My first musical memory from my first week of school 40 years ago: I remember one of the kindergarten teachers playing a record for the class more than once during that first week. I don't know the name of the artist or the album, but four decades later, I still remember hearing, "Can you hear the cat? Can you hear the cat? The cat says, 'Meow, meow,' all day long. Can you hear the cat?" The singer repeated this routine in the other verses, naming a different animal each time. (i.e. "Can you hear the dog? Can you hear the dog? The dog says, 'Woof, woof,' all day long. Can you hear the dog?")
On second thought, maybe it was, "Listen to the cat. Listen to the cat..." I've been listening to cats routinely in the four decades since then, so apparently, the Pavlovian association started early.
