What's the first record album or single that you ever owned?

[True Dough]

For me, as a 10-year-old who hung around with a group of guys about three or four years my senior, I got my hands on this (without my parents knowledge, at least until they heard me play it at home):

[RandySF]

1. Men At Work

[Boxerfan]

2. Hey Hey!

The 1st Monkies album and I had my Mom drive me to the record store. I also remember singing a song I wanted to buy to the poor guy at the counter- but I think it was another album.

[TexasBushwhacker]

52. That was mine too

My first single was Help.

[Scrivener7]

3. Yes: Fragile.

[TlalocW]

4. Do You Love Me - Rock Afire Explosion featuring Beach Bear

The Rock Afire Explosion was the animatronic band at Showbiz Pizza Place.

TlalocW

[Bluethroughu]

17. The Volo auto mall and antiques have the Show Biz Pizza

Animatronic band in their pizza place. It was very weird to see now.

Volo, IL

[TlalocW]

44. When I was a kid

And we went to Showbiz for my birthday party, I spent the entire time in the arcade looking over my shoulder because that damn gorilla on keyboards LOOKED. RIGHT. AT. ME.

Freaked me out.

TlalocW

[Bluethroughu]

62. Felt the same way....he's just looking a tad scarier with the

matted, missing, and dusty hair.

[CountAllVotes]

5. Meet the Beatles

!!!

& recommend !!

[bahboo]

14. same here...still have it...

[CountAllVotes]

26. So do I

Mono version (Capitol Records)

[bahboo]

35. yep, mono as well....

I think they were a dollar or two cheaper than stereo, which was a big deal back then...

[Auggie]

96. Same here

[LakeArenal]

61. My album Meet the Beatles; my 45 was She Loves You.

I still have both.

[Trueblue1968]

86. i liked the beatles too but mine was LESLEY GORE .... IT'S MY PARTY & I'LL CRY IF I WANT TO

AND THIS SONG.......... I still love it.

The Angels
"My Boyfriend's Back" was a hit song in 1963 for The Angels, an American girl group.

Go get him girl. Beat him bl***dy for wrecking your reputation!!
~~~~~> Girl you don't need a guy to fight your battles, you can get that rotten boy yourself!!

PETULA CLARK WAS ALSO AWESOME.

ILIKED THE GIRL SINGERS ..... "young women on the charts was higher. One third of the hits on the Silver Dollar Sound Survey and the week’s Pick Hit (the Crystals’ “Then He Kissed Me”) were sung by women, solo or in groups: “Just One Look,” “My Boyfriend’s Back,” “Easier Said Than Done,” “Judy’s Turn to Cry,” “(Love Is Like a) Heat Wave,” “One Fine Day,” “Hello Stranger,” “Wait ‘Til My Bobby Gets Home.” If you throw Mary Travers and Inez Foxx into the mix, the female representation gets even higher. By the end of August, add the Jaynettes, the Ronettes, the Raindrops, the Charmettes, Ruby and the Romantics. It was like top 40 radio was one big slumber party, with the girls (through, it has to be said, lyrics written mostly by guys, on records produced and arranged mostly by guys) talkin’ ’bout boys, the boys eavesdropping through the power of 50,000-watt radio."

https://rockandrollglobe.com/pop/1963-the-year-girl-groups-broke/

[leftieNanner]

6. The Beach Boys

Surfer Girl.

Even saw them in person when I was 12 at the Cow Palace (near San Francisco). AND because I was a card carrying member of the Beach Boys Fan Club, security allowed me to go back stage for autographs!! (swoon)

[ProudMNDemocrat]

7. Hey Harmonica Man... Little Stevie Wonder

45 single 1963

[IcyPeas]

8. Happy Jack by The Who

[crud]

16. Same here at my 6th grade birthday party

Along with 'don't you want somebody to love' Jefferson Airplane

[IcyPeas]

31. I also had Secret Agent Man by Johnny Rivers at or around the same time

[a kennedy]

9. Shoot, can't copy the cover...Santana,She's got to change her evil ways......favorite

Santana| White Lion Art Album Cover.

[True Dough]

32. Like so...

or so...

[a kennedy]

48. Yes, yes, yes, and thanks.......

[Bluethroughu]

10. Yes, 90125

Owner of a lonely heart

[Lochloosa]

47. Saw the tour...great band

[Bluethroughu]

63. Wow, could only wish it was me!

[Elessar Zappa]

11. Does this question include CDs?

If so, then Dookie by Green Day. I was about 10.

[Bluethroughu]

18. Love that one.

[Walleye]

12. Chuck Berry,

https://m.

[FalloutShelter]

13. First single 45 I owned was

Dock in the Bay, by Otis Redding.

[PXR-5]

15. Beatles 64

I don't remember my first singles, many were probably top 40 hits.

I still have an unopened Pink Floyd Dark Side of the Moon on 8 track

[Lochloosa]

39. Hold on to that one. That might be your retirement vacation.

[regnaD kciN]

67. I assume you mean "Beatles '65"...

...as there wasn't an album named "Beatles 64."

[PXR-5]

87. Well, I don't remember what

I had for dinner two days ago lol.

[MFM008]

19. Jesus Christ

Superstar when it came out.

[rurallib]

20. An early Beatles album, probably 'Meet the Beatles'

The first I almost played the grooves away on was "Rubber Soul"

[True Dough]

33. You've got company

Posts #5 and 14.

[Lochloosa]

21. Best live album ever...Johnny Cash at Folsom Prison

Well maybe At Fillmore East by the Alman Brothers was #1...but it's a close second

[madamesilverspurs]

22. Shadrack

Parents gave me a record player for my birthday, it came with a Kay Starr album.
My next allowance let me make my own selection.


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[DBoon]

23. I think it was "Best of Cream"

[dem4decades]

24. Introducing The Beatles. Came out 10 days before Meet the Beatles.

My sister got Meet the Beatles, it was the more desired record.

[Runningdawg]

25. First single - These Boots Are Made For Walking First Album - Deep Purple Machine Head

[FirstLight]

27. 1977, Shaun Cassidy Born Late

I was literally only 7 but he and Davy Jones were my first girl celebrity crushes

[elleng]

28. DARN, can't recall name of record I asked grandpa to get for me,edit:

when he asked what I'd like. (HOPE I recall it SOON!)

THIS: 1956 HITS ARCHIVE: Canadian Sunset - Hugo Winterhalter & Eddie Heywood (a #1 record)

[MyOwnPeace]

29. Oh, you kids!

Tennessee Ernie Ford - 16 tons!

And I'm betting that Joe Manchin HATES this one!

[elleng]

56. WITH YOU!

September 17, 1955, Ford recorded “Sixteen Tons”

'Mine' = 1956 HITS ARCHIVE: Canadian Sunset - Hugo Winterhalter & Eddie Heywood

[underpants]

30. I really cheaply made CCR Greatest Hits album

I might still own it. Not sure. One of the song had an cho/ghost on it that followed Fogarty’s voice by about 2 seconds.

Many singles before that.

[Groundhawg]

34. Billy Idol Rebel Yell

[True Dough]

37. I still love hearing Billy Idol tunes when they come on the radio

White Wedding, Eyes Without a Face, Mony Mony, Flesh for Fantasy, To be a Lover. Cradle of Love and others.

[billh58]

36. Earth Angel

by the Penguins, 1955

[AZSkiffyGeek]

38. First album was Destroyer

My parents forgot to send in the Columbia House card.

[True Dough]

40. You were several year ahead of me with my Dynasty

Such an iconic cover to Destroyer:

[Ocelot II]

41. Do wax cylinders count? I'm pretty old.

[True Dough]

46. Was this yours?

[Mme. Defarge]

42. The Soundtrack from Ben Hur

[choie]

43. First album: Jesus Christ Superstar (by way of my older sister)

First single: Crocodile Rock in 1973

[Arkansas Granny]

45. First album - "That Happy Feeling", Bert Kaempfert,

first single - "Lazy, Hazy, Crazy Days of Summer", Nat King Cole.

[BarbaRosa]

49. A Little Bitty Tear

Burl Ives

[FuzzyRabbit]

50. Four song 45 RPM by Elvis. My aunt bought it for me in 1956.

"Hound Dog", "Don't Be Cruel", "I Want You I Need You I love You", and one other song. I think I still have it somewhere.

[HoosierDebbie]

51. I got a simple record player for Christmas

and my brother bought me the Association's album with Wendy. Everyone knows its Wendy!

[bedazzled]

53. Dizzy .... Tommy roe

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First album .... we can fly by the cowsills.

[dweller]

54. 1967

I remember buying Strawberry Fields Forever on 45 bc my older brother had Taxman (1966) and I thought he’d like it too …
First album was a cover of Monkees tunes probably put out by Kirshner of 2nd rate musicians … learned a lesson since I couldn’t play it on a 45 turntable 😐
First album I remember after that was After the Gold Rush (1970)
and Mudslide Slim and the Blue Horizon ..
by then I was allowed to use the ‘rent’s stereo… my dad had the turntable in a closet in the den, and speaker (1) played through a hole in the wall that was covered with a picture frame of a saxophone on tweed cloth in the living room 😀
My dad listened to various artists, Ray Charles, Joni James, Dinah Washington, and numerous country performers … Neil Young and JT might have bent the stylus needle, bc I got a plastic cased fold up portable stereo soon after that I played in the basement where I roomed with 2 brothers …
boy, memories 🤔

(post #54, the year I was born)

✌🏻

[rsdsharp]

55. Technically, it was a cassette. I got a Panasonic cassette player

for Christmas 1968. My older brother gave me this:

https://m.

There was also a jazz guitar cassette. I don’t remember who that was, and I’m too lazy to go downstairs and look for it in the rack (yes, I still have both).

[The Magistrate]

57. 'Freak Out' By the Mothers of Invention, Sir

Was the first i bought with my own money.

[Goonch]

58. ;-{)🖖‍

[GP6971]

59. Elvis Presley Single Hound Dog. n/t

[Mr.Bill]

60. Chubby Checker's Twist album.

I was about seven years old. It was a gift. I did enjoy it.

[patphil]

64. The Ventures: Walk Don't Run

[Ferrets are Cool]

65. Green Eyed Lady

Sugarloaf

[LuckyCharms]

66. Zappa - Burnt Weenie Sandwich.

[True Dough]

70. You went from Weeny

to just Ween.

[LuckyCharms]

71. OMG

I never looked at it that way....but you're right!

[regnaD kciN]

69. Harry Belafonte - "Day-O"...

My parents had it on LP, but I wanted a copy of my own to play on the portable 45 player in my room, so my aunt tracked it down on a visit to San Francisco. (Obviously, I was a little kid at the time.)

My first album, from about the same time, was likely one of a series of Disney soundtrack albums for their animated films, that contained the songs, a narration, and a booklet in the gatefold with pictures and a synopsis. A different aunt worked for Disney, and got them for free, so they got passed along to us. Here's a Discogs page with a listing of the entire series; I have no idea which of them I would have gotten first.

[Marthe48]

72. I think it was Miles Davis Sketches of Spain

I know it was Miles Davis, just not sure what the album was called.

[Tikki]

73. The 45rpm "Willie and the Hand Jive"....Johnny Otis (1958)

My first album was a gift, the album...Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music..Ray Charles (1962)

I bought the (1961) released James Ray album If You Go To Make A Fool Of Somebody in 1962
with my own money.


(1961)

Tikki

[sinkingfeeling]

74. 'Diana' sung by Paul Anka on a 45 is the first record I bought. My grandfather had

given me 'Tennessee Waltz' by Patti Page when I was younger.

[yellowdogintexas]

88. my first LP was Paul Anka! He was my first celebrity crush. nt

[lame54]

75. Toys in the Attic

[Boomerproud]

76. More of the Monkees.

I was also playing all of my brother's albums and 45s.

[AngryOldDem]

77. Meet the Monkees

Birthday gift when I was 7.


EDIT — Geeze, am I feeling old. Some of these albums I bought when I was in college….

[Harker]

78. First 45 a hand me down copy of Bobby Darin's "Splish Splash."

I had a potpourri of comedy and music albums as a kid, but the first one I remember buying was Three Dog Night's "One."

[malthaussen]

79. First album: Meet the Beatles

But I bought it in 1966.

First single: can't remember. Might have been "Help Me, Rhonda."

-- Mal

[Coventina]

80. "Celebration" by Kool & the Gang.

I still love it!!

[whistler162]

81. Four Ace's - It's A Woman's World

I think my mom's mother's foster sister gave it to me when I was born. Prefer the flip side The Cuckoo Bird In The Pickle Tree. Still have it though my younger brother ruined the sleeve.

[Earth-shine]

82. A single of Aerosmith's Dream On

My first Kiss album was Destroyer.

[RobinA]

83. LP

was the Rolling Stone's Hot Rocks and single was American Pie. I still have the album, not sure about the 45. It might be around somewhere.

[Ohio Joe]

84. Blizzard of Ozz

Through my late teens, I was able to get by with my parents and older siblings records. It was a really amazing collection all put together but the first one I bought was Ozzy's first solo Blizzard of Ozz, a great album.

[True Dough]

85. I think by the time I was age 6

I derived great joy from playing "deejay" with my parents' vinyl collection. I would randomly pick albums and songs and would be pleased when they would sing along and sometimes dance if they were on their feet.

They got a kick out of it too, even though I was occasionally scratching some of their best record albums.

[yellowdogintexas]

89. My mom's stepbrothers gave me "Skokian" and "Sh-boom" to play

on my new record player. It came with some Disney 78s but these were the first 45s.

Thanks to those Disney records I know the names of all 7 dwarfs.

[Demovictory9]

90. probably Jackson 5 or something motown

[Upthevibe]

91. My first album that I purchased (with my own money-

my allowance) was Abbey Road....

[frogmarch]

92. The Student Prince (1954)

In 1956, I was 12 and my sister 14. Mom, who taught geography in middle school, told us she'd heard talk in the teachers' lounge about how a vulgar, hip-swiveling new singer named Edmund Purdom had become a teen idol, and Mom made it clear to us that we were to never buy his records. So my sister and I saved and pooled our allowance money and bought the LP record featuring music from the 1954 movie The Student Prince, which starred Edmund Purdom as the prince. We played the record over and over and loved it, just as we later loved the movie when we saw it.

Actor Edmund Purdom had the starring role, but tenor Mario Lanza did the actual singing.

We never did tell Mom she'd confused the name Edmund Purdom with that of Elvis Presley.

Our favorite song from the album:

[smirkymonkey]

93. Fleetwood Mac - Rumors

[True Dough]

95. What a way to start out!

Many, many albums after that one would have been quite disappointing by comparison!

[MissMillie]

94. Moody Blues -- A Question of Balance

but I bought it LONG after it was released

[marie999]

97. Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto #2

[True Dough]

98. We will...

We will Rach you!

[Mad_Dem_X]

99. The Grease soundtrack, IIRC

I was 11 years old and obsessed with that movie.