If not that, it's probably one of the sappy pop ballads of the late 60s: 'Ode to Billy Joe', Bobby Goldsboro's 'Honey' or something of that ilk.

 

We also had a little record player in a suitcase covered in denim (God, what I wouldn't give to have that now) and a box of 45s. I played them constantly, but the three I remember specifically:

"The Boxer" by Simon & Garfunkel.
"Cathy's Clown" by the Everly Brothers.
"Strawberry Fields Forever" by The Beatles.

Any of those songs come on the radio now, I am a kid again. It's kind of a beautiful thing.