What was the first record you ever bought?

[GReedDiamond]

...and when I say "record," I mean everything from Edison Cylinder Rolls to 78s to reel-to-reel magnetic tapes, to 45s and 33-1/3s to CDs, depending on how old you happen to be, or what you're into, I suppose.

But it has to be an actual object encoded with "music" which you can hold in your hand(s), not some digital download on a flash drive.

Here's mine, when I was 8 years old:

"Surfin Bird" b/w "King of the Surf" by The Trashmen, 1963, label: Garret, 7" single.

This one's pretty funny, from an old tv appearance:

'63 was a big year for me, what with this and the Kennedy assassination all going on.

[pnwest]

1. "America's Greatest Hits" album. No Donny

Osmond for me, I went straight to real music!

[GReedDiamond]

5. Big fan of America! nt

[Cartoonist]

2. Beatles '65 - the album

I bought many singles before that, but I can't recall which was first. Like a Rolling Stone by Dylan was in that group. Singles were cheap back then. An album was a major purchase, so it's what I remember.

[GReedDiamond]

7. My big sister had that, don't think she still does though. nt

[applegrove]

3. In grade 6 teacher did a survey at school as to what was the favourite

album to teach us statistics. I had not bought an album or anything. I copied what most friends said "Rumours". Then i went home and asked my mom if i could buy it. I did. And i loved it. Still do.

[GReedDiamond]

8. Fleetwood Mac...yaeh, everybody loved that record, I had it too...nt

[notdarkyet]

11. I still have it. Always a favorite.

[applegrove]

14. Before that there was one piece of music that was rock and roll in our

house: 8 track with Just Give Me Some Kind Of Sign Girl and Summer in the City and I Feel The Earth Move Under My Feet. I played it over and over again to dance to. Then rumours came along and i don't think i played flashback fever again.

[vercetti2021]

4. In 2017!

I actually found an old cabinet record player with an 8 track player also in it. 100 bucks at a goodwill. First record I bought was Leftovertures.

[dawg day]

20. I probably still have some 8-tracks in the garage, LOL

Remember when cars had 8-track players? It seemed like the most magical thing, to play "records" in the car.

[vercetti2021]

33. I dont actually

I was born in 1990

[dawg day]

42. My parents kept this old car for years because it had an 8-track

They didn't want to have to replace all their songs with cassettes!

[vercetti2021]

47. Lol or CDs

Or mp3...bluetooth

[GReedDiamond]

24. 8 Track tapes were the worst ever playback format...

...for music, for obvious reasons I won't go into.

Worse than cassettes or whatever.

Leftovertures, indeed.

[vercetti2021]

34. Best album though

[GReedDiamond]

38. Point taken! nt

[PoliticAverse]

182. 8-track tapes excelled for their main purpose - car audio. n/t

[50 Shades Of Blue]

6. Meet the Beatles and Introducing the Beatles and

half of the Hard Day's Night album (my sister paid for the other half, and also got the Beatles Second Album and Something New), with the money we got on our 12th birthday.

Sigh.

[GReedDiamond]

9. See my previous post #7...nt

[50 Shades Of Blue]

12. One of us got that one some time after it came out too!

I can't remember which one of us - we traded our albums back and forth so much. I think it's in my possession now though.

[GP6971]

10. A 45...Hound Dog

by Elvis Presley.

[GReedDiamond]

16. Does it get any better than "The King"?

Of course not!

[IcyPeas]

13. Happy Jack - The Who

Bought it with my birthday money.

[GReedDiamond]

15. Excellent choice! nt

[yonder]

97. Same here! Bought in the Base Exchange at Clark Air Base about 1968 or 1969.

For $2.25. Every LP was priced the same. Besides Happy Jack, there was Boris the Spider, Leave My Way, the Ivor the Engine Driver masterpiece (A Quick One While He's Away) and Whiskey Man amongst others.

Whiskey Man:

[safeinOhio]

17. One of those red 45s for 99 cents.

Had like 10 hit songs on it. The only one I remember was Corina Corina.

[GReedDiamond]

94. Here's the Wikipedia for "Corina, Corina"...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corrine,_Corrina

[dchill]

18. Two 45rpm singles, bought the same day...

She Loves You, b/w I'll Get You and
I Want To Hold Your Hand b/w I Saw Her Standing There.

My life has never been the same.

[GReedDiamond]

22. I hear ya...music can be cathartic (whateverthatmeans) and transforming...nt

[dawg day]

19. "Good Vibrations"

And I think it is still one of the greatest songs of all time. I had great taste as a 9-year-old.

[GReedDiamond]

21. GV is in the top area for me too...nt

[Doreen]

23. Joan Jet.

I can not remember the album name but it had "I love rock n roll." On it.

[GReedDiamond]

30. Joan Jett "I Love Rock 'n Roll" album from 1981, I think...

...as Joan Jett and the Blackhearts.

[Doreen]

67. Yeah, that is it.

Thanks for remembering.

[catbyte]

25. Rubber Soul by the Beatles. I think I paid $.50 for it in 1966. I was 10 or 11.

Still have it, too, but it hardly has any grooves left on it. I keep it for mainly sentimental reasons.

[GReedDiamond]

26. Never let go of it...nt

[Clash City Rocker]

145. Rubber Soul and Revolver are two of my favorite Beatles albums

They captured what was great about both the early Beatles and the later Beatles. Those two albums have aged very well, I think.

[The Polack MSgt]

27. Bought some singles, but

I bought 2 albums at Goody's when my cool uncle gave me a gift certificate.

Queen - News of the World.

Parliament - Mothership. Connection

[GReedDiamond]

28. Excellent 2 for 1, so to speak! nt

[madamesilverspurs]

29. Brook Benton 45

[Kablooie]

31. The Ran-Dells-Martian Hop

If you don't count the kids records that had a mirror thing on top that reflected animated pictures as it spun.

[GReedDiamond]

32. You win the thread!

[happybird]

35. Licensed to Ill

on cassette is the first one I bought with my own money.

[gopiscrap]

36. Bridge Over Troubled Water (Simon and Garfunkel)

[GReedDiamond]

48. Great record...love Hal Blaine's drums!!!

[RGinNJ]

37. Don McLean, American Pie 45.

[BunnyMcGee]

39. The First?

Beatles definitely; I think it was the Capitol Records release with Please Please Me on it about 1980

[customerserviceguy]

40. Too far long ago to remember

But it was probably about 1967 or 1968. I started buying 45 RPM records after listening to songs on my transistor radio from WLS in Chicago. I'd go to sleep with the radio playing in my ear, underneath my pillow in a thin spot that I had worn out. I got hooked on buying singles, and would fish through the couch cushions for change until I could find odd jobs like weed pulling for the neighbors. And that was before I was thirteen years old!

[GReedDiamond]

41. Are you ME! cuz that's what I think...nt

[customerserviceguy]

43. Hmm, after a few good beers

I'm not sure if I'm you...

[GReedDiamond]

44. I'm not sure if I'm me either...nt

[RockRaven]

45. The first album I ever bought which was 100% my own purchase was a Jimi Hendrix album...

and by "my own purchase" I mean:
a) I heard something I really liked,
b) I figured out who/what it was,
c) I went down to the music store by myself under my own steam,
d) I found it and bought it with money I had earned myself with a real job (not allowance/chore/gifted money)

As for *which* Hendrix album, it was one of the many various posthumous compilation albums which apparently is no longer in print.

[GReedDiamond]

46. Yeah, but "Are You Experienced"...nt

[Sewa]

49. Meet the Beatles

I played this record so much I had every word of every song memorized.

[Olafjoy]

50. A Night at the Opera

Took my babysitting money and bought my first album. I want to say it cost around $5.99. I really really really really really really liked it. Side 2 especially. I still do. My mom jokes with my husband and my son about me and my Queen music that I play all the time.

[GReedDiamond]

53. Good investment! nt

[calimary]

51. "It's Now or Never" by Elvis.

A single. I think I was 2 or 3.

[GReedDiamond]

54. 2 or 3...you had good taste at an early age...nt

[empedocles]

85. Adapted from 'O Sole Mio'

[empedocles]

89. I was a 6th grade, inclement weather, lunch hour DJ.

My phenomenal 6th grade teacher would bring his brown bag lunch down to the school gym. Kids would bring their fav records of the week. Teach would sit on edge of stage and also hold court. Great time by all.

[calimary]

167. Of course! I don't know where I heard it but for some reason

I just had to have it! Katz Drug Store in Kansas City. I think I may have heard it on WHB radio, which I’d listen to late at night, on the radio that sat on my bedside table. I had insomnia even that far back. I remember WHB because they said it stood for World’s Happiest Broadcasters.

No - correction. Actually, I may have been more like 4 or 5, now that I think back and remember how old I was when we moved near there.

[Ohio Dem]

52. Cornerstone, by Styx

[GReedDiamond]

55. In 1974, I went to the College of DuPage...

...in Glen Ellyn, IL, to see STYX...they never showed up, and instead, it was 4+ hours of REO Speedwagon.

I hated it.

[LuvLoogie]

56. I was 11 years old, and I paid about 5 or 6 bucks

for the double live Made in Japan by Deep Purple. There is no better live rock album, a lot of great ones, but none better.

[GReedDiamond]

68. I was into Deep Purple in the very early 70s...

...their studio albums (on 8 track), but I must admit, I've never heard "Made In Japan."

[bearssoapbox]

57. Wipeout by The Surfaris

I was 9 or 10 and had gotten a combination portable record player/am-fm radio.

Also bought The Clock Of St. James/Tennessee Birdwalk by Jack Blanchard & Misty Morgan.

[GReedDiamond]

69. "Wipeout" was great. Playing the drum part on...

...our classroom desktops was very popular back then.

Never heard Jack & Misty, I'll look for them on youtube.

[bearssoapbox]

98. Yep.

Desktop drummers got yelled at alot.

[kimbutgar]

58. Windy by the association 45

[GReedDiamond]

70. Another great Wrecking Crew record...nt

[Uben]

59. Dead Mans Curve

by Jan and Dean. It cost 20 cents!

[GReedDiamond]

71. One of my all-time favorites...

...of the early 60s. I was really into hot rods and drag racing as a kid.

My next door neighbor's uncle was Bob Riggle, driver of the Hurst Hemi Under Glass.

Whenever Bob was in the area for an appearance at US 30 Drag Strip, he'd park the trailer with the Hemi Under Glass in my friend's driveway, it was the coolest thing ever.

Bob was the first *famous* person I ever met.

[Uben]

146. My FIL used to drag race....

….he had a B Altered with Chrysler hemi. Got to drive it a couple of times! Keith Black kept trying to buy a hemi block from him back in the day, but he wouldn't sell em. He had a couple of extra ones. His son, my BIL, has em now and he's been racing for years. We're in the Dallas area.

[GReedDiamond]

147. I woulda loved to be able to drive something like that...

...Keith Black, a name I remember from way back.

Nowadays I pretty much hate cars/driving, which I blame on having lived in Los Angeles for the last 43 years.

[stuffmatters]

60. Purple People Eater

[GReedDiamond]

72. Sheb Wooley was the perfect name for the guy who put that song out...nt

[redstateblues]

157. I'm amazed there is another person who bought that first.

The one I bought was purple!

[stuffmatters]

185. Purple 45, how wonderful. Everything about PPE was brilliant to my 10 year old brain.

Actually still kinda do. I think it was our first anthem.

[Haggis for Breakfast]

162. O M G !!

I STILL have this 45. I drove my Mum CR A Z Y playing this over and over again. I thought it was hilarious. The 45 is in terrible shape, but I refused to ever throw it out because she hated it so.

[stuffmatters]

168. I couldn't stop playing it either,thought it was the funniest,most perfect song ever!.

Wouldn't be surprised if it was the first record purchase for many, many early boomers. I think it spoke to many of us (but, yes, our parents not so much) unlike anything we'd ever heard on the radio before.

[redstateblues]

190. That is fantastic!

[MichaelSoE]

61. 2 on the same day .... Paul Revere and the Raiders ... The Best of the Animals

Though my second purchase was Absolutely Free by the Mothers of invention.
As I was perusing the record racks I pick up the album and on the back of the cover there was a collage with little quips written. One of them said "Buy this record because you will never hear it on the radio."
I did and became a Zappa fan for life.

[GReedDiamond]

73. I was a big fan of PR & The Raiders...

...(another Wrecking Crew band) - not to mention The Animals and Zappa.

Don Preston played on a song on one of my records.

[Chipper Chat]

62. It was a 78rpm.

Possibly Riders in the Sky by Vaughn Monroe. Around 1947.

[aka-chmeee]

63. Monster Mash by Bobby "Boris" Pickett and The Crypt Kickers

Channel 9 TV from Kansas City produced a Saturday Night program "Shock Theater" hosted by Gregory Grave. It introduced this 13 year old and many others to Horror Movies and Cinema monsters. First time Mom let me stay up and watch, the feature was "Kiss Me Deadly", not really a monster movie, but what 13 y o kid knows anything about film noire? And anyway, the "Great Whatsit" in the box was monstrous enough for anybody.

All that, to say this," And that is why I just HAD to have that record when it came out".

[KatyaR]

64. I don't remember exactly, but I'm sure it was an early Beatles single.

My grandmother was being treated for TB in a sanatorium in Booneville, Arkansas, in the mid-1960's. When we would visit her, my mother would take me downtown to a drug store and let me pick out a 45rpm record if I was good during the time we were at the hospital. I was probably around 7 or 8 years old at the time.

[GReedDiamond]

74. You had very good musical taste at age 7! nt

[KatyaR]

154. Thank you!

I had a crush on Paul,

[GReedDiamond]

156. Yer welcome. I'm a straight guy and I still have a crush on Paul! nt

[shenmue]

65. Greatest Hits of the Beach Boys

[GReedDiamond]

75. I didn't really know at the time, but the Beach Boys...

...are one of the greatest ever American bands (mostly thanks to Brian and the Wrecking Crew).

[mr_lebowski]

176. Endless Summer was one of the first albums I owned but got for xmas at my request at about 10 yo nt

[eppur_se_muova]

66. This very album right here ! {video}

I moved on to other music, but did try playing saxophone all through high school, and eventually developed a liking for saxophone quartets and other chamber music for saxes.

[GReedDiamond]

76. Who could resist a record called "Yakety Sax"? nt

[eppur_se_muova]

83. With the track "Cacklin' Sax" ! nt

[GReedDiamond]

84. I'm no sax player, but I'm guessing that...

...the playing technique for "yakety" is different than for "cacklin."

[lark]

77. Kinks.

It was in 67 and I don't remember the name of the album.

[GReedDiamond]

80. Wikipedia sez the Kinks released "Something Else" in '67...

...I always thought the Kinks were underrated, but, unlike the Beatles or the Stones and etc, I have a hard time coming up with the names of their albums without checking their discography.

[lark]

105. That was probably it then.

I enjoyed it a lot.

[TruckFump]

78. Janis Joplin, Pearl. EOM

[GReedDiamond]

81. Wish she got to make more records. :(

[TruckFump]

88. Agree

She was amazing.

[murielm99]

134. You must be young.

I own all of Janis' original vinyl. I saw her in concert, too.

She is still my favorite.

[TruckFump]

144. I was young long ago!

I remember seeing Linda Ronstadt in concert at UCSB. Jefferson Airplane.

[exboyfil]

79. Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy

Elton John. Older brother was a big fan coming off Goodbye Yellow Brick Road and Greatest Hits. Second was Alive Cooper Goes to Hell. Again brother was a fan who went to Welcome to My Nightmare tour concert.

[GReedDiamond]

82. From Elton to Alice...that covers quite a musical range...nt

[stevil]

86. KISS - Destroyer just after it was released.

On Vinyl. Bought at Bayview Village North York, Toronto. First album I owned was a birthday gift, Rolling Stones ?– Greatest Hits Vol. 1. Given to me by my older sister's friend Cindy whom I had a crush on.

[GReedDiamond]

91. I hate to say this, but I have always...

...despised KISS, especially Gene Simmons. Back in the 70s I knew a guy who was a roadie for Blue Oyster Cult, and was around KISS a bit. He said they were innit for the $$$, not about making quality music.

The Stones are the opposite of that, but they still made a lot of $$$, obviously.

[stevil]

135. Totally understand

The only thing I like about Gene Simmons is that he helped break some BIG bands, like Rush and Van Halen (and Poison). Even then he promoted Van Halen with the hope of stealing Eddie to join Kiss. I'm a guitarist so I dig on Ace.

[Haggis for Breakfast]

163. WHOOOOOOOAAAA there, stevil.

Gene Simmons MOST CERTAINLY DID NOT BREAK RUSH.

Credit for that goes to one Donna Halper, a DJ at WMMS in Cleveland, OH. They were getting almost no play at all in the US, when Ms. Halper added "Working Man" to her regular play list in 1974. Cleveland, a factory town, took to the song immediately, calling in requests for the song multiple times a day.

In the liner notes for that album, Rush gives "a special thanks to Donna Halper of WMMS in Cleveland for getting the ball rolling," which was included on EVERY reprint of that album since its re-release on Mercury Records.

[stevil]

166. Isaid "helped break".

I know all about Rush and Cleveland. KISS took them on one of their first big tours. Sheesh.

[mr_lebowski]

177. Rock and Roll Over was one of my first albums owned but it was a gift when it was new ...

Love Gun however I bought myself, and they were also my first ever concert ... with Cheap Trick, 1977 baby!

Can't stand them now, however. Destroyer was the only remotely-great record they did, and that's cause Bob Ezrin.

[Bluepinky]

87. Monkees album around 1969, either greatest hits or best of.

I loved The Monkees, especially Davy Jones.

[GReedDiamond]

92. I love the Monkees too...

...even if they didn't play on their records until the "Headquarters" album.

The Wrecking Crew strikes again.

[Dave in VA]

90. Rhythm of the Rain by the Cascades

[GReedDiamond]

96. I used to hear that song a lot on WLS radio Chicago...

...in the early 60s. Haven't thought about it in a very long time. Thanks for posting it!

[Dave in VA]

130. You're welcome

I was 10 years old and the first 45rpm I purchased with my own money. Probably cost 15 cents. Great memories.

[OneBlueDotBama]

93. Magic People, The Paupers

They played at my school on a Friday night, bought the album the next day.

[GReedDiamond]

95. I had to look that one up...here it is:

I'm gonna listen to that tonight.

[Runningdawg]

99. These boots are made for walking

I bought the 45 at a garage sale. Spent my whole .10 allowance

[GReedDiamond]

100. Nancy Sinatra, with the Wrecking Crew...

...love it!

[Docreed2003]

101. First album I ever bought with my own money

"Born in the USA"-Springsteen

I was ten and my grandmother, the joy and center of my world, had just died. My dad took me to our local record shop to try to cheer me up and that's what I bought. I still have the album and still love it

[GReedDiamond]

107. Thanks for that sad/happy story! nt

[randr]

102. Can't remember the song but I can remember where

Bob Marley's mother ran a small record store on Broom Street in Wilmington, Delaware. I bought my first 45 rpm at her store long before I discovered who she was. Bob was working at the time at a Chrysler auto plant in Newark. If we had only known at the time! It was years later that I discovered Reggae music and Bob.
This would have been in the late 50's or early 60's and I am sure it was a R & B tune.

[GReedDiamond]

106. I never knew that Bob Marley lived in Delaware for a time.

Thanks for that information.

[pamdb]

103. First recod

Rubber Soul. By the Beatles

[GReedDiamond]

110. One of the greatest records ao all time, IMO. nt

[Hoyt]

104. Byrds -- Mr. Tambourine Man.

[GReedDiamond]

111. Another Wrecking Crew song...

...always loved the Byrds.

[tblue37]

108. "Downtown," by Petula Clark. nt

[GReedDiamond]

112. When I was in 3rd grade, I think...

..."Downtown" was voted "favorite song of the year" by my class.

[tblue37]

118. I was barely 14, and buying records was not something I did yet--but I bought "Downtown." nt

[GReedDiamond]

121. Did you know that Jimmy Page played on "Downtown"?

I didn't until now.

[2naSalit]

205. That was my first record purchase too!

I was about ten.

[JCannon]

109. Beethoven

Symphony no. 9, conducted by Charles Munch. A well-regarded performance in stereo, recently re-released by RCA's budget line, so it cost only $1.98.

[GReedDiamond]

114. I had zero exposure to classical music as a kid...

...grew up with WLS top 40 music. Beethoven was like, "what?"

[Native]

113. Aqualung

[GReedDiamond]

115. Great record, one of my faves at the time...

...but its been a long time now since I've heard it.

I remember that the song itself was mildly "controversial."

[yellowdogintexas]

116. 1962 probably so I think it was "The Lion Sleeps Tonight"

I still love that song! Any version will do

As far as LPs go it was probably a Paul Anka; he was my first musical crush.

[GReedDiamond]

117. Have you heard this version of "Lion" by Brian Eno?

[Baked Potato]

119. To Our Children's Children's Children

[GReedDiamond]

122. Moody Blues, another band I used to play a lot...

...but haven't heard much in a long time.

[BootinUp]

120. I wanna say it was Loco-Motion

The single by Grand Funk Railroad but memory is a little hazy on this question.

[GReedDiamond]

123. This is the version I remember best:

[Ohiogal]

124. After I saw the Beatles

on the Ed Sullivan Show ....

the 45 of “I Want To Hold Your Hand”.

I was 8 years old.

[GReedDiamond]

125. I was 9, so I just listened to my big sister's Beatle records...nt

[Thomas Hurt]

126. Not sure if it was the first but Boston on 8 track was one of the first.

[GReedDiamond]

127. Didn't you just hate it when the 8 track would change...

...to another section of tape in the middle of a song?

[MontanaMama]

128. Loggins & Messina

Sittin’ In. Lordy I had a crush on a Kenny Loggins. The summer I graduated high school, at the age of 17, I bought a one way ticket to Berkley to see him in concert. I packed a bag and never told my parents. I called them from a pay phone when I got there...they weren’t happy. I had no plan other than I was going to see Kenny Loggins play at the Greek Theater. So much fun.

[GReedDiamond]

129. Always liked this song from that record...

[mr_lebowski]

178. Seen so many shows at the Greek in Berkeley ... LOVE that place! (nt)

[Mike 03]

131. It was a 45. "You haven't done nothing" by Stevie Wonder

I had no idea who he was at the time. This song was on the radio and I absolutely loved it. I was just getting into AM radio. It was a small black radio about the size of a pack of cigarettes and I used to put it under my pillow.

[GReedDiamond]

133. I had one of those transistor radios under my pillow, too...

...also, good song from a great record, "Fulfillingness' First Finale."

[dawnie51]

132. I had babysitting money....

so I got two 45s...Walk Like a Man, Four Seasons, and Fingertips, Stevie Wonder.

[GReedDiamond]

139. Stevie was 12 years old when that record came out, IIRC...nt

[Laurelin]

136. Not sure

It was either The Carpenters or John Denver's Greatest Hits. I still own them.

[defacto7]

137. 1970 vinyl

Glenn Gould Plays Beethoven Sonatas
Nos. 8, 14 & 23
Pathétique, Quasi Una Fantasia, Appassionata

[GReedDiamond]

141. See my previous reply #114...nt

[defacto7]

148. I had exposure to about everything.

My siblings supplied a lot of r&r from the late 50's through the 60's but this was the first recording I bought on my own.

[GReedDiamond]

149. Besides the top 40 tunes on the radio, I also heard...

...a lot of my dad's Johnny Mathis and Sinatra records, but no classical.

[Bayard]

138. I'm embarrassed to say....

It was The Archies, "Sugar Sugar". 5th grade maybe?

But then I got into Credence, and was saved.

[GReedDiamond]

142. No shame in "Sugar, Sugar"...

...I didn't own a copy but I heard it enough times!

"Cosmos Factory" by CCR was prolly my favorite from them.

On the cover the drummer has the same type of Camco kit I have, which I got from Dewey Martin of Buffalo Springfield in '78.

[mr_lebowski]

179. My old man had that one, listened to it INCESSANTLY with headphones on after school in 2nd grade

Circa 1972 ... My mom didn't like such rocking stuff so I had to listen w/the big ol' KOSS phones.

[Eugene]

140. "Free Ride" (1973)

That's the first one I remember getting on my own, but I do remember having "I Think I Love You" in 1970.

[GReedDiamond]

143. "Free Ride" - a staple of my early stoner years...

...The Partridge Family, not so much.

[airplaneman]

150. The Monkeys n/t.

[GReedDiamond]

151. The Monkees...I always wished I had the Monkeemobile...

But I'd settle for a '65 or '66 stock GTO too.

[TexasBushwhacker]

152. I'm so embarrassed. It was 1965 and I was 8

I bought the 45 of "Beach Blanket Bingo" by Annette Funicello and Frankie Avalon.

[GReedDiamond]

153. Hey! I loved the movie of the same title! Don't be embarrassed!!

I still watch the movie when I see it come up on TMC.

The band in the movie was The Hondells, a surf band whose songs were recorded by the Wrecking Crew (again).

[Zoonart]

155. It was a 45 and I was eight years old

Dock in the Bay, Otis Reading.

[GReedDiamond]

158. Another great performer that I wish was able to make many more records...

...than fate would allow.

[Zoonart]

159. He was terrific.

[Haggis for Breakfast]

160. "Mack the Knife" by Bobby Darrin.

On a 45.

[GReedDiamond]

161. That's very fuckin cool...nt

[AwakeAtLast]

164. Sean Cassidy

I was 8..

[GReedDiamond]

165. I was 8 one time long, long ago...

...thankfully before the thing called "Shaun Cassidy"

But just barely...it was very close.

[AwakeAtLast]

175. I could have said Leif Garrett

But I have taste.

[mr_lebowski]

180. I dunno, I kinda think 'I Was Made For Dancing' was better than any Cassidy songs ... nt

[cannabis_flower]

169. I was in 5th grade

There was a TV show called Here Come the Brides about loggers in Seattle after the Civil War who sent for women from back East for Brides. It was a comedy. It starred David Soul and Bobby Sherman. Bobby Sherman recorded a single and an album with Easy Come, Easy Go.

I think I bought the album it was on because I would have remembered the song on the back if it had been the single. I don't remember the name of the album.

[GReedDiamond]

171. I remember the existence of that TV show, but never watched it...

...I wonder whatever happened to Bobby Sherman?

[cannabis_flower]

173. Apparently he's still alive

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobby_Sherman

Robert Cabot Sherman Jr. (born July 22, 1943) is an American singer, actor and occasional songwriter, who became a popular teen idol in the late 1960s and early 1970s. He had a series of successful singles, notably the million-seller "Little Woman" (1969). Sherman mostly retired from music in the 1970s for a career as a paramedic and later police officer, though he occasionally performed into the 1990s.[1]

[GReedDiamond]

174. Thanks for the update on Bobby...

...interesting direction he went in after his teen idol years.

[Doc_Technical]

170. LP Paul Revere and the Raiders - "Midnight Ride"

[GReedDiamond]

172. Another PR & The Raiders fan...

...I had the "Greatest Hits" record, but not this one.

[BlueTsunami2018]

181. KISS - Alive II

In fairness, I was eight.

[mr_lebowski]

184. Got that for Xmas at my request ... a double-cassette ... 1978 IIRC ...

Pretty sure the same year I got Aerosmith - Live Bootleg, on double vinyl ... that might've been the next xmas though ...

[mr_lebowski]

183. It was either Aerosmith - Toys in the Attic or Kiss - Love Gun ... can't recall the order

but bought 'em both around the same time ... 1976 ... when I was 10. I think Kiss might've been the first one I got that was money I earned cleaning the house or washing the cars, but Aerosmith I bought earlier with Birthday money, IIRC.

Between my dad and stepdad they both had big collections of records I grew up listening to ... stepdad was more Beatles/Elton/Seals And Crofts kinda guy, and my dad had like Zep, Stones, Eddie Money, Journey, Jefferson Airplane, Joplin, Hendrix, Pablo Cruise, Thin Lizzy, CSN&Y, Jim Croce, etc.

[NurseJackie]

186. I can't remember... but the oldest one that I actually OWN is:

Sadly, my 45RPM is broken/cracked. It goes all the way through. But it still plays (with a click-click-click) as the needle still tracks properly through the crack.

[GReedDiamond]

187. I too have had a few 45s that were cracked all the way through...

...but they still played if you lined up the grooves just right.

Good Stylistics tune!

[NurseJackie]

188. Whoops! I lied. I found one older... Frieda Payne 1970 "Band of Gold"

I wish wish wish I'd been more careful and taken better care of things from my youth. But the things that I lost interest in are important again now.

No regrets. Especially now that I have spotify... almost any song I can thing of is so easy to listen to again.

But I must admit, that it's fun to flip through the vinyl and listen to the sounds of the scratchy, hissy, click click click. It brings back so many memories (some bad, but mostly good).

Sometimes I hate being older. I long for my younger days. But the music brings me back and makes me feel young again.

[GReedDiamond]

189. I know how you feel, NJ...

...plus I find that I appreciate some stuff much more now than I did back in the day - like Freda Payne, for example.

Since you're on Spotify, I'd like to plug my new single, "Moment Of Silence (Duet)" by my band Green Sparkle Frog, which was officially released last September 10.

If you have a chance, please have a listen, let me know what you think.

Thanks!

[Doc_Technical]

191. Family Guy

[GReedDiamond]

192. That was great, thanks! - nt

[Iggo]

193. The first record I bought with my own money from an actual job with a real paycheck was...

Proto-metal magic:

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[GReedDiamond]

194. Do you know who did the album art?

...reminds me in a way of the guy who did covers for Yes - Roger Dean?

I just checked and almost the only band Roger Dean did not do a cover for was Nazareth.

I remember Nazareth had a "hit" record on the radio here in L.A. way back when, "Love Hurts" which is on this album.

[Iggo]

195. Took a little work, but I found it.

David Fairbrother-Roe.

http://dragondaze.50webs.com/Dragondaze_-_Gallery/Dragondaze_-_Album_Artwork/dragondaze_-_album_artwork.html

And by the way, no Yes albums, but he did do a Jon Anderson album.

[GReedDiamond]

196. Fantastic! Thanks...looking through the site at the link...

...Good stuff! I've seen some of his work, never knew who did it.

Unfortunately he's no longer with us.

[ProfessorGAC]

197. Probably A Beatles Single

Like She Loves You or Please Please Me. I was a young kid playing jazz piano, so I didn't pay much attention to radio music until The Beatles

But, 1st album I bought with my own $ was Cream, Wheels of Fire. I thought I was getting the album with the studio version of Sunshine of Your Love. Lucky mistake because that live jam disc flipped me out.

[JimGinPA]

198. Moon River

By Henry Mancini.

I was about 7 or 8. The record store near where I lived had a juke box with the top 40 on it (it was free). I played that song over & over until the owner finally came over & asked me if I wanted to buy it. When I told him I didn't think I had enough money he asked how much I had. I pulled my little 30 cents or so out & he told me that was just enough. He put the 45 in a bag for me & quickly walked me out. It had 'Breakfast At Tiffany's' on the flip side.

Here's another version I found with two pretty good guitar players;

[ornotna]

199. See you in September - The Happenings

It was 1967 and I was 10, living in Saudi Arabia and it was not easy to get current music. The next year my mom got me a copy of The White Album and it was all down hill from there.

[GReedDiamond]

200. I can't believe this thread is still going...but...

...where DID you get "current music" in Saudi Arabia back then?

SA seems bad enough now, what was it like in 1967?

[ornotna]

201. As a 10 year old

I loved it. It was completely different back then. Most foreign families lived on company compounds. We actually lived in town (Riyadh). Our next door neighbors were actual Bedouins living in a big black tent in the lot behind us. They were goat herders and would invite us over occasionally for goat stew. Very friendly people.

The only time it got scary was the Six-Day War, everyone was packing up thinking we might have to leave. It was over so fast and nothing came of it. I never noticed any difference on how the locals acted towards us.

That was a long time ago.

[GReedDiamond]

203. Thanks for the background, sounds pretty interesting, esp at the age of ten...nt

[Zambero]

202. "Baby It's You" by The Shirelles

1962

[GReedDiamond]

204. Just listened to "Baby It's You" by The Shirelles...

Pretty good, I remember it. The Beatles covered it.

The organ solo is kinda shrill sounding on the youtube version.

Although, that probably was not an issue in 1962, when listening on a portable transistor radio.

[Zambero]

206. The Beatles covered two Shirelles songs on their first album in 1963

The other was "Boys", sung by Ringo. Quite a tribute to this quintessential "Girl Band", given the vast universe of popular songs the group had to choose from.