Stretching Your Memory: What is the oldest song you remember when it was new?

[joybandit]

My mother listened to the radio while cleaning the house (WJET AM 1400!).  The first songs that I remember liking were "Woman, Woman" by Gary Puckett and the Union Gap and "Abraham, Martin & John" by Dion. 

[Goat Rodeo Cowboy]

Eddy Arnold.  Cattle Call. 1944.

[firepoint525]

For me, probably a Beatles song, "Yesterday," "Hey Jude," or "Let It Be."

[radiobum]

mr. bass man by johnny cymbal-1962 i think

[TheFonz]

Eddy Arnold.  Cattle Call. 1944.

The Eddy Arnold version would have been 1955.  Maybe Tex Ritter (1947)?

[deltas69]

well  GRC just jogged my old mind...I got a record player in 1957 from Randy's Record Shop here in Gallatin for Christmas when I was around six..and about a dozen records..and 'Cattle Call" was one of them  along with Gene Autry's Rudolf, Silver Haired Daddy of Mine, and a couple other western tunes..along with something my much older sister must have picked out... an instrumental.."Malaguania"..must have dialed in WSM a few years later....

[TheOtherRadioRob]

I remember hearing "Livin' Thing" by ELO and being scared of the violin intro.  Also riding with my father and him trying to get me to believe the Bee Gees were singing "Baldheaded Woman!" 

[Goat Rodeo Cowboy]

Eddy Arnold.  Cattle Call. 1944.

The Eddy Arnold version would have been 1955.  Maybe Tex Ritter (1947)?

I think he put out a newer version in 1955.  I read through the history before I posted.  The history is a bit convoluted.

I moved from Texas to Arkansas in 1952.  I pretty sure I attended a rodeo in Elsa, TX circa 1949 and they played Eddy's recording ovder and over.

Hell, when I lived in Texas I thought Cattle Call was The National Anthem.

[semoochie]

I'm having trouble with the concept of "the oldest song remembered when it was new" as being from 1965, 68 or 70!

[CTListener]

For me, probably a Beatles song, "Yesterday," "Hey Jude," or "Let It Be."

Those songs were separated by some five years. Surely you can remember something a bit closer to those last two than "Yesterday." Most stations weren't playing five-year-old Beatles songs in 1970 -- what oldies did get played on Top 40 radio were mostly pre-British Invasion, and there was so much current material moving up and down the chart that recurrents weren't often programmed. So how do you think you might have heard "Yesterday" new, or if not that, then nothing at all until 1969 or 1970?