Do You Remember the first LP You Bought?

Subject: Do You Remember the first LP You Bought?
From: GUEST,Kathy
Date: 06 Dec 14 - 10:24 PM

Think back, back, back all those many years ago when we had 45's & LPs and record players. Do you remember the first LP you ever bought?
(Not bought by your parents or older brother or sister but YOU)

Well I do actually remember the first LP I bought with my own little money. I was only 9 or 10 years old. It was by Bobby Vee and it was called "Rubber Ball" I had a little crush on Bobby Vee because I thought he was so cute. I really liked the song "Rubber Ball" (also title of the LP) which was a big hit for him and I liked all the songs on the LP.

Subject: RE: Do You Remember the first LP You Bought?
From: GUEST,Lin
Date: 06 Dec 14 - 11:13 PM

Good question! I too remember that first LP I bought.
Donovan - "CATCH THE WIND" Then I kept buying new Donovan albums whenever they were at my local record shop. And Donovan was REAL CUTE TOO! :-) Loved his voice, loved his songs and yes, it was his
LP "CATCH YTHE WIND" GREAT PHOTO OF HIM ON THAT LP COVER!
I still own it as well as all of his albums! Ah yes, I am a huge DONOVAN FAN. :-))

Subject: RE: Do You Remember the first LP You Bought?
From: Jason Xion Wang
Date: 07 Dec 14 - 12:25 AM

Either Tom Paxton's "Something in My Life" or a Unicef benefit concert from 1979.

Subject: RE: Do You Remember the first LP You Bought?
From: Little Robyn
Date: 07 Dec 14 - 03:20 AM

My first LP was West Side Story - the stage show, before the movie, about 1960. And my first single was Tom Hark from Elias and his ZigZag Jive Flutes. That was on the Hit Parade in about 1958.I still have them but don't play them now.
Robyn

Subject: RE: Do You Remember the first LP You Bought?
From: GUEST,Allan Conn
Date: 07 Dec 14 - 04:10 AM

Electric Warrior by T.Rex and I've still got it and still play it 40 or so years later.

Subject: RE: Do You Remember the first LP You Bought?
From: cptsnapper
Date: 07 Dec 14 - 04:28 AM

I can't remember the title but it was by Shelly Beman

Subject: RE: Do You Remember the first LP You Bought?
From: GUEST
Date: 07 Dec 14 - 04:32 AM

Gunfighter Ballads, Marty Robbins

Subject: RE: Do You Remember the first LP You Bought?
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 07 Dec 14 - 04:38 AM

I don't remember my first LP, but the first record I bought was a single for my 12th birthday in 1964.

It was Little Pattie's double A-side He's My Blonde Headed, Stompie Wompie, Real Gone Surfer Boy yeh yeh yeh yeh / Stomping at Maroubra - one of Sydney's iconic surfing beaches

today I dunno why as I never liked the sun & beach & could barely swim

sandra (alas, not a real Aussie)

Subject: RE: Do You Remember the first LP You Bought?
From: GUEST,Blandiver (Astray)
Date: 07 Dec 14 - 04:40 AM

Think back, back, back all those many years ago when we had 45's & LPs and record players.

Back, back? You been in a record store recently? Take Piccadilly Records in Manchester (UK), which is now mostly vinyl. Even in the mainstream bands are releasing their album on vinyl as well as CD these days. Our records of the year are Love Letters by Metronomy and LP1 by FKA Twiggs - naturally we have both the CD and the vinyl versions for our in-car & domestic pleasure. The covers are nicer on vinyl too! The new David Bowie single comes in a nice 10" edition with unique extras...

Anyhoo, my first LP was Gorilla by the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band. I got it with a token for Xmas 67 when I was 6. Still a great favourite, though sadly my original is long gone...

Subject: RE: Do You Remember the first LP You Bought?
From: GUEST,DTM
Date: 07 Dec 14 - 04:43 AM

The Very Best Of The Every Brothers.
As brilliant today as it was then.

Subject: RE: Do You Remember the first LP You Bought?
From: Bonzo3legs
Date: 07 Dec 14 - 04:52 AM

Have Twangy Guitar Will Travel by Duane Eddy.

Subject: RE: Do You Remember the first LP You Bought?
From: Sir Roger de Beverley
Date: 07 Dec 14 - 04:56 AM

A cheap label (Ace of Clubs I think) issue of Buddy Holly's Decca recordings in Nashville. It was called That'll Be The Day and contained the original solo version of that song recorded before the Crickets remade it and credited to Alison/Holly as the writers - not Holly/Alison/Petty as in the crickets recording. It would 1964 or 65 when I bought it.

R

Subject: RE: Do You Remember the first LP You Bought?
From: Nick
Date: 07 Dec 14 - 05:00 AM

The first was a part share in A Hard Days Night. First one I bought all by myself was John Mayall 'Crusade'. I still have it in glorious mono.

Subject: RE: Do You Remember the first LP You Bought?
From: GUEST,DaveRo
Date: 07 Dec 14 - 05:17 AM

The Rock Machine Turns You On. A CBS sampler, and cheap - which was why I could afford it.

Hooked me on Roy Harper - "Nobody's got any Money in the Summer" - Leonard Cohen, and, er, Moby Grape. Other goid stuff, too; I still listen to it.

Subject: RE: Do You Remember the first LP You Bought?
From: Roger the Skiffler
Date: 07 Dec 14 - 05:25 AM

Two: a Bechet and a double Jazz at the Philharmonic.

RtS

Subject: RE: Do You Remember the first LP You Bought?
From: GUEST,punkfolkrocker
Date: 07 Dec 14 - 05:41 AM

I can't remember exactly.
LPs were expensive, and my pocket money for a long time was only 20 pence per week..
I had to wait for birthdays and xmas, when my parents did lovingly overindulge me,
even though they were low wage earners..
So I got most LPs on the wish list I eagerly presented to them.

I reckon the first LP I bought myself, would have been on a cheap budget lable.

Quite possibly Decca's "The World of David Bowie" compilation.
That dodgy one with the Ziggy Stardust era cover photo,
concealing cash-in contents from his mid 60s Anthony Newley soundalike phase.
Or, that mono for stereo processed MFP The Move "Fire Brigade" LP
with a really excellent 'best of' track list.

But I definitely do remember the first 7" singles I saved up for and bought myself.

That was a serious moment of transition from mere kid to real teenager.. circa 1972...

Lindisfarne - "Lady Eleanor" [the re-release] and "Son of my Father" - Chicory Tip.

That combination of 7 inchers indicating my lifelong affinity for droning folkie neo-psychedelia
and insistent analog synth riffs & grooves...

Subject: RE: Do You Remember the first LP You Bought?
From: Dave Sutherland
Date: 07 Dec 14 - 06:05 AM

"Bob Dylan" his first album which I purchased in 1964 - just replaced it with the CD version last year.

Subject: RE: Do You Remember the first LP You Bought?
From: Raggytash
Date: 07 Dec 14 - 06:24 AM

Teaser and the Firecat from Cat Stevens, still have it though it was played to death

Subject: RE: Do You Remember the first LP You Bought?
From: fat B****rd
Date: 07 Dec 14 - 06:31 AM

Karl Denver (Trio) "Wimoweh". I still play the title track and have to make an effort not to join in.

Subject: RE: Do You Remember the first LP You Bought?
From: David C. Carter
Date: 07 Dec 14 - 06:35 AM

The Buddy Holly Story.

Subject: RE: Do You Remember the first LP You Bought?
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 07 Dec 14 - 06:49 AM

it cost ten bob. can't remember the name of the label - the logo was a top hat.

lightning hopkins one side/sonny and brownie on the other.

my mother was disgusted - it sounds like old drunken men singing in a cellar.....she said. the generation war took few prisoners.

i loved it. learned every run on th Hopkins side til there were deep grooves gouged out. learned them in the wrong key though.

now i am an old drunken man singing in cellars when invited.

Subject: RE: Do You Remember the first LP You Bought?
From: Black belt caterpillar wrestler
Date: 07 Dec 14 - 07:43 AM

The first LP I bought was "Smiley Smile" by the Beach Boys and a bit of a disappointment.
The second was "Nice" by the Nice, which was not a dissapointment.

Subject: RE: Do You Remember the first LP You Bought?
From: Black belt caterpillar wrestler
Date: 07 Dec 14 - 07:44 AM

My spellchecker has a mind of its own!

Subject: RE: Do You Remember the first LP You Bought?
From: GUEST,#
Date: 07 Dec 14 - 07:49 AM

Something by Mantovani. It was for my grandparents at Christmas.

Subject: RE: Do You Remember the first LP You Bought?
From: GUEST,Erich
Date: 07 Dec 14 - 08:02 AM

My very first LP was a live record by Joan Baez called "Europa" containing recordings made in Italy (Milan) and Vienna back in 1967. I still have it.

Subject: RE: Do You Remember the first LP You Bought?
From: GUEST,Tunesmith
Date: 07 Dec 14 - 08:30 AM

Elvis's "Loving You" ( 1957?).
One day, by mistake, I played the album at 45rpm and Elvis suddenly turned into Eartha Kitt!

What a bargain! Two albums for the price of one!

Subject: RE: Do You Remember the first LP You Bought?
From: erosconpollo
Date: 07 Dec 14 - 08:34 AM

The soundtrack from 'The Endless Summer.' It was during the waning days of surf music and the album was not a particularly good example of the genre but I loved the movie.

Subject: RE: Do You Remember the first LP You Bought?
From: GUEST,bsondahl
Date: 07 Dec 14 - 10:32 AM

It didn't help Lightnin Hopkins any, but I started buying lps from the cutout (corner cut off deep discount) bin for 33 cents, and bought Coffeehouse Blues and Autobiography in Blues. It was also a bonus introduction to Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee and Big Joe Williams....

Subject: RE: Do You Remember the first LP You Bought?
From: kendall
Date: 07 Dec 14 - 11:36 AM

Civil War songs of the South by Tennessee Ernie Ford.

Subject: RE: Do You Remember the first LP You Bought?
From: GUEST,Tootler (cookieless)
Date: 07 Dec 14 - 12:06 PM

With my first wage after leaving school (most LPs had been Christmas/Birthday presents before that) was "Everly Brothers Sing Great Country Hits" I've lost the original LP but I have it on CD and still listen to it.

Subject: RE: Do You Remember the first LP You Bought?
From: Lighter
Date: 07 Dec 14 - 12:10 PM

"Tschaikovsky: 1812 Overture & Beethoven: Wellington's Victory," conducted by Antal Dorati.

The year: 1964.

Still available on CD.

Subject: RE: Do You Remember the first LP You Bought?
From: Newport Boy
Date: 07 Dec 14 - 12:19 PM

I'm not sure which came first, but they were both 10" LPs in August 1955. Before that, it was all 78 singles.

New Orleans Joys - Chris Barber's Jazz Band
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik - Mozart - Bamberg Symphony Orchestra.

Phil

Subject: RE: Do You Remember the first LP You Bought?
From: Larry The Radio Guy
Date: 07 Dec 14 - 12:34 PM

The Everly Brother's Greatest Hits.....about 1958, I think.

Subject: RE: Do You Remember the first LP You Bought?
From: brashley46
Date: 07 Dec 14 - 12:54 PM

Stan Freberg with The Original Cast

"Green Chri$tma$":
"Hark, the Herald-Tribune sings
Advertising wondrous things"

and of course his version of "Day-Oh (The Banana Boat Song)".

Lovely sardonic humour for those days.

Subject: RE: Do You Remember the first LP You Bought?
From: GUEST,Steve Shaw
Date: 07 Dec 14 - 01:01 PM

Beatles For Sale on the day it came out. I bought every Beatles record after that on the day they came out. Like all LPs in those days, it cost me thirty-two bob. Singles were six and eight. I never screamed when I heard the Beatles though, not once.

Subject: RE: Do You Remember the first LP You Bought?
From: The Sandman
Date: 07 Dec 14 - 01:03 PM

The Dunmow Flitch, SFA 106, Somebody had to buy one.

Subject: RE: Do You Remember the first LP You Bought?
From: Bonzo3legs
Date: 07 Dec 14 - 01:28 PM

I think the second LP I bought was A Date With Elvis.

Subject: RE: Do You Remember the first LP You Bought?
From: GUEST,Fred McCormick
Date: 07 Dec 14 - 01:31 PM

Big Al. "lightning hopkins one side/sonny and brownie".

That was Lightin' Sonny and Brownie, and it was released in Britain on the Society Label. SOC 1009 in fact. It was recorded in 1960 at some coffee house or other in Los Angeles, and various other bits of that evening came out on various labels. The whole shebang was, I think, eventually re-issued on a Capitol double CD.

Whatever. I thought it was absolutely bloody marvellous and best of all it only cost ten bob.

Here's the tracklist.

Introduction. Lightnin' Hopkins.
Big Car Blues.Lightnin' Hopkins
Coffee House Blues. Lightnin' Hopkins
Stool Pigeon Blues. Lightnin' Hopkins, vcl, gtr
Ball of Twine. Lightnin' Hopkins.
Blues for Gamblers. Lightnin' Hopkins/Brownie McGhee/Sonny TerryBig Joe Williams
Walk On. Brownie McGhee/Sonny Terry
Blues from the Lowlands. Brownie McGhee/Sonny Terry
Down by the Riverside. Brownie McGhee/Sonny Terry
Blowin' the Fuses. Brownie McGhee/Sonny Terry
Right on that Shore. Brownie McGhee/Sonny Terry/Lightnin' Hopkins/Big Joe Williams

Yep, that's Big Joe Williams on Blues For Gamblers and Right on that Shore. He wasn't credited on the LP, but he did in fact do his own set that night.

Subject: RE: Do You Remember the first LP You Bought?
From: Tattie Bogle
Date: 07 Dec 14 - 01:43 PM

My first folk one was "Alex Campbell Live": I still have it, and still have a turntable to play it on, tho' it has since come out on CD. Still sing some of the songs on it too.
First classical one was probably highlights from "The Magic Flute" as we did a shortened version of it at school!

Subject: RE: Do You Remember the first LP You Bought?
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 07 Dec 14 - 01:47 PM

we ought to form a society.

Subject: RE: Do You Remember the first LP You Bought?
From: GUEST,LynnH
Date: 07 Dec 14 - 01:49 PM

The Buddy Holly Story - vol.1

Subject: RE: Do You Remember the first LP You Bought?
From: Tattie Bogle
Date: 07 Dec 14 - 02:08 PM

This is perhaps a surreptitious attempt to find out how old we all are!!

Subject: RE: Do You Remember the first LP You Bought?
From: topical tom
Date: 07 Dec 14 - 02:11 PM

Darling Cory" by Pete Seeger circa 1956.

Subject: RE: Do You Remember the first LP You Bought?
From: GUEST,Leadbelly
Date: 07 Dec 14 - 02:36 PM

Jelly Roll Morton and his red hot peppers. Issued by RCA. It's still with my collection of jazz and blues items.

Subject: RE: Do You Remember the first LP You Bought?
From: JennieG
Date: 07 Dec 14 - 02:46 PM

Not the first, no.......the memory has been lost in the mists of time. Possibly The Beatles, but I wouldn't like to swear to it - there were others before that, I'm sure.

I was another who had that Everly Bros Greatest Hits album, too.

Subject: RE: Do You Remember the first LP You Bought?
From: MARINER
Date: 07 Dec 14 - 03:23 PM

The first album I bought was 'The Johnnie Otis Show' .It was a 'fake' live album with the applause etc dubbed on, but a great album nonetheless.Still have it.

Subject: RE: Do You Remember the first LP You Bought?
From: GUEST,kenny
Date: 07 Dec 14 - 04:12 PM

"We Have met Together" - by Mick Moloney

Subject: RE: Do You Remember the first LP You Bought?
From: GUEST,..garoyle
Date: 07 Dec 14 - 08:39 PM

LIMELIGHTERS - purchased by parents - LP new stereo system.

It's A Gas - "Mad Magazine" freebee

BILL COSBY -"Noah" 2nd hand from friend

"Nights In White Satin" - bootleg - 4 track

SINCERELY,
GARGOYLE

Subject: RE: Do You Remember the first LP You Bought?
From: beeliner
Date: 07 Dec 14 - 10:46 PM

That would be the Buddy Holly pre-Crickets LP on Decca. Found a used DJ copy in a Chicago record store.

Later sold it for big bucks - wish I hadn't.

Subject: RE: Do You Remember the first LP You Bought?
From: Wheatman
Date: 08 Dec 14 - 03:43 AM

Part share in The Watersons.

Subject: RE: Do You Remember the first LP You Bought?
From: GUEST,John Flynn
Date: 08 Dec 14 - 05:57 AM

Clancy Brothers & Tommy Makem - In Person at Carnegie Hall. and I still have it though now listen to the double CD re-issue of the unedited concert.

Subject: RE: Do You Remember the first LP You Bought?
From: GUEST,silver
Date: 08 Dec 14 - 07:42 AM

Jim Reeves - Tall Tales and Short Tempers. Still love his voice.

Subject: RE: Do You Remember the first LP You Bought?
From: PHJim
Date: 08 Dec 14 - 08:25 AM

First LP was Elvis' Golden Records.
The first record that I bought with my own money was a 78 of Little Richard singing Keep A-Knocking (But You Can't Come In). It had a green label and I think the flip side was Oh Oh Oh Miss Ann.

Subject: RE: Do You Remember the first LP You Bought?
From: GUEST,Peter
Date: 08 Dec 14 - 09:07 AM

"The Rock Machine Turns You On. A CBS sampler, and cheap - which was why I could afford it. "

Me too. The first full price one that I bought was Nic Jones, Ballads and Songs.

Subject: RE: Do You Remember the first LP You Bought?
From: GUEST,RRS
Date: 08 Dec 14 - 01:50 PM

A Golden Age of Donegan on Pye Golden Guinea

Subject: RE: Do You Remember the first LP You Bought?
From: GUEST,achmelvich
Date: 08 Dec 14 - 02:06 PM

'with the beatles' was an 8th birthday present from my mum and dad - signed by everyone at my party. one of the first i bought had the who on one side and hendrix on the other. loads of vinyl in the 50 years since has survived careless handling, many late night scratchy parties, 2 floods etc. nearly every album still plays fine.....you can be too careful in life

Subject: RE: Do You Remember the first LP You Bought?
From: GUEST,punkfolkrocker
Date: 08 Dec 14 - 02:19 PM

"The Rock Machine Turns You On"...

My dad had one - can't remember if he bought it for himself or me...
He sat me down in front of his big hi fi stereo speakers one saturday afternoon to listen to it...

Parents did buy me the low price Decca budget lable "Wowie Zowie! The World Of Progressive Music"..
That made a big impression when I was about 12 or 13...

Especially this track !!!


Side One: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RvSWIxoHKiM
Side Two: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RvSWIxoHKiM

Subject: RE: Do You Remember the first LP You Bought?
From: Gurney
Date: 08 Dec 14 - 02:21 PM

June Christy, 'The Misty Miss Christy.'

Wonder where it is now. Haven't seen it in years.

Subject: RE: Do You Remember the first LP You Bought?
From: GUEST,punkfolkrocker
Date: 08 Dec 14 - 02:24 PM

CORRECTION: - Side Two: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2HT9joSeim4

Subject: RE: Do You Remember the first LP You Bought?
From: Mark Ross
Date: 08 Dec 14 - 03:26 PM

First record I ever bought was FLYIN' PURPLE PEOPLE EATER. The 1st LP was either a cutout bin blues with Lightnin' Hopkins on one side and John Lee hooker on the other.

Mark Ross

Subject: RE: Do You Remember the first LP You Bought?
From: Seamus Kennedy
Date: 08 Dec 14 - 04:44 PM

The Clancy Brothers & Tommy Makem - The Boys won't Leave The Girls Alone. Early 60's.

Subject: RE: Do You Remember the first LP You Bought?
From: John on the Sunset Coast
Date: 08 Dec 14 - 05:13 PM

"Mark Twain and other Folk Favorites" - Harry Belafonte
My first EP (a 45rpm w/ 4 tracks), a cheap label of Strauss Waltzes

Subject: RE: Do You Remember the first LP You Bought?
From: GUEST,Don Stevens
Date: 08 Dec 14 - 10:56 PM

Burl Ives   The Wayfaring Stranger   Columbia CL628   25 MAR 1959

Subject: RE: Do You Remember the first LP You Bought?
From: bobstep
Date: 09 Dec 14 - 02:54 AM

I got my first L.P. capable phonograph around 1963 or 64 after hanging out after school for two years at a local record shop whose proprietor let me play albums in the back of the store..

The first few records I bought included Pete Seeger's "We Shall Overcome" album, a Folkways Woody Guthrie album, a Clancy Brothers album, and (I thought I should learn about jazz from the bottom up) a Dukes of Dixieland record... with Josh White, the Mitchell Trio and Judy Henske albums coming soon thereafter, clearly showing the influence of the Hootenanny TV show ,

Subject: RE: Do You Remember the first LP You Bought?
From: GUEST,Howard Jones
Date: 09 Dec 14 - 04:03 AM

The first LP I owned was the BBC 'Folk on Friday' compilation, but that was a Christmas present. The first LP I bought was Martin Carthy's eponymous first album. This was especially memorable as I paid for it with the proceeds from my first ever paid gig, a school concert where but for a double-booking snafu I would have been supporting Martin (although some way down the bill!). I still have the cutting from the local newspaper which describes me as 'standing in' for him - an exaggeration which I will never be able to live up to.

Subject: RE: Do You Remember the first LP You Bought?
From: Brian Peters
Date: 09 Dec 14 - 07:28 AM

'The Big Huge' by the Incredible String Band. Bought after hearing my (older) cousin's copy of 'Hangman's Beautiful Daughter', but even that hadn't prepared me for the opening track, 'Maya'. Nine minutes plus of total wonderment. My friends all hated it, of course.

Subject: RE: Do You Remember the first LP You Bought?
From: GUEST,Fred McCormick
Date: 09 Dec 14 - 07:37 AM

It's just come back to me. The very first record - a single as distinct from an LP - was The Happy Wanderer by some German children's choir.

Jeez, the embarrassment!

Subject: RE: Do You Remember the first LP You Bought?
From: bubblyrat
Date: 09 Dec 14 - 07:44 AM

My first ever Pukka Proper Real Genuine Bedouin LP was one by Buffy Sainte Marie in , I think, 1967 . Accompanied by a guitarist called Daddy Bones , she sang "Until It's Time For You To Go " , "Groundhog " "Welcome Immigrante" and, still a favorite of mine ,"Piney Wood Hills" ; there were other,less memorable tracks which,sadly , I have forgotten , although I seem to recall one about a girl providing " Solace For A Sailor Ashore " ....??? Is she still with us ??(Buffy,that is !).

Subject: RE: Do You Remember the first LP You Bought?
From: The Sandman
Date: 09 Dec 14 - 08:08 AM

Them Again.

Subject: RE: Do You Remember the first LP You Bought?
From: GUEST
Date: 09 Dec 14 - 09:16 AM

My first purchases were 78's of Susan Reed and Burl Ives. The first LP was 10 inch Burl Ives but I don't remember which one.

Subject: RE: Do You Remember the first LP You Bought?
From: GUEST,DaveRo
Date: 09 Dec 14 - 09:59 AM

'The Big Huge' by the Incredible String Band.

"Wee Tam & the Big Huge" (the double) was the third LP I bought. My friends liked it. They got used to it, anyway ;)

Subject: RE: Do You Remember the first LP You Bought?
From: Bat Goddess
Date: 09 Dec 14 - 10:19 AM

The first 45s I bought by myself were "Duke of Earl" by Gene Chandler, "Her Royal Majesty" by James Darren, and "The Twist" by Chubby Checker. All at once, probably at the Woolworth's on 71st and Greenfield in West Allis, Wisconsin.

My first LP purchase was an Andy Williams compilation, "The Best of..." or something like that. (No, just checked and it was the Cadence LP "Andy Williams" from 1958, though I bought it in 1960 or '61.) I bought it before I expanded my LP collection to include "Moon River" and "Warm and Willing".

Linn

Subject: RE: Do You Remember the first LP You Bought?
From: Brian Peters
Date: 09 Dec 14 - 10:28 AM

"Wee Tam & the Big Huge" (the double) was the third LP I bought. My friends liked it. They got used to it, anyway ;)

At least some of my friends got used to it, too, though it was a steep learning curve. I could only afford the single album (at 39 shillings and 11 pence), so had to catch up with 'Wee Tam' later.

Subject: RE: Do You Remember the first LP You Bought?
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 09 Dec 14 - 01:13 PM

I saw the ISB do some of the songs off Wee Tam at Nottingham Albert Hall just before the album came out.

my chief memory was the rather informal presentation. one of the band members was giving lengthy instruction to Licorice the bass guitarist/girlfriend, before the start of every song.

the guy next to me said - oh shit, i think its her first lesson!

the commissionaire of the Albert Hall - he started the concert running down the aisles shouting 'no smoking there!' however everybody on the stage and in the audience were off their faces, - sort of stared hard back at him going , yeh sure! fantastic ....man!

Subject: RE: Do You Remember the first LP You Bought?
From: GUEST,PeteK
Date: 09 Dec 14 - 04:09 PM

Well for me it was Slade Alive and I played the Hear Me Calling track to death. Even then I knew it didn't have some deep Wagnerian meaning - but it was great fun. Happy days..

___________________________________________________
Satellite TV

Subject: RE: Do You Remember the first LP You Bought?
From: Rog Peek
Date: 09 Dec 14 - 05:14 PM

"Please Please Me"   Still have it.

Rog

Subject: RE: Do You Remember the first LP You Bought?
From: Bill D
Date: 09 Dec 14 - 05:27 PM

hmmmm... not sure.....
among the first 3-4 were "The Weavers At Carnegie Hall"
                                  "Burl Ives- Irish Songs" (or "Wayfaring Stranger")
                                  "New Folk" with Hedy West, The Greenbriar Boys, David Gude       and Jackie Washington

Subject: RE: Do You Remember the first LP You Bought?
From: GUEST,SqueezeMe
Date: 09 Dec 14 - 09:57 PM

Tom Paxton's Rambling Boy, c.1965. Long since worn out, but still often play the CD copy I replaced it with.

Bought a John Renbourn album at around the same time, played it once or twice but didn't like it much and gave it away soon afterwards. Maybe I should give it another listen 50 years on....assuming I can find a copy.

Subject: RE: Do You Remember the first LP You Bought?
From: JHW
Date: 10 Dec 14 - 04:46 AM

Think it was 'With the Beatles' but can't check the date. I had 2x massive homemade speaker cabinets hung on my bedroom wall. Garrard single player was playing Beatles via RSC or RCS Amplifier (constructors shop way back) Bracket gave way and speaker landed on deck, imprinting shape of PU arm in LP. Wouldn't play after that.

Subject: RE: Do You Remember the first LP You Bought?
From: GUEST,Desi C
Date: 10 Dec 14 - 05:19 AM

The first LP I bought ws The Sound Of Music as a preent for my Mother. But for myself it was a 1964 album 'Presenting the Ian Cambell Folk Group' years later I met Ian and the group and followed them aound the Birmingham scene. I was amazed to learn from Ian that the album of 22 songs was recorded in one da as they could only afford one day in the studio, and even more surprised to learn that Ian didn't own an original couple of the LP, so I gave him mine. Maybe wrongly as it's now quite rare and I've not been able to find another copy!

Subject: RE: Do You Remember the first LP You Bought?
From: Brian Peters
Date: 10 Dec 14 - 07:48 AM

Enjoyed the memories, Al. I saw ISB a couple of years later and they were equally 'informal'.

Subject: RE: Do You Remember the first LP You Bought?
From: GUEST,Tunesmith
Date: 10 Dec 14 - 09:21 AM

Squeezeme said:

"Bought a John Renbourn album at around the same time, played it once or twice but didn't like it much and gave it away soon afterwards. Maybe I should give it another listen 50 years on....assuming I can find a copy".

If that was John's first album, I wouldn't bother buying a new copy!
It is very disappointing! Although the LP cover is great

Subject: RE: Do You Remember the first LP You Bought?
From: pdq
Date: 10 Dec 14 - 12:05 PM

Subject: RE: Do You Remember the first LP You Bought?
From: bubblyrat
Date: 09 Dec 14 - 07:44 AM

My first ever Pukka Proper Real Genuine Bedouin LP was one by Buffy Sainte Marie in , I think, 1967 . Accompanied by a guitarist called Daddy Bones...


I believe Daddy Bones is the late Jonh Herald.

Subject: RE: Do You Remember the first LP You Bought?
From: GUEST,Mrr at work
Date: 10 Dec 14 - 07:27 PM

Too Hot To Handle, by Heat Wave, bought for the song Boogie Nights. Also first experience with just-because-you-like-the-song-doesn't-mean-you'll-like-the-album.

Subject: RE: Do You Remember the first LP You Bought?
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 10 Dec 14 - 10:57 PM

The first LP I bought was definitely by The Rolling Stones, though I can't say exactly which album as I bought several in rapid succession.

Subject: RE: Do You Remember the first LP You Bought?
From: J-boy
Date: 10 Dec 14 - 11:39 PM

ZZ Top Eliminator. 1982.

Subject: RE: Do You Remember the first LP You Bought?
From: GUEST,ollaimh
Date: 11 Dec 14 - 12:47 AM

I can't remember thr first I bought, probably the byrds, or the beatles, but I do remember being given three lps by my grandfather. the Clancy brothers sings the songs of rebellion, omar blondall's songs of newfoundland and doc Watson's songs for children--including the cat came back. I played them until they wore out.

Subject: RE: Do You Remember the first LP You Bought?
From: GUEST,Jon Dudley
Date: 11 Dec 14 - 01:50 AM

The Five Faces of Manfred Mann with Paul Jones blowing his balls off on the gob iron. I listened to it the other night on S....fy and it hasn't aged at all badly. A good Brit R&B classic which led me to the blues of Lightning Hopkins, John Hurt and many more.

Subject: RE: Do You Remember the first LP You Bought?
From: Janie
Date: 11 Dec 14 - 01:59 AM

Wish I did, but I don't. This thread led to a fun conversation with my 86 y.o. mom tonight. She bought lots of albums and music, and probably bought most of the folk, early rock and roll and motown music my sisters and I loved -because she loved it too. I have all of the albums from our family days, an eclectic mix, and we have no clue. Neither she or I remember my sisters or me buying albums before we left home for college - do remember 45's but my Dad was prone to cleaning binges and tossing stuff so all 78's and 45's were gone, regardless of who bought them, in the poorly remembered past.   If my first lp was truly not purchased by me until I was in college, I'm guessing it was something along the lines of CSN&Y.

Memories are hard to separate when Momma was a folkie/jazz/rocker/show tunes person who spent meager money on music. What a blessing!

Subject: RE: Do You Remember the first LP You Bought?
From: Andrez
Date: 11 Dec 14 - 05:19 AM

Singles: "The Swiss Maid" by Del Shannon I think or it might have been "Stomp the Tumbarumba" by Johnny Devlin I think.

blush, blush……..

Andrez

Subject: RE: Do You Remember the first LP You Bought?
From: GUEST,Guest, Brian
Date: 11 Dec 14 - 09:59 AM

Pentangle. Basket of Light. Still amazes (me, anyway).

Subject: RE: Do You Remember the first LP You Bought?
From: GUEST,David W
Date: 11 Dec 14 - 10:48 AM

My first album I bought was Chicago V back in 1972, and I still have and play it. It's as good as ever too.

Subject: RE: Do You Remember the first LP You Bought?
From: JHW
Date: 11 Dec 14 - 11:01 AM

Re above: Bought a Chicago album just for 'If you leave me now' with its overlapping lines making it impossible to sing so you have to play it again. Good trick to give a song a long life.

Subject: RE: Do You Remember the first LP You Bought?
From: GUEST,sciencegeek
Date: 11 Dec 14 - 11:43 AM

been trying... but not a clue. LOL

that said, I do remember my very first LP... I was 3 or 4 years old & I had a small portable player designed for kids. it was a narrated version of the Sleeping Beauty ballet which I played until it finally wore out.

Mom said that when I was 4, I taught myself how to pick out the melody of the sleeping beauty waltz on our old piano. never did get any better at playing that that I fear.

Subject: RE: Do You Remember the first LP You Bought?
From: GUEST,Closet Folkie
Date: 11 Dec 14 - 12:27 PM

That old folk classic, "Ziggy Stardust" was my first LP purchase; "Jeepster" by T.Rex was the first 45 I believe.
Looks like "folkpunkrocker" and I must be about the same age; that daft Chicory Tip 45 and a not-at-all-daft one from Lindisfarne (Meet Me On The Corner) were also early purchases for me. I loved Lady Eleanor, too. Wouldn't give me the time of day though...

Subject: RE: Do You Remember the first LP You Bought?
From: GUEST
Date: 11 Dec 14 - 12:29 PM

Sorry, I meant "punkfolkrocker". Chaw, kids today with their wacky handles...

Subject: RE: Do You Remember the first LP You Bought?
From: GUEST,ifor
Date: 11 Dec 14 - 03:32 PM

The first album i bought was The Magnificent Moodies by the Moody Blues [ featuring Denny Laine on lead vocals]. Wonderful songs and great soulful vocals from Denny. Donovan did the liner notes!

The first folk rock album i bought was Liege and Lief by Fairport Convention in 1969 but the firstfolk album was The Young Tradition Sampler.
I had a misspent youth listening to the Beatles and Stones and Tamla and Soul so hearing Chicken on a Raft by the YT was real shock to my system....but i persevered.Loved it.
Ifor

Subject: RE: Do You Remember the first LP You Bought?
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 11 Dec 14 - 04:37 PM

Carole King, Tapestry.

SRS

Subject: RE: Do You Remember the first LP You Bought?
From: GUEST,Roderick Warner
Date: 11 Dec 14 - 08:25 PM

First album... Miles Davis Quintet... Steamin' ... Had a lot of rock and roll singles earlier and then jazz eps... Louis then Jelly Roll Morton then hit Thelonious Monk but all on ep... First gig was MJQ at De Montfort Hall in Leicester when I was 14... Folk didn't arrive till a bit later... All on the same continuum for me, beyond artificial boundaries...

Subject: RE: Do You Remember the first LP You Bought?
From: BobL
Date: 12 Dec 14 - 02:59 AM

First LP - Holst's "Planets", BBCSO (IIRC) & Flash. Cost forty shillings & sixpence back in about 1960: beer was a tad under two bob a pint so you can work out today's inflation-adjusted cost.

My second LP was Dave Brubeck's "Time Out", after my school music teacher observed that pop music always stuck to safe formulae just when "Take Five" was about to hit the charts. I lent him the LP, he bought his own copy soon afterwards.

Subject: RE: Do You Remember the first LP You Bought?
From: Teribus
Date: 12 Dec 14 - 04:36 AM

Corrie Folk Trio and Paddy Bell.

Subject: RE: Do You Remember the first LP You Bought?
From: Firecat
Date: 12 Dec 14 - 12:08 PM

This isn't fair on me! I'm only 30! Vinyl had given way to CDs when I bought my first album (Backstreet's Back by the Backstreet Boys, 1998).

However, my 39 year old husband remembers buying We All Stand Together by Paul McCartney and the Frog Chorus on vinyl. He says he also bought the original German version of the Kraftwerk album, "Radio-activity" a few years after it was released (the same year as he was born!). From there, he moved on to Half Man Half Biscuit and Frank Zappa...

Subject: RE: Do You Remember the first LP You Bought?
From: JennyO
Date: 14 Dec 14 - 01:05 AM

Peter Paul and Mary - I got Moving and In the Wind. Can't remember which one I got first. Later I got the double album of Peter Paul and Mary in Concert - which was very much like the actual PPM concert I had just been to.

First single was earlier - Elvis Presley - A Fool Such as I.

Subject: RE: Do You Remember the first LP You Bought?
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 14 Dec 14 - 12:58 PM

Actually, I bought two at the same time. The second was Closer To Home by Grand Funk Railroad. I had to look up what the title was - King made a more lasting impression that GFRR.

SRS

Subject: RE: Do You Remember the first LP You Bought?
From: GUEST,Eddie1 - sans cookie as ever!
Date: 14 Dec 14 - 02:46 PM

Don't remember the title of my first LP but it was a 10" Hank Williams on MGM from the Record Exchange in South Clerk Street, Edinburgh.

Eddie

Subject: RE: Do You Remember the first LP You Bought?
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 20 Feb 15 - 07:24 PM

The first I was given (distinct from one I bought myself) was the Diabelli variations by Beethoven. Yeah, ours was that kind of family. I loved it!

SRS

Subject: RE: Do You Remember the first LP You Bought?
From: Mark Ross
Date: 20 Feb 15 - 08:45 PM

The 1st record I ever bought was The Purple People Eater by Sheb Wooley, but that was a 45. The first LP I bought was Another Side Of Bob Dylan.


Mark Ross

Subject: RE: Do You Remember the first LP You Bought?
From: Bugsy
Date: 20 Feb 15 - 09:25 PM

1962, Alex Campbell " Way Out West" on the Society Label. Cost me 10/-. More than a weeks pocket monet.

Cheers

Bugsy

Subject: RE: Do You Remember the first LP You Bought?
From: pattyClink
Date: 20 Feb 15 - 09:38 PM

No, I honestly don't, but a possibility is the Clancys' I'm a Free Born Man.

I do recall I only bought 2 45s in my life, the fairly odd pair of The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald and Pink Cadillac.

Subject: RE: Do You Remember the first LP You Bought?
From: Acorn4
Date: 21 Feb 15 - 04:58 AM

"Wimoweh" by Karl Denver and I've still got it!

Subject: RE: Do You Remember the first LP You Bought?
From: GUEST,Bob Coltman
Date: 21 Feb 15 - 06:08 PM

One of the first Columbia folk LPs, Bob Atcher's 10" "Early American Folk Songs" (issued, I believe, 1949 or '50, bought 1950). Still have it, still play it. Those first LPs hold up better than some later ones.

Bob

Subject: RE: Do You Remember the first LP You Bought?
From: mike gouthro
Date: 21 Feb 15 - 06:45 PM

My first two albums (bought by my parents) were Elvis' first two in 1956 - followed by the debut albums of the Everly Brothers and Buddy Knox in 1957.

Subject: RE: Do You Remember the first LP You Bought?
From: Joe_F
Date: 21 Feb 15 - 08:02 PM

I can't remember, but I suspect it was a Bob Dylan record, because I do remember that in 1965 I had a tuner, amplifier, & speaker, but no turntable, and a friend of mine -- one of those "I can get it for you wholesale" types (he is actually Jewish) -- was trying to get me to buy a turntable. I was dubious, but then I reflected that if I had a turntable I could listen to Bob Dylan anytime I wanted, so I consented, on condition that he wired it up to play mono (I thought stereo was a silly fad, and continued to buy mono records as long as they were available). So he did that, and I must have bought some Dylan, tho he lost me not long after that, and I moved over to Ewan MacColl.

Only 50 years ago!

Subject: RE: Do You Remember the first LP You Bought?
From: GUEST,Desi C
Date: 23 Feb 15 - 08:44 AM

Yes, it was 'Introducing The Ian Campbell Folk Group' Released in 1964 I bought it a couple years later. Later in the late 70's I got to know In Campbell and was very surprised to first learn, that the 20 odd tracks were all recorded in one day as that's all the time they could afford in the studio. Secondly he didn't actually possess an original copy of the album himself, so I gave him my copy. Well loved group in the birmingham & Midlands, but very underrated nationally

Subject: RE: Do You Remember the first LP You Bought?
From: GUEST,Mike Yates
Date: 23 Feb 15 - 08:49 AM

The first LP that I bought myself was a recording of Greig's piano Concerto. My first folk LP was a 10" HMV recording of field-recordings put together by Peter Kennedy. The Copper Family & Harry Cox had tracks and I was just amazed to realise that my grandfather was not alone in singing such songs!

Subject: RE: Do You Remember the first LP You Bought?
From: GUEST,gillymor
Date: 23 Feb 15 - 09:00 AM

It was probably Led Zeppelin II or Wheels of Fire by Cream or Are You Experienced by the Jimi Hendrix Experience. Prior to that I accumulated a lot of 45s, the first of which was a recording of Buffalo Gals by a cowboy band, whose name I've forgotten, on yellow vinyl.

Subject: RE: Do You Remember the first LP You Bought?
From: GUEST,gillymor
Date: 23 Feb 15 - 10:02 AM

Completely forgot about a little combo from Liverpool. A U.S. release called Meet the Beatles was definitely my first LP then I got into soul music, Otis Redding, Wilson Pickett, Freddie Scott, Booker T and the MG's, Sam and Dave etc. and didn't get back to LPs until psychedelic rock came along.

Subject: RE: Do You Remember the first LP You Bought?
From: sleepyjon
Date: 23 Feb 15 - 06:25 PM

Think it must have been the Paul Simon Songbook - 1966, last year at university - it ate up a lot of my grant! - I met him a few times in Bunjies but never thought to ask him to sign it or anything. It'd probably be worth a bob or two if I had.

SJ

Subject: RE: Do You Remember the first LP You Bought?
From: GUEST,Sidewinder
Date: 24 Feb 15 - 07:14 AM

I recall purchasing the LP "U.S. Male" by Elvis from Woolworths in 1975. Had a reel to reel tape before that. Man! we was poor.

Regards.

Sidewinder.

Subject: RE: Do You Remember the first LP You Bought?
From: RoyH (Burl)
Date: 24 Feb 15 - 04:13 PM

Songs from 'The Jolson Story' sung by the man himself.

Subject: RE: Do You Remember the first LP You Bought?
From: GUEST,Gealt
Date: 25 Feb 15 - 09:59 AM

The McPeake Family, Topic, 1963 - a present for passing the (Irish) leaving cert.

http://www.discogs.com/McPeake-Family-The-McPeake-Family/release/3425764