The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #108809   Message #2267919
Posted By: Slag
20-Feb-08 - 06:03 PM
Thread Name: What was the first record you bought?
Subject: RE: What was the first record you bought?
Great way to get an estimate on everybody's age!

My first record was "I Walk the Line" by Johnny Cash, 78 RPM. I didn't know it at the time but Mr. Cash's mom attended my uncle's Southern Baptist Church in Ventura CA at about this time. I was in Delano CA about a hundred miles away. It was only years later that I learned about it. Seems my family was never too impressed with celebrity! My uncle (the Pastor) said that Johnny would slip in after services had started and would exit before they were over. The reason for this, I suppose, was to avoid dispruting the proceedings and out of respect for the House of Prayer.