Do you remember the first song you heard on the radio that interested you or caused a deep emotion?

[Heather Shay]

I was thinking about this, this morning and the best I can come up with it I Want to Hold Your Hand by the Beatles. When I saw them on the Ed Sullivan Show - that was it. From then on music has been an integral part of my life including over 50 years of  writing and singing my own songs.

 

You can just love to hear music or are affected by music or type of music or artist but how has music touched you.

[Colleen Henderson]

Having more rings on my trunk than most, I go back to the era of World War II, when much of the vocal music reflected the angst of couples and families separated by war and not knowing what the future held.

 

Even now, some of the Vera Lynn songs of that time resonate with my emotions.

 

 

[Cyndee]

1965 The Rolling Stones "Last time" heard on grandparents RCA console hi fi. The reverb on the guitars, the production of that song, really liked, always hoped the DJ would play it again. 

 

or 1967 

 

Omaha by Moby Grape on my transistor radio 🙂 That song stirred something in me as a young person. I would end up meeting Jerry Miller and our band played a gig with him some 26 years later.

[Ivy]

2 hours ago, Hannah Renee said:

The first song that ever got to me emotionally was "Last Kiss," recorded by The Cavaliers.

Those tearjerkers were kinda rough to listen to.

[Vidanjali]

I was driving in my car when I was 17 years old when I heard Zoltán Kodály sonata in B minor for solo cello opus 8 on the radio. I was enraptured and pulled over to listen, and as luck would have it, the DJ identified the piece after its conclusion. Also luckily, I was able to find a recording and spell the composer's name right as I was not at all familiar with Hungarian name pronunciation at the time (this was 1992, so no internet). 

 

Here's the final movement. 

 

[Davie]

Fats Domino. "Blueberry Hill." Couldn't help but wonder what the thrill was.  

[Mx.Drago]

When I was young, my Mom would drive listening to one of her light channels. "Save the best for last" by Vanessa Williams made me extremely sad and depressed before I even could comprehend what are feelings. Never told my Mom cuz she'd just poke fun at me cuz that was a thing... Your kid is upset, make them feel better by making them self conscious of the feelings they're expressing so they suppress that -crap- fast. At first it sounded just sad and lonely, mainly why it would make me sad. Later on listen to what the vocalist was saying just got worse over time cuz it was heartbreaking. Sometimes the snow comes down in June. The impossible happens, you think you're set with somebody and then they save the best for last(sarcasm).

[Jani]

I have several.  "Cathy's Clown" in 1960 is one.  I fell in love with the harmonies of the Every Brothers.  From then I was hooked on music.  When I saw The Beatles on Ed Sullivan was another.  Their whole show just grabbed me.  "I wanna hold you hand" was a big song!  And "Cinnamon Girl" by Neil Young and Crazy Horse in 1969 demonstrated the power of lyrics to tell a story, plus the guitar work was great!!

 

Later on I discovered Johann Pachebel's "Canon in D".  A glorious piece of music.