It's early 1976, and Sweet is on the jukebox

[Zomby Woof]

Rota Naval Station airport, Rota, Spain - the cafeteria's jukebox.

"Fox On The Run". 8 years old, the perfect hit single at the perfect time.

Name a favorite (not "the", that would be impossible) song from your early years, before adolescence reared its big head!

[Spider Jerusalem]

1. David Bowie's version of "China Girl"...

1983...I was six.

[Zomby Woof]

6. With none other than an unknown SRV on guitar

Bowie wrote some classy liner notes for a posthumous live album for SRV a few years ago.

[Spider Jerusalem]

9. Yeah...I knew that...

but I didn't find out until quite some time later, of course. Heh.

Heard that Bowie saw SRV play the Montreux Festival and decided "he HAS to play on my next album." But then, Bowie's pretty much always gotten very talented musicians to back him up.

[Zomby Woof]

13. There's also the Jagger story

SRV thanked both Bowie and Jagger on his debut, and it was supposedly because Jagger recommended SRV to him because Bowie was looking for a blues guitarist for his next album. Then Bowie saw him (thought it was NYC, but you may be right). But you know how it goes with rock stories... accounts vary, depending on the chemical refreshments involved. ;-)

[RandomKoolzip]

2. "Love is Like Oxygen" was better.

Anyway, one song I loved when I was 8 was "Major Tom (Coming Home)" by Peter Schilling.

[AlCzervik]

3. Hot child in the city, now i actually know what the song is about

I didn't way back when.

[ScreamingMeemie]

4. Promise not to laugh?

Come closer so I can whisper it so other DUers won't hear...

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................. "Honey" by Bobby Goldsboro......




....I used to play it over and over in my room and just cry my tender little eyes out....


Bigger secret yet.....




..........I still cry when I hear it. sniffle.

[AlCzervik]

8. Billy don't be a hero used to make me cry.

[bobthedrummer]

5. "Hey, Bo Diddley..."

I know what that means today!

[KitchenWitch]

7. Born to Be Wild

Steppenwolf 1968

[ikojo]

10. Any Donny Osmond song

but I had an affinity for Puppy Love because my seven year old mind JUST KNEW he was singing DIRECTLY to me!

[maveric]

11. Penny Lane by the Beatles.

You know, that overrated, talentless band that people bash on this board.

[AZCat]

12. When I was four, my brother's copy of "Detroit Rock City" was my anthem

As you might imagine, our babysitter was amused to hear of my love of KISS.

[davsand]

14. Joe Tex--I Got 'Cha

I also loved Steppenwolf's song "The Pusherman."

BTW, Sweet had a couple of pretty decent albums, really. Desolation Boulevard was a lot of fun and so was Give us a Wink...


Laura

[Zomby Woof]

15. "Pusherman" - best use ever of "goddamn" in a lyric

Yeah, Sweet was cool, and if I hear "Love Is Like Oxygen" on the local oldies station, I will crank it. Never hear anything else these days though.

[Left Is Write]

16. Interestingly, I would choose the same as you did.

Also, Bed Of Rose's (apostrophe intentional) by the Statler Brothers.