What was the first record you bought?

Subject: RE: What was the first record you bought?
From: SINSULL
Date: 21 Feb 08 - 12:47 PM

Elvis Presley's Golden Hits

Subject: RE: What was the first record you bought?
From: EuGene
Date: 21 Feb 08 - 12:50 PM

First cassette: Bill Justus "Ally Cat/Green Onions"
First CD: (Bought 2) Corelli "Concerti" & a collection of big band hits (don't remember exact title)

Subject: RE: What was the first record you bought?
From: GUEST,Lizzie Cornish
Date: 21 Feb 08 - 01:38 PM

"Have I The Right?" by The Honeycombs

"Have I the right to thrill you? You know I'll wait until you give me the right to make you mine..."

Mmmmmmm.... :0)

How I used to LOVE those drums! (lady drummer too as I recall. First ever?)

Happy memories of bopping round my bedroom to that one, pretending to be one of Pan's People. Nowadays I bop around to something very different..and far better.

Here you can even share it:

The Honeycombs - Have I The Right?

Don't you just love the internet!) :0)


Lizzie :0)

Subject: RE: What was the first record you bought?
From: Snoozer
Date: 21 Feb 08 - 02:27 PM

First 45 was Wake Up Little Susie by The Everly Brothers, but I didn't buy it, it was a birthday present (I was called Susie back then).

First LP was Clouds, by Joni Mitchell

Subject: RE: What was the first record you bought?
From: Doug Chadwick
Date: 21 Feb 08 - 02:48 PM

"Little White Bull" by Tommy Steel, from his film "Tommy the Toreador". I was 8 years old but I went to the shop to buy it myself and paid for it with my own money.

DC

Subject: RE: What was the first record you bought?
From: Leadbelly
Date: 21 Feb 08 - 02:56 PM

Tommy Steele! Too young to remember?

Subject: RE: What was the first record you bought?
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 21 Feb 08 - 03:13 PM

Terry, you're fibbing!!


G

Subject: RE: What was the first record you bought?
From: moongoddess
Date: 21 Feb 08 - 04:15 PM

"I Walk the Line" by Johnny Cash on the Sun record label.

Subject: RE: What was the first record you bought?
From: Don Firth
Date: 21 Feb 08 - 04:21 PM

Kids! You're all just kids!

When I bought my first records, LPs and 45s hadn't come out yet. It was all 78s.

When I was in my very early teens, I went regularly to Saturday matinee movies, usually with my sister (good way for mom to get us out of the house). The second feature of the double bill was often a western (maybe Hopalong Cassidy) or a crime drama (i.e., "film noir"), but frequently the main feature was one of the musical movies that were coming out of Hollywood at the time. Some of them were 90% fictional "Hollywoodized" bio-pics of some musician or composer. I got to liking some of the music that I heard in these movies, and after seeing "A Song to Remember" (1945 - Cornel Wilde as Chopin), I bought Jose Iturbi's recording of Chopin's Polonaise in Ab, which actually made the pop-charts shortly after the movie came out (Itubi did the piano playing in the movie while Cornel Wilde "finger-synced"). I think that was the first record I bought with my own money.

I bought a lot of classical music, mostly stuff I had heard first in movies like the aforementioned, and opera recordings (weird kid, I suppose - but I also had an album of "Sons of the Pioneers"). But when I first got interested in folk music and bought my first guitar ($9.95 Regal), I went to Campus Music and Gallery in Seattle's University District and bought Walt Robertson's two 78s, and one 10" LP each by Burl Ives, Richard Dyer-Bennet, Susan Reed, and Cynthia Gooding. Some of the first songs I learned were from those records. Still got 'em.

Don Firth

Subject: RE: What was the first record you bought?
From: RangerSteve
Date: 21 Feb 08 - 04:32 PM

First 45 - the Beatles - I Wanna Hold Your Hand
First album- Herman's Hermits.

First album that I still have - either the first Doc Watson on Vanguard, or The New Lost City Ramblers - Rememberance of Things To Come.

Subject: RE: What was the first record you bought?
From: Little Hawk
Date: 21 Feb 08 - 05:00 PM

Hey, Don, have you heard the audio of the young Bob Dylan on Cynthia Gooding's radio show? It was prior to his first album, and she gave him a very friendly interview, and he sang a bunch of songs.

Subject: RE: What was the first record you bought?
From: GUEST
Date: 21 Feb 08 - 05:21 PM

"Kids! You're all just kids!"

my apologies for not being old *LOL*

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

Oh...then I probably shouldn't say that my first record (on vinyl too!) was Babbacombe Lee - Fairport Convention

Charlotte (the view from Ma and Pa's piano stool)

Subject: RE: What was the first record you bought?
From: GUEST,mac the knife
Date: 21 Feb 08 - 05:31 PM

fever tree
at the super market
FEVER TREE

Subject: RE: What was the first record you bought?
From: Don Firth
Date: 21 Feb 08 - 05:40 PM

Cynthia Gooding's interview with Bob Dylan? No, I haven't heard it. Do you know if it's available somewhere?

Don Firth

Subject: RE: What was the first record you bought?
From: Little Hawk
Date: 21 Feb 08 - 05:46 PM

Hmmm. I'll see if I can find out. Hang on.

Subject: RE: What was the first record you bought?
From: GUEST,The Mole Catcher's unplugged Apprentice
Date: 21 Feb 08 - 06:16 PM

This for starters

The Text of The Cynthia Gooding Bob Dylan Interview

Charlotte (making enquiries)

Subject: RE: What was the first record you bought?
From: GUEST,The Mole Catcher's unplugged Apprentice
Date: 21 Feb 08 - 06:21 PM

The Interview Itself

scroll down for the links to the interview

Charlotte (enquiries made)

Subject: RE: What was the first record you bought?
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 21 Feb 08 - 06:51 PM

Charlotte - you are very interesting. Anytime you want to talk about Babacombe Lee. Give me me an e- mail. Just google bigalwhittle. and you will contact me

Subject: RE: What was the first record you bought?
From: Bill D
Date: 21 Feb 08 - 07:27 PM

Interesting..has the songs he sung, too...

Subject: RE: What was the first record you bought?
From: Lonesome EJ
Date: 21 Feb 08 - 07:33 PM

Out there its summertime
Milk and Honey days
Oh, San Francisco Girls
with San Francisco Ways

No wonder you bought it, mac.

Subject: RE: What was the first record you bought?
From: Don Firth
Date: 21 Feb 08 - 07:50 PM

Thanks, Little Hawk, for the info (by PM) and thanks to Charlotte for the link. I don't have time to listen to it right now, but I will tomorrow morning.

Don Firth

Subject: RE: What was the first record you bought?
From: Suegorgeous
Date: 21 Feb 08 - 07:53 PM

Single: House of the Rising Sun (Animals)
Album: Please please me (Beatles) .....oh, the heady teenage excitement.... :)

Subject: RE: What was the first record you bought?
From: paula t
Date: 21 Feb 08 - 08:00 PM

The single of "misty" by Kenny Stevens.My first album was"Blood on the tracks" by Bob Dylan.

Subject: RE: What was the first record you bought?
From: Janie
Date: 21 Feb 08 - 08:37 PM

Darned if I can remember - most likely candidates would be a Beach Boy's or Motown 45 of some top forty 1963 release.

Subject: RE: What was the first record you bought?
From: GUEST,Dani
Date: 21 Feb 08 - 08:54 PM

Aerosmith, Night in the Ruts

Dani

Subject: RE: What was the first record you bought?
From: Cluin
Date: 21 Feb 08 - 09:47 PM

single: "She Loves You/I Want to Hold Your Hand" (okay, my mom bought it for me; I was 4)

album: a K-Tel-like Hank Williams collection from K-Mart, I think but I definitely remember buying "Aqualung" on my first unsupervised visit to the first dedicated records-only store we had around here.

Subject: RE: What was the first record you bought?
From: Cluin
Date: 21 Feb 08 - 09:53 PM

"How are prescription meds handled in Britain and Canada? "

They are tossed from the rooftops and we catch them in our mouths.

Just like everything else in Canada: snow, politics, US satellite parts, etc.

Subject: RE: What was the first record you bought?
From: mike gouthro
Date: 21 Feb 08 - 11:34 PM

1st records my parents bought for me: 78s of Mule Train and Dear Hearts.. by Bing Crosby and That Old Master Painter by ??

1st records I bought: 78s of Heartbreak Hotel and The Great Pretender

Subject: RE: What was the first record you bought?
From: GUEST,Art Thieme
Date: 21 Feb 08 - 11:51 PM

The first LP album I ever bought was BOB GIBSON---OFFBEAT FOLKSONGS on Riverside Records.

Art Thieme

Subject: RE: What was the first record you bought?
From: Uncle Phil
Date: 22 Feb 08 - 12:18 AM

The first record I bought was Ray Charles: A Man and His Soul, monophonic double LP.   I thought it was a wonderful thing to own, although it was an odd thing to buy because I didn't have a record player. It stayed carefully packed away except to go to parties with me - if the host owned a record player.

About 5 years later I bought a second record, Simon and Garfunkel's Bridge Over Troubled Water LP on the first day it was released. I spent the grocery money on it, and lived on beans and rice for weeks after that. It was another odd thing to buy since I still didn't have a record player, but Simon and Garfunkel started going to parties with me and Ray Charles and that was fun.

Another 5 or 6 years passed before I got a real job and bought a record player. That, of course, was another odd thing to buy since I only had 2 records.
- Phil

Subject: RE: What was the first record you bought?
From: GUEST,.gargoyle
Date: 22 Feb 08 - 12:58 AM

Three Little Kittens and Little Red Caboose.

Sincerely,
Gargoyle

Subject: RE: What was the first record you bought?
From: KT
Date: 22 Feb 08 - 01:47 AM

Little Red Caboose?   I loved that song!! Of course, it wasn't an album but my WAAAAAY older brother's single record.

Subject: RE: What was the first record you bought?
From: GUEST,col
Date: 22 Feb 08 - 02:44 AM

I bought Jeepers Creepers too!...yes I had a crush too!

Subject: RE: What was the first record you bought?
From: GUEST,Edthefolkie
Date: 22 Feb 08 - 07:13 AM

I made up for Jeepers Creepers later. My first album purchase was The Doughnut in Granny's Greenhouse by the Bonzos.

I was still living at home then, and my dad became apoplectic on seeing the "tasteful" portraits of the band etc. on the insert booklet. Thank God he never met Vivian Stanshall.

Could have been worse, I might have waltzed in with a Frank Zappa album.

Now of course, my son turns up with heavy metal CDs. I really upset him the other day when he left a copy of "Motley Crue - Loud as F*$k" around. I pointed out that this should have read "Folk" and got a very dusty reply.

Subject: RE: What was the first record you bought?
From: Paco Rabanne
Date: 22 Feb 08 - 08:06 AM

Ken Dodd and the Diddymen. 1966,

Subject: RE: What was the first record you bought?
From: Nick
Date: 22 Feb 08 - 08:24 AM

First LP that I had a part share in was Beatles "A Hard Days Night" with my sister

First LP that I bought totally myself was John Mayall "Crusade" from the Pop Inn record shop in South Woodford.

Bought some singles before that including Telstar and She Loves You but I'm unsure what was the first and whether they were by myself or not.

We used to also have a record club at school that we all put a small amount in and then voted for an album to buy. Heavily influenced by the older schoolboys in the sixth form but there was a wonderful collection if I remember in the first year and I can remember some of the following being bought:

Notorious Byrd Brothers
Blues Anytime Vol 2
Velvet Underground and Nico
Roy Harper - Come Out Fighting Ghengis Smith
Bob Dylan - John Welsey Harding
Rolling Stones - Satanic Majesties
Judy Collins - Who Knows Where the Time Goes
Spirit
Mothers of Invention - We're Only in it For the Money

And the various strands of a love of West Coast American music, singer/songwriter/folkish stuff, blues and rock remain and influence me to this day

Subject: RE: What was the first record you bought?
From: John Hardly
Date: 22 Feb 08 - 08:47 AM

kinks

Subject: RE: What was the first record you bought?
From: GUEST,Essex Girl
Date: 22 Feb 08 - 09:03 AM

ise 78 Robin Hood/Davy Crockett (we'd just got a tv!) ist Album Adam Faith. Then I got into Dylan

Subject: RE: What was the first record you bought?
From: jacqui.c
Date: 22 Feb 08 - 09:38 AM

First 45 - Johnny Remember Me by John Leyton - I had the biggest crush possible on him at the time.

First LP - Hard Day's Night - The Beatles. They were THE revelation as far as I was concerned. I had all their albums at one time then husband #1 sold them and my record player when we were short of cash!

Subject: RE: What was the first record you bought?
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 22 Feb 08 - 02:52 PM

Does anybody remember the red embassy records from woolworths. They were half a crown when a proper record was about six bob. Ans d some of them were pretty good. I had the Ballad of Davy Crockett with Sixteen Tons on the flipside.

Anyway I was a kid - it sounded all right to me.

Subject: RE: What was the first record you bought?
From: Charley Noble
Date: 22 Feb 08 - 04:24 PM

I think one of the earliest had to be AMERICAN DRINKING SONGS by Oscar Brand. There were probably some Kingston Trio records as well. Then I discovered Folkways LP's and it was all over.

Charley Noble

Subject: RE: What was the first record you bought?
From: Bonzo3legs
Date: 22 Feb 08 - 06:01 PM

1st 78 Peggy Sue by Buddy Holly
1st 45 Whole Lotta Woman by Marvin Rainwater

Subject: RE: What was the first record you bought?
From: Darowyn
Date: 22 Feb 08 - 07:17 PM

My granny gave me her wind up gramophone. There were a few records with it, and some that a neighbour gave me. I remember some Charlie Kunz piano tracks, and a version of "Buttons and Bows". She had bought me Uncle Mac's (Derek McCullogh) Nursery Rhymes, but the first record I bought for myself was "Cumberland Gap" C/W "Bring a Little Water Sylvie" by Lonnie Donnegan.
All those were 78s. I've had a Kingston Trio EP with "Tom Dooley" on it for a long long time, so that was probably my first 45. My First album was "The Buddy Holly Story", in common with a few others on here.
By that time I had an electric record player, and I made the clockwork gramophone into a centrifuge for doing chemistry experiments, mostly to do with devising rocket fuels.
Cheers
Dave

Subject: RE: What was the first record you bought?
From: John E
Date: 22 Feb 08 - 11:37 PM

Diz and Bird, In the Beginning

Subject: RE: What was the first record you bought?
From: iancarterb
Date: 23 Feb 08 - 01:29 AM

I actually think mine was Carl Perkins' Blue Suede Shoes. If I still had it I wouldn't need a Lotto ticket!

Subject: RE: What was the first record you bought?
From: Janie
Date: 23 Feb 08 - 02:16 AM

1st albums bought for me (and my younger sister) were Alvin and the Chipmunks Christmas album, and a Huckleberry Hound dog album. The first album I remember buying (probably we three sisters combined our resources) was Chubby Chekkers, but it could have been something else. I don't really remember having any money of my own to buy anything other than 45's before I went to college - and even then, funds were very scarce.

Mom and Dad liked music and bought the first stereo in our neck of the woods -the speakers were major pieces of furniture in those days.    Mom had a great, eclectic collection of 78's (that my neatnick Dad trashed at some point) and 45's before then that we listened to on a humble mono turntable- .don't remember most of them, but they included the Andrews sisters, Patsy Cline, Elvis Presley, Tennessee Ernie Ford, Andy Griffin, early Everly Brothers, Jerry Lee Lewis. Johnny Horton, etc. There may have been some early Buddy Holly. For no particular reason, I remember a 45 my Mom had of a rock & roll song "They Call Me Hawkeye" and I can not, for the life of me, remember who did it.

I am the keeper of the family albums that have survived. (Survival and playability are not synonyms.) In terms of albums, I am never clear about what Mom bought "for us girls" (her excuse - she loved rock 'n roll and loved to dance. She'd set up the ironing board in the living room Saturday mornings so she could watch American Bandstand while she ironed - taking frequent breaks to dance and to teach us, especially my older sister, how to lindy, jitterbug, etc.), and the early purchases we made for ourselves.

Subject: RE: What was the first record you bought?
From: GUEST,woodsie
Date: 23 Feb 08 - 03:57 AM

Alone Again Or - Love, Classical Gas - Mason Williams, Fire - The Crazy World Of Arthur Brown. These were all early singles. Albums Piper At The Gates Of Dawn - Pink Floyd, Bluebird Blues - Sonny Boy Williamson, Safe As Milk - Captain Beefheart.

Subject: RE: What was the first record you bought?
From: Andrez
Date: 23 Feb 08 - 06:54 AM

Since its time for true confessions, the first record I bought were EP's: Del Shannon's "Swiss Maid", and also (Oz Artist- Johnny Devlins "Stomp the Tumbarumba". First LP was either The Animals or Ike & Tina Turner "River Deep Mountain High" whichever was released earlier.

Cheers

Andrez

Subject: RE: What was the first record you bought?
From: GUEST,Jim
Date: 23 Feb 08 - 11:29 AM

Keep-a-knockin' by Little Richard. It was a 78.

Subject: RE: What was the first record you bought?
From: GUEST
Date: 23 Feb 08 - 11:39 AM

"They Call Me Hawkeye and I can not, for the life of me, remember who did it."

written by Boudleaux Bryant
recorded by Frankie Laine.
released in 1955
The Lyrics