By chance, I just heard the first song I ever fell in love with on the radio.
I thought it might make an interesting thread on here, if anyone wants to chip in with theirs.
Old git that I am, in 1968 I was in Primary School when ‘Everlasting Love’ by Love Affair came out. I used to buy a comic style publication that had all the lyrics to chart songs of the time and remember learning all the words to this. Anyone know/remember what that was called?
The lead singer, Steve Ellis, has an amazing white boy sings soul voice, but the hook chorus - which I can analyse now, but not back then - is the simplest descending triplet against changing chords that completely tore at my young heart. At the time I thought it had to be the best song ever. For reasons of nostalgia, it is still up there.
On looking it up now, I was a bit sad to see that the band, Love Affair, didn’t write the song and neither did any of them actually play on it - the record company hiring session musicians for that. Only the vocals from Steve Ellis are courtesy of Love Affair. But they were all just literally kids. Not bad to be 17 and have a number one!
Despite the manufactured element, it’s all the same a fantastic pop/soul track that literally still tears my heart out - and so reminds me of my first ever crush, on a girl called Jennifer. But alas, was not to be, ha ha!
I’d be fascinated to hear what was your first stand out song, even though you’re likely to be looking at decades different to mine. It’s the seed of why we all fell in love with music after all. 😉