Can you name the oldest song you heard play on the radio, that was hot at the time it played?

Question

Get your time machines ready.

The oldest song I remember was "Chase" a very early-techno, euro-disco song by Giorgio Moroder from a movie called "Midnight Express" back in 1978.
Other tracks I remember from that same year are "Let's All Chant" a disco track by Michael Zager Band and "Honesty" by Billy Joel.
I was like 4 or 5 years old. I have a good ear for music. That's how I remember. Most music from this time and onto the 80s sparked me into learning music.

Please. The earliest songs you remember on the radio when you were a child. Not before you were born or the oldies station.

Answer 1

8 Days a week by the Beatles. That was the first song I ever remember on the radio. When it was new. That's how old I am.

Answer 2

Chapel Of Love
The Dixie Cups
Written by Jeff Barry, Ellie Greenwich, and Phil Spector

peaked on the charts in 1964

Answer 3

man, i don't know why, but i've come and looked at this question 5 times now before answering. the OLDEST song i can recall hearing ON the radio when i was a child is "The National Anthem" (US) when i was 5 and a baseball game was about to start. diqualify that if you will, but no matter how often i've read this post, i cannot discern what form of oldest you seek, but in my way of reading it, the Anthem is, indeed, the oldest song i know of played on the radio that i personally recall.

Answer 4

"All I wanna do when I wake up in the morning is see your eyes

Rosanna, Rosanna

I never thought that a girl like you could ever care for me, Rosanna

All I wanna do in the middle of the evening is hold you tight

Rosanna, Rosanna
I didn't know you were looking for more than I could ever be

Not quite a year since she went away, Rosanna
Now she's gone and I have to say


Meet you all the way, meet you all the way, Rosanna
Meet you all the way, meet you all the way, Rosanna yeah!"

Oh yeah!!!!!

This prob wasn't the very first but it was my very first favorite song.

Answer 5

Cry to me not sure either Percy Sledge or The Staccatos

Answer 6

stormy weather by lena horne, or over the rainbow by judy garland. they are songs from long before i was born (1968) but they stand the test of time, they are still beautiful and moving today.

Answer 7

i think the oldest song i heard on the radio was roses from the outkast!! lol hahaha
no wait
back street boys "spanish eye"

Answer 8

The Buggles/ video killed the radio star.

Answer 9

Ballroom blitz. I think by Sweet. Krokus covered it later.

Answer 10

Close To You by Carpenters!