gswitz
My old man liked the dead. After playing some drums and bass, I learned ripple on guitar. I can no longer play it very well.

Love that song. That's one of those songs that puts me in a good mood just listening to it. :)

One of the first solos I ever worked out was the one on Badge by Cream

I know riffs, bits, bops, intros, chorus's, 1/2's, 3/4's of lots of songs and even 15/16ths of a song with variable tempo .. but if you mean a full and complete song.. after 40 years then I am still working on the ONE.. I think I will stick to learning my new original compostin  "are we there yet"

She was just 17 and I wanna hold your hand..... had the 45 and really worked hard to learn those 2 songs. These may have not been the first, but they were among the first tunes I wanted to learn to play on the guitar when I finally got one.
 
to the best of my recollection..... then it was everything else on the radio at that time.... and everything CCR ever did.
 
Of course, it was necessary to learn the chords on the guitar first..... and what was the "first" song I really played?  Man I have no clue.... there was so much music back then..... and taking lessons on piano had started well before the guitar..... so....?????

I know I was 7, and the year was 1977. I don't remember the name, but it woulda been the first one in the Mel Bay book. :)

Little Black Egg, I was really proud of that one......then it was Kicks by Paul Revere and the Raiders....Louie Louie.....My versions always sounded like crap though...I had a cheap amp.

'Roxette' by Dr Feelgood I think. I remember my Dad walking past and saying 'Hmm, that almost sounds like music'

djwayne
Little Black Egg, I was really proud of that one......then it was Kicks by Paul Revere and the Raiders....Louie Louie.....My versions always sounded like crap though...I had a cheap amp.

You had an amp?
 
I had to make do with a cheap (and I mean CHEAP) acoustic for years

It was guitar and my parents were nice enough to pay for my lessons from a guitar instructer. Omitting the obligatory practice songs and scales, my most vivid recollection is learning "Johnny B. Goode". What can be better than starting with that? My instructor was very enthusiastic and really perked my interest at the time.  Opened my eyes to the classic blues scale and future jamming. From there I also remember buying this "Learn the Ventures Guitar" LP (yes, a vinyl long-play record). It had notes and fingering sheets in the album sleeve. Learned "Walk Don't Run", "Tequila", "Pipeline". I noticed you can still get this album today in CD-format.

The "duet version" of Heart and Soul on piano.  My aunt would play the chordal parts and I'd play the solo...then we'd switch.
 
But really the first thing I learned how to play was a fairly-common-for-the-time little nothing that I never even knew the title of.  You make your right hand into a fist and "roll it upwards across" the black keys F#, G# and A#  then strike the C# twice.  Then you reverse the process rolling your fist downward A#, G# and F# and strike the D# twice.  There's also a little ending thingy.  I could probably play it were I sitting at a piano now.  But it's hard to describe.  Definitely a childs thing.  I was 4 years old at the time.