(This was back when the Negro singers sounded just like any white singer.

Gene McDaniels - 1961

Elvis, Love me Tender.

Skynyrd- That Smell

Elvis Presley (Ed Sullivan Show 28/10/56)

Probably this one:

Probably Toxic.

Ronnie Milsap - Rollin’ With The Flow

Maybe not "all" the words, but an early memorable song for me is El Paso by Marty Robbins.

Snoopy vs the Red Baron.

I'm a Lonesome Fugitive.

Tequila, or Wipeout

Running Bear 1959

Yep, Johnny Preston 1959 . . . remember it well and used to sing along.

Puff the Magic Dragon. I didn't know what it was about. I don't think I had even started school yet, I just remember thinking how much fun it would be to have a pet dragon.

You ain't nothing but a Hound Dog and Blue Suede Shoes..

I've never really been an Elvis fan but my two teenage girl cousins were and they played him non stop.

Battle of New Orleans...

Your Cheating Heart, Hank Sr. on the radio in Dads car.

Hot Blooded by Foreigner

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=9hWW8Lr-Ajg

Jonny Cash “Ballad of a Teenage Queen.”

"Jeremiah was a bullfrog ..."

I can remember standing on the hump of our rear floorboard peeking over the front seat of our old Falcon while my mom drove around town and this played on the radio.

North to Alaska~ Johnny Horton

"Singing the Blues" by Marty Robbins.

Great song I haven't heard in forever.

Maybelene, Chuck Berry

“I’ve got a tiger by the tail” by Buck Owens in 1965. I was 5.

One-eyed, one-horned, flying purple people eater

I bet those were easy to memorize! LOL

DIXIE!!

Jambalaya, by Hank Williams!

~ It's Howdy Doody Time ~

Another vote for Howdy Doody.

Bad Moon Rising - CCR

probably hummed a bunch of the words but that was the first real radio song I remember singing

Right there with the Marty Robbins, and a Kenny Rogers song my mom would sing in the kitchen, don't know which one.

The Battle of New Orleans by Johnny Horton

Hotel California. Like KFWA there are probably several I kinda knew but this was the first song I remember knowing all the words and could sing along. Lyrics were pretty intriguing to a small kid.

"Red River Valley" by Gene Autry, probably in 1946 or 1947,

Dam......are most here that young or did it take ya'll that long to be able to memorize the words to a song.

Played the 45 so many times it wore out!

Tom Dooley. miles

This^^^.

Probably this or Honky Tonk Man or They Put Me Off in Texas that dad sang a lot. No tv for normal folks back then.

Sixteen Tons, by Tennessee Ernie Ford

Jessie 8675301

I’d Like to Get to Know You. Spanky and Our Gang

Maybe this, it's been a long time ago.

That's some memory!

[quote=DavePrice] Played the 45 so many times it wore out!

I wonder how many here have no idea what a 45 is.

Damn! That might just be the one for me. An old one for sure.

?

Oak ridge boys

Leavin Louisiana in the broad daylight

That song still kicks ass

Not from radio but TV, 'The Ballad of Jed Clampett'.

I’m thinking he meant Jenny 8675309. I’m sure the other version sounds fine as long as nobody is around.

Born on the bayou was the tune I remember when I was a kid. Johnny Cash's Folsom prison was another.

Thunder Road from the movie.

Last Kiss came to my mind first then this one.

Take me home, country roads

John Denver

The Lone Ranger Theme. AKA the William Tell Overture.

I love a rainy night by Eddy Rabbit stands out.

Might have been one before, but I can't recall it.

LOL To be honest those were probably the first two that I knew all of the words too! LOL!!! Good one!

Other than those I am not real sure. I always liked Soldier Boy (can't remember artist) and Johnny Angel by Shelley Fabares; of course it could be Blue Congo (artist??) or Big John by Jimmy Dean or 16 tons by Tn Ernie Ford?
Blue Congo has just a word or two more than Wipeout LOL

Try: " 8675309 Jenny" Two with poor memories!

Maggie May.

Just a swingin by John Anderson.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7Jw_v3F_Q0

MTA, THE KINGSTONE TRIO

Ventura Highway by America

Who else?? Johnny Cash and Folsom prison blues.

I was gonna say this or “Thank God I’m a Country Boy”!

A bunch more I remember from my youth, but those two were first that popped into my head.

I am thinking it was Ball of Confusion by the Temptations. My town was substantially black growing up.

1967

Nashville cats
Play clean as country water
Nashville cats
Play wild as mountain dew
Nashville cats
Been playin' since they's babies
Nashville cats
Get work before they're two

Well, there's thirteen hundred and fifty-two guitar pickers in Nashville
And they can pick more notes than the number of ants on a Tennessee ant hill
There's thirteen hundred and fifty-two guitar cases in Nashville
And anyone that unpacks his guitar can play twice as better than I will

Soldier Boy..... was sung by the Shirelles (sp) in the early to mid 60's. Dont know if they wrote it or maybe it was a remake.

Possibly "House of the Rising Sun". Have to think harder on this one.

Thinking it could be this one..

Maybe this, tuned in the key of D

Que Sera Sera, Doris Day. Mom tells me I walked around for a couple of weeks singing that ear worm when I was about 4.

White Christmas & still one of my favorites.

Sincerely, DarlaG

Learned this one too...

Born on a mountaintop in Tennessee....Davy !

Sadly, I have to confess it was this:



There was a cover of this sung by the Kirby Stone Four that briefly hit the charts when I was 4. This was in the days of Mitch Miller and the sing-along craze. Mom bought me the record. I learned this one, as well as another on that album, one y'all might remember:

Ok I've narrowed it to these two...



or:




DMc

When I was 3 or 4, first was Teddy Bears Picnic



Then I found my Dad’s 78 rpm records and player and this was my favorite ( not
To be sung in a Catholic kindergarten class I was told !! )
This was back in 1952 !

Some probably don't know what a "record" is.

"Dead Skunk in the Middle of the Road", Loudon Wainwright III

It only took two pages........thought I used better bait

the hag,mama tried

Although far from the first song I knew the words to, Maggie May will always hold a special place in my heart. The first time I heard it and probably the next 45 times as it seems they played it every third song when it came out, I was deep in a ditch, hand shoveling a three foot wide trench around the foundation of a newly constructed home. It was one of thos built into a bank that the cellar floor was about ground level and it tapered back to where the first floor was level with the bank. It was all we could do to throw the dirt out of the hole in the back with long handled shovels. Another guy on the crew back filled the foundation before the drains were installed! No safety supports in that trench in those days.

Some of us are young, that or we might've been watching Mean Gene Okerlund and Georgia Championship wrasslin instead of sitting around jamming to perry como with great grandma and aunt gertrude or fuggin mary todd lincoln. 😄

Jingle Bells

So...watching wrasslin makes you more of a man than listening to the radio in TN?

Why doesn't that surprise me?

99 bottles of beer on the wall...

Probably Rhinestone Cowboy

You nailed Mary Todd Lincoln? Dayom. You are old.

Did you know Ingwe back then?

Great song.

"The Most Beautiful Girl in the World" Charlie Rich

Smoky Mountain Rain

Peace In The Valley by Elvis Presley.

My brother and I wore this record out when we were tykes...

All American boy. 1955, WLS top twenty. "Gather round cats and I'll tell you a story 'bout how to become an all American boy. Buy you a guitar....."

"Tell me a story"...Frankie Laine and Jimmy Boyd

Convoy[mebbe]