Welcome back to Weekend Music Share.
Last week I asked you to share a song that featured a favourite musical instrument. The song I shared got me thinking about the first musical instrument I learned to play.
That instrument doesn’t feature in the song I’m sharing with you this weekend, but it got me thinking about other ‘firsts’.
‘Never Gonna Give You Up‘ was written and produced by Stock, Aiken and Waterman, and became Rick Astley’s first hit. And what a ‘first’ it was.
The song became a huge international hit when it peaked at number one on the singles’ chart of no less than 14 countries. Not only that, but it became the best selling single of 1987 in the UK.
Not bad for a first hit, wouldn’t you say?
This week, share a favourite song that was a ‘first’ for an artist, group or band. Share a link to it in the comments, or link back to this post from your blog.
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My thanks to Erika Kind for the inspiration for this feature.
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Nice one Hugh 👍🏼😊
Thank you.
This song and Mr. A take me back to good memories of moving to Chicago and having my whole life ahead of me.
You still have your whole life ahead of you.
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Where are you based, Robert? Here’s another link. I hope this one works where you are.
Savannah, Georgia. United States 🇺🇸
This song is a classic. Never gets old and I reckon a lot of people, older and younger, are familiar with it 🙂
I certainly still get up and dance whenever I hear this tune being played, Mabel.
Rick Astley, how cool! I loved the song. Leaving a link to a band which I also liked a lot.
I’ve heard your choice of song many times, but never knew the name of it or who sung it. Thanks for sharing it with us, Erika.
See how inspiring and educative your series is? The song I actually like more is “Kyrie eleison”. What also makes that song special for me is that I heard/saw it for the first time in a video cafe in London in 1986.
Lovely memories, Erika. 1986 is the year I came to live and work in London. I stayed for 27 years. 😀
Wow, an important and sustainable first!!
Always like that song. Never understood why he wasn’t bigger then he was. He had a really cool voice.
He made a come back a few years ago for his 50th Birthday but has gone all quiet again.
I remember that song, Hugh. It’s a good one. I wouldn’t have placed it as long ago as 87, though. That’s the year my daughter was born. 🙂
This song will be 32 years old this year, Norah. Time flies. I think the song is as popular now as it was back then.
Yep – 32. Same as my daughter – both good’uns. 🙂
Oh, now that song brought back memories! Thanks for the flashbacks Hugh. >3 xx
You’re welcome, Debby. I love the 80s look of the video, too.
xx
Great song choice! Always made me want to dance when I heard it playing. One of the first I also remember is Earth Wind and Fire, Shining Star! That was my dance song back in the day! 😂 https://youtu.be/vwc0AW67CmA
I’ve never heard that song by Earth, Wind and Fire, Debbie. A new one on me. That’s why I thought this week’s subject of ‘firsts’ was a good one to have. It’ll introduce some of us to songs we’d not heard before by well-known bands and singers.
Thank you for sharing it.
I loved his hair and shoulder pads. Oh, and the song…
JP
All the rage back then.
I love this song I think we have discussed it before, great music great memories 💜 💜
We may well have done, Willow. Thank you.
Ohhh, there are so many great firsts! Since I’ve been in a Dean Martin kinda mood this week (don’t ask me why), I’ll go with this one. That ensures that this won’t be a double up! Martin recorded his first single, “Which Way Did My Heart Go” / “All of Me”, for the small Diamond Records in July 1946. 🙂
I always think of some of the classic movies Dean Martin was in when I hear his voice, Donna. It’s hard to believe that he recorded that first song over 70 years ago. I hope your Dean Martin mood continues and that you continue to enjoy it.
I love that song, though I get the impression it’s not considered cool any more.
For a first hit, here’s “She’s Not There” by the Zombies from 1964. At a time when guitar rock reigned supreme, this jazzy song is built on an electric piano.
I’ve not heard that it’s not cool anymore, but I did once see the song listed in the top 10 of the worse 100 songs ever released. I guess it all boils down to our different tastes in music.
The Zombies ‘She not there’ is a song I still hear being played. As good now as it was when it was first released.
Rick Astley, yes, we all loved him in the late 80’s.
We sure did. For me, it was him amd Kylie Minogue.
A real feel good song. My 12-year-old daughter loved it and played it all the time. He looks so young!
I think he still does, Darlene. When he made a comeback, a few years ago, when he reached 50, he looked to me as if he’d just stepped out of the late 1980s.
Great choice, Hugh. I still love this song.
Me too, Cathy. Never fails to get me up dancing.
Gotta say I loved this song!
How about this first for Chesney Hawkes!?
I remember it well. I first saw him perform it on ‘This Morning.’
He came to our uni Freshers week!
Did he have the place screaming itself down?
To be honest, uni students were a bit over him 😂
I’ve just listened to a podcast featuring you in it from The Bloggers Bash 2017. Great memories.
I need to listen to it. Susie’s one, isn’t it!
That’s the one. It was great fun.
Listening right now!
This was such a classic in its time. (It’s still catchy even today!)
I agree, Miriam. And to think Rick was making tea at the studios, as a job, at the time the song was being written.
Haha, really. That’s amazing!