Do You Remember the first LP You Bought?

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: 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: The Sandman
Date: 09 Dec 14 - 08:08 AM

Them Again.

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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: 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: 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,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: 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,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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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 - 02:19 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: 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,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,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: 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,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: 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: Wheatman
Date: 08 Dec 14 - 03:43 AM

Part share in The Watersons.

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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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,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: 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,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: 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,#
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: 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: 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.