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Post by Auf Kiltre on Jul 17, 2020 14:54:25 GMT -5
10th grade, school assembly, jammed packed.
Beware of Darkness
I'm glad there are no recordings to dispute my recollection.
You?
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Post by twangmeister on Jul 17, 2020 18:19:16 GMT -5
10 years old--played "Peggy Sue" to the neighborhood kids. I was trying to impress a 13 year-old girl named Birgit. She had a crush on my brother who was 16 and a much better guitarist. She was too old for me and too young for my brother.
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Post by Rick Knight on Jul 18, 2020 5:57:30 GMT -5
Not counting the church choir, the first song I remember singing in public was She Loves You, with 3 friends in a school talent show. We held guitars we couldn't play because we thought it looked cool.
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Post by Think Floyd on Jul 18, 2020 7:57:58 GMT -5
When I was in the Army stationed at Fort Polk, Louisiana, I was in a band with 3 other guys. After winning the Fort Polk Battle Of The Bands one night, we played at a Talent Show on base the next night. That night we didn't do so good... probably because I sang my first song in public: "Jailbreak" by Thin Lizzy.
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Post by Laker on Jul 19, 2020 14:11:19 GMT -5
The first song I sang was Larry Williams’ “Bony Maronie” in my first band around 1961.
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Post by Geno on Jul 19, 2020 15:40:22 GMT -5
Born Under A Bad Sign when I was a sophomore in HS.
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Post by Duke on Jul 19, 2020 17:25:32 GMT -5
Battle of New Orleans - Johnny Horton
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Post by Peegoo 🏁 on Jul 19, 2020 17:50:05 GMT -5
Frosty the Snowman, as a duet with my sister, at the Hickam AFB NCO club.
It was 1967; I was five years old and my sister was six. I remember the applause!
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Post by Ayns on Jul 19, 2020 18:04:00 GMT -5
First song I ever sang in public was Getting Better by Shed Seven, when my band played my mate's 40th birthday house party. First song I ever sang at a gig was definitely Neil Young, probably Rockin In the Free World when I was about 45. I now sing lead vocals on about 50% of our set  |
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Post by Auf Kiltre on Jul 19, 2020 18:05:02 GMT -5
Now that I think about it "Fifty-Nifty" in the 6th grade, but that wasn't solo.
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Post by Ayns on Jul 19, 2020 18:08:03 GMT -5
Just to contradict myself, I think the first song I ever sang at a gig might have been Youre All I Want by Snow Patrol. I was probably about 44  |
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Post by Rick Knight on Jul 21, 2020 10:55:57 GMT -5
First song I ever sang at a gig I don't remember the song, but do remember my knees shaking so hard that I was worried about falling down. |
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Post by Ayns on Jul 21, 2020 13:14:55 GMT -5
First song I ever sang at a gig I don't remember the song, but do remember my knees shaking so hard that I was worried about falling down. Yeah, I remember that feeling
These days I sometimes walk up to the mic, and I'm not sure I can remember the first line, but it always comes out...… so far
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Post by HenryJ on Jul 21, 2020 17:16:31 GMT -5
It was in church. My brother and I sang a short song in unison. I think I was 6 and he was 5. "I Was Glad When They Said Unto Me." I don't remember being nervous.
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Post by larryguitar54 on Jul 21, 2020 21:06:04 GMT -5
"Spoonful of Sugar Makes the Medicine Go down" from Mary Poppins. 5th grade on a xylophone. I was a monster on the xylophone. But you can't pick up girls that way.
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Post by LTB on Jul 22, 2020 2:43:14 GMT -5
Battle of New Orleans - Johnny Horton I don't know if this was the first song but it is the first one I remember singing at a young age! |
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Post by herb on Aug 14, 2020 13:02:41 GMT -5
The nuns in grade school use to make me sing in front of the class. Nobody laughed and the girls looked impressed so I lost my being self-conscious about it. Sang solos quite a bit in choir too. The big show, like Easter and Christmas Eve. By age 12 I had hit the big time.
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Post by Vibroluxer on Aug 18, 2020 17:21:16 GMT -5
I was 5 or so and sang The Crazy Baldheaded Chinese at a talent show. That probably wouldn't go over to well today.
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Post by rickyguitar on Aug 18, 2020 20:56:46 GMT -5
Wow....I am not sure. Gloria mebbe?
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Post by LM on Aug 22, 2020 13:52:39 GMT -5
6th grade roadshow as an MC...
Where oh Where are you tonight?
Why did you leave me here all alone?
I searched the world over and thought I found true love
You met another and, thhhgt, you was gone
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Post by TBird on Aug 23, 2020 6:35:34 GMT -5
Way back in the 70's, played drums but got to sing Johnny B Good.
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Post by tiller2 on Aug 25, 2020 11:06:54 GMT -5
"Black Is the Color of My True Love's Hair" in an elementary school play. I was very embarrassed by the topic.
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Post by Ragpicker on Aug 28, 2020 20:20:43 GMT -5
Yellow Bird by Trini Lopez. 5th grade school concert. Sat under a cardboard palm tree with said bird attached. Wore a sobrero. No cultural appropriation there. I was terrified but it went well and set my course.
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Post by langford on Sept 4, 2020 17:45:33 GMT -5
Probably Ain't Misbehavin'. I would do a Leon Redbone-type version that was popular at my high school's coffeehouses.
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Post by oldfartbassplayrwalt on Sept 16, 2020 12:37:10 GMT -5
Old folkie rave up tune, "Hey Sinner Man", complete with harp solo.
9th grade talent show. Didn't win any prizes, but did get a decent applause.
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Post by rdr on Nov 28, 2020 12:28:18 GMT -5
"Down Our Way" in my Barbershop Quartet, 7th grade.
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Post by jeffscott on Nov 29, 2020 1:54:44 GMT -5
Moondance - Van Morrison, in a Top40/Disco band in the late '70s at a Holiday Inn lounge in Toledo, Oh-High-Yo! The place was packed!
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Post by gato on Feb 5, 2021 10:25:44 GMT -5
"Money".
At my first paying gig, December of 1964.
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Post by Auf Kiltre on Feb 5, 2021 11:13:24 GMT -5
"Money". At my first paying gig, December of 1964. But that didn't come out until 1973.
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Post by gato on Feb 5, 2021 15:58:51 GMT -5
"Money". At my first paying gig, December of 1964. But that didn't come out until 1973.
Beatles version was what we did that night. |
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