By FAYETTE (64.12.97.7) on Saturday, March 01, 2003 - 10:25 pm:

OK EVERYBODY I WANT YOU TO THINK BACK TO YOUR VERY FIRST LOVE. WHAT WAS THE NAME OF THE SONG
THAT BRINGS BACK MEMORIES OF HIM OR HER?

By SisDetroit (68.42.209.170) on Saturday, March 01, 2003 - 10:29 pm:

I will never forget. My first boyfriend lived down the street from me. He and his friends always went to dances at the Graystone, and St. Stephens. My father wouldn't let us go. While I'm sitting on the porch as he passes by my house, I would sing "There Goes My Baby, moving on down the line." (LOL) The Drifters.

By fayette (64.12.97.7) on Saturday, March 01, 2003 - 10:31 pm:

sis was that in detroit?????

By STUBASS (206.135.204.2) on Saturday, March 01, 2003 - 10:33 pm:

OK FAYETTE...I'M STUCK HERE FOR ANOTHER HALF HOUR...SO YOU GOT ME!!!...MY FIRST ROMANCE SONG WAS A NEIL SEDAKA SONG...I DON'T REMEMBER WHICH ONE...BUT IT WAS OUT AT ABOUT THE SAME TIME THAT I WAS DIGGING ON A CHICK FROM SUMMER SCHOOL...SHE USED TO GET DROPPED OFF AT SCHOOL IN A CHAUFFER DRIVEN LIMO...AND THAT CERTAINLY GOT MY ATTENTION!!!...ALSO...JOHNNY MATHIS HAD A TUNE CALLED "GINA" WHICH WAS OUT WHEN I WAS ABOUT 12 OR 13...AND JUST STARTED GOING TO BOY-GIRL PARTIES...AND I WAS STARTING TO DATE THIS GIRL...BUT HER NAME WASN'T EVEN GINA...BUT THAT SONG SOMEHOW REMINDED ME OF THE WHOLE ROMANCE THING!!!...STU

By SisDetroit (68.42.209.170) on Saturday, March 01, 2003 - 10:50 pm:

Yes, Fayette - The Motorcity.

By 1wicked (64.32.154.94) on Saturday, March 01, 2003 - 10:55 pm:

Ahhhhh yes ! Without a doubt...the Marvin & Tammi duets. Her name was Debra "C."...and she was "my girl" from 1st grade until she discovered older guys (Jr. High).

By SisDetroit (68.42.209.170) on Saturday, March 01, 2003 - 11:13 pm:

1wicked - You know when you get into the teens, the girls mature faster than the guys. Have you seen her since you've become an adult?

By 1wicked (64.32.154.94) on Saturday, March 01, 2003 - 11:21 pm:

Sis....I haven't seen her, but the beautiful, witty, independent, intelligent young lady I had that "love jones" for got hooked up with the wrong guy & dabbled in his habits. Word is she'll never be 100% again.......

And BTW....it's not always a maturity issue. It's just feeling you're something "special" because the older crowd notices you....

By SisDetroit (68.42.209.170) on Saturday, March 01, 2003 - 11:25 pm:

You're right 1wicked. My first boyfriend passed away last year.

The Drifters, and Sam Cooke were really kicking it when I was a teen.

By MEL&THEN SOME (195.219.7.44) on Sunday, March 02, 2003 - 03:03 am:

First I would play Bobby Treetops
'wait till I get to know ya'trying to be all cool,but must of been one sad gonk,
then when things went okeh for the first few months or whatever then I would play The Tempts 'The way you do the things you do'.
A mate got me to write down all the lyrics to the Tempts track and he posted it to his girl.
Always remember one relationship ending,and I couldnt stop playing Jackie Edwards,'Feel so Bad'and also The Isleys and 'Theres no love left'.
Crazy youthful days gone long by.
Mel.

By John Lester (213.123.151.20) on Sunday, March 02, 2003 - 08:50 am:

I think my first love was at school and Del Shannon's Swiss Maid was the song that was around at the time. However, as the relationship progressd the song soon changed to Del's "Runaway" LOL!!!

My next love only became so cos I found that they had bought a copy of the Temps "My Girl" on Stateside and I didn't have it!!

By Eli (151.197.37.92) on Sunday, March 02, 2003 - 11:35 am:

When Vonnie and I first started dating some of the albums we would listen to in my den of iniquity were by Dionne Warwick and the Delphonics.
I often wonder what the youth of today would consider to be "the song that was playing on the day we met" type of song.
What would it be??"Let me feel yo booty"
"Ignition" by R. Kelly or "F**k the police by NWA You get my drift.
There is hardly any song, in my opinion in todays world that would qualify as a cherished oldie of tomorrow.

By fayette (64.12.97.7) on Sunday, March 02, 2003 - 12:01 pm:

oh well i guess i let you all know "our song"
it was, nothing takes the place of you,by
tousaint mcall

By dvdmike (12.84.41.82) on Sunday, March 02, 2003 - 12:15 pm:

Her name was Cathy and we met while we were both riding our bicycles. It was July 1973, about a month after I graduated from high school and we met near the Henry Moore sculpture on 56th & Ellis on the campus of the University of Chicago. She had the biggest, neatest, shiniest Afro I'd ever seen and she had this really sexy voice. We started going out soon after and I remember her telling me her favorite song was "How Could I Let You Get Away" by The Spinners. But unfortunately, the gold I thought I'd found turned out to be fool's gold. She was a chronic liar and by September, she was gone from my life. It took quite some time to get over it, but eventually, I did.

By FAYETTE (64.12.97.7) on Sunday, March 02, 2003 - 12:24 pm:

STUBASS I THOUGHT I WAS YOUR FIRST LOVE AND THE
SONG THAT REMINDS ME OF YOU IS "YOU AIN'T
NOTHING BUT A HOUND DOG"BY ELVIS PRESLEY

By stephanie (64.63.221.220) on Sunday, March 02, 2003 - 12:46 pm:

When I slow dragged to Tavares Check it Out!! I remember that vividly. John you like Del Shannon's Swiss Maid HUH
"A long time a long time ago"
"IN a Mountain in Switzerland yodel lodel lo..."

I bet you thought I didnt know that.
Stephanie

By Ritchie (62.254.0.9) on Sunday, March 02, 2003 - 01:07 pm:

It wasn't a new record at the time, but we still adopted it as 'our' song... Marvin & Kim's "It Takes Two".

By STUBASS (205.188.209.38) on Sunday, March 02, 2003 - 02:04 pm:

OK FAYETTE: YOU WIN...ACTUALLY..."HOUND DOG" WAS ABOUT THE FIRST SONG THAT I EVER PERFORMED AS A SEVEN OR EIGHT YEAR OLD SONG "STYLIST"...ACCOMPANIED BY MY BROTHER AND COUSIN!!!...SO OK FAYETTE...I WAS SINGING TO THE AUDIENCE...BUT I WAS DEFINITELY THINKING ABOUT *YOU*!!!...BUT PLEASE DON'T SAY THAT YOU THINK ABOUT ME WHEN YOU LISTEN TO ANYTHING BEING PERFORMED BY THAT KENNY "YOU KNOW WHO"!!!...STU

By John Lester (213.123.151.20) on Sunday, March 02, 2003 - 02:25 pm:

Steph........I thought you were still only 21!

By Mark Speck (65.58.51.155) on Sunday, March 02, 2003 - 02:40 pm:

Probably three songs taken together would work for me, all from my misspent childhood:

"Nice to Be With You"--Gallery
"Love Jones"--Brighter Side of Darkness
"Heartbeat, It's a Lovebeat"--DeFranco Family(this last one I still play when I'm thinking of one girl or another I'm interested in)

Best,

Mark

By thecount (65.60.201.174) on Sunday, March 02, 2003 - 03:27 pm:

When I hear the commercial,"DONT GET MAD,GET GLAD",Being only 16 in 1960,cunninghams drug stores would not serve minors.Back seat memories.
MEMORIES(pressed between the pages of my mind)"ELVIS"
"COUNT"

By 1wicked (64.32.154.94) on Sunday, March 02, 2003 - 06:23 pm:

Stephanie...you would bring up Tavares. After "slow dragging" to their melodic offering of "Remember What I Told You To Forget" (with my 1st post high school sweetheart), I experienced a rather painful episode of a "male only" malady. (Though medical experts say the condition doesn't exist....I truly beg to differ !!) In retrospect...I don't know if my physical pain or the embarrassment of her mother seeing us (and mostly me) in a semi-compromising "situation" were worse. Hmmm...or was it the fear that mom might tell dad (who I didn't know was deceased) & I might have ended up a "statistic" ?? (LOL)

Whatever the case...I learned a valuable lesson and I've had nothing but love and (greater) RESPECT for women since.

By STUBASS (206.135.204.2) on Sunday, March 02, 2003 - 06:34 pm:

I WICKED: IT LOOKS TO ME LIKE YOU HAD BETTER TAKE THE ADVISE OF THE BARBER IN "COMING TO AMERICA"...AND GO SOMEPLACE WHERE "GOOD GIRLS" GO!!!...YOU MIGHT MEET A NICE GIRL WHO'S FATHER OWNS A COUNTERFIT MCDONALDS...AND GET A JOB MOPPING THE FLOORS...THEN...AFTER 30 OR 40 YEARS OF HARD WORK...YOU TOO CAN HAVE A FINE HOME IN "JAMACA ESTATES"...JUST LIKE JOHN AMOS DID!!!...STU

By 1wicked (64.32.154.94) on Sunday, March 02, 2003 - 06:42 pm:

Stu: She was a good girl.....I was about 19 and (in my best Lou Costello voice)"a baaaad baaaad boy".

By STUBASS (206.135.204.2) on Sunday, March 02, 2003 - 06:46 pm:

WELL 1WICKED: IF WE EVER START A THREAD CALLED "CLOSE SHAVES"...I MAY HAVE A FEW STORIES OF MY OWN TO TELL...AND THEY HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH GILLETTE!!!...STU

By 1wicked (64.32.154.94) on Sunday, March 02, 2003 - 07:10 pm:

****That man is just "tetched" I tell ya...just "tetched" !!****(But I stay ROTFLMAO !)

By JoeR (170.148.92.30) on Monday, March 03, 2003 - 05:20 pm:

My first love was my high school sweetheart and my first wife (RIP). I was singing 'My Girl' with a group I had in high school. It was the first day of school, Sept 10, 1979 and I knew she was the one.

In June 1989, I saw the Temptations at Lincoln Center in NYC and Ron Tyson brought me on stage and I got to sing a verse of 'My Girl' to my wife-to-be.

The following year, a week before our wedding, we met Eddie Kendricks and Dennis Edwards at Sweetwaters in NYC. Eddie allowed us to come into the dressing room after they settled in from the first 1st set. We told them how we met and that we were getting married the following week. Eddie said "I see our music is still putting folks together".

She passed away in 1993 from cancer and I sang 'My Girl' at her wake.

Although that chapter is closed in my life; I remarried and have a son, she will always be my first TRUE love.

JoeR - http://myapges.netopia.com/channels

By Eli (151.197.39.147) on Monday, March 03, 2003 - 05:25 pm:

Joe R...That story literally has me in tears as I am reading this post. The part about the wake...
I lost my wife as well in 1989 just before the holidays and I can relate to this.
God Bless you!!!

By fayette (205.188.209.38) on Monday, March 03, 2003 - 05:30 pm:

joer you got the heart of gold.

By JoeR (170.148.92.30) on Monday, March 03, 2003 - 05:30 pm:

Hi Eli,

I'm sorry for the loss of your wife.

Losing my wife was devastating for me. We were "temptations partners in crime" and she meant the world to me. I lost her 2 days after my 30th birthday.


JoeR - http://mypages.netopia.com/channels

By KevGo (64.115.26.80) on Monday, March 03, 2003 - 10:02 pm:

Joe & Eli:
Thank you for sharing your experiences. I cannot put into words how this moves me.

My first love - Wendy Keller. We were Communications majors in college (1984-1986)- two years apart (she was the older & the wiser). Met while DJ'ing at the college radio station and became close. The song that did it for us - Simply Red's "Holding Back The Years." Not exactly a love song or romantic but it reminded us not to take anything for granted or waste time on things trivial, that it's all right to laugh and to love yet to live our lives the way we want to and not by others' expectations.

When we were saying our goodbyes after her graduation (we decided to part as friends weeks before)we hugged, kissed & cried for the longest time while my Simply Red record was playing in the background. We promised to stay in touch (she came to visit me at school several times until I graduated in 1988).

Wendy was giving, passionate, smart, a bit punchy at times but a great lady. I learned so much from her and vice versa. Before we moved on with our lives in the early 1990s, she gave me one special gift - she helped me move from Rochester to NYC so I could work in the music industry.

Whenever I hear "Holding Back The Years" I think of Wendy and I smile.

Kevin Goins - KevGo

By R&B (138.238.41.128) on Tuesday, March 04, 2003 - 08:56 am:

IT SEEMED LIKE EVERYTIME MY FIRST LOVE AND I WOULD TUNE ON THE RADIO{LOVE IS A HURTING THING}WOULD ALWAYS BE PLAYING,THINK LOU WAS TRYIN TO TELL US SOMETHING?

By fayette (152.163.188.68) on Tuesday, March 04, 2003 - 09:46 am:

r&b i guess we need to listen and learn from
lou.