I have no way to confirm, but my Mom said that when I was a baby I used to bounce around in my crib everytime, "The Poor People of Paris", played on the radio.

Like, do you mean the first recorded music I remember hearing or was exposed to ever when I was really young?

Basically, almost everything that was popular from 1997 to Early-1999 like Alanis Morissette's Jagged Little Pill on cassette tape, Britney Spears' ...Baby One More Time, Sugar Ray's Fly song, a little bit of Spice Girls, alternative pop rock groups like Matchbox 20, Third Eye Blind, Smash Mouth's Walkin' On The Sun.

But if you're talking more about orchestra or soundtrack music...than the Special Edition Soundtrack for Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back or the Star Wars Episode I Soundtrack would be it. Probably most likely the The Empire Strikes Back Special Edition Soundtrack.

You are correct, the earliest recorded music you remember hearing - and it could be radio, television, or movies.

As a baby, I have no memories of, "The Poor People of Paris" when it was the #1 hit song on Billboard's charts in 1956 for six weeks! And that's when the strangest thing happened.

There were so many cover versions of "The Poor People of Paris", since 1956, that the song hit the Top-of-the-Charts again in 1963/1964. And that's where I come in. I would have no knowledge of this song were it not for its staying power. It was on every radio station when I was older and it remains a fascinating tune - quite different from anything else in pop culture at the time.

The rise of The Beatles in 1964 turned the music industry upside down. Music would never sound the same again.

But like one final cheer - here is the 1964 recording that knocked The Beatles off the charts and rescued Dean Martin's career.