Alan Jackson’s First Song Ever

Today we know Alan Jackson for his hits from the past 23 years.  Songs like “Chattahoochee,” “Where Were You,” Remember When,” or Don’t Rock The Jukebox.”  But back when he was just five years old, Alan got his first taste of being a performer.  He told Country Countdown USA’s Lon Helton what triggered that memory: “There’s a commercial on TV for something playing that old song, ‘Little Red Riding Hood,’ that old 60s song, that was the first song I ever sang on stage when I was in kindergarten.  They had a play, I didn’t sing it, I just mouthed it with the record, and that always stayed with me, it’s amazing because I wasn’t a musical kid at that time.”

Alan got to talking about that childhood memory because of a song on his new CD called “Her Life’s a Song.”  He noticed how his daughters listened to music all the time, and wrote a song about it.  Alan told Lon, “It’s amazing, you hear something you hadn’t heard in 20 years and it brings back a nostaligic memory or feeling, it’s amazing how music is such a big part of your background.”

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Alan found out that it’s not always the happy songs that get the interest of children:  “One time a parent sent a message to us talking about their child who told his teacher that his favorite singer was Alan Jackson, and the teacher asked what his favorite song was, thinking it would be Little Bitty or Chattahoochee, and the kid sings, ‘The gates of hell swing open wide,’ which is the first line of The Devil & Me, he started singing that song in Kindergarten.”

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