Do You Remember the first LP You Bought?

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..

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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.