What was the first record you ever bought?

[Chet]

And with your own money?

Mine was George Harrison's All Things Must Pass, which I bought in 1970 at age 12. No, not from money earned in part-time jobs, but money given to me during Chinese New Year.

Recently, I bought the CD version while in London. The three-record vinyl have been compressed into 2 CDs.

[strech]

Nothing Rhymed-Gilbert O'Sullivan

[gisli]

Ahh Chet this is a great thread, brought me all the way back to 1968 when record stores had a very nice smell in them, must have been all those vinyls. Anyways, my first one was The Shades Of Deep Purple, with Deep Purple and as a first album it holds a dear place in my heart.

[Chet]

My record collection

http://www.chetscorner.com/chatter/files/record-collection.jpg

:D

[PeteCC]

Well, the first single I bought was, 'No Milk Today', by Herman's Hermits. I think I was 12, so that's 41 years ago. (Isn't it, Anne? :eek: ) My mother threw it out when she noticed that the middle was missing. She thought it was broken!!!

The first album was, 'Pisces, Aquarius, Capricorn and Jones Ltd', by The Monkees. Which I still have, and I bought that when I was 14.

[david uk]

oh no, do I really have to confess this???:eek:

mine was "Long Haired Lover From Liverpool" by Little Jimmy Osmond:cool:

[AceOn6]

First single - To Know Him Is To Love Him, The Teddy Bears. I was 9 and just loved those girl groups.

First album - Meet the Beatles. Nuff said.

[Denise]

First album "Meet The Beatles" !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
God I was SOOOOOOOO in love with Paul - ha ha!

First single - can't remember (I'm 53 too, PeteCC) but I would think (with my own money) it was probably a Beatles one ..... still have a bunch of my old 45's.

[KarenSews2]

I can't remember which one, exactly, but it would have been an early one. I could buy a 45 for under 50 cents, and that was my weekly allowance back then. I would have been 12 or 13.

[Amy in Vermont]

I truly do not remember what the first record I bought with my own money was.

I can tell you what album ( I never bought singles) was the first in my "catalog". I made a written inventory of all my albums waaay early on, and each album had a numbered sticker. #1 was In The Wind by Peter Paul and Mary.

Because my dad was in the Hi-Fi business, record companies often sent recordings to them as demos. Many of them ended up in either his or my collection. And since music of all kinds was encouraged in our home, my dad never begrudged me the funds to buy new albums. In fact, he had a Harvard Coop Card ( special credit card for those with affiliations to the unversity), and I had a copy of it. I was able to walk in to their relatively extensive record department, and buy what ever I wanted. I never abused the privelege, and to this day I still have 600 plus vinyl albums, most in excellent playing condition.

I can tell you what the very first CD I bought was when I got a CD player ( in 1993): Breaking Silence!

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[Judy]

"Lonesome Town" by Ricky Nelson...it was a 78, I think.

[David from London]

Confession time. 'Come the Day' by the Seekers. It cost 32s 6d - £1.62 or thereabouts.

[Des]

The Thompson Twins - Into The Gap

I'm not quite sure if they were twins - There were 3 band members, 1 white guy with ginger hair, 1 white woman with blonde hair and 1 black guy. Possible I suppose:confused:

[Racheldiva]

I have to put 2 in 1 here as I went out and bought Wow by Kate Bush and I Lost My Heart To A Starship Trouper by Sarah Brightman.
Now I'm blushing...:o

[Mike UK]

Beach Boys: I Get Around.

[DaveM]

First 45 bought: Stevie Wonder's "I Wish"

First Album: Linda Ronstadt's "Simple Dreams"

Gosh, we're all sort of revealing our ages here, aren't we? On top of everything else, my first stereo was a $30 "bargain room" purchase from Montgomery Ward's. I believe I was 13 at the time. It sounded about as good as the price would suggest.

[Eva]

Saturday Night Fever.
I think I was 10, 11 or 12. Something like that. I still like that record.

Eva

[Dee]

I am completely stumped on this question. However I can tell you that I once won from a radio station a 45 single of Roberta Flack singing Killing Me Softly, with Jesse on the B side. :D I also won from the same station an album of Alice Cooper's Billion Dollar Babies.

:rolleyes:

[Chet]

Confession time. 'Come the Day' by the Seekers. It cost 32s 6d - £1.62 or thereabouts.
David, in case you're wondering, yes, there is someone here on the board who knows the group you're talking about here - me. My sister, brother and I are all fans of Judith Durham and the boys.

[Dar]

but it was probably the Beatles a 45 of course from the Ben Franklin store.
either them or The Cowsills or The Monkees.

[Bat]

1951--78rpm, 10", "Plink, Plank, Plunk" by Leroy Anderson.
It was being played through speakers from a booth for something at the Ohio State Fair in Columbus, OH. I was there as a sax player in my local 4-H band, heard it and had to have it. First thing I did when I got home was go to the record store and get it. Mama liked it too, when I brought it home and played it for her. She didn't share my love for the classics, but what would you expect from an old sax player who was featured like a singer today in front of a 30s jazz band? She liked the Chicago sound, she told me once.
But she really did like Leroy Anderson...who didn't?

[mixtymotions]

The first 45 I bought was "Baby Elephant Walk" by Henry Mancini - I was 9 years old. I kept in my my prized 45 record box, which was decorated with musical notes. I collected so many 45's, thinking it frivolous to buy an entire album of songs, that I didn't buy my 1st album until Abbey Road. I wish I still had my collection...

[Wildflower Fever]

The first record ever bought FOR me was an Electric Light Orchestra album the name of which I can't recall, it was perhaps 1977. The first I remember buying with my OWN money would be U2-War, in I think 1982 or 1983 at age 11.:)

[DaveM]

Gosh, Dee....that reminds me: before I even had anything to play it on, I won a 45 from a radio station (WYOO...."U100"). It was a Gloria Gaynor single, "Never Can Say Goodbye" and something else. I may well still have it somewhere.

[geula]

First Album was "Meet the Beatles"
First 45 was Adamo's "Tombe La Neige"

[dutchcloggie]

First Album was "Meet the Beatles"
First 45 was Adamo's "Tombe La Neige"

Oooohh....nice choice. FOr some strange reason, I was 14 and I loved Adamo. Mind you, this was in 1989 so my friends thought I was totally weird and refused to be associated with me for this reason!! It could have been the fact that I also liked Charles Aznavour at that age.......

Anyway, my first record was a story-LP of The Famous Five. The first proper LP I bought was Chris DeBurgh's "Into the Light". My first 45 RPM was Tina Turner's "Girls"

[NinasSpaceChild]

Mike Oldfield's Tubular Bells. I think I was around 13 or 14 at the time. It would have been about 1986 or 87.

I went through a stage of about 4 years in my teens of really loving musicians such as Mike Oldfield, Jean Michel Jarre and Tangerine Dream. :D

[Manchester]

Although I'm a little older than you, we still have all those albums... did you see Tangerine Dream at the Apollo in Manchester? It was the first time I'd ever seen lasers used in a concert, what a brilliant show.

Oh well, 'fessing up time, first single bought; "Love Grows Where my Rosemary Goes" by Edison Lighthouse.
<runs away to hide>

[Chet]

I am glad I started this thread. So many songs and albums I can recognise - yes, I'm on the right message board. :cool:

[NinasSpaceChild]

I never got to see Tangerine Dream live though I have seen Mike once and Jean Michelle a couple of times.

I love lasers. :D

[Chet]

Have you ever seen Jean Michel Jarre work his laser harp? I've never seen him "live", only in video. Last year, to launch the Visit France Year in Chiina, he was invited to give an outdoor performance at Tiananmen Square. It was the first time I saw him peform "Fishing Junks at Sunset" which I first heard more than 20 years ago on his double Concerts in China LP (till today my favourite "live" LP).

[NinasSpaceChild]

Jean Michelle's original Live in China is my favourite of his albums. It used to frighten me years ago when he played the laser harp. It seemed so dangerous even with the protective gloves.

I was at the London Docklands concert that was filmed in the 80s and made into an album too. We all got soaking wet but had a great time. I also saw him in Manchester in the early 90s.

Chet, do you have the recent Jarre in China DVD? It has the best take of Fishing Junks at Sunset I've ever heard with a full Chinese orchestra and traditional instruments.

[Stephen]

The first I bought with my very own money was the soundtrack from 'The Endless Summer.' Surf music!

[Agnes]

LOL, oh you're going to laugh sooooooooooooo hard...

The best of the Platters (I was 9)

:D

[koji utumi]

In Japan '60,THE VENTURES is most famoues guiterband.
My firstrecord is THE VENTURES
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How About THE VENTURES were in america.

[Chet]

Jean Michelle's original Live in China is my favourite of his albums. It used to frighten me years ago when he played the laser harp. It seemed so dangerous even with the protective gloves.

I was at the London Docklands concert that was filmed in the 80s and made into an album too. We all got soaking wet but had a great time. I also saw him in Manchester in the early 90s.

Chet, do you have the recent Jarre in China DVD? It has the best take of Fishing Junks at Sunset I've ever heard with a full Chinese orchestra and traditional instruments.
The London Docklands CD is my most recent Jarre purchase.

Jarre in China - that's the one I was referring to when I said it was the first time I saw him playing "Fishing Junks at Sunset" "live".

[Chet]

LOL, oh you're going to laugh sooooooooooooo hard...

The best of the Platters (I was 9)

:D
Agnes - you have taste!

[Agnes]

And still so young, Chet ;) :D

[Pesky]

First 45 - "Music, Music, Music" by the Turtles
First LP - "I am Woman" by Helen Reddy
First CD - "Hejira" by Joni Mitchell

[mixtymotions]

Don't remember my 1st cd - how odd, however, 1st 8 track was Hot Tuna :cool:

[DaveM]

First CD was Brahms' 3rd Symphony, second was Jane Olivor's "The Best Side Of Goodbye". I don't remember my first 8-track, but do recall the last one to die: "Leo Kottke--The Best".

[Rkitko]

First CD I ever bought was the Fireworks! album by the Canadian Brass. :)

[Chet]

The first CD I ever bought - and I didn't even have a CD player at the time - was kdlang's Ingenue. Cuz that was the only format available then and I so wanted a copy, I went ahead and bought it, then took it back to work to make a cassette copy. I was working in a recording studio at the time.

A while later, I went shopping for a CD player, bringing along one of my colleagues, a sound engineer, to help me choose a good (but inexpensive) CD player. Along with that purchase, I bought two CDs, one of which was Carole King's Tapestry (can't remember what the other one was).

[Rkitko]

Ya know, I've never really given KD Lang a listen before. Perhaps I should.

And I only replied in general to the question as if it was asking what the first album I bought was... Never bought any vinyl and don't think I ever purchased any cassettes either. I'm too young to have caught any of that in its popularity, and so I grew up with CDs, though I still contend I was born in the wrong decade. Ever get that feeling?

[Agnes]

First CD I bought was "Dunblane", a heartbreaking tribute to the 16 kids and their teacher who got killed in 1996. Still tears me up.

[NinasSpaceChild]

The first CD I ever bought was a limited edition of Cher's "Love Hurts" album. I didn't even have CD player at the time but was an avid Cher collector back then. It must have been a gay thing. :D

[gisli]

koji utumi, I remember The Ventures, one either liked them or The Shadows. Bit like you either loved The Beatles or The Rolling Stones, or Wham versus Duran Duran.
I was a Ventures fan, had forgotten about them, still have a vinyl somewhere with them.

[jetcityhawk]

My first two albums were: HELP! by The Beatles and the soundtrack to the movie "Mary Poppins". My first 45 was (and I can even remember the picture on the sleeve) Patty Duke singing "Please, Don't Just Stand There" backed with "Everything But Love".

The first CD is ever bought (that format) was "The Broadway Album" by Barbra Streisand. I only bought it because there was a bonus cut not on the album or tape.

Marko

[snakegrl]

OK, I have to admit my first album was by The Jackson Five. But, as soon as puberty hit, I wanted a Whole Lotta Love.
Hey, I remember the Ventures. They did some really cool instrumentals.

[Stephen]

I remember The Ventures, one either liked them or The Shadows. Bit like you either loved The Beatles or The Rolling Stones, or Wham versus Duran Duran.
I was a Ventures fan, had forgotten about them, still have a vinyl somewhere with them.
The Shadows had largely a European audience, but I had some Ventures albums mixed in with 'real' surf bands like the Surfaris and Chantays and the aforementioned 'Endless Summer' album by the Sandals. Now, just a solitary Dick Dale CD...but then he invented the genre so I reckon I've got the best.

[Melba]

Without sounding like too much of a "kid"........albums and 8 tracks were gone by the time I purchased my own music. (Ducks flying objects from those who may think that's disgusting :o ) First cassette either Bruce Springsteen's "Born in the USA" (still love him) or the "Footloose" soundtrack. First CD most likely Tanya Tucker.

[Dar]

Ya know, I've never really given KD Lang a listen before. Perhaps I should.

And I only replied in general to the question as if it was asking what the first album I bought was... Never bought any vinyl and don't think I ever purchased any cassettes either. I'm too young to have caught any of that in its popularity, and so I grew up with CDs, though I still contend I was born in the wrong decade. Ever get that feeling?


Oh Ritko, you should!! KD has a really lovely voice.

[Dee]

Without sounding like too much of a "kid"........albums and 8 tracks were gone by the time I purchased my own music.

O lordy Melba, count your blessings! My parents had an 8-track player and it was so irritating to listen to those things. Just when you were getting into the groove of a song, there would be sudden loud *click* in the middle of a song as the unit switched tracks. Worst music technology ever!

[Melba]

Dee, I did have to endure the 8-track madness....my parents had 8 track players in both cars...its just that by the time I was old enough to buy my own music with my own money, it was cassettes. My mom kept those 8-tracks for years because my brother had an old stereo that would play them. She had John Denver, Simon and Garfunkel, Neil Diamond....I appreciated those artists then.

[Dee]

In that case you have my complete sympathy, Melba!

Can you imagine ...

I hope the wind is at your back
keeping you on track
that you never la*CLICK*ack for love

Oy. No, that just wouldn't sound the same somehow.

[marjan]

The first album I bought was an album from Shocking Blue, it had the songs Venus, Ink Spot and Never merrie a railroad man on it.
The first single I bought was Mijn Testament by DC Lewis.

[Fursky]

Dionn Warwick - "Anyone Who Had a Heart"

[Chet]

The first album I bought was an album from Shocking Blue, it had the songs Venus, Ink Spot and Never merrie a railroad man on it.
The first single I bought was Mijn Testament by DC Lewis.
Hey, marjan

You've brought back some memories for me.

I still have the "Venus" single in my collection. Despite the band's name, the center of the single was a shocking pink colour.

[MadMusician]

The first album I received as a gift was "Meet The Beatles".
At 16, I started working at a Dog n Suds (remember carhops?) and with my first paycheck I went out and bought 3 albums...
Tapestry - Carole King
Ram - Paul & Linda McCartney
Led Zeppelin IV
Even though I still have all the albums, I have repurchased 2 of the 3 on CD.

[soulMerlin]

Young Love - tab hunter

cost= 5s 6p

Date: 1957

[Kathleen Brogan]

First vinyl, "Beatles VI" First Janis vinyl, "Stars" (didn't know about the earlier ones at the time.) 1st CD, "Between the Lines", in fact, that's why I bought a CD player! And, of course, at the time it was the only Janis CD available in the US. This was pre "Breaking Silence". First 8 track "Secret Life of J Eddy Fink", bought an 8-track player just to hear it!

[Chet]

Kathleen - do you still have that Secret Life 8-track and does the 8-trck machine still work?

[Bryan]

First singe was "Make Me Smile" by Chicago. And I think the first album was by Chicago too. But the first record to really matter to me was Joni Mitchell's "Court and Spark."

[Kathleen Brogan]

I no longer have either. None of my 8-tracks lasted. I always hated the way they stopped in the middle of songs and had a continuation. That one stopeed in the middle of "Mistaken Identity". The only exception on the Janis 8 tracks is "Janis Ian II" where they repeated the title "The Bridge".

[Pesky]

I know some of you are talking about Surfer music or Beach music, even though I don't know the bands. There's a talk show host, Rollye James". She's political, and while I couldn't disagree with her polictics more, her claim to fame is that she can tell you 45 trivia of that genre over a long period of time. She's also been in radio forever, and has interesting stories to tell in that vein.

Just thought some of you might be interested. Rollyejames.net

Best Thread Ever!
Pesky

[Jan de Vries]

" My way" sung by Samantha Jones.


Jan from Holland

[Bill_L]

Peter, Paul and Mary - "Peter, Paul and Mary" in "Mono".

[wormwoman1951]

The first 45 I bought was Chubby Checker "The Twist" and I think the first LP was Patty Duke "Don't Just Stand There". Far, far 2 many years ago. But I still have both of them.
Charlene

[Lincoln Imp]

The first 45 I bought with my own dosh was Melting Pot by Blue Mink. The fist album was The Plan by The Osmonds (stop laughing, I am still a sensitive chid!!) The first cd I bought was, well, I bought 2 on the same day, Jean Michel Jarre's Rendezvous and Chris de Burgh's Eastern Wind in 1986 I think. :eek:

[DaveM]

It's almost humorous, in retrospect, that people put up with 8-track players as long as they did. Sooner or later, you'd hear that "scrunching" sound from inside and when you pulled the cartridge out.....tape salad! And the split in half songs....I can remember when I upgraded everything to CDs and kept waiting for the track to switch in mid-song!

An old fellow in my neighborhood has an American Motors Matador with in-dash 8-track player. He is the only person I know of to have survived both an American Motors product AND an 8-track player. Must be a tough old guy.

I wonder if he still listens to 8-track tapes?