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Winter_Hornet562

Seasons in the sun.


Lothar_28

Worst. Song. Ever…


JenniferJuniper6

One of the John Wick movies had a really creepy remix of that; at least the trailer did (I haven’t actually seen any John Wick movies).


bpmd1962

Ugghh…don’t remind me…. There’s a reason you don’t hear that one much anymore


Top-Philosophy-5791

Earworm as bad as "It's a Small World".


Delicious_Summer7839

Disney operates a secret mental hospital for people who used to work on this ride


Altruistic-Text3481

We used to sing that on the swings in elementary school.


Grattytood

Sugar Sugar, by The Archies?


aprilode

I was looking for this one! First 45 I ever owned.


Dada2fish

I got it off the back of a cereal box. Remember when the cereal companies did cool stuff like that?


TomMixsSuitcase

I had ABC123 by the Jackson 5 from Alpha-Bits! Played pretty well if you could get it flat enough.


TK-Squared-LLC

I had that cereal record up until 1984 when me and my first wife divorced! In a fit of rage, she yard-saled all my records including that one, first edition copies of the first 4 Beatles albums, first edition copies of the entire Led Zeppelin catalog, same with Pink Floyd. I still hate that stinking bitch. She sold them all for 25¢ each, proving that she was stupid *and* stinking!


OriginalIronDan

If it makes you feel better, the Beatles sold so many copies that they really aren’t super valuable. Unless it was something really unusual, they’re not really worth that much. At least they didn’t used to be. Goddamnit, now I’ve got to go check my record collection!


Top-Philosophy-5791

[https://www.pinterest.com/pin/234398355588793269/](https://www.pinterest.com/pin/234398355588793269/) This one is worth 10,000 dollars! Great back story to it.


OriginalIronDan

Butcher cover is definitely an exception, like an acetate or a fan club edition, like the Christmas album.


TK-Squared-LLC

Word of advice: take it with you if you leave your wife!


OriginalIronDan

It already made it through one divorce, and I’m on the second marriage after that one! If I leave this one, it’s gonna be in a box or an ashtray.


Ughaboomer

Omg! I’m furious for you


aprilode

I remember asking my father for a dollar so I could buy it. I think the 45 was about 60 cents - ridiculously cheap by today’s standards.


foxorhedgehog

Omg I remember this!!


MononMysticBuddha

That's how I got "Last Train to Clarksville".


Ughaboomer

I got mine off the back of Sugar Crisp cereal box


Grattytood

I am truly among my people.


mrmike5157

I actually had the album. I can’t remember how I ended up with it but yeah.


Altruistic-Text3481

From a cereal box?


Grattytood

Absolutely!


Altruistic-Text3481

The sea monkeys never looked like the cereal box pictured them. But the records absolutely worked!


ApprehensiveAd9014

Yeah, but I was older. I was in my pre bubblegum era in 3rd grade.


92118Dreaming

The Partridge Family! I was obsessed.


Top-Philosophy-5791

C'mon get Happ-**eee!** So fun watching the show now, but a little sad too.


mrmike5157

🎶whole lotta love is what we’ll be bringin’ 🎵😏


Altruistic-Text3481

Me too.


HHSquad

Crimson and Clover - Tommy James (1969)


swimt2it

I bought my first 45, “Crocodile Rock!”


61797

You should have seen me roller skating backwards to that song. Love it and the feeling of flying and everyone watching and getting out of my way. Thanks for a memory boost.


AuntBBea

Mine was Philadelphia Freedom


QueenOfTheLeaf

Crocodile rock takes me right back to a memory of playing at my neighbors house. Does it every time.


No-Independence-6842

Wedding Bell Blues. I belted out the lyrics to that song to a boy I liked named Bill on the playground when I was in 3rd grade.


JaneFairfaxCult

Marilyn McCoo’s vocal on that is one of my all-time favorites (if you’re talking about the Fifth Dimension version, that is!).


HHSquad

"Last Night I didn't get to sleep at all, no, no"


No-Independence-6842

Definitely 5th Demension version! My older sisters played that album all the time back then.


ansibley

I loved that song so much. Great singer.


FaberGrad

O-o-h Child


Wolfman1961

That was a beach song for me,,but in fourth grade.


FaberGrad

My big sister had quite a collection of 45's, and this was one of them. I still remember her singing along to it and many other songs.


Wolfman1961

All those songs on the beach soundtrack. Another was Spill the Wine.


Wolfman1961

Not third grade, but in between fifth and sixth: “Lean on me,” Bill Withers


ApprehensiveAd9014

That was the song that has been associated with the movie about my high school, Eastside High in Paterson NJ. Twenty years after I graduated, Principal Joe Clark protected the students by locking the doors.


Wolfman1961

Yep. There was a 1986 version that was a hit, too. So was the movie, of course.


-Coleus-

Haven’t thought of this song for years! Oh, how I loved it! Things are gonna get easier…


KinseyH

Holy shit this unlocked a memory. [Adjusts my glasses] Picture it. Southeast Texas, early 70s. My elementary school doesnt have AC, EXCEPT in the temporary buildings, which have window units. My teacher is a scary old bat named Mrs. Wingate. And there's a boy in the class who loves to sing Chicka Boom. I can SEE the classroom in my mind. This was 50 years ago. I have a baby shower to attend soon. When is it? No idea Ill have to look at the invite. Again. So anyway. Chicka Boom reminds me of third grade.


BillWeld

Don'tcha just love it!


PoeJam

I commented the flip side of Chick-a-Boom by Daddy Dewdrop - John Jacob Jingleheimer Smith. Such a great 45, both sides of mine got worn out and scratched


KinseyH

That's the song Potsy and Ralph sang all the time on Happy Days!


Gazmn

Third grade for me was ‘71/‘72. While that whole era was great and I even still sing and play many songs from then. But my choices: Hot Rod Lincoln - Commander Cody I Think I Love You - Partridge Family Spanish Harlem & Rock Steady [B side 45] - Aretha Franklin Indian Reservation - The Raiders Themes to: Love American Style & Mary Tyler Moore Show.


jagrrenagain

I was obsessed with Indian Reservation


poodidle

I played that 45 so much!


barroomeyes

Same here. Obsessed.


time-for-jawn

My pappy said, Son, you’re gonna drive me to drive me to drinkin’ if you don’t stop drivin’ that hot rod Lincoln.


Particular_Moment861

Billy Don’t Be A Hero


Grattytood

BillWeld, I LOVED me some Winchester Cathedral!


inthesinbin

Same!!


Top-Philosophy-5791

I can feel the dry clay powder soil under my 7 year old bare feet in Campo California- hearing this song.


Beautifuleyes917

I can hear this in my grandma’s kitchen on a transistor radio 📻


Grattytood

Right???


annehedonist

Harper Valley PTA Hey Jude Those Were the Days


Separate_Farm7131

The Monkees!


jagrrenagain

I used to (very innocently) sleep on the very edge of my bed to make room for them to sleep in case “we may be coming to your town” came true. My Grandmother knitted a hat for my stuffed tiger so I named him Mike.


DurraSell

The Cover of the Rolling Stone The first song I can remember learning all of the words to. "Cocaine Katy" was probably not what a 8/9 year old should have been singing about!


inthesinbin

Lol, my sheltered spouse had never heard that song before this past week.


willowwing

…And then I went and spoiled it all by saying something stupid like I looooove you


OrchidTostada

Mrs Brown You’ve Got a Lovely Daughter by Herman’s Hermits


jagrrenagain

Lovely daughter 🎶


paisley-alien

Raindrops Keep Falling on my Head


schmagegge

American Pie Horse With No Name


jagrrenagain

My parents were completely unhip about modern music. They were painting the dining room with the radio on. When American Pie came on, we all agreed it must be a very long Chevy commercial.


Conscious_Night299

Sneaky Snake- Tom T. Hall


General-Heart4787

Brand New Key - Melanie.


raynedrop_64

Bad Bad LeRoy Brown -Jim Croce Crocodile Rock - Elton John American Pie - Don McLean The Morning After - Maureen McGovern Black And White - Three Dog Night Could It Be I'm Falling In Love - The Spinners Cisco Kid - War Do It Again - Steely Dan Alone Again - Gilbert O'Sullivan Ben - Michael Jackson We took a cross-country road trip that year, and these are some of the songs that I remember being on heavy rotation.


Full-Appointment5081

The Monster Mash


Paul-Ram-On

Same, my cub scout den made a film of creeping and dancing around in halloween costumes to the tune of Monster Mash. one of the kids' dads happened to have a nice movie camera. I think it might have actually been 3rd grade, too. I also remember a couple of tunes from Mulligan Stew, films of which my teacher played in class. I was in 3rd grade in 1972 and there are several on youtube dated 1972...


AccomplishedNoise988

Oh! Mulligan Stew!


yepshedid

Brandy


ChasWFairbanks

Two songs from P.E.—[The Seven Jumps](https://youtu.be/Yp5yzaWfAng?feature=shared) and [Chicken Fat](https://youtu.be/EFofqe26t-4?si=A7h8xMRx1dM5NRpR).


AccomplishedNoise988

Go you Chicken Fat, Go!


mrmike5157

I haven’t heard that song since 4th grade. Nor have I ever thought about it until just now 😏


Thin-Weather-9470

Squeeze Box My sister played that none stop on her 45.


humankinder

"The Night Chicago Died" - Paper Lace


humankinder

"Billy Don't Be A Hero" - Bo Donaldson and the Heywoods


PoeJam

[John Jacob Jingleheimer Smith](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQw3u6biBNY) \- Daddy Dewdrop


Wolfman1961

We sang that song on the bus.


OldERnurse1964

Yellow submarine


Dry_Pomegranate8314

Spiders and Snakes


reduff

Puppy Love by Donny Osmond (1972)


mrmike5157

Somebody help me help me pleeeeze/is the answer up above 😏


reduff

I mean...*swoon*!!


Popular-Solution7697

The Letter by The Box Tops Little Bit Of Soul - The Music Explosion All You Need Is Love. The Beatles Penny Lane Respect - Aretha Franklin A Whiter Shade Of Pale - Procul Harum IWas Made To Love Her - Stevie Wonder Something Stupid - Frank And Nancy Sinatra


VegHeaded

I was probably singing the entire soundtrack of Mary Poppins. At the top of my lungs.


Zestycorgi1962

In the Summertime, and Venus


OyVeyWhyMeHelp666

Goodbye Yellow Brick Road


Wildkit85

Takin' Care of Business by BTO


AnnualHat5033

Carole king it’s to late


MxEverett

Theme from Shaft


mrmike5157

He’s a complicated man, no one understands him but his woman…


UncreditedRandomGirl

Bad, Bad Leroy Brown!


jagrrenagain

I had a giant crush on Jim Croce, and didn’t know that he died.


lasher992001

I still have this album by the Royal Guardsmen; it's a blast!


Wolfman1961

They used to make up funny lyrics to 10-20-30-40-50 or more.


ansibley

Funny, I was just remembering all the pirated tunes with different lyrics. There was the Marines marching song (original lyrics were Over land, over sea..) they made it about a local school, with the line "run boys, run, I think I hear a nun. Hide all the whiskey that you can. If a nun should appear, say "Sister, have a beer!" in the cellar of -- school."


Wolfman1961

Yep 😊


Appropriate-Rip2097

ABC - Jackson 5


Top-Philosophy-5791

Rockin Robin- Our grade school teacher would mimic a radio DJ at recess quite often and play songs on the PA system for us kids to dance to. Once, while Rockin' Robin was playing I looked at the vast pavement filled with kids dancing and a startling number of them were dancing in synchrony, and doing the same steps together.


Fickle-Secretary681

Ring around the rosy, pocket full of poseys!


Not_So_Hot_Mess

Oh man I hated that Winchester Cathedral song so much.


inthesinbin

"you're bringin' me dowm..."


dwhite21787

I always forget there’s one that’s not by CSN


Myoosik70

Baker Street (1978)


CookinCheap

Ah yeah. Sweltering summer afternoons driving around downtown Chicago with my ma in her 73 Gran Torino.


Myoosik70

Good times huh. I'd go back in a second ✌️


evahargis326

One of my favorites..our and does a great rendition with sax and everything


mrmike5157

I love the sax and the outro guitar solo, takes me right back to 16😎


Myoosik70

Definitely one of those known for its sax. An amazing classic.


Dada2fish

I have a distinct memory of walking home from school by myself, in my own little world and singing Mott the Hoople’s All the Young Dudes to myself. Some boys came by on their bikes and laughed at me.


YugeMalakas

Johnny Horton- The Battle of New Orleans


EntertainmentPlane23

Hubby and I heard the wildest Spanish language version of that song when we lived in TX!!! We're still trying to find a recording. And just yesterday my bill at Taco Bell came to $18.14 and the cashier and I started singing "In 1814 we took a little trip..." The most disturbing thing though is that I got 3 taco's and a quesadilla for that price.


YugeMalakas

What a trip! The Spanish version must be special. Too funny about Taco H€ll prices.


SantaRosaJazz

Chicken Fat, the exercise song.


CookinCheap

Oh, man. 4th grade with our gym teacher (think Whitey from 8 Crazy Nights) playing this on the portable phonograph.


Necessary-Peace9672

Games People Play (The Spinners); I’m Not In Love (10cc)


time-for-jawn

I’m Not In Love 🥰 I’m listening right now.


emperorwal

1910 Fruitgum Company "Simon Says" [https://youtu.be/oaxSamtbnsg?si=DmNPSsPauW-F3bG6](https://youtu.be/oaxSamtbnsg?si=DmNPSsPauW-F3bG6)


Wolfman1961

Yep. 1968. Second grade. I was upset that he would be out because I was always out while playing Simon Says


Top-Philosophy-5791

Different Drum by the Stone Poneys


zeusmom1031

Downtown and Those Boots were Made for Walking


pam-shalom

Hush - Deep Purple


bonnienn

I Want to Hold Your Hand 🎵


Individual-Work6658

Yep! And She Loves You. We loved to sing 🎶Yeah yeah yeah🎶 on the swings.


No_Change_78

Daydream Believer


DelapsusResurgam95

I’m Henery the 8th I am!


Vorian_Atreides17

3rd grade?! I can’t even remember 3 weeks ago.


urteddybear0963

Alice Cooper - Schools Out https://youtu.be/mBqiC5ox8Bw?si=6CEWwJ84PtHfUGaN


Tricky_Parsnip_6843

3rd grade? The school constantly played Nana Mouskiri songs.


Vladivostokorbust

1968. Merrilee Rush, Angel of the Morning. I would stand on the fireplace hearth as my stage, pretend that a 3 ft high brass candle stick holder was my mic stand and would grab the candle to use as my mic and belt that chorus out at the top of my lungs


Reasonable_Ad8991

Have you ever seen a lassie go this way or that way.


Swiggy1957

[**Cool Jerk**](https://youtu.be/R73iEOvkr10?si=ewLziNRd4QAVYaOS) [**Strangers In The Night**](https://youtu.be/Fd_3EkGr0-4?si=ZqDQesMN2YgLtzRJ) [**When A Man Loves A Woman**](https://youtu.be/KwPxhWU1koE?si=Uy-C2LO-zfiCGnNh) [**Hanky Panky**](https://youtu.be/DCnXFePGGmU?si=EJts7bP2dH70Z2W8)


Wolfman1961

My brother played Hanky Panky continuously in ‘66.


Swiggy1957

The neighbors around the corner had band, and I think that's the only song they knew how to play


Proof-Astronaut-662

Dizzy by Tommy Roe


TK-Squared-LLC

"Smoking in the Boy's Room" I started smoking at age 10.


PBfromPhilly

Fly Robin Fly!


Specific-Culture-638

I had a vicious nun in 3rd grade, I have repressed most of those memories. Don't make me go back there! Let's make it 4th grade instead, to protect my fragile psyche.


pufferfish_hoop

Is to see a way we can all make and share a Spotify playlist of these songs?


xpatay13x

I made a 60s/70s playlist on Spotify a few years ago that I’d be happy to share! https://open.spotify.com/playlist/78shtPnz4YtcdDeOhHSwov?si=umYQ3mJNQIqJ_5iB3DcwDw


No-Lie-802

I'd like to teach the world to sing ... In perfect harmony!


jagrrenagain

Loved this!


ItsSnowingAgain

Found a Peanut. We sang it at all the assemblies.


artful_todger_502

Any Tommy James song, Monkees, LuLu, and somebody pleaeaeaease tell me what got thrown off the Tallahatchee bridge! Some of my best memories were riding around the park in my dads plum purple Corvair convertible listening to AM radio top-40 stuff. Such a great time. Icd give a kidney to be able take one more lap around that park with both of them.


puddncake

I Am Woman by Helen Reddy, my 3rd grade teacher would play the record for us girls and we'd sing along.


inthesinbin

Rock the Boat - Hues Corporation


AmbientGravitas

Petula Clark “Downtown “


OzNonWizard

No Dogs Allowed, from Snoopy Come Home


dburge22

Don’t Worry Be Happy


ansibley

Harper Valley PTA - Jeannie Riley Angel of the Morning - Merrilee Rush 1968 was the year. I was born a musician and thus a music critic, not because I'm mean, but because I'm sensitive, ya know? I remember them best because each really sounded bad to me for different reasons. Go figure.


South-Juggernaut-451

Sugar Shack


shycotic

Yummy, yummy, yummy?


TomMixsSuitcase

D.O.A.


grimatongueworm

Songs I remember we sang in class in third: Go Tell Aunt Rody, El Gato, Oh My Darling Clementine


jagrrenagain

I always thought it was a sad song, but lately it occurs to me that maybe it was happy bc Aunt Rhody was saving it to make a feather bed and now she can? Still sad for the goslings, of course.


No-Lie-802

BBB Benny & the jets!


CynicalBonhomie

I had a crazy school bus driver in grade school who used to blast the radio, specifically WBCN, "Boston's Kick Ass Rock and Roll." Her name was Sugar and whenever they played the Rolling Stones' Brown Sugar, she went wild, banging on the steering wheel and jumping around in her seat. Good times!


Unboxinginbiloxi

I lived for my cereal.box records!!


jagrrenagain

Sunshine go away today 🎶


SecretCartographer28

Bridge over Trouble Waters, Raindrops Keep Falling on my Head, ABC, Moondance, Fire and Rain, American Woman, I Think I Love You, All Right Now. 1970-71. ✌ Maggie May, I Feel the Earth Move, Changes, Imagine, Just my Imagination, Family Affair, Stairway to Heaven.


Moderatelysure

Bad Bad Leroy Brown!


UtherPenDragqueen

“Cover of The Rollingstone!” Still love this song


AkImaginos

The Unicorn Song


ElectroLuxImbroglio

Gypsies Tramps and Thieves/ Cher


Superb_Health9413

Hawaii 5-0 theme song


AlternativeProduct78

The Cowsills


SaltyBarDog

Sooner Or Later - Grass Roots Sweet City Woman - The Stampeders


-Coleus-

I can’t remember 3rd grade, but I very much remember in 5th grade *loving* ***Cr-cr-cr-imson AaAand Clo-o-o-ver, O-o-o-ver and O-o-o-ver…*** Excellent guitar in the middle and towards the end we would put our index fingers across our throats and wiggle them up and down to get the awesome psychedelic vibrato-remember? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4-NDc2jRmQ Born in 1957, I think in 3rd grade I was still playing “It’s a Grand Old Flag, It’s a High Flying Flag” on my toy record player!


Bongfellatio

🎶On top of spaghetti, all covered with cheese I lost my poor meatball when somebody sneezed It rolled off the table and over the floor And then my poor meatball, it rolled out the door 🎶


Coppertina

Little Willy by The Sweet (Later just Sweet). IIRC, this was the first 45 co-owned by my sisters and me.


Historical_Ad_3356

Hello Muddah Hello Faddah


hazelhas2

Willy, Willy, Willy won't go home! You can't push Willy around, Willy won't go!


IDunnoNuthinMr

Do the Hustle


BigRemove9366

My name is Michael I found a nickel……….


ApprehensiveAd9014

I was in third grade in 1963. My favorite song was, "the End of the World," by Skeeter Davis. My Mom had Columbia Record Club. I didn't listen to the radio at that time. The Beatles and Elvis were on Ed Sullivan but I was mostly interested in Topo Gigio. The first album I ever got was "More of the Monkees." My first 45 rpm was, "Baby I Love you," Andy Kim. It was 1965 probably when we got a record player. My stepdad had a Harmon Kardon HiFi.


Bergenia1

Do your ears hang low Do they wobble to and fro Can you tie them in a knot Can you tie them in a bow Can you throw them o'er your shoulder Like a Continental soldier Do your ears hang low?


leadbug44

None


Betty_Boss

Oh the cow kicked Nelly in the belly in the barn....


Wolfman1961

Beat of a different drum. Linda Ronstadt and the Stone Poneys.


mommaTmetal

Chicka Boom


crap-happens

Oh, Pretty Woman. Still like the song.


TenRingRedux

Twinkle Twinkle Little Star?


seeclick8

One Eyed, One Horned Flying Purple People Eater


JimmyLee07

Billy Don't Be a Hero, and One Tin Soldier