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The first LP or 45 you ever bought (if you can remember...)

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What was the first record you ever purchased with your own money? You must have liked it enough to plunk down your own hard-earned cash for it, and it was not a gift, but from your very own piggy bank?

For some God-knows-why reason, my first purchased record was an LP (mostly because I couldn't find the single). I had only a few dollars and one day when I was with my mom at the PX in McDill AFB in Tampa, flipping through the album rack, I made my decision...which I still remember very clearly today:

Jack Blanchard & Misty Morgan - "Birds of a Feather" (1969) because I loved "Tennessee Bird Walk". http://www.discogs.com/Jack-Blanchard-Misty-Morgan-Birds-Of-A-Feather/release/2300064

I was 12 years old at the time. Secondary favorite on that LP "Humphrey the Camel". Silly songs, but fun. Don't know what ever happened to the album, sometime long before I moved to California, it was lost - or possibly my mom threw it out after hearing it for the 1000th time. ;D

Do you know what happened to your first record? Do you still have it today?
 
After my 7th grade teacher played Spike Jones "Carmen, Murdered" to my class I just had to have it. It was a double-sided 45 and took a special order at my local record store and $1 American money.

I still have it today.

It is a parody of the opera "Carmen". In the early 90's we had a Spanish exchange student living with us who was a big opera fan. I played it for her. She wasn't impressed. ;D
 
The first record I ever bought for myself was "Singing The Blues" by Guy Mitchell. Since the record was popular at the end of 1956, beginning of 57, I'm guessing it was early 1957 when my mom took me into the record store to get it.
I still have the 78RPM on Columbia Records.
 
Dovells "You Can't Sit Down"

My younger brother's first "Frankie and Johnny" by Sam Cooke. Figures he became a musician !
 
First record I ever had was "The Chipmunk Song"(I think my mom bought it for me) and the first record I recall buying was "PT 109."
 
In 1966 I turned 5.
That fall, at the Topps department store in Miller Indiana, my father offered to buy my
brother and I each a record of our choice. I chose Sgt Barry Sadler's Ballad of the Green Beret/Letter from Vietnam,
my brother chose the Batman Theme/Batman Chase by Neil Hefti.
I still have both records, and all 4 sides are in the playlist on my AM 1620.

First record I asked for and received as a present was Jody Miller's Queen of the House.

first record I couldn't have until I grew up a bit more:

These Boots are Made For Walkin....
Nancy Sinatra singing about finding a brand new box of matches was very appealing to me,
and somehow to me seems actually dirtier than today's more blunt approach.
I don't think I could have asked anyone to buy it for me at that time, it would have been considered the wrong
kind of song. A few years later when I had >earned< pocket money, I recall my Dad being alarmed at my
purchase of "Honky Tonk Woman" when it came out, and I had to reassure him I can enjoy a piece of
music while deflecting other elements such as the glorification of sluttiness...
 
The first 45 I bought was 26 Miles by the Four Preps in 1958.
 
My first 45 was Heartache Tonight by the Eagles in 1979. I was 9 years old. I can't remember what was on the other side of the 45?
 
seminole791 said:
My first 45 was Heartache Tonight by the Eagles in 1979. I was 9 years old. I can't remember what was on the other side of the 45?
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Was it "Teenage Jail"? I was disappointed that it didn't segue right into "The Greeks Don't Want No Freaks" like it did on the album.
 
First 45: "Let Your Love Flow" by the Bellamy Bros.
First album: Probably Fly Like an Eagle by the Steve Miller Band

I do not still have those originals that I bought back then, but I have replacement copies. I wore out "Let Your Love Flow" and I now have two 45s of it, one with its original b-side "Inside of My Guitar," and one of those double-sided hit 45s, with "Satin Sheets" on the b-side. "Satin Sheets" was intended as a follow-up single, but just never became a hit for them.

As for Fly Like an Eagle, it's one of the few for which I have both LP and CD copies. Ditto for his follow-up album Book of Dreams.
 
First single: "It's Wonderful" - The Young Rascals (77 cents at Woolworth's)
Firts LP "Golden Biscuits" - Three Dog Night ($3.97 at JC Penney)
 
deltas69 said:
I Want To Hold Your Hand..I was 13.......From Randy's Record Shop here in Gallatin..
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Randy's Record Shop................now there's a memory. At night we were able to pull in Nashville's WLAC up here in Wisconsin. Gene Nobles, Hoss Allen , John R. Back in 1957 Randy's was a sponsor. They would package 5 or 6 45s together and sell them at a discount. Lots of early Rock & Roll/R&B............Clovers, El Dorados, Joe Turner, etc. I started my record collection with Randy's.
 
Yep..Randy was one of the founding owners of WHIN Radio here in Gallatin, founded DOT Records, was a great guy..I think the store closed in '91..The city had a Randy's appreciation day on the square..I was fortunate enough to help emcee it...being a former DJ at the station..
 
Several K-Tel compilations in 1976/77 (Music Machine, Disco Mania, Stars, The Big 50)

First 45 was "Hotel California" in early 1977
 
DavidEduardo said:
"At the Hop" Danny & The Juniors, 1957. ABC Paramount records with the full color graphics around the rim of the label.
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That was the first "45" I ever bought, but before that I had a few 78s (see previous post).
 
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