Music that Imprinted on you as a Child

[CCoburn]

I tried to think of the earliest song I remember hearing. I was young too. Like 3 or 4 years old.

I'm not really sure how far back I can go, but I remember being in the car with the old man and Whatever Happened to Randolph Scott (Statler Bros. I assume) coming on the radio, and I was probably six at the time. I recall that moment pretty well, where I was and whatnot. Sometimes there's not much rhyme or reason as to why we remember some trivial things as well as we do. With that song, maybe the title lyric and the way it was sung was catchy to me in some way, and I can still feel that a little to some degree even now.

I do have one memory (at least) from around 3 or 4 years of age, but it's more of a relative musical memory than a melody or lyric and it really freaked me out at the time and I had nightmares about it. It was that album art from Weasels Ripped my Flesh by Frank Zappa – 1970. I remember laying on my sister and her boyfriends' bed and looking at that album cover, and that definitely imprinted on me, but not in a good way.