What was the first 45 record you owned? What was the first LP?

[cyberswede]

Mine:

45: The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald - I got it for x-mas when I was 10.
(I heard this on the radio this morning, which inspired this thread)



LP: Morrison Hotel - my sister gave me her copy when I was 12 (she received it as a gift, but I liked it better)

[onehandle]

1. 45: Strawberry Fields Forever (hand me down from older brother in very early 70s)

LP: Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Band (Bought it with allowance money)

[cyberswede]

3. Once I started babysitting...

I'd go to the record store & buy my weekly favorite 45 for 99 cents. I still have them all - some are pretty bad! LOL!

I also have some cool hand-me-down 45s and LPs that my older sibs no longer wanted - including In-a-gadda-da-vida.

[Ptah]

2. 45 - B. Bumble And The Stingers - Bumble Boogie

LP: Roger Miller - Roger and Out

[cyberswede]

6. Cool!

I've never heard Bumble Boogie, so I checked it out on Youtube - awesome rendition of Rimsky-Korsakov.

...and OMG that Roger Miller album has "Dang Me" - one of my faves!

[Arkansas Granny]

13. I had that same Roger Miller album. I still remember most of the lyrics and quote them from time

to time when the situation warrants.

"The moon is high and so am I. The stars are out and so will I be, pretty soon." is one of my favorite lines.

[malthaussen]

4. Can't remember my first 45

My first LP was Meet the Beatles, although I had to wait until 1966 to get it.

-- Mal

[cyberswede]

7. Do you still have it?

I bet it's a collector's item. My older siblings weren't into the Beatles, I guess - none of them had any Beatles albums for me to appropriate for myself.

[malthaussen]

9. Yeah, I still have it.

Don't have a turntable anymore, but some of my vinyl I kept for nostalgic reasons. The Meet the Beatles LP isn't special because it is not the first pressing.

-- Mal

[cyberswede]

15. I have a turntable AND a record payer with a 78 setting...

I love records, and I make my kids (ages 12 and 10) listen to them sometimes, so they know what they are. LOL

I bought an old school record player (literally from a school), so I can play my collection of old jazz 78s.



My other turntable is a B&O that looks like this:



I thought about getting a USB turntable, so I could rip my albums, but I can probably find them online, if I need digital copies. I like the sound of records, warts and all.

[MiddleFingerMom]

5. MiddleFingeMomSis had bought the 45 of "Dirty Water" by The Standells and I fell in LOVE with it.

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I dumped all the toys out of my big cardboard "oil barrel" drum, turned it upside
down and would drum for HOURS along with the record. MiddleFingerMomMom
made my sister buy it back from me and peace once again reigned over our
household (for the time being).
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My first album was The Frost's "Frost Music" -- kind of a psychelic local Detroit-
area band with Dick Wagner on guitar. He went on to become half of the incredible
dual guitar work on the opening to Lou Reed's "Rock and Roll Animal" and played
for a long time with Alice Cooper's band.
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[cyberswede]

10. Yeah - playing along with records - fun!

I used to play my saxophone along with Paul Revere & the Radiers' version of Louie Louie when I was in 6th or 7th grade - I bet my household was sick of hearing that after the umpteenth time in a row! LOL.

I dig that Frost song - I hadn't heard of them before.

[Arkansas Granny]

8. The first 45 that I bought with my own money was probably "Lazy, Hazy Crazy Days of Summer" by

Nat King Cole. The first LP was either "That Happy Feeling" by Bert Kaempfert or "Roger and Out" by Roger Miller. I got them both in the same time period, but I can't remember which one was first.

[cyberswede]

12. Nat is great!

That's a fun tune! When you hear it does it remind you of summer when you were young?

There a certain songs that were played at the pool when I was a kid, and whenever I hear them, I can almost smell the chlorine (Wings' Silly Love Songs, for example).

[Arkansas Granny]

14. It takes me right back to that summer. Music has a way of doing that.

I have songs that I will forever associate with an event or person or a place that was important in my life when it was playing.

For that reason I have always hated (yes, *hated*) "Summer in the City" by John Sebastian. I was pregnant with my first child and my "morning sickness" lasted all day long. I puked to that song so often that for years afterward, if I heard the opening notes I would have to turn it off. To this day, my stomach rolls over if I hear it.

[Rod Walker]

11. Not sure about 45 singles, but this was the first LP I bought:

[cyberswede]

16. Wow - other than the theme song...

I didn't realize there was enough music associated with the show for a whole album. Fun!

I have the 1966 Batman movie on DVD, and my kids LOVE it! I think the series is on the HUB channel once in a while - I should record a few for the kiddos.

[Rod Walker]

17. All the music for the show was composed by Nelson Riddle!

[MiddleFingerMom]

18. What a GREAT first album!!!

[Rod Walker]

19. I was 5 years old at the time. Played the album to death.

[Flashmann]

20. What was the first 45 record you owned? What was the first LP?

My memory of things from a half century ago is sometimes faulty...

Best As I can recall,my first 45 was the Safaris "Wipe Out/Surfer Joe"

No doubt about my first LP,though..."Meet the Beatles"

[cyberswede]

30. I don't remember hearing surf tunes till American Graffiti came out

We used to dress up in skirts & bobby socks in the 70s and have our own sock hops to the AG soundtrack.

[Flashmann]

43. skirts & bobby socks

I started school,kindergarten,in 1957.I remember,probably as late as 4th-5th grade,the older girls dressing in skirts & bobby socks.Sandle Oxford shoes too!... I remember my Mom dressing that way and still have pictures of her in those clothes,from when I was 7-8 years old.

I got my Beatles LP at age 10,in the 5th grade.The surf sound,Beach Boys,Jan and Dean,Safaris,Ventures came along a year or 2 later...I know "Wipeout" was still in top 50 radio play,(WLS-Chicago) when I got a set of drums for Christmas at age 12...

[Viva_La_Revolution]

21. 45: Rolling Stones. Shattered and Everything is Turning to Gold.

I think I acquired it from a pile of stuff left by one of the Aunts and Uncles as they moved away from home. The first time I played it I loved the B side and hated Shattered. Now I can't remember what the b side sounds like, and Shattered is a favorite.

LP: I was 12, and he was so hot...

[cyberswede]

31. Ahh...Shawn!

My best friend had a couple of his records - he made us swoon! (we were 11)

And we'd sing along with the Bay City Rollers, too (S-A-T-U-R...D-A-Y...Night!)

[archiemo]

46. You are so right!!! He was my first concert too!!!

[olddots]

22. Tooti Fruiti by Little Richard was the single

Jimmy Reed at Carnagie Hall was the L.P.

[cyberswede]

32. My brother gave me this hand-me-down...

...which has Tutti Frutti on it. I didn't appreciate Little Richard as much as Jimi back then, but I was 13 or 14 at the time.

[Bertha Venation]

23. 45: Daniel. LP: Chuck Girard (eponymous)

[cyberswede]

33. Never heard of Chuck Girard...

but I dig the song Daniel (one of Elton John's better songs, imo).

[Bertha Venation]

64. Chuck Girard was one of the first

big names at the beginning of the Christian rock (or "contemporary Christian&quot music era. I would put that sucker on the turntable, put on my headphones (which were bigger than a used Toyota) and blast away. I was twelve years old. I still remember how to play my favorite song from that record.

And agreed re Daniel.

[ConcernedCanuk]

24. First LP was Mozart in Prague at the age of 13 (me)

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Have no idea what my 1st 45 was, but I had many.

But I do remember having

96 Tears

Summer in the City

Brown eyed Girl

and so on

CC

[cyberswede]

34. Were others in your household classical fans?

Cool that you liked Mozart at a young age. I took piano lessons, so I was familiar with various composers, but didn't own any albums until I was older (they're on CD).

Sounds like you have fun 45s!

[ConcernedCanuk]

39. My father played piano most evenings

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Father could play anything on a a sheet of music.

I remember listening to him play many times as a child as I went to sleep.

It was mostly classical, but he played some fun stuff too - but not usually in the late evening.

I also took piano lessons, from the age of 7 - 15.

My "repertoire" now ranges from "Beethoven to the Beatles" - including a few tunes and songs I composed and wrote myself - nope - none recorded.

CC

[walkerbait41]

25. My first 45

That`ll be the day by Buddy Holly. Don`t remember first LP

[cyberswede]

35. Love Buddy Holly!

That song is on the American Graffiti soundtrack, which introduced me to a lot of early rock-n-roll when I was 7 or 8 (older siblings had the album).

[Smarmie Doofus]

26. Something by the Young Rascals ( But not "Groovin' " )

Or it might have been "Hooked on a Feeling", by BJ Thomas.

Gimme a break; i was about 11.

[cyberswede]

36. The Young Rascals song wasn't "Good Lovin'" was it?

Great tune (I'm a big fan of the Grateful Dead version - it's one of the songs I remember from when my husband and I met).

[Smarmie Doofus]

42. I think it was this one:

Though Good Lovin' was their ( Ed Sullivan Show) breakthrough hit.

Part of the fascination for me was that the lead singer, Felix Cavalieri, came from my tiny hometown. ( Pelham, NY).

But they were actually a pretty good band.

[6000eliot]

45. The video on your post was Shaun Cassidy

When I clicked "reply" to alert you, though, The Young Rascals showed up. Weird!

[Behind the Aegis]

27. 1st 45 was "Freak Out" by Le Chic.

I don't remember what my first LP was. My first CD, though, was "Erotica" by Madonna.

[cyberswede]

37. Man...my older siblings eschewed disco, so I didn't get into it much back then.

Now, however, I love it when disco tunes come on the oldies station!

And I swear there are some current pop tunes that my kids listen to that have a disco vibe (Bruno Mars' Treasure, for example). It had to happen some time.

[JeanieJeanie]

28. Ahh...memories

The Beatles - 1962-1966 or more commonly known as The Red Album. It changed my life of course!

[cyberswede]

38. I wasn't born till '66...

But some of my older siblings were teenagers by then.

My oldest sister taught me to sing Yellow Submarine when I was about 3 - it's still one of my favorite Beatles songs.

[reflection]

29. Not sure about the 45, but the first LP was "Fly By Night"

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[cyberswede]

40. Man...my first Rush album was Hemispheres...

I saved babysitting money & bought all the rest after that.

I read somewhere once that Rush fans fall into two groups: pre- and post-Signals.

I believe it, and I'm definitely in the pre-Signals group.

[reflection]

41. That is true.

And I am pre-Signals as well. Caress of Steel is my favorite.

Hopped a plane from TN to London last month to see the boys in London.

[OriginalGeek]

50. That's surely mostly true however

I am an exception and so is my friend. In fact, he is the reason I am an exception. I loved pretty much everything about all the Rush albums through Signals but didn't get into GUP or anything after that for a long time - I met my friend in the mid-90s and he was a Rush fan whose first Rush experiences where all the later stuff - He loved all that stuff and as we got to know each other his love for Power Windows and Presto and others kinda got infectious and I started listening to the post-Signals stuff and now there are many many songs from the the rest of Rush that I love and love to hear live. He also started listening to the older stuff because that's all I ever played for him. Nowadays we go to every Rush show that comes through and love every single minute.

[6000eliot]

44. 45 "Last Train to Clarksville" by The Monkees

Birthday gift from my parents. LP is a tie Ringo by Ringo Starr, Band on the Run by Paul McCartney and Wings and Goodbye Yellow Brick Road by Elton John, all bought with my first paycheck from my first job.

[cyberswede]

56. I loved the Monkees

I must have watched the show in reruns, but I remember the songs from earlier.

They payed Wings at the pool a lot when I was a tween.

[lastlib]

47. First LP was the Eagles' first album--still have it.

not sure what my first 45 was...might've been "Joy to the World" (Three Dog Night) or "Signs" (Five-Man Electrical Band)

[cyberswede]

58. Is "Joy to the World" the one that starts...

"Jeremiah was a bullfrog..."? I remember that one from when I was a kid.

[lastlib]

69. yup, 'tis!

"...Was a good friend of mine!
Never understood a single word he said,
But I helped him drink his wine!"

[datasuspect]

48. 45 - Holy Holy b/w Black Country Rock

album - black sabbath

[cyberswede]

59. Good stuff!

Have you heard the new Sabbath album, 13? I like it!

[polly7]

49. Seasons In The Sun

I played that thing over and over until it wore out. I hate it now.

[cyberswede]

61. LOL!

I played my faves over and over, too.

I remember Seasons in the Sun - did it come out around the same time as The Night Chicago Died? I seem to associate those two songs, for some reason...

[polly7]

62. I'm not sure, I was pretty young and just remember having to have it

and using my first babysitting money to get it with. My older sister had a little portable record player and I'd sneak it into my room at night and play that thing over and over and over.

[Trajan]

51. 45 - Incense and Peppermints

Strawberry Alarm Clock ...

First LP ? ... Pretty sure it was The Beatles Sgt Peppers ...

Still amazed by A Day In The Life ... and

Lucy in the
Sky with
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[cyberswede]

66. I like all those early "psychedelic" songs...

Incense & Peppermints and Journey to the Center of Your Mind...stuff like that.

Unfortunately, I can't think about Lucy in the Sky... without hearing the Shatner version. LOL

[Iggo]

52. 45? Probably Beatles.

First album I bought with my own money? Nazareth's Hair Of The Dog.

[cyberswede]

67. My older sister was a big Nazareth fan in the 70s

Have you ever heard any of their more recent stuff?

[Iggo]

71. I don't think I've heard anything besides what's on that album.

Some excellent proto-metal. Kind of Saxon with a western lean (even though they ain't from around here.)

I'll check out their other stuff. Thanks for the tip.

[Art_from_Ark]

53. The first 45 record that I had that was supposedly exclusively mine

was probably this one:



The first LP I ever owned was Saint-Saens' Greatest Hits, which I bought at the tender age of 11.

[cyberswede]

75. I had to Google Saint-Saens...

What made you like that at age 11? It's great!

[Art_from_Ark]

78. My music teacher used to play "Danse Macabre" for us every year at Halloween

It was *always* something I looked forward to. After she played it for Halloween in the 6th grade, I realized that that would be the last year I would be able to have that experience, but I loved that music so much I just had to order it from the local music store. The only recordings that were available at the time were on LPs, so when the music store got "Saint-Saens' Greatest Hits" in stock, I just had to buy it. And after I got that album, I started listening to the other tracks, and found that the final movement of the 3rd Symphony and the Fossils and Finale from "Carnival of the Animals" really drove me wild. "Fossils", in fact, was quite reminiscent of "Danse Macabre".

[rurallib]

54. I don't remember buying 45s - meet the Beatles was my first LP

My nest was Rubber Soul IIRC - then about 5 years of madcap purchases.

[cyberswede]

74. What constitutes a madcap purchase?

I'm dying to know!

[rurallib]

83. monkees, dave clark 5, rolling stones, lovin' spoonfull

pretty much the usual - our family never bought records much except me.

[cyberswede]

85. You rebel!

Those are all good - I have the Stones' Sticky Fingers (and yes, I unzipped the zipper to see what was behind it - LOL). I also have a Monkees album, but I think I bought that at a used record store when I was in college.

[RebelOne]

55. My first 45 was Bill Haley and the Comets Rock Around the Clock

[cyberswede]

72. I remember when that was the Happy Days theme.

[GReedDiamond]

57. 45: The Trashmen, "Surfin' Bird"...LP: Blind Faith, "Blind Faith"...

...with the "clean" cover art, as originally released in the USA in 1969.

[cyberswede]

73. I didn't know there was a "clean" cover.

I wouldn't want my daughter's photo on a cover like that.

Great music, though. My favorite song is Do What You Like.

[GReedDiamond]

80. It was the back cover of the European release...

...or a variation on that.



On Edit: The band looks like a bunch of leering perverts, they are way scarier than the girl on the other scary cover.

<insert sarcasm tag here>

[Apophis]

60. Never had one.

I grew up with cassettes. First one I got was in 1989.

[cyberswede]

68. Well?

What was it?!?

I subscribed to Columbia records when I was a teenager, and I got a bunch of "albums" on cassette (AC/DC, Zeppelin, etc). I still have them, but they sound pretty crappy.

[Apophis]

70. I'm too embarrassed to say.

I was the only black boy in my classroom who was a fan of the New Kids on the Block.

[Taverner]

63. Stevie Wonder - Superstition - 1973

And I was three years old

I heard him play that song on Sesame Street and I was forever hooked

[cyberswede]

76. That's pretty cool!

Did you get your parents to buy it for you?

This is too cool not to post!

[Taverner]

79. Yes they did - every time this segment came on I would dance around like mad

[kwassa]

65. Sam the Sham and the Pharoahs "Li'l Red Riding Hood" was the 45.

I think "Rubber Soul" by the Beatles was the first LP.

[cyberswede]

77. I've heard that song a million times, but...

I've never seen that cover with the costumes! Awesome!

[GReedDiamond]

81. KnR...NT

[WCGreen]

82. I Wanna Hold Your Hand...

Rubber Soul...

[cyberswede]

88. Good solid stuff

Do you (or did you) have other Beatles albums?

[WCGreen]

95. Got them all on CD's now...

When I was a kid, back in the 60's, I even bought the record of the Beatles Story with was very disappointing.

The records were lost in a fire.

[cyberswede]

97. No!!

Man, I hate to hear that. I hope you didn't lose anything too meaningful in the fire.

[WCGreen]

98. That and some of my comic book collection...

The records had been seen a lot of wear and tear so they had only sentimental value. The set we bought was the originals as released in England...

[Submariner]

84. You ain't Nuthin But a Hound Dog

by Elvis the Pelvis.

[cyberswede]

89. Classic!

...yet scandalous!

[NewJeffCT]

86. My dad gave me his old 45s and 78s

I think one of them bought me an Elvis Presley 45 some time in the early 70s, to go with my Dad's old Elvis 45s. He had a few 78s as well, but the only one I remember was a song called "Cherry Lips"

Most of his 45s were songs that were popular in the late 50s and early 60s (he graduated high school in 1960)

[cyberswede]

90. Jealous!

Do you still have the old 78s and 45s?

I collect jazz 78s from the 20s-30s-40s - but I don't have antthing particularly valuable - I just like the sound.

[NewJeffCT]

92. They're still at my parent's house

I didn't have room for them when I moved out into an apartment...

[Arugula Latte]

87. 45: Maybe "Sugar Sugar" by the Archies, off the back of a cereal box.

Album: I was given "Peter, Paul and Mommy" by Peter, Paul and Mary when I was about five.

[cyberswede]

91. I remember those cereal-box records!

I think I had The Monster Mash in that format. It's probably still at my mom's house. LOL

And Peter Paul and Mommy is one of my all time favorites! My oldest sister would sing PP&M songs to me when I was little...they're special to me to this day. "Puff" used to make me cry, until she told me it was really about marijuana - for which SHE got in big trouble with my parents.

[Arugula Latte]

93. I wish I'd saved the 45 -- and the original box.

I think you can get some big bucks on Ebay for well-preserved stuff like that.

And I remember first hearing about pot and "Puff." I felt so adult and subversive to have info. like that.

[csziggy]

94. I never owned a 45 - my Mom won one of "Tammy" from a contest at McCrory's

Mom would play it all the time. I hated that song.

I never realized until now it was from a movie.

[cyberswede]

96. So, now you have to watch the whole movie

To finally gain an appreciation for that song in context! Or not.

[RushIsRot]

99. I was a nerd. Still am.

45: Stan Freberg's version of Yellow Rose of Texas. Shortly after I got Gogi Grant's Wayward Wind.
LP: something by Chet Atkins.

[Mr.Bill]

100. Can't remember the 45. Probably something by the Beach Boys.

First LP was The Dave Clark Five.

[Scuba]

101. And still love these songs ...

and this LP ...

[d_r]

102. well bought with "my own" money

LP

45


that I remember having and being told it was "mine"




first bootleg 8-track was something like this


I think this was the cassette


this was the first cd

[Arugula Latte]

104. I owned most of those at one point, too.

Still love early R.E.M. and the Clash.

Were you born in the mid/late-60s like I was?

[d_r]

106. yes 1968

I got a little stereo cd player with my summer job money after the first year of college in 87. I bought three cds - REM dead letter office and the cure kiss me kiss me kiss me. I also got pink floyd dark side of the moon because I thought it would really show off the quality of cd recordings~ of course that little player wasn't worth a crap by today's standards though. I remember that cds were pretty rare in the record store then, there was only some releases and a very few "classics."

I also remember back in the 70s some people rumored that the village people were gay.

[trackfan]

103. Depending on the definition of ownership, maybe Sweet's Fox On the Run, or

Rita Coolidge's We're All Alone, or Abba's Dancing Queen.

LP was Walter Klien (not Klein) on piano playing dances by Schubert, Beethoven, and others.

[burnodo]

105. I think the first one I owned was BCR

"S-s-s-Saturday Niiiiiight!"