November 5, 2007
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My grandma and your grandma
I can’t top that last post, so I’m not even going to try.
I realized, no songs will speak to me like songs from the 90′s. Do they write poetry like this these days? (Correction: apparently, this song was written in the 50′s and was covered by many artists – from Cyndi Lauper to the Grateful Dead).
My grandma and your grandma
sitting by the fire.
My grandma said to your grandma
I’m gonna set your flag on fire.Talking ’bout hey now, hey now
hey now, hey now
Aiko Aiko ai ne
Jackomo fino anane
Jackomo fin ai ne.I have no idea what that means, but it speaks to me.
Does anyone else out there remember when we learned about music from the radio?
Comments (34)
No.
I discovered popular music when I was in junior high. I learned such useful information, like the fact that guys like big butts…and they can’t lie about it.
I remember.
Your last post got a similar response as my WalMart post. Insane, isn’t it? Except your was way more interesting.
I’m pretty sure that song was written in the 1950s.
I love “Aiko Aiko” it has a great beat.
I remember the first song I heard on the radio was a gospel song that my mom had playing , she was singing along to it. I remember being happy listening to that.
I had a little transistor radio that I took everywhere and listened to WFIL out of Philly. The Jackson Five were popular when I was a kid.
I love this post!
The answer my friend, is blowing in the wind..
The first song I learned to sing all the way through was called “Gimme Gimme Good Lovin’ and it embarassed my mother no end when I started singing it in church one Sunday. It was 1967 (or so) and I was 6. (yeah I’m old, do your own math).
I still like the radio.
wasn’t that the grateful dead? like in the 60-70′s?eh. i do know i remember cyndi lauper singing it in some movie…
oh, and, who knew that last post would be so popular??
ahh, the good ol days
The 80s version of that song was sweet. I believe the Aiko Aiko lyric and aspects of the rhythm date back to semi-pagan African slave celebrations in old New Orleans. I heard a story about it on NPR once I think.
I wasn’t allowed to listen to the devil’s popular music growing up. I know considerably more about the pop culture of my childhood from VH1 than I do from my actual childhood.
Yeah I love radio@
I so remember that song. it was catchy. I think that’s why everyone loves it.
And I still learn about music from the radio. I am so old-school, I know. HAHHAA. But I figure if I can’t take care of my cell phone and bluetooth, I am clearly not responsible enough to own an ipod. I’m not exactly sure when I will be responsible enough.. :sigh: pathetic.
I use to learn about songs on the radio alot. That was during my pre-ipod era. I’ve only had my ipod for two years, so technically I’ve always learnt about songs from the radio or cassettes that my parents have.
I like 70s and 50s music. 80s isn’t bad either, but I just love girl groups like The Supremes. Very catchy and clean songs.
My favorite is.. “Puff the Magic Dragon”! I heard that’s a song about marijuana.. now I don’t know about that but it is a nice song too.
-Sarah
And do you remember running to your boombox so you could tape a song you liked? Then making a mix tape that had the first few seconds of every song missing!???
God, we had it rough!
now I have this song in my head…grrrrrr
I loaned my car to a roomate the other day and he left it on a classical station, which I was going to change when I didn’t recognize the station. But the music was absolutely beautiful and completely calmed me down on my way to a job interview. The music was a mix of melancholy sounding violin and soft piano. Every now and then a song will just speak to me like not many other things can. In fact, I ended up getting the job and am starting in 2 weeks if my current employer chooses not to match the pay (I’d rather stay where I’m at but my school loans won’t let me). From now on I’m going to listen to classical radio on the way to job interviews.
it’s the beat. the beat moves my feet and i love that song.
Even though I’m 17, I’m totally stuck in another generation… I love music from 60′s and 70′s. I hate what music has turned into now-a-days.
ack, that song is in my head now!
I still have vivid memories of songs that spoke to me… most are from bygone eras… classic rock for some popular… but lately medieval music is really getting me going. I know it’s the antithesis of the music you just wrote about, but it has a similar effect on me: strong and deep and wonderful.
I remember listening to KISS FM on the radio last year and we heard the same six songs an hour, split up by elongated commercial breaks . . . I think it was Hips Don’t Lie, SexyBack, whatever Rihanna’s song was last summer, etc. Gross.
We had a radio in my room when I was little, but I wasn’t allowed to listen to anything but oldies until I was 10. I got schooled in Motown and am so glad I grew up on that and not on NKOTB (of course, that meant I’d go through a boy band phase at an embarrassingly late age and will be known to everyone I went to high school with as “the O-Town girl”).
I grew up listening to the radio as there was no television in our home until I was maybe 10 or 12 years of age. Some of the best programming was there for evening listening. The music was classical and folk or country. Rock and roll came with Elvis on television on the Ed Sullivan show. I’ll never forget my grandma’s opinion of what she saw that night.
This use to be one of my fave songs growing up … I think in a way it still is =)
from age 11 to age 16 I would lie on my bed and listen to Casey
Casem’s Top Forty every weekend.
I love that song!!! I rememeber when Creedance first came out with Bad Moon on the Rise, I swore they were singing, ‘there’s a bathroom on the right’! lol.
At my age radio and phonographs were the only place aside from live music to learn.
You do know what a phonograph is don’t you? LOL
Iko Iko is a New Orleans song about the meeting of Mardi Gras Indian parades. I’ve got it stuck in my head now, but I don’t consider that a bad thing.
I have no clue what the song means, but loved it the first time I heard it; sung by Cindy Lauper. It was also played in the movie Rainman. Just something fun and relaxing about it.
You watch, it probably is about something horrible and unmentionable . . . and here we are enjoying the beat. heh eheheh
I still listen to the radio. In the car, when I’m on the computer, sometimes at night instead of going to sleep.
in fact, if I can’t be at the Pens’ games, I have to listen to it on the radio, rather than watch it. It reminds me of those drives in the car with the family when I was little, just listening to the Pens’ kick ass on the radio. 
Radio is amazing.
I learned to love music from the radio. Then Puff Daddy came, and showed me how to hate it as well.
lmao that’s awesome.
As for radio, no, it’s better now, because now all the bands that I’ve enver heard of, or that epople who live in Indiana have never heard of because there’s no station there that pla rock music, well, we can hear them.