The Very First Rock Song You Remember Hearing That Changed Your World...

[JohnW63]

We grew up religious and had pretty mellow stuff in the house. I'm glad my Dad liked Chet Akins. I learned to play because of Jonh Denver, Paul Simon and James Taylor, but my brother started bringing home "popular " stuff! I was afraid Mom would get angry, to be honest. I think Breakfast in America by Supertramp with the first one. But, I was at the record store and the guy was demoing some speakers, which I bought and this was the song he used. Infinity Qe small speakers. Still have them.



After that I got big into Supertramp and Alan Parsons and Fleetwood Mac. The the above song is still one I have to turn up the volume.

 

[Grassdog]

Easy choice for me. Wild Thing. You make my heart sing. One of my older sisters had the 45. This blew my mind at age 5.

 

[beecee]

Let it Rain Eric Clapton.

 

[F312]

Link Wray Rumble, and who can not like Apache, a great song for the beginner rocker.



Ralph

 

[Westerly Wood]

We grew up religious and had pretty mellow stuff in the house. I'm glad my Dad liked Chet Akins. I learned to play because of Jonh Denver, Paul Simon and James Taylor, but my brother started bringing home "popular " stuff! I was afraid Mom would get angry, to be honest. I think Breakfast in America by Supertramp with the first one. But, I was at the record store and the guy was demoing some speakers, which I bought and this was the song he used. Infinity Qe small speakers. Still have them.



After that I got big into Supertramp and Alan Parsons and Fleetwood Mac. The the above song is still one I have to turn up the volume.

Bob Seager. I remember hearing Night Moves when I was 14 in a music class at school. It was one of the coolest songs I had heard up to that point. Then one of my classmates put on Black Sabbath and I realized I would never be into heavy metal or super hard dark R&R...lol It's funny how fast you know what you like and dont like.

 

[fronobulax]

Easy choice for me. Wild Thing.

The parody from 1967 sticks with me, by "Senator Bobby". It stopped being funny after his assassination.

You can search for "Senator Bobby Wild Thing" but I can avoided a couple of minefields, I hope, by not linking directly to it.

 

[gjmalcyon]

Let it Rain Eric Clapton.

I just found out that the excellent bass playing on that cut was by Stephen Stills.

 

[cupric]

those days are so long gone too.
when i was a teenager, before i got into college radio, Providence RI had a great Rock station, 94 HJY. love that station, every night after homework and before bed....

then i got into 95.5 WBRU, which was Brown Univ's station. that changed stuff for me, as i first heard REM for example in like '82 or '83...

King Bisquit Hour? Lol!

 

[cupric]

I'm a Man......Chicago. Early 70s.

 

[ezstrummer]

Steve Miller.. Jet Airliner..

 

[Guildedagain]

So many hits... All magic, Foreigner, Boston, I can't even write Boston without getting goosebumps, Steve Miller, no one mentioned Frampton Comes Alive yet, but that and Fly like an Eagle in 1976 is just so permanently etched into my memory. Hendrix, Are You Experienced, blew my mind all over. Canned Heat, Boogie with Canned Heat, the whole album, Beatles Fool on the Hill, Blue Jay Way, Grank Funk Are You Ready, Survival, every cut, I can Hear Him in the Morning, Steppenwolf Magic Carpet ride, The Pusher, The Who My Generation, I can See For Miles, Sparks, Young Man Blues Live At Leeds, All Clapton from Beano to Layla, but especially Crossroads and Tales of Brave Ulysses, Deep Purple Machine Head Highway Star, Alice Cooper Love it to Death I'm eighteen, Ballad Of Dwight Fry, Pink Floyd Piper at the Gates Of Dawn Set The Controls To The Heart Of The Sun, The Stones Moonlight Mile, Doors Riders on the Storm, Jefferson Airplane, The Dead, Quicksilver Who Do You Love, and others that left deep impressions.

But the original for me was A Whole Lotta Love, Falls Church VA, Xmas 1972, somebody's basement with killer stereo and my first introduction to the bong, powerful combination...

 

[Rich Cohen]

"You Ain't Nothin' But a Hound Dog" -- Elvis Presley.



And here he is on the "Ed Sullivan Really Big Shew"

 

[F312]

The parody from 1967 sticks with me, by "Senator Bobby". It stopped being funny after his assassination.

You can search for "Senator Bobby Wild Thing" but I can avoided a couple of minefields, I hope, by not linking directly to it.

So, that's the way you get around it. One green jelly bean for you.

Ralph

 

[Rich Cohen]

And then, there was "Wolly Bully" by Sam the Sham and the Pharaohs...my first "serious" girlfriend and I danced the nights away in a bistro in Neuchatel, Switzerland during the summer of 1964, or was it '65, supposedly learning French. She was English, Erica Horsely from Shrewsbury, Shropshire. We exchanged letters for several months, then the trail grew cold. Distance doesn't make the heart grow fonder. Anyway, I was about to go off to college, where there would be lots of women to chase.

 

[davismanLV]

Okay since @Guildedagain mentioned it, the year was 1969 and my brother went to Vietnam leaving me his brand new 1969 red Firebird!! I used to drive it to high school and it had a 4-track tape deck!! I played Steppenwolf's Magic Carpet Ride LOUDLY going to school and cruise into the parking lot. It was one of the few times I was semi-cool.......

 

[steve488]

I must be in the same age group as Dread (good company I believe). It is somewhat of a toss up between the Animals "House of the Rising Sun" and Deep Purple "Hush" and one that always takes me back to the late 60's Traffic's "You can All Join In".

 

[Budha]

"You Ain't Nothin' But a Hound Dog" -- Elvis Presley.



And here he is on the "Ed Sullivan Really Big Shew"

Yep. You Ain't Nothin' But a Hound Dog was my first exposure to rock and roll. I think I was in the third grade. The forty-five belonged to my sister and she played it over and over and over.

 

[Rich Cohen]

Yeah

Yep. You Ain't Nothin' But a Hound Dog was my first exposure to rock and roll. I think I was in the third grade. The forty-five belonged to my sister and she played it over and over and over.

Yeah that was my experience too i.e., my sister is 5 years older to me and it was her 45s that introduced me to rock and roll. Of course when I tried to hang out with her and her girlfriends I was told to scram.

 

[beecee]

hmmmm.... Tom jolted the memory banks a bit.

John Kay...black and white tv, I think in retrospect that was my defining moment till Clapton.

But then college hit. Little Feat, Nitty Gritty, Marshall Tucker, CDB, Prine. John Mooney, (local guy at the time, I bought his Dobro)

 

[Rambozo96]

The opening of Hell’s Bells. Had no idea an intro can sound so evil.