"The Weavers at Carnegie Hall" was the first really major folk album for me, but I didn't buy it. My parents did. I loved that record.

I think that one of my very early purchases may have been a 45 of the Chipmunks (Alvin, Simon, and Theodore) singing their classic "Alvin's Harmonica"!!! Wow, eh? ;-) Or my mother may have bought it for me. Not quite sure about that.

I now see that it was a harbinger of things to come..."Alvin's Harmonica" was clearly an omen of my future long and abiding interest in Bob Dylan! (heh!)