What was the first record you bought?

Subject: RE: What was the first record you bought?
From: nickp
Date: 21 Feb 08 - 05:03 AM

Jeepers Creepers/Johnny Jingo by Hayley Mills

Now there's an embarassing admission!

Nick

Subject: RE: What was the first record you bought?
From: Stephen L. Rich
Date: 21 Feb 08 - 04:53 AM

"Hey, Little Cobra" by The Ripchords.


Stephen Lee

Subject: RE: What was the first record you bought?
From: Little Robyn
Date: 21 Feb 08 - 04:41 AM

In 1958 I bought a 7inch 45rpm single called 'Tom Hark' played by Elias and his Zigzag jive flutes. I believe they were a street band from South Africa so I don't know how they got on the NZ hit parade.
I've still got it.
Robyn

Subject: RE: What was the first record you bought?
From: Rasener
Date: 21 Feb 08 - 03:53 AM

Three Cool Cats - That was a favourite of mine Kitty

Subject: RE: What was the first record you bought?
From: GUEST,Dazbo at work
Date: 21 Feb 08 - 03:41 AM

My first record that I got with my own money was Son of my Father by Chickory Tip followed quite quickly by a 50% share of Nilsson's Without You.

Subject: RE: What was the first record you bought?
From: Noah Zacharin
Date: 21 Feb 08 - 12:10 AM

a 45 rpm of Classical Gas.
my first LP was a...folk record!
inspired by a concert at Place des Arts my parents brought me to, I bought The Best of Ian and Sylvia.
many recordings and much music since. I love the stuff...

Subject: RE: What was the first record you bought?
From: GUEST,Jeff
Date: 20 Feb 08 - 11:23 PM

Little Anthony and the Imperials Greatest Hits. Great album, great voice...wore it out. Then I smoked pot. Pacific, Gas and Electric...I can't remember the name of the LP,(not surprising :-}) but the cover was a collage of things like a locomotive, a watch and a woman w/o any clothes. Saw later versions of the LP and she had a dress painted over her. Turns out the 'nude' one is worth quite a bit in the 'collector's market'. My older brother ended up w/it and beyond that I don't know what happened to it. Is it true pot effects one's memor...what was the question?

Subject: RE: What was the first record you bought?
From: GUEST,Mike in DC
Date: 20 Feb 08 - 10:37 PM

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

Subject: RE: What was the first record you bought?
From: Rowan
Date: 20 Feb 08 - 10:23 PM

I did not own a turntable until about 1966
That was true for me too, Joe, although it was about 1970 in my case; I used my parents' turntable until then.

Cheers, Rowan

Subject: RE: What was the first record you bought?
From: GUEST,Greenland
Date: 20 Feb 08 - 10:17 PM

Single: I asked for 'Long Haired Lover' from Liverpool by Jimmy Osmond instead of an Easter egg - 60p. Then I saved up for 'Tiger Feet' by Mud.
Album: I bought my first albums second hand from older kids at school: 'Blue for You' (Status Quo), and 'Selling England by the Pound' (Genesis).
Actually I didn't buy 'Blue for You' exactly - I swapped it for a pair of jelly sandals - and I hadn't heard it but I had kind of slightly heard of Status Quo because I had written their logo, along with those of a lot of other bands whose music I didn't know, on my school bag. And I had lied to my cousin about having it already. Cool!

Subject: RE: What was the first record you bought?
From: Joe_F
Date: 20 Feb 08 - 09:07 PM

I have to make an inference. I did not own a turntable until about 1966, and it is unlikely that I bought any records before then, tho I owned some, probably given me by my mother, and played them on other people's turntables.

However, in the '60s I had a friend of the I-can-get-it-for-you-wholesale religion, and he importuned me to buy a turntable for my lo-fi thru him, and even offered to fix it so I could play mono records on it (at that time, I thought stereo recording was fashionable frippery; I continued to buy mono records as long as they remained available). Naturally, I hesitated; but then it occurred to me that if I owned a turntable, I could listen to Bob Dylan any time I wanted. So I gave in. That makes it very likely that the first record I bought was an early Bob Dylan one.

Subject: RE: What was the first record you bought?
From: GUEST,Guest
Date: 20 Feb 08 - 08:30 PM

I bought a Fred Waring and his Pennsylvanians record (78)in 1948. As I recall one side had "Dem Dry Bones", the other side was the Woodie Guthrie classic "So long It's Been Good To Know You". This was re-arranged for Fred Waring with a more commercial tune (and lyrics).

Subject: RE: What was the first record you bought?
From: GUEST,Ed T
Date: 20 Feb 08 - 08:16 PM

Johnny Horton, Whispering Pines...not sure of the other record side.

Subject: RE: What was the first record you bought?
From: Chorusgirl
Date: 20 Feb 08 - 08:00 PM

Lollypop Lollypop by Millie.

Subject: RE: What was the first record you bought?
From: Jim Lad
Date: 20 Feb 08 - 07:58 PM

Roberta Flak, "The First Time Ever I saw Your Face".
I was so proud of myself for having bought something other than Scottish or Irish Folk!!

Subject: RE: What was the first record you bought?
From: bfdk
Date: 20 Feb 08 - 07:35 PM

The AristoCats - only mine was in Danish.

First folk record was The Dubliners' Together Again.
Bente

Subject: RE: What was the first record you bought?
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 20 Feb 08 - 07:27 PM

Jack O' diamonds was my first record too, but I had it on 78rpm. It was my birthday - I wanted Jailhouse Rock - but the shop had sold out. So I got Lonnie instead.

Subject: RE: What was the first record you bought?
From: gnu
Date: 20 Feb 08 - 07:23 PM

Hard Day's Night.

Subject: RE: What was the first record you bought?
From: Bat Goddess
Date: 20 Feb 08 - 07:15 PM

First 45s were "Duke of Earl" and "Her Royal Majesty" -- no reason for the "theme", they were just what I wanted to buy and listen to at the moment. Just prior to this (I think) my mother bought me "The Peppermint Twist" by Joey Dee and the Starlighters and "The Twist" by Chubby Checker.

First LP was by Andy Williams.

My primary record player was a circa 1953 top of the line RCA given to me by an uncle. It only played 45s. I had to wait (even after buying that first LP) to get a record player that would play 33 RPM -- and it, of course, also played 45s and 78s.

I'm old, right?

Linn

Subject: RE: What was the first record you bought?
From: GUEST
Date: 20 Feb 08 - 07:15 PM

The Shirelles Greatest Hits

Subject: RE: What was the first record you bought?
From: GUEST,Greycap
Date: 20 Feb 08 - 07:08 PM

I may be wrong but it was an EP titled something like: 'Johnny Cash sings Hank Williams' - 1957? My first LP was Hank Snow-'When Tragedy Struck' - I can still sing all the songs on that one.
God, isn't time passing?

Subject: RE: What was the first record you bought?
From: Herga Kitty
Date: 20 Feb 08 - 06:10 PM

Three cool cats - Charlie Brown and the Coasters, 45rpm. Cost 6s8d. Unfortunately our record player only played 78rpm.....

Kitty

Subject: RE: What was the first record you bought?
From: Little Hawk
Date: 20 Feb 08 - 06:09 PM

"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!)

Subject: RE: What was the first record you bought?
From: Slag
Date: 20 Feb 08 - 06:03 PM

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.

Subject: RE: What was the first record you bought?
From: freightdawg
Date: 20 Feb 08 - 05:59 PM

First record purchased with my own grimy little paws...

Statler Brothers, "Sons of the Motherland"

The first of many, many Statler Bros. records in my collection.

Highlandman...for me it was the freedom to spend my own money on my own music...that and I always dreamed of finding three other guys and creating the kind of harmony like the Statlers produced. All I could think of was..."I bet they get all the girls!"

Freightdawg

Subject: RE: What was the first record you bought?
From: number 6
Date: 20 Feb 08 - 05:56 PM

The first album ... 'Paul Butterfield Blues Band' ... by the Paul Butterfield Blues Band.

Most of the records I had access to up until that point where various 45's and some earlier Bob Dylan albums my older sisters had purchased.

biLL

Subject: RE: What was the first record you bought?
From: RTim
Date: 20 Feb 08 - 05:46 PM

I think the first 45 was - Stay by The Hollies.
Don't remember which LP.

Tim Radford

Subject: RE: What was the first record you bought?
From: Mark Ross
Date: 20 Feb 08 - 05:46 PM

PURPLLE PEOPLE EATER by Sheb Wooley



Mark Ross

Subject: RE: What was the first record you bought?
From: GUEST,Texas Guest
Date: 20 Feb 08 - 05:25 PM

I do believe - looking back along a long foggy trail - that the first
45rpm was, "Battle Of New Orleans" by Johnny Horton; and my first
LP was, "Surfin Safari" by The Beach Boys. Obviously, I was a very deep individual in those days. Cheers.

Subject: RE: What was the first record you bought?
From: mrmoe
Date: 20 Feb 08 - 05:13 PM

I'm pretty sure it was Hugh O'Brien sings Wyatt Earp.....

Subject: RE: What was the first record you bought?
From: Rasener
Date: 20 Feb 08 - 05:10 PM

The first 45 I bought was Jack O Diamonds Lonnie Donegan and I think it had Ham n Eggs on the other side.

The first LP was Tops with Lonnie

Lost all my 45's and Lp's

However, I have most of my original collection on CD. I still play them a lot.
Here is an idea of my music influences I am still building this webpage up.

Subject: RE: What was the first record you bought?
From: Franz S.
Date: 20 Feb 08 - 05:10 PM

First record I bought was a 78 by the Beverly Sisters. "Greensleeves" (with a sappy set of lyrics) on one side and "I'll See You In My Dreams" on the other. First LP was The Jimmy Giuffre 3 (Atlantic 1254) and the first folk LP was Pete Seeger's Gazette on Folkways. I still have all three of them and I still play them (not on CD).

Subject: RE: What was the first record you bought?
From: Mrs.Duck
Date: 20 Feb 08 - 05:09 PM

Gypsies Tramps and Thieves by Cher was the forst single. First album was TRex Electric Warrior

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

My first 78 was The three bells (aka the Jimmy Brown song) with the Companions of song.
My first LP was either something by Arthur Lyman or Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers.
Never bothered with 45s and can't remember if I bought any EPs.
My first CDs (on the same day) were that Paul Simon one with Diamonds on the soles of her shoes and The Battlefield Band's Bad Moon Rising.
Most of my vinyl and CD collection is "folk" though.

Cheers, Rowan

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

First LP I personally went out and purchased with my own (hard-earned lawn mowing) funds: The Sound of Silence by Simon and Garfunkel. When it was new... what, 1966 or so?
To be completely honest, that's a slightly false answer, because I clearly remember buying several at the time. But for the life of me can't remember what they were. So SOS walks away with the prize by virtue of being memorable.
Interesting thread... who would have thought, out of all the important firsts in most people's lives, that buying the first record would be so easy to recall?
-Glenn

Subject: RE: What was the first record you bought?
From: MARINER
Date: 20 Feb 08 - 05:00 PM

The first album I ever bought was "The Johnnie Otis Show " a fake live album on the Capitol label . It was about 1958 Still have it! First "45" was a Drifters single ,the name which escapes me at the moment .

Subject: RE: What was the first record you bought?
From: Beer
Date: 20 Feb 08 - 04:56 PM

All Shook Up
Beer (adrien)

Subject: RE: What was the first record you bought?
From: Ross Campbell
Date: 20 Feb 08 - 04:54 PM

The first record I remember looking for (unsuccessfully) was "Surf City" by Jan & Dean. The first album I remember owning (a Christmas present I requested) was a double LP "The Springfields Collection". The first album I bought with my own money was Bert Kaempfert's "Living It Up" (Polydor - round about the time they were recording the Beatles' first sessions).

Theme from "CaptainZeppos" (Living It Up)

I used to watch the "Captain Zeppos" series on TV when I should have been studying, couldn't get the tune out of my head and some kind soul at the BBC eventually told me what it was.

I do sometimes wonder how I got here from there. But listening to that clip, maybe that's why I play guitar the way I do. Wierd.

Ross

Subject: RE: What was the first record you bought?
From: Marje
Date: 20 Feb 08 - 04:54 PM

The first single I owned was Cliff Richard's "Please Don't Tease". My cousin gave it to me because she didn't want it, and I was thrilled to bits (well come on, I was only 12 or 13 at the time).

The first one I actually bought was "Blue Moon" by the Marcels. I found a second-hand shop that sold singles at a price just about affordable on a pocket-money budget, and that was the first one I found there that I liked.

Subject: RE: What was the first record you bought?
From: Bill D
Date: 20 Feb 08 - 04:36 PM

well, the first 45s I had..(bought for me) were "Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer" by Gene Autry and "Blackball Ferry Line" by Bing Crosby (about 1949)

Later, my first LPs were "It's In the Book" by Johnny Standly!! and an LP by Rafael Mendez and his 2 sons....trumpet players extraordinary

in folk it was Burl Ives "Wayfarin' Stranger" and "The Weavers at Carnegie Hall"

Subject: RE: What was the first record you bought?
From: GUEST,Bob Ryszkiewicz
Date: 20 Feb 08 - 04:11 PM

The first record I got was The Rolling Stones "NOW" with Little Red Rooster on it. Not so unusual until you consider that I didn't have a record player. But I said to myself, "when I get a record player, this is what I will listen to." So I used to carry it with me, to the language laboratory at Rhode Island College, and between studying French on the turntables that were available there, I would listen to The Stones. O.K. O.K. make that I would study French in between listening to The Stones...It was Mono and wonderful. I played it so much that it wore out. So I had to get another copy, but that was in Stereo. Not as good. Some of the raw power of the mono got lost.
Everything prior to was on an 1960 Emerson radio. One of the first transistor radios, which I still have. Before that a 50's GE radio modded with an external car speaker so I could get "Stereo". Before that it was a crystal set. Oatmeal box, crystal, needle, headset, wired to the plumbing. Got New York from Rhode Island. Comparable to a lunar landing when you are 8-10 years old...
But that first Stones record got me started in the Blues. That and all the Classic Rock&Roll(a lot with a country blend) from 1953 to the dawn of the 60's...
bob

Subject: RE: What was the first record you bought?
From: Metchosin
Date: 20 Feb 08 - 04:09 PM

And I think when I bought Indian Love Call, I was probably looking for

Poor Old Kaw Liga

Subject: RE: What was the first record you bought?
From: dwditty
Date: 20 Feb 08 - 04:02 PM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=znj2aWAKLvw

grrrr

Subject: RE: What was the first record you bought?
From: dwditty
Date: 20 Feb 08 - 04:01 PM

And I just found the video of it (THere's a Meeting...) on youtube!

ClickHere

Subject: RE: What was the first record you bought?
From: skarpi
Date: 20 Feb 08 - 04:01 PM

ABBA - ARRIVAL

Subject: RE: What was the first record you bought?
From: mattkeen
Date: 20 Feb 08 - 04:01 PM

can't by me love - (thats by the beatles)

Subject: RE: What was the first record you bought?
From: dwditty
Date: 20 Feb 08 - 03:59 PM

There's a Meeting Here Tonight - Joe & Eddie

Subject: RE: What was the first record you bought?
From: Metchosin
Date: 20 Feb 08 - 03:56 PM

Can't remember the year, but some time in the mid 1950's, Slim Whitman's Indian Love Call on 78RPM. Pretty weird record for a kid to buy, but I did.

Subject: RE: What was the first record you bought?
From: The Borchester Echo
Date: 20 Feb 08 - 03:55 PM

Can't beat the squashed cellist but at a screening of Peter Grimes (the movie) something broke so a friend and I leaped up onstage and sang it.
No, I haven't got the record of it but I do have a DVD from a charity shop.
My first record? Might have been Please Please Me.
But the first ones I remember were Yorkshire band 78s on my grandfather's wind up gramophone.
And Deep In The Heart Of Texas which I thought was about the cat because that was its name.

Subject: RE: What was the first record you bought?
From: TheSnail
Date: 20 Feb 08 - 03:44 PM

George Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue/American in Paris. Haven't played it for a while.

Jack Campin

- Orff's Carmina Burana, can't remember who by, but the one with the amazingly weird tenor.

Remember that famous occasion in the Albert Hall, early seventies, when the tenor fainted on the cellist and a member of the audience stepped in to take his part? I WAS THERE!