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Thread #108809 Message #2268188
Posted By: GUEST,Mike in DC
20-Feb-08 - 10:37 PM
Thread Name: What was the first record you bought?
Subject: RE: What was the first record you bought?
My first LP was Brahms Symphony No. 1, conducted by Felix Weingartner. I'm not sure about my first 45, but two instrumentals stand out in my memory - Bill Doggett's Honky Tonk, Parts I and II, and Harlem Nocturne (backed with I Hear a Rhapsody)by Earl Bostic. The age of the 78 had passed before I had any discretionary cash, but I more or less distinctly remember a record of train sounds (backed with more train sounds)which I played on a Bozo the Clown record player.
Mike