I was raised listening to Early 50's Top 40 and Elevator Music, and yet I turned into a Classical Music & Film Score Junkie!

How'd THAT happen?

Perhaps a discerning ear? Ears? Splendid sensitivity? Keen senses? Triple-digit IQ's?

NP Still nutin..I'm STILL pouting, Chris.

Back to the question...in my particular case, the very first recollection of ANY music that I have was hearing Rozsa's score for Ben-Hur at age 8.

eh, I was in a musically inclined family anyway. Witness my music degree.

"...now this bassoon here represents the duck, and this oboe represents the..."

I'd love to hear a Goldsmith version.

"The intense, hard-edged growling trombones with howling french horns represent the wolf..."

'twas you who started the thread!

I was a terribly sensitive and introspective child. The highlight of the week was watching the Friday night horror film on TV then writing things like "music by Les Baxter; music by Von Dexter; music by James Bernard" etc in a little notebook I kept beside the cassettes I'd made of the main titles.

All the other people at school were going out and getting drunk at the age of fifteen, and trying to get off with girls, but I had too many spots. I had to escape into my own world of fantasy.

I've since been drunk too often, and have even got off with a girl (who I married). I'm still sensitive, but the spots disappeared along with my hair, and I now just love film music because it's so fascinating and enthralling and exciting and great! (But that's what I always thought anyway, so maybe things haven't changed for me that much.)