Your (personal) oldest song

Jim Cohen · Post by **Jim Cohen** » 26 Jan 2006 6:16 am

Maybe "Because" by the Dave Clark Five...

Howard Tate · Post by **Howard Tate** » 26 Jan 2006 8:01 am

I know some songs from the civil war and before, but the first song I learned to play with double stops on guitar was You Are My Sunshine. I played Lorilie on my aunts lap when I was a pre-teenager. Old Oaken Bucket on a pump organ in second grade, maybe Pagan love Song on harmonica before first grade.

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Wish I'd learned lap steel when I still had a lap.

Bob Smith · Post by **Bob Smith** » 26 Jan 2006 8:09 am

Secret Agent Man, I think it was Johnny Rivers, killer song in my book. bob

John Ummel · Post by **John Ummel** » 26 Jan 2006 1:29 pm

Pipeline...my friend in 8th grade, 1968, had this cool guitar with 4 pickups and pushbuttons. He showed me how to play Pipeline. Amazingly in the early 90's I had the chance to meet Nokie Edwards when he sat in with our band. That Mosrite guitar of his sounded fabulous.

David L. Donald · Post by **David L. Donald** » 27 Jan 2006 12:37 am

I think I still got the oldest!

Jim Cohen · Post by **Jim Cohen** » 27 Jan 2006 7:21 am

OK, OK, I also still play Danny Boy/London Derierre. That's pretty darn old, ain't it?

Terry Edwards · Post by **Terry Edwards** » 27 Jan 2006 8:09 am

Does that ancient Chinese favorite "Tu Ning" count?

Terry

Dave White · Post by **Dave White** » 27 Jan 2006 12:40 pm

"Wildwood Flower" has a history that goes back to about 1860. Found that out when I googled the lyrics.

Chuck Hall · Post by **Chuck Hall** » 27 Jan 2006 2:29 pm

i think the oldest most of us play at least once a year is Auld Lang at New Years but I still play White Christmas from Bing's 78

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Chuck
Country Fever Band

Les Anderson · Post by **Les Anderson** » 27 Jan 2006 2:53 pm

"The West a Nest and You Dear".

It was one of the first tunes I learned on the harmonica in the forties. I played it on all of our tour shows during the sixties and seventies and play it still with the old time dance band that I play with today.

As a side note, it took a little doing to learn to play in on the steel without using long drawn out bar slides because the tune is such a slow waltze. We still get a good round of applause from the people on the floor after the tune is played.

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[This message was edited by Les Anderson on 28 January 2006 at 01:15 PM.]

John Bechtel · Post by **John Bechtel** » 27 Jan 2006 9:10 pm

I guess, since I started learning steel in ’48 and then discovered there was more to a steel guitar than the Hi-Bass A~Tuning, (C6th) the first tune I latched on to was Steel Guitar Rag, because; the melody corresponded to the voicing of the tuning! But, I haven't played it in a long time and have no desire to do so! Some of my favorite tunes (among many on the C-Diatonic Tuning) are “Stranger On The Shore”, “Danny Boy” and the very first tune I learned on the tuning. [“Come A Little Closer”] Actually, since it's my favorite~tuning, all the tunes I play are favorites, including: “A Legend In My Time”! Gosh! I couldn’t pick just one!

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Rick McDuffie · Post by **Rick McDuffie** » 28 Jan 2006 5:19 am

Probably "Please Please Me" or "Bring It On Home" (not the Led Zep tune, but the one by Sam Cooke). I've been doing both of these consistently since about '66. There are a few others, too.

Of course, I still play and sing a bunch of great old hymns that I learned in church much earlier than that...

I do a mean acoustic version of Whipping Post, too.

[This message was edited by Rick McDuffie on 28 January 2006 at 05:27 AM.]