What was your first song (read details)

My mother was an Avon lady when I was a kid. Her area was a farm community. Her customers quite frugal. I would have to sit in the car for long periods of time. Occasionally I would get to listen to the radio. My clearest early memory was of singing along with Louis Armstrong’s version of What A Wonderful World, and at the end they announced that he had died. I cried and cried. I loved his music, and the way he sang “Ohhhhhhhhh yeahhhh”

On my little record player when I was about 4 years old, I’m Back In The Saddle Again by Gene Autry.

This song was quite famous when I was a kid and I loved singing this one. I used to tell my Dad to play it in the car quite often and I used to sing along with it. Children’s Hindi Song – Lakdi Ki Kathi kathi pe ghoda- Masoom

Kayleigh by Marillion. My dad had a cassette tape of various soft rock songs that we would listen to all the time in the car but this is the song that I remember the most. I love it still.

As far as the actual radio is concerned, I honestly can’t remember what the very first song I sang along to was but when I got my first car at 17 years old, Pon De Replay by Rihanna was always on the radio and I really liked it at the time.

It’s all messed up in this thing of mine called a brain. I had a cassette deck in my first car. I can’t remember what was playing on that vs. the radio.
I have no idea what I even heard on the radio before I was driving for myself.

I listened to music a lot when I was small, but this question is specific enough to tell you my first memory of singing in the car.
The radio was playing You are my Sunshine by Ray Charles. We were singing along, and my Mom got upset, because she liked a more traditional version, and she turned off the radio, and made us sing it the customary way.
Yes, I still love that song, though I rarely hear it on the radio.
You actually hear the more traditional approach more often, thanks to O Brother Where Art Thou?

Thank goodness for specific questions.

My dad preferred talk radio in the car, so it wasn’t with him. I would probably have been in the car with my grandfather. Pop-pop and I sang a lot of 50s and 60s music together.

My favourite songs at the time were “Under the Boardwalk” and “Please, Mr. Custer”. I couldn’t tell you which is the earlier memory.

Tennessee Waltz by Patty Page in my dad’s 1950 Hudson Commodore.

Volare

In 1958 my family moved from San Francisco to New Brunswick, Canada, and the family drove across country. Volare was at the top of the charts, and seemed to come on the radio about once an hour. I loved it as a three year old, but by the time we reached the East Coast the rest of the family was going crazy every time it came on.

If you don’t count kiddie songs that we had to sing in grade school, the first “adult” song I recall singing along to – but not the first I remember – would have been Dion and the Belmonts “Teenager In Love” from ‘way, ‘way back when!!

I’m really not sure what was my first song I listened to in the car, but I very much remember I Never Promised You a Rose Garden when I was little. I loved that song and used to sing along with it. I remember we used to listen to WABC on the AM radio. My parents loved music.

I can’t think of the first one. My dad listened to an AM radio guy with the last name Savage (can’t remember his first name) and my mom & my aunt listened to pop music, so it was a mix of those. This was the late 90s into the early 2000s. The first song that comes to mind in my childhood is Slide by the Goo Goo Dolls. It brings back some very specific memories.

@dxs omg that makes me feel old

Honestly, me too. But probably not nearly as much as you.