What was the first record you bought?

Subject: RE: What was the first record you bought?
From: Ian Burdon
Date: 20 Feb 08 - 03:43 PM

My first LP was Abbey Road by the Beatles and yes I do still play it from time to time. The second was Pink Floyd's A Nice Pair

First 45 was either Jean Genie or Mama Weer All Crazee Now

Subject: RE: What was the first record you bought?
From: Geoff Wallis
Date: 20 Feb 08 - 03:42 PM

The Springfields' 'Island of Dreams', though I think I won it at a local fete. Whatever the case, it was pretty useless as we didn't have a record player until 1967 and then I bought Fleetwood Mac's 'dustbin' album.

Subject: RE: What was the first record you bought?
From: Becca72
Date: 20 Feb 08 - 03:35 PM

I don't remember the first one I bought myself, but I remember the first album I ever got...convinced my great aunt to buy it for me. Ace Frehley in 1977 when the 4 members of KISS each put out a separate album. I was 5 :-)

Subject: RE: What was the first record you bought?
From: Celtaddict
Date: 20 Feb 08 - 03:30 PM

Don't recall the first 45, but the first LP was Peter, Paul & Mary, "Lemon Tree."

Subject: RE: What was the first record you bought?
From: GUEST,Nigel Spencer (cookieless)
Date: 20 Feb 08 - 03:29 PM

'This Town Ain't Big Enough For Both of Us' by Sparks. Ex-jukebox, from the local newsagent, big hole in the middle, 10p.

Subject: RE: What was the first record you bought?
From: Jack Campin
Date: 20 Feb 08 - 03:28 PM

Either:
- Bach's Suite no 1 in C and Triple Concerto in A minor, London Baroque conducted by Karl Haas
- Orff's Carmina Burana, can't remember who by, but the one with the amazingly weird tenor.

Subject: RE: What was the first record you bought?
From: MissouriMud
Date: 20 Feb 08 - 03:23 PM

First 45 rpm was probably "26 Miles" by the Four Preps.   First 33 rpm was probably the Kingston Trio's First Album. Before that I had to get by on either things my folks bought me (Burl Ives) or things I borrowed from my brothers (The Weavers).   I don't have any of the records any more (disappeared in the purge of '97) and I don't play 26 Miles any more, but I do occasionally play some of the Burl Ives, Weavers and Seeger songs from those early albums.

I keep getting annoying red lines under my words - like I cant spell

Subject: RE: What was the first record you bought?
From: AllanW
Date: 20 Feb 08 - 03:13 PM

"Sorry Alan W but it's true, almost all of my record collection is folk."

hehe, okay G, I believe you. Can I tempt you with a Jimi LP?

Subject: RE: What was the first record you bought?
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 20 Feb 08 - 03:12 PM

I have a stack of scratched 45s from the 60s, Rolling Stones etc, that I got from a DJ friend.
G.

Subject: RE: What was the first record you bought?
From: Leadbelly
Date: 20 Feb 08 - 03:09 PM

fat B****rd : would like but can't do this because all singles are sold decades ago.

Subject: RE: What was the first record you bought?
From: Little Hawk
Date: 20 Feb 08 - 03:05 PM

No idea. My parents were buying the same folk stuff that I liked when I was a youngster (Baez, Buffy Sainte-Marie, Ian & Sylvia, the Weavers, Judy Collins, etc), so I can't clearly recall who it was who bought those early albums in the first 10 years...me or them. But the first one I really can REMEMBER buying myself was Bob Dylan's "Highway 61 Revisited". That was tantamount to a revelation as far as I was concerned. I can clearly remember the first time I put it on the turntable and heard the opening chords of "Like A Rolling Stone".

Subject: RE: What was the first record you bought?
From: fat B****rd
Date: 20 Feb 08 - 03:05 PM

Quite right, good thread Rog, but how many of you still sometimes play (albeit on CD) the first music you ever bought?.

Subject: RE: What was the first record you bought?
From: fat B****rd
Date: 20 Feb 08 - 03:03 PM

My first LP was "Womoweh" by Karl Denver.

Subject: RE: What was the first record you bought?
From: Leadbelly
Date: 20 Feb 08 - 03:02 PM

Seems to become another great thread because everybody is able to make a contribution. Thanks to Rog Peek! Good and simple idea.

Subject: RE: What was the first record you bought?
From: fat B****rd
Date: 20 Feb 08 - 03:02 PM

After "Robin Hood/Davy Crockett" by Dick Jamnes it was "Rock Around The Clock" and Lonnie Donegan's
"Lost John/Stewball" Happy Days.

Subject: RE: What was the first record you bought?
From: PoppaGator
Date: 20 Feb 08 - 03:02 PM

"Charley Brown" by the Coasters, 45 rpm, Atco label, probably about 1958.

Subject: RE: What was the first record you bought?
From: Wesley S
Date: 20 Feb 08 - 02:59 PM

The Kinks Greatest Hits. But I had already gained custody of my older brothers LP's: PP and M, Kingston Trio, the Brothers Four and Joan Baez.

Subject: RE: What was the first record you bought?
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 20 Feb 08 - 02:58 PM

Sorry Alan W but it's true, almost all of my record collection is folk.
G

Subject: RE: What was the first record you bought?
From: Tweed
Date: 20 Feb 08 - 02:56 PM

Beatles' She Loves You on Swan Label.

My wife may still have it or mebbe she's melted it down by now I don't know for sure.

Subject: RE: What was the first record you bought?
From: irishenglish
Date: 20 Feb 08 - 02:50 PM

Eagles-the first album with Take It Easy.

Subject: RE: What was the first record you bought?
From: alanabit
Date: 20 Feb 08 - 02:46 PM

"Magical Mystery Tour" double EP by the Beatles. I got it for six shillings in the budget rack in Callington, Cornwall in 1968.

Subject: RE: What was the first record you bought?
From: GUEST,Peace
Date: 20 Feb 08 - 02:45 PM

"Jailhouse Rock" by Elvis in 1957 I think. May have been 1958. Not sure.

Subject: RE: What was the first record you bought?
From: AllanW
Date: 20 Feb 08 - 02:44 PM

Single: Alternate Title by The Monkees
LP: Smash Hits by Jimi Hendrix

Well spent paper round money I thought at the time. Took me a month to save up.

I don't believe anyone who says their first record was a folk record unless they are called Copper or something. :)

Subject: RE: What was the first record you bought?
From: Leadbelly
Date: 20 Feb 08 - 02:38 PM

International: Cumberland Gap by Lonnie. Flipside (in Germany) Don't you Rock me Daddy-o.
National (just before Lonnie's record): Heimweh by Freddie (Quinn). Flipside: Mary Ann.
Manfred

Subject: RE: What was the first record you bought?
From: Rabbi-Sol
Date: 20 Feb 08 - 02:38 PM

Oh My Papa by Eddie Fisher

                                        SOL

Subject: RE: What was the first record you bought?
From: Alice
Date: 20 Feb 08 - 02:37 PM

Herb Alpert "This guy's in love with you." sigh

Subject: RE: What was the first record you bought?
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 20 Feb 08 - 02:34 PM

First LP was Pete Seeger, 'We Shall Overcome' and I still have that too.

G.

Subject: RE: What was the first record you bought?
From: Deckman
Date: 20 Feb 08 - 02:33 PM

All I remember is that it was Burl Ives! Bob(deckman)Nelson

Subject: What was the first record you bought?
From: Rog Peek
Date: 20 Feb 08 - 02:30 PM

Mine was "Hard Headed Woman" Elvis Presley 1958.

I remember the shop next door to Woolworths in Cirencester where I bought it.

It was a very brittle '78' which eventually got broken.

The first '45' was "Living Doll" Cliff Richard 1959. cost 6s.8d. Still have it. Remember the shop in Gloucester Road, Malmesbury.

The first LP was "Please Please Me" Beatles 1963. Still have it.

Rog