What is the earliest song you can remember?
I know it can be difficult to get our earliest memories in order but I am pretty sure that mine was the song ‘Coming through the Rye’ which I used to play on child’s battery operated record player. I think I must have been about three years old. It had a very ‘tinny’ sound but I played it over and over.
Telstar by the Tornadoes, went to see them in 1966 c in our local fleepit and it cost me about 2 bob, it was my first gig and it just blew me away. 
Sitting in front of the radio on Saturday mornings listening to ‘Uncle Mac’ sometime in the early 1950s and hearing this:
Pinky and perky, gene pitney and mahler, had quite an eclectic mix as a small child.
Agree with the children’s shows, but my first serious music was in the juniors, probably about 1965, when a school friend was singing Glad All Over in the playground, and stamping her feet. I investigated and discovered the group I would follow all my life, the Dave Clark Five.
Yes, I guess the first proper song I heard must have been Bill Haley’s ‘Rock Around The Clock’ as my dad was always playing it. I remember it being on a 10" 78rpm single and unfortunately one day I dropped it and smashed it to bits. I’ve always felt awful about that.
My Grandmother had an old ‘wind -up’ gramaphone and dozens of old 78s including whole operas (in about 4 different records for each opera).
One of the records my Grandmother had which I asked her to play for me was this:
This was another one I used to ask my Grandmother to play for me.
My first musical memory
I was about 5 years old and it was playing the drum in the school band Mrs Gillery told my mum I was the best little drummer they had ever had but to be fair I was probably the only one
Then for the rest of my life of playing and it matters not where or with whom you were always told you were the best band they had ever had
you believe it once
Apparently I loved this song as a baby, it would make me bounce for joy when my Mum sang it, I remember it as the first song I was aware of!
Oh gawd I’ve started bouncing about now!
Yeh would have to go with the old gramophone my grand parents never had a tv in their house.
But my old grand dad had a great collection of 78s Bing Crosby and Mario Lanza being the most played.
Guess I got my musical tastes from him they were the best grand parents a kid could ever want.
Fond memories.
Thanks everyone, I love all the answers. Interesting to see the differences in our childhood memories.
My parents performed in a musical in the village hall and of all the songs this is the one I remember the most:
My mum and dad always had Friday Night Is Music Night on the radio on a Friday evening, and I vividly remember lying in bed and hearing the music drifting up the stairs…so I suppose that’s my earliest musical memory.
Maybe that’s where my lifelong love of music comes from; thanks mum! 
Mother loved opera, dad liked band music - so it was probably one of these:-
My mother singing to me.
There were nursery rhymes, Christmas carols, my grandparents 78s (Run Rabbit Run), My mother’s 33 1⁄3s (Chopin), big brother’s 45s (Elvis). Then the Beatles happened, Love Me Do, I was 9¾, that beat, was like hearing music for the first time, I was wowed. 
I remember all those too dood …also How much is that doggy in the window…woof woof…the one with the waggely tail…I loved that 
and does anyone remember Sisters from White Christmas? Me and my sister used to sing that together:)
My dad was a right philistine … liked TV westerns and their theme tunes.
Move 'em on, head 'em up
Head 'em up, move 'em on
Move 'em on, head 'em up, rawhide
Cut 'em out, ride 'em in
Ride 'em in, cut 'em out
Cut 'em out, ride 'em in, rawhide
Oh yes…Clint Eastwood …I loved Wagon Train too remember that…I can’t remember to tune though but I bet it was good
