I've been searching for the first one I ever recorded, and I'm not sure I'll find it. But it started me thinking about the first song I ever made up. It was a doozy, but I'll save it for if anybody bites. I thought it made a better question for our songwriters than it did a personal recollection.
So what's the first one you can remember that you want to tell us about? If any links or clips, if available, would make it even better, but a description or a few lyrics is good enough.
I'll be back in a bit with mine.
Re: What's the first song you ever wrote?
Posted: Mon Mar 02, 2009 10:16 pm
by paologregorio
Hmm, I have a cassette around here somewhere. I also have a live version on VHS...not that I'm going to post anything.
Re: What's the first song you ever wrote?
Posted: Mon Mar 02, 2009 10:28 pm
by tennis_nick
Good question!
The very first was a short tune I had written for a girlfriend who went on to... break up with me a week later (she hadn't heard it yet), but it wasn't much of a tune.
The first song that I've written and liked is called "The Postman" because well, it's just a song about a postman! lol
Here's a clip of the demo I recorded, to keep myself from forgetting it.
It'll be featured on my first Grammy nominated album (circa-2011)
I will have to get mine into mp3 format, I'll get back to you......someday!
Re: What's the first song you ever wrote?
Posted: Tue Mar 03, 2009 12:27 am
by winston
I'll have my people contact your people say twenty years or so after I have left this humble abode for my entrance exam to pass through the pearly gates...........
OK, I'll spill, and I hope you don't think badly of me because I was only trying to help ...
My first song I remember making up was a response to the first public drama that I can remember witnessing: the assassination of JFK. I was just seven and it was the first time I had ever seen a group of people express a common grief. I offered it up at assembly where we had gathered at school. It was called, "President Kennedy Is Dead". It was meant to be a dirge but it came out more like Chubby Checker. Needless to say it went over like a lead balloon. You don't want to hear the words, trust me; they were impromptu. Later I found out that Dylan had written "He Was A Friend Of Mine" that very same day, and i felt somehow redeemed. Thanks again, Bob.
Re: What's the first song you ever wrote?
Posted: Tue Mar 03, 2009 8:12 am
by Scastles
Insipidly stupid was the first song I wrote. To this day, even the title of it makes my eye twitch. Oy, was it bad.
Re: What's the first song you ever wrote?
Posted: Tue Mar 03, 2009 8:47 am
by ricardo_vicente
tennis_nick wrote:Good question!
The very first was a short tune I had written for a girlfriend who went on to... break up with me a week later (she hadn't heard it yet), but it wasn't much of a tune.
The first song that I've written and liked is called "The Postman" because well, it's just a song about a postman! lol
Here's a clip of the demo I recorded, to keep myself from forgetting it.
It'll be featured on my first Grammy nominated album (circa-2011)
Nick, that's pretty cool. It really should be on the Rutles soundtrack. It's a total Beatles pastiche but I'm still digging it.
The line about picking up your guitar amused me.
Re: What's the first song you ever wrote?
Posted: Tue Mar 03, 2009 8:54 am
by captsandwich
When my band goes into the studio later this month, one of the songs we are recording is a song I wrote in 1987, the first real song I wrote.
Re: What's the first song you ever wrote?
Posted: Tue Mar 03, 2009 9:14 am
by whojamfan
First song I ever wrote was right after I got my first Rick in late 82. It was an early 60s 425FG(my avatar)and was called "I'll see you there". A combination of Chords, Jam, and teenage lust. I was so stoked I had a Rick, unlike my poor neighbors
I've got it on cassette somewhere.
Re: What's the first song you ever wrote?
Posted: Tue Mar 03, 2009 12:54 pm
by pinball63
I erased it!
Re: What's the first song you ever wrote?
Posted: Tue Mar 03, 2009 1:52 pm
by melibreits
The first one in this video, "Dreamer's Eyes." It actually started out as a poem I wrote in my junior year of high school, when I was trying to deal with a hopeless crush I had on a guy with green eyes--at the time I was too shy to even give him an indication that I liked him! Thankfully, I got over the crush in a few months' time, but I kept the poem, and always felt that it should have music....but at the time I was clueless about songwriting. Then, many years later I took guitar lessons and asked my instructor for some songwriting tips, and I went and wrote the music that very same day. It still is one of my personal favorites, and every time I sing it it brings back all of the emotions I felt when I penned the words...even though I never think about that guy anymore (thankfully!). The other song in the video, Underneath and Overall, also got its start as a poem I wrote the same year, and I wrote the music for it shortly after I wrote the music for Dreamer's Eyes.
You said you'd bring me sugar to my life
to make it sweeter but i didn't think
You said you'd bring me flowers to my grave
for my brief life for being so brave
How are you did you find out what's life
or where you caught out in middle age strife
3 kids and stuck at home all day
a husband rarely seems to stay
but i didn't think
You said you'd bring me sugar to my life
to make it sweeter but i didn't think ah but i didn't think
You said you'd bring me sugar to my life
to make it sweeter but i didn't think
You said you'd bring me flowers to my grave
for my brief life for being so brave
Oddly my sister still asks me to play this and she always has a tear.
