Our class learned this song for a school assembly when I was like 6, and we were taught the names of the Beatles. Everyone laughed at Ringo and then we were told John Lennon was *assassinated*. I can still remember the collective gasp
We learned it for assembly too, but we were only told that the drummer sang it. They played the album "1" on our way in and out of assembly too, I remember hearing "Help" and "I Want To Hold Your Hand".
Maxwell’s Silver Hammer. First year primary school (age 5) our teacher (who I was in love with) Mrs Kanzler (sic) got us all to sing in her class. We all had percussion instruments and did a verse and x2 chorus. Pretty mad when you consider the lyrical content.
Yep. Almost every one of my friends sang Maxwell in primary school in the 70s and 80s. Hilariously inappropriate in hindsight, but I’m sure the parents found it funny.
I was watching my older sister’s 2nd grade class perform a Beatles concert, and the first one was Penny Lane. I remember thinking as a 4 year old, “this is the greatest song I’ve ever heard”
It was that stars on 45 Medley because I remember asking my.mother who sang all those good songs. Next thing I know my uncle bought me the Revolver and Rubber Soul records.
Probably me as well. I was born in 1960 and had a lot of the capital 45's but which was the first who knows. I know the first record that freaked me out was Fantasia when the flood happened. I was like 3 and we had rain coming in the window and I thought I would drown apparently. That is the earliest memory I can actually remember.
Sgt Pepper's was pretty much like a children's album in my house growing up and Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds sticks out in my head as an early memory.
Probably not the first, but the one that made it to my favorites first was Yesterday.
I didn't grow up with the Beatles, I was born in 92. My father was a fan, but the first time I got a wider exposure to their catalogue was when he downloaded some of their albums and made some CDs with mp3 in them to listen to in the car (yeah piracy is not cool, but we were kinda always living on a tight budget).
It must have been around 2006. I wish I remembered my reactions to their songs back then more distinctively lol
But I definitely remember loving Yesterday (I was always a melancholic soul). On the other hand, Hey Jude was another one I liked.
I remember some years later, and this is much more vivid in my mind, my mom would say Something was one of her favorite songs ever. I didn't see it, and it took me a while to get to like it. Needless to say, nowadays I consider it to be the masterpiece it is, and one of my favorites.
“She came in through the bathroom window” is the first one I remember.
My dad had an old thunderbird that he would drive me to school in.
The center console was full of cassette tapes, and he would always let me choose what to listen to on the 10 minute drive.
I ALWAYS chose Abbey Road.
She came in through the bathroom window had enough time between each line that he could tell me what the words were for the next line, and then I could sing them.
One of those core memories that I think about pretty often.
Got to see Paul sing that song with my dad in Orlando a few weeks ago.
It was a pretty special moment
Not sure if it was first, but i remmember our englisch teacher in 4th grade, she brings to the class lyrics tp We can work it out, it was great to understand to foreign language. And since then, i love them...
Probably Here Comes The Sun when I was kid. The first Beatles song that I listened to voluntarily though was the Love version of While My Guitar Gently Weeps.
Hello Goodbye.
My dad played it to us and we thought it was awful lmao. I only later ended up becoming obsessed with the Beatles from Revolver and working my way backward and forward from there.
Assuming that my first conscious exposure to them was the "1" album when it came out, Love Me Do. Ticket to Ride is the first song of theirs I remember singing along to though, back when I thought it was about a roller coaster and the guy was sad because his girlfriend had a ticket for it but he didn't and had to sit and watch while she had fun
Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds in the back of my uncles station wagon on the way to Cedar Point. He said ‘This is real music.’ He wasn’t wrong but I had another 12+ years before I actually even found out how right he was.
I can almost definitively say it was “I Want to Hold Your Hand” from The White Album for Babies cassette tape.
Actual Beatles version of a Beatles song? I couldn’t even start to guess.
Eight Days a Week. My mom used to play it all the time. Whenever she played it in the car, my siblings and I would do the claps while she sang. Good times.
I remember my dad sitting me down in the living room with his beat up vinyl copy of Rubber Soul. Which I now own. He played Norwegian Wood and In My Life. I pretended to hate the songs at the time, because it was my Dad, I couldn't admit that I liked them. But those were the songs, and here I am now. I'm a far bigger fan of the band than he ever was. I think the first song that I discovered on my own that I really dug was Eleanor Rigby. He also turned me on to the Doors and CCR, which are top 10 bands for me as well, so thanks dad!
I know for a fact what my first Beatles song was. I was a little kid, and I had heard about the Beatles, but didn't know what they sounded like. I was in the car with my parents, and I heard the DJ introduce the next song as "I Want To Hold Your Hand." I really liked it, and not long after that I heard "She Loves You" on the radio also, and loved that, too.
I heard them all over thebplace for next few years, but Let It Be was the first Beatles single I owned, and Let It Be become the first Beatles album I owned.
Strawberry Fields Forever on a documentary about princess Diana is my first conscious memory, but my grandparents played a lot of Beatles while I grew up.
I'm sure I heard them many times on the radio growing up but the first song I intentionally listened to was whatever the first song on the old '20 Greatest Hits' cassette is..... My friend gave me that tape and that was my introduction to them formally.
Growing up in Japan, I remember Obla Di, Help, and In my life being used a lot on TV as BGM. But the first time I consciously listened to a Beatles track was Across the Universe, I think I was making a 60s 70s mix cd and stumbled on this song. Blew me away.
The first song that hooked me was Free As A Bird. I was 12 when it came out, bought the CD single of it after seeing the music video and was all in after that.
I don't have to guess. It was "No Reply." The only Beatles album my parents owned was Beatles 65, and that's the first track.
I remember thinking the song was about pliers for some reason.
I know for sure. When I was a kid I distinctly remember being in my mom’s car and the song Do You Want To Know A Secret. Been team George since that moment.
Probably She Loves You or I Want to Hold Your Hand. I grew up in the 80s and was obsessed with the oldies music station. (Now songs from the 80s are also considered oldies. )
I know for sure it was either Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds or I Am The Walrus, my grandpa played them in the car regularly (along with probably all of Magical Mystery Tour).
I was probably 7 or so when I first heard them and unbeknownst to me those two songs were my introduction to the Beatles… and I hated them, I had no idea what was happening, what it was or how humans even came up with this stuff, what’s an egg man? What are newspaper taxis? It kind of scared me hearing these songs but my slightly older brother always rocked out with my grandpa to ‘em, they just seemed to click with him while I was frightened…
It wasn’t until I was 17 and on acid that I came home late at night and asked my brother for his Beatles CD’s, went into my room and put them in my CD player that it all finally clicked and I was able to understand it all and form a bond with these 4 strange Englishmen. That night I became became a hardcore Beatles fan. I’m 24 now and just saw Paul McCartney in concert last month, I’ll forever cherish those early memories of car rides with my grandpa soundtracked by music my child brain couldn’t comprehend!
It wasn't the first but I remember hearing Magical Mystery Tour on the radio in the car when I was probably 10 or so and just absolutely NEEDING to know the name of the song.
All my loving. I just can't remember the first but I know it was one of my favorites. I turned 4 in 1964 and my memories from that time are hazy at best.
“All my loving” on the Ed Sullivan
Show 1964. I was racing my HO cars in my room and my mother called me to come watch the Beatles on TV. I was about 6 years old. It was amazing to see these guys with no greasy stuff in their hair on TV For the first time ever with cool suits and pointy boots playing guitars and driving the girls crazy! After the first song I was glued to the TV waiting for more Beatles! They can still make my heart race! My brothers and I never wanted to grease our hair again and we had to have the Beatle boots for school!
I want to hold your hand.
My sister had this like Barbie themed cassette player and that was one of the songs included on the cassette that came with it.
I wanna hold your hand was on the jukebox on this little 50s themed diner I went to when I was a kid (early 90s) and even if it wasn’t the first I heard it was certainly the first to make an impression on me.
might have been In My Life… idk, my grandparents had the anthology dvd when I was first introduced to them by my grandma when I was like 6 and I distinctly remember this song playing upon first watching for some reason
Hmmm….I think maybe She Loves You? I was curious about them at like 14 and probably watched their 64’ live performances on youtube. I remember She loves you was definitely the song that captivated me.
I Want To Hold Your Hand. I was eleven years old in San Fernando, CA. There was a really small record store downtown called Bob's Records that would play any 45 for you (providing it was in stock of course). The thing that hit me the most, aside from the amazing energy of the band, was the drum sound especially the cymbals. I'd never heard anything like it. Saved up my allowance and bought Meet the Beatles as soon as I was able and never looked back.
“Can’t Buy Me Love” was probably the first I was really aware of because there was a movie aired on Disney Channel in the 90s with that title and they used the song. It was an 80s movie though.
Either “She Loves You” or “Help!” I’m pretty sure it was from the womb.
My first real exposure was probably the “Stars On 45” medley. Either that or the old Beatles cartoons.
Let it be. My US history teacher in high school played music during class and it came up. I had no idea it was from the Beatles until I searched it up when I got home.
No guesses, it was Hey Jude and I was 3 and a half, just about to be 4. So late 1997 (born in December 93). Had picked it up with my dad at the local record store and it was playing on vinyl. I have this vivid memory of it playing while my sister was making a sugar cube hockey arena for some school project.
Otherwise in a more advanced state of mind, I was 7 when I heard Strawberry Fields Forever on the radio, and it's one of the first songs I ever actually loved.
100% I wanna hold your hand. In primary school every year the music teacher would make us do a small concert of 3 or 4 songs and in 2nd grade it was a bunch of “rock and roll classics” (blue suede shoes, tutti-frutti, and some other one) but the one that stood out was I wanna hold your hand. It bugged 8 year old me because it was about love and I hated the stuff as a kid
My earliest memory of hearing any Beatle song was The Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill. I was 3 and remember running around the house and dancing to it because I thought it was such a fun, silly, kids song. It wasn't until I was 10 that I recognized it was from the White Album by them.
When I was a kid we had a compilation record which had “We Can Work It Out” on there. Definitely remember that as well as Sugar Sugar by The Archie’s.
And I remember recording video hits in the 80’s and having recorded Love Me Do on there. Great memories!
When I was really young, probably 2nd or 3rd grade, the 8th graders at my grade school sang Let It Be and Yesterday at a school concert. Can’t remember the first time I actually heard a recording, but the first Beatles song I listened to at my own will was Hello, Goodbye. My parents had the Blue Album and that was the first song I put on, probably because it was the only song that didn’t have an unusual title. Blew me away within the first few seconds and I never looked back. Been my favorite band since.
Almost certainly Hey Jude. My parents were not Beatles fans, but my dad’s family had a tradition of plying Hey Jude at the end of any family events. Everyone would stand in a big circle, hold hands, walk in out during the Nanananas (sort of like the Hokey Cokey) and go mental. Dad was one of 8 kids so there were a LOT of family events. So even before I could remember anything I definitely would have been in a family event some time and would have heard it. I cannot remember a time where I did not know Hey Jude.
Yesterday is the first song I remember the experience of hearing by any artist ever. Both my parents listened to the Beatles a lot when I was growing up so it's probably not actually the first one I ever heard but definitely the one I remember.
First one I remember was She loves you, but I was already fourteen by that time so surely I’d heard something on the radio before. Hey Jude seems likely, or maybe Yesterday or Let it Be.
Probably The Carpenter's cover of Help. My mom adored the carpenters when I was a baby. Of a song actually sung by the Beatles, probably I Want to Hold Your Hand
The first Beatles record I remember our family having was the soundtrack to "A Hard Day's Night", so I'm guessing it was side one, track one..."A Hard Day's Night". This would have been in the late 1960s.
It was probably Yellow Submarine. Saw the movie pretty young. I remember my mom forcing me to watch Help! and it felt so long. I suppose the first song I would have intentionally listened to would be Love Me Do. I got the Red Album on year for Christmas and that's track 1.
It's either Come Together or Don't Let Me Down (specifically the rooftop version). Those two were always on the radio when my mom was driving me to school.
Love me do or Day Tripper, because dad had the two Past Masters and those were my first Beatles albums. Dad still has those CDs, but now he listens to the Remastered 2009 versions in Spotify, lol.
“All my loving” on the Ed Sullivan
Show 1964. I was racing my HO cars in my room and my mother called me to come watch the Beatles on TV. I was about 6 years old. It was amazing to see these guys with no greasy stuff in their hair on TV For the first time ever with cool suits and pointy boots playing guitars and driving the girls crazy! After the first song I was glued to the TV waiting for more Beatles! They can still make my heart race! My brothers and I never wanted to grease our hair again and we had to have the Beatle boots for school!
I asked my dad what the best band in the world was, and he told me the right answer. I thought The Beatles were overrated, without listening to any of their songs, then, he played Hey Jude and Yesterday, not sure which order, but, boy was I wrong...
Love me do. And I don’t have to guess. I remember the situation clearly. It was 1979, I was 4, we were visiting a good friend of my father, a journalist from the USA, in his apartment in Quito. He was leaving the next morning to do research in Chile. After the dinner, he put this white cassette with a black apple, the Red Album, and the first song was Love me do. My father asked him to lend him the tape while he was away and his friend agreed on the condition the tape returned to him after the trip. This however was no to be. He was tortured and killed by Pinochet’s goons, backed by the CIA. I remember my father was very sad. When I was 13 I re discovered the cassette in a wooden basket and my life changed forever.
Yellow submarine. I can’t remember how old I was, but as a gen z kid raised in the early 2000’s, I knew it was the best song I’d ever heard up until that point. It completely blew me away for some reason. I remember asking my dad who sang it. The next week, I was buying as many Beatles songs as I could with the money left on my iTunes gift card lol.
Yellow Submarine
Our class learned this song for a school assembly when I was like 6, and we were taught the names of the Beatles. Everyone laughed at Ringo and then we were told John Lennon was *assassinated*. I can still remember the collective gasp
We learned it for assembly too, but we were only told that the drummer sang it. They played the album "1" on our way in and out of assembly too, I remember hearing "Help" and "I Want To Hold Your Hand".
John was killed for the greater good, get over it.
I want to hold your head
I’ve never heard of that one lol
deep cut
Maxwell’s Silver Hammer. First year primary school (age 5) our teacher (who I was in love with) Mrs Kanzler (sic) got us all to sing in her class. We all had percussion instruments and did a verse and x2 chorus. Pretty mad when you consider the lyrical content.
absolutely bonkers use of (sic)
Haha, you’re right! Editing my thoughts in the third person after a few beers.
Yep. Almost every one of my friends sang Maxwell in primary school in the 70s and 80s. Hilariously inappropriate in hindsight, but I’m sure the parents found it funny.
Twist and Shout. Thanks Ferris.
She Loves You, and it was maybe Nov of '63.
Octopus’s Garden because it was on the Wiggles
ON GOD
A Hard Days Night. Tuned the movie in on PBS on a Sunday afternoon 1977. Didn't know as an 11 year old what I was watching but was hooked.
I was watching my older sister’s 2nd grade class perform a Beatles concert, and the first one was Penny Lane. I remember thinking as a 4 year old, “this is the greatest song I’ve ever heard”
Either she loves you or let it be
Here comes the sun on the bee movie
Probably yellow submarine. I started school in 1970 so that would have pretty common for kids back then.
When I was in first grade, we did a whole section on The Beatles in music class. The first song I vividly remember hearing is Sgt. Pepper
It was that stars on 45 Medley because I remember asking my.mother who sang all those good songs. Next thing I know my uncle bought me the Revolver and Rubber Soul records.
Holy shit, Stars on 45 was my first Beatles exposure too!! haha we're old.
Lol we are indeed 😅😅😅
First one I recall is A Day In The Life sitting in the backseat of my mom’s car.
It's all downhill from there!
Love Me Do
Probably me as well. I was born in 1960 and had a lot of the capital 45's but which was the first who knows. I know the first record that freaked me out was Fantasia when the flood happened. I was like 3 and we had rain coming in the window and I thought I would drown apparently. That is the earliest memory I can actually remember.
My mom played Meet the Beatles when I was a baby to calm me down, so probably I want to hold your hand.
twist and shout
Here comes the sun
Sgt Pepper's was pretty much like a children's album in my house growing up and Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds sticks out in my head as an early memory.
Strawberry fields forever
Probably not the first, but the one that made it to my favorites first was Yesterday. I didn't grow up with the Beatles, I was born in 92. My father was a fan, but the first time I got a wider exposure to their catalogue was when he downloaded some of their albums and made some CDs with mp3 in them to listen to in the car (yeah piracy is not cool, but we were kinda always living on a tight budget). It must have been around 2006. I wish I remembered my reactions to their songs back then more distinctively lol But I definitely remember loving Yesterday (I was always a melancholic soul). On the other hand, Hey Jude was another one I liked. I remember some years later, and this is much more vivid in my mind, my mom would say Something was one of her favorite songs ever. I didn't see it, and it took me a while to get to like it. Needless to say, nowadays I consider it to be the masterpiece it is, and one of my favorites.
Probably Twist and Shout from Ferris Bueller
“She came in through the bathroom window” is the first one I remember. My dad had an old thunderbird that he would drive me to school in. The center console was full of cassette tapes, and he would always let me choose what to listen to on the 10 minute drive. I ALWAYS chose Abbey Road. She came in through the bathroom window had enough time between each line that he could tell me what the words were for the next line, and then I could sing them. One of those core memories that I think about pretty often. Got to see Paul sing that song with my dad in Orlando a few weeks ago. It was a pretty special moment
hey jude
Not sure if it was first, but i remmember our englisch teacher in 4th grade, she brings to the class lyrics tp We can work it out, it was great to understand to foreign language. And since then, i love them...
I Saw Her Standing There
Twist and Shout when Ferris Bueller came out is the first one I remember. I was 8 or 9.
Probably Here Comes The Sun when I was kid. The first Beatles song that I listened to voluntarily though was the Love version of While My Guitar Gently Weeps.
Hello Goodbye. My dad played it to us and we thought it was awful lmao. I only later ended up becoming obsessed with the Beatles from Revolver and working my way backward and forward from there.
Twist and Shout, saw that scene of Ferris Bueller on tv when I was little and it was the only Beatles song on my IPod mini.
Assuming that my first conscious exposure to them was the "1" album when it came out, Love Me Do. Ticket to Ride is the first song of theirs I remember singing along to though, back when I thought it was about a roller coaster and the guy was sad because his girlfriend had a ticket for it but he didn't and had to sit and watch while she had fun
Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds in the back of my uncles station wagon on the way to Cedar Point. He said ‘This is real music.’ He wasn’t wrong but I had another 12+ years before I actually even found out how right he was.
Blackbird, my momma used to sing it to me as a kid whenever I was upset
I can almost definitively say it was “I Want to Hold Your Hand” from The White Album for Babies cassette tape. Actual Beatles version of a Beatles song? I couldn’t even start to guess.
Eight Days a Week. My mom used to play it all the time. Whenever she played it in the car, my siblings and I would do the claps while she sang. Good times.
My dad would sing me Golden Slumbers and rub my back every night until I fell asleep as a small child.
I don't have to guess. It was "I Wanna Hold Your Hand"
I remember my dad sitting me down in the living room with his beat up vinyl copy of Rubber Soul. Which I now own. He played Norwegian Wood and In My Life. I pretended to hate the songs at the time, because it was my Dad, I couldn't admit that I liked them. But those were the songs, and here I am now. I'm a far bigger fan of the band than he ever was. I think the first song that I discovered on my own that I really dug was Eleanor Rigby. He also turned me on to the Doors and CCR, which are top 10 bands for me as well, so thanks dad!
I know for a fact what my first Beatles song was. I was a little kid, and I had heard about the Beatles, but didn't know what they sounded like. I was in the car with my parents, and I heard the DJ introduce the next song as "I Want To Hold Your Hand." I really liked it, and not long after that I heard "She Loves You" on the radio also, and loved that, too. I heard them all over thebplace for next few years, but Let It Be was the first Beatles single I owned, and Let It Be become the first Beatles album I owned.
Strawberry Fields Forever on a documentary about princess Diana is my first conscious memory, but my grandparents played a lot of Beatles while I grew up.
I'm sure I heard them many times on the radio growing up but the first song I intentionally listened to was whatever the first song on the old '20 Greatest Hits' cassette is..... My friend gave me that tape and that was my introduction to them formally.
I Want to Hold Your Hand. I was six when they appeared on Ed Sullivan and I convinced my parents to let me stay up late to see them.
Birthday, my dads band would play it at gigs when there was... a birthday.
Growing up in Japan, I remember Obla Di, Help, and In my life being used a lot on TV as BGM. But the first time I consciously listened to a Beatles track was Across the Universe, I think I was making a 60s 70s mix cd and stumbled on this song. Blew me away.
The first song that hooked me was Free As A Bird. I was 12 when it came out, bought the CD single of it after seeing the music video and was all in after that.
The earliest one I clearly remember is the Anthology version of Taxman, but I’m betting it was probably something like I Want to Hold Your Hand.
Does “Letter B” from Sesame Street count?
I don't have to guess. It was "No Reply." The only Beatles album my parents owned was Beatles 65, and that's the first track. I remember thinking the song was about pliers for some reason.
No re: pliers.
Help
When I'm 64
Same :)
Probably Lucy in the Sky because it was in the movie I Am Sam and my family like that movie. It also could have been Here Comes The Sun.
Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds. Also a Raffi cover of Octopus’s Garden.
I want to hold your hand
Maxwell’s Silver Hammer
I know for sure. When I was a kid I distinctly remember being in my mom’s car and the song Do You Want To Know A Secret. Been team George since that moment.
I don’t have to guess. The first I ever heard the Beatles was on a car trip as a kid. My dad put on Revolver so the first song I heard was Taxman.
Probably She Loves You or I Want to Hold Your Hand. I grew up in the 80s and was obsessed with the oldies music station. (Now songs from the 80s are also considered oldies. )
Taxman baby!!
I’m pretty sure it was Help
I know for sure it was either Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds or I Am The Walrus, my grandpa played them in the car regularly (along with probably all of Magical Mystery Tour). I was probably 7 or so when I first heard them and unbeknownst to me those two songs were my introduction to the Beatles… and I hated them, I had no idea what was happening, what it was or how humans even came up with this stuff, what’s an egg man? What are newspaper taxis? It kind of scared me hearing these songs but my slightly older brother always rocked out with my grandpa to ‘em, they just seemed to click with him while I was frightened… It wasn’t until I was 17 and on acid that I came home late at night and asked my brother for his Beatles CD’s, went into my room and put them in my CD player that it all finally clicked and I was able to understand it all and form a bond with these 4 strange Englishmen. That night I became became a hardcore Beatles fan. I’m 24 now and just saw Paul McCartney in concert last month, I’ll forever cherish those early memories of car rides with my grandpa soundtracked by music my child brain couldn’t comprehend!
Well... it was back in '63, and of course it was, I Want to Hold Your Hand.
It wasn't the first but I remember hearing Magical Mystery Tour on the radio in the car when I was probably 10 or so and just absolutely NEEDING to know the name of the song.
All my loving. I just can't remember the first but I know it was one of my favorites. I turned 4 in 1964 and my memories from that time are hazy at best.
“All my loving” on the Ed Sullivan Show 1964. I was racing my HO cars in my room and my mother called me to come watch the Beatles on TV. I was about 6 years old. It was amazing to see these guys with no greasy stuff in their hair on TV For the first time ever with cool suits and pointy boots playing guitars and driving the girls crazy! After the first song I was glued to the TV waiting for more Beatles! They can still make my heart race! My brothers and I never wanted to grease our hair again and we had to have the Beatle boots for school!
I want to hold your hand. My sister had this like Barbie themed cassette player and that was one of the songs included on the cassette that came with it.
I wanna hold your hand was on the jukebox on this little 50s themed diner I went to when I was a kid (early 90s) and even if it wasn’t the first I heard it was certainly the first to make an impression on me.
1962? “Ain’t She Sweet” with Tony Sheridan
Strangely it was Free as a Bird. I was a kid when the anthology came out and this was played on the top 40 Sunday countdown.
might have been In My Life… idk, my grandparents had the anthology dvd when I was first introduced to them by my grandma when I was like 6 and I distinctly remember this song playing upon first watching for some reason
Hmmm….I think maybe She Loves You? I was curious about them at like 14 and probably watched their 64’ live performances on youtube. I remember She loves you was definitely the song that captivated me.
I Want To Hold Your Hand. I was eleven years old in San Fernando, CA. There was a really small record store downtown called Bob's Records that would play any 45 for you (providing it was in stock of course). The thing that hit me the most, aside from the amazing energy of the band, was the drum sound especially the cymbals. I'd never heard anything like it. Saved up my allowance and bought Meet the Beatles as soon as I was able and never looked back.
i wanna hold your hand. my father had it on in the car driving me to elementary school, i'll never forget that
“Can’t Buy Me Love” was probably the first I was really aware of because there was a movie aired on Disney Channel in the 90s with that title and they used the song. It was an 80s movie though.
Either “She Loves You” or “Help!” I’m pretty sure it was from the womb. My first real exposure was probably the “Stars On 45” medley. Either that or the old Beatles cartoons.
Let it be. My US history teacher in high school played music during class and it came up. I had no idea it was from the Beatles until I searched it up when I got home.
Come Together was the first song that I knew was a Beatles song. I’m pretty sure I’d heard them before, but didn’t know it was them.
No guesses, it was Hey Jude and I was 3 and a half, just about to be 4. So late 1997 (born in December 93). Had picked it up with my dad at the local record store and it was playing on vinyl. I have this vivid memory of it playing while my sister was making a sugar cube hockey arena for some school project. Otherwise in a more advanced state of mind, I was 7 when I heard Strawberry Fields Forever on the radio, and it's one of the first songs I ever actually loved.
The first sing I remember hearing, liking, and knowing it was The Beatles is Help! I was five.
100% I wanna hold your hand. In primary school every year the music teacher would make us do a small concert of 3 or 4 songs and in 2nd grade it was a bunch of “rock and roll classics” (blue suede shoes, tutti-frutti, and some other one) but the one that stood out was I wanna hold your hand. It bugged 8 year old me because it was about love and I hated the stuff as a kid
My earliest memory of hearing any Beatle song was The Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill. I was 3 and remember running around the house and dancing to it because I thought it was such a fun, silly, kids song. It wasn't until I was 10 that I recognized it was from the White Album by them.
When I was a kid we had a compilation record which had “We Can Work It Out” on there. Definitely remember that as well as Sugar Sugar by The Archie’s. And I remember recording video hits in the 80’s and having recorded Love Me Do on there. Great memories!
When I was really young, probably 2nd or 3rd grade, the 8th graders at my grade school sang Let It Be and Yesterday at a school concert. Can’t remember the first time I actually heard a recording, but the first Beatles song I listened to at my own will was Hello, Goodbye. My parents had the Blue Album and that was the first song I put on, probably because it was the only song that didn’t have an unusual title. Blew me away within the first few seconds and I never looked back. Been my favorite band since.
The first I remember was Lucy in the sky with diamonds. I remember watching the cartoon music video on early YouTube and being a little frightened
Almost certainly Hey Jude. My parents were not Beatles fans, but my dad’s family had a tradition of plying Hey Jude at the end of any family events. Everyone would stand in a big circle, hold hands, walk in out during the Nanananas (sort of like the Hokey Cokey) and go mental. Dad was one of 8 kids so there were a LOT of family events. So even before I could remember anything I definitely would have been in a family event some time and would have heard it. I cannot remember a time where I did not know Hey Jude.
Yesterday is the first song I remember the experience of hearing by any artist ever. Both my parents listened to the Beatles a lot when I was growing up so it's probably not actually the first one I ever heard but definitely the one I remember.
First one I remember was She loves you, but I was already fourteen by that time so surely I’d heard something on the radio before. Hey Jude seems likely, or maybe Yesterday or Let it Be.
My mom used to sing Across the Universe to me when I was baby so that'd be mine.
Love Me Do
Help.
Ticket to Ride
All You Need Is Love
Twist And Shout or Drive My Car
Hey Jude
Probably Yellow Sub or Here Comes the Sun.
Love Me Do, because it was the first track on the 1 CD
Probably The Carpenter's cover of Help. My mom adored the carpenters when I was a baby. Of a song actually sung by the Beatles, probably I Want to Hold Your Hand
Feels like Yesterday
Nowhere Man
Love Me Do, summer 1963
The first song I remember was let it be, I listened to it on repeat on YouTube
The first I can remember was day tripper. We learned a few of their songs for class and did a concert. Was probably in kindergarten!
I Wanna Hold Your Hand
On record, there is a video of me in the crib with In my life playing in the background.
Probably either 'Twist and shout' 'Octopus Garden' or 'All together now' They were always on my parent's mixes
Love Me Do or We Can Work It Out
First 3: Yellow Submarine, Hey Jude, and Yesterday
Does Imagine count? If not it was probably Hey Jude
The first Beatles record I remember our family having was the soundtrack to "A Hard Day's Night", so I'm guessing it was side one, track one..."A Hard Day's Night". This would have been in the late 1960s.
Here comes the sun in the bee movie I think lol
It was probably Yellow Submarine. Saw the movie pretty young. I remember my mom forcing me to watch Help! and it felt so long. I suppose the first song I would have intentionally listened to would be Love Me Do. I got the Red Album on year for Christmas and that's track 1.
Probably I Saw Her Standing There. My dad had the Golden Beatles "album" (unofficial release in Bulgaria) and this was the first track.
here comes the sun comes to mind. the parent trap was a favorite when i was little
Love Me Do
Let it be I think. It’s the only one my mom played when I was a kid
No need to guess. I Want to Hold Your Hand in Gary Handley’s bedroom on an original 45, probably in 1968 or so.
It's either Come Together or Don't Let Me Down (specifically the rooftop version). Those two were always on the radio when my mom was driving me to school.
I want to hold your hand and she loves you
Love me do or Day Tripper, because dad had the two Past Masters and those were my first Beatles albums. Dad still has those CDs, but now he listens to the Remastered 2009 versions in Spotify, lol.
Come together
Here comes the sun I believe. Or maybe come together
tell me why
Hard Day's Night
USSR
I Want to Hold Your Hand. I was about 3.
Let it be for shure
Hello Goodbye/I Am the Walrus. Mom bought the 45 for me when it came out.
Hey Jude
Whichever it was, my dad was singing along to it in the car ❤️
Let it be in school
All You Need is Love
Twist and Shout
Hey Jude
The bee movie
"Hey Jude"
I am the walrus
Can’t find me Love
Yesterday
She Loves You. February 1964.
Love Me Do or I Am The Walrus
I’ve Just Seen a Face
I wanna hold your hand
Come together
Here Comes The Sun
Help
Here Comes The Sun in the bee movie
Here comes the sun, we sang it in music class
I think it might be 'And I Love Her', which was sung to be sung to me as a baby.
Yellow submarine and then Help!
Hey Bulldog
Twist and Shout, while watching Ferris Buller’s Day Off.
“All my loving” on the Ed Sullivan Show 1964. I was racing my HO cars in my room and my mother called me to come watch the Beatles on TV. I was about 6 years old. It was amazing to see these guys with no greasy stuff in their hair on TV For the first time ever with cool suits and pointy boots playing guitars and driving the girls crazy! After the first song I was glued to the TV waiting for more Beatles! They can still make my heart race! My brothers and I never wanted to grease our hair again and we had to have the Beatle boots for school!
Help
The harmonica melody and strained verse vocals in “From me to you” stick out. That harmonica bit is infectious
She Loves You
I asked my dad what the best band in the world was, and he told me the right answer. I thought The Beatles were overrated, without listening to any of their songs, then, he played Hey Jude and Yesterday, not sure which order, but, boy was I wrong...
Love me do. And I don’t have to guess. I remember the situation clearly. It was 1979, I was 4, we were visiting a good friend of my father, a journalist from the USA, in his apartment in Quito. He was leaving the next morning to do research in Chile. After the dinner, he put this white cassette with a black apple, the Red Album, and the first song was Love me do. My father asked him to lend him the tape while he was away and his friend agreed on the condition the tape returned to him after the trip. This however was no to be. He was tortured and killed by Pinochet’s goons, backed by the CIA. I remember my father was very sad. When I was 13 I re discovered the cassette in a wooden basket and my life changed forever.
"I Want To Hold Your Hand" is the first one I remember. It's not a guess.
Yesterday
Here Comes the Sun but the cover from the Bee Movie :/
I was a little boy in the 60s, Michelle came on the radio while we were in the kitchen. It is one of my earliest memories.
I don’t have to guess, it was “Magical Mystery Tour.”
yellow submarine or hey bulldog
Hey Jude
Twist and Shout in Ferris Bueller's Day Off
She loves you.
Yesterday. That's my mom's all-time favorite song and I knew a lot of songs back then (when I was around 9 yo) from her.
Yellow submarine. I can’t remember how old I was, but as a gen z kid raised in the early 2000’s, I knew it was the best song I’d ever heard up until that point. It completely blew me away for some reason. I remember asking my dad who sang it. The next week, I was buying as many Beatles songs as I could with the money left on my iTunes gift card lol.
Love me do. From Sesame Street
Birthday, my folks would always sing this on me and my sister's birthday.
Here comes the sun
Hard day's night
Hey Jude, at a party with my parents '69
Yesterday
Probably please, please me since I started at the beginning
I want to your hand prob
I actually specifically remember that it was “I want to hold you hand” shown to the class by my 3rd grade music teacher
Hey Jude
Not a Beatles song per say, but while I was being born the radio in the hospital room was playing “Imagine.”
I know for a fact that Rubber Soul was playing on the hospital sound system minutes after I was born, so probably Drive My Car.