Do you remember the first 45 , album or CD you bought. My first album was by Black Sabbath.I don't

[debm55]

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remember the name of the album but it had War Pigs on it. My first 45 was by Stevie Wonder-My Cere Amour. I played that over and over. Loved the song. As you can see a teenaged deb had varied musical tastes. You can also include CDs too

[Not Heidi]

1. First 45: Bobby Sherman: Easy Come, Easy Go

B-side: July Seventeen (don't remember it)

[debm55]

3. I remember Bobby Sherman. Did you watch Here Comes the Brides?

[Not Heidi]

7. No. That must've been before he became

an EMT and a cop in LA.

Was it a good show?

[debm55]

43. For a preteen girl it was. It had Bobby Sherman in it.

[Not Heidi]

54. Hell yeah

I can still smell the ink in my Tiger Beats.

[debm55]

94. Oh yes, Bobby Sherman and David Cassidy were always in Tiger Beat. Did you cut out the pictures you

liked and pin to the wall?

[Tree Lady]

104. I had crushes on both of them

And posters on my wall.

[debm55]

153. Bobby was my first crush, David my second. I think in Tiger beat they had these fan clubs. I wrote

to David. He never answered.

[Different Drummer]

83. Also David Soul. n/t

[debm55]

85. Oh yes, David Soul. I think he put out a songDon't give up on us girl. I can't remember the oldest

brother--thinking it was Robert Black, but not sure.

[Different Drummer]

90. Close. Robert Brown.

[debm55]

95. Thank you, Different Drummer. Did you watch?

[Different Drummer]

101. Yep. A lot.

Recently, "Here Come the Brides" was resurrected on Saturday mornings on the GetTV network, but they've since discontinued showing it.

https://get.tv/

[debm55]

105. Now I have that theme song, In Seatle, in my ears.

[joshdawg]

2. "Long Tall Sally"

by Little Richard.

[debm55]

5. Little Richard, loved to dance to that song. It was the type of song you could NOT just get up and

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dance. Just like his Lucille

[Not Heidi]

4. First Album: Jethro Tull: War Child

I was 13 years old. I played that thing until there were no grooves left.

. . . skating away on the thin ice of the new day . . .

[debm55]

9. Jethro Tull Aqualung was in my record case.

[Not Heidi]

13. kindred spirit

👋

[Prairie_Seagull]

73. "Would rather be a poor man a beggarman a theif."

Be willing to bet 90 percent of us had "Aqualung". I played deeper grooves into this great album.

[electric_blue68]

111. Oh, not me. I'd been a JT fan. Saw them live. Took photos. But I hated AQL, never went back.

[debm55]

114. electric, why didn't you like? Was it because it was a concept album like Yes put out?

thank you

[electric_blue68]

120. Oh, no bc then I wouldn't have liked Tommy either. I thought the title track was too "thuddy"...

is, I guess, the best way to describe it.

It's also very possible that on a subliminal level that bc my mom got severe asthma when I was 5 1/2 years old (she got much better when I was mid-late teen) that that imagdry hit too close to home.

I had some Yes albums.
Cool thing was seeing and exhibit of ?Roger Dean's original art Yes albums covers. 👍

[debm55]

123. electric, sorry about your mom, I can see why you didn;t like it.Yes, the Yes albums were beautiful.

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[electric_blue68]

125. Ty ...

[SergeStorms]

20. Huge Tull fan here....

but they were way down the line in order of records purchased.

I have original posters of Tull when they played the Fillmore in San Francisco. They're probably worth some bucks by now.

[Not Heidi]

24. Wow. Hmm . . . no doubt. N/T

[debm55]

36. Serge, did you get it priced? All my albums and I had alot, I mean I had entire collections of Led

Zepplin, Neil Young, CCR,Beatles, and and others had mold growing on them. I know they would worth money , but , oh well.

[SergeStorms]

64. I've looked in on some...

rock and roll memorabilia auctions in Los Angeles. They vary in value. I've seen lots of Grateful Dead posters, Jefferson Airplane, Doors etc. but I've never seen a Tull poster up for auction yet. It's a 1969 BG-203-OP-1 whatever the hell that means. As Fillmore posters go It's not very ornate. I also have a 1967-68 New Years Eve poster from Winterland that's absolutely gorgeous. It's the BG-100 with the Jefferson Airplane, Big Brother and the Holding Company, Quicksilver Messenger Service, and more. I also have a Door's poster and The Who poster. I tried to nab as many posters as I could back then, but the competition was pretty stiff. Everybody wanted them for their hippie digs, ya'know? 😉

I should find out what they're worth, but I'm just going to hand them down to my daughter anyway. I have quite a bit of R&R memorabilia and she's getting it all. Lucky lady. 💖 Dad's sweetheart.

[electric_blue68]

113. Cool for your daughter! I had a fair amount of R&R stuff. Sone I had leave behind in a move far back

more later in a recent move.




Finally going open my stored stuff next week, and I'll see what I was able to take. Somewhat of a blur so we'll see.

[SergeStorms]

119. Oooooh, a surprise chest!

Crazy the things we save and then just forget about, isn't it?

I'm sure you'll have a great time remembering each and every treasure you collected.

I lost, or it was "lost for me" stuff over the years too. My entire vinyl collection was lost in a van fire. I had Joe Walsh's (the musician, not the politician) snakeskin vest stolen from my closet during a party. I bought it at an auction for his guitar tech's medical bills from a car crash. There were only a handful of people who knew it's provenance, but it could've been taken by someone who just liked snakeskin vests.

If I had everything I ever collected I'd have my own R&R Hall of Fame. That's life.

Have fun looking through your stuff.

[electric_blue68]

124. TY. It's a partial blur bc I had to do it very quicky,. So I have some idea...

but not all. Yeah, a bit of a surprise chest. 😄

That's pretty cool about the vest Too bad on the thievery.

My stuff was/is mostly ticket stubs, newspaper & magazine articles, some buttons, posters, a few programs, some drawings I did of The Who, photos & negs I took throughout the decades, no T-shirts since paying for the tix was enough.
Though I did photo silk screen from my own concert photo a Who T-shirt for my self and friends! 😄👍🎼🎵🎶

And I could sorta kick myself because even though it had mistakes in it -
I did a full size double album cover, with I fold, and the little vinyl label of Pete Townshend's/Who
failed at the time Lifehouse Project after I read an interview with Pete in The NYT by ?Nick Cohen about it -
"From Tommy to Bobby" back in the '70's.
I did take photos of it.

Left it behind in my move in the late Spring.

[SergeStorms]

126. Love, love, love The Who.

I was quite shaken with Moon's death. "Moon the loon" was such a character. I have a couple of 45s he released when he moved to Malibu during the Who's hiatus in the 70s. He was such a tragic character.

Then when Entwhistle overdosed in Las Vegas...well, the Who were finished. Townsend and Daltry still toured with Zach Starkey, but it wasn't close to being the same.

I saw them in concert more than any other band in my lifetime. I have all my ticket stubs too. I started my stub collection seing The Beatles in Toronto in August of 1965. The ticket cost $5.50 US. 🙄 How times, and concert prices, have changed.

Enjoy your stroll down memory lane with your box of R&R paraphernalia. What a great way to spend a day.

[electric_blue68]

129. Ok, gotta share a few Who fan things...

(before that-
my friend's father, then next yr brother took me [at 12, then 13], my friend, another friend and my cousin to see The Beatles at Shea Stadium)


"Luckily" I was at a relaxed workplace when news about Moon came through, so I didn't have to totally hide how dumbstruck I was. Then, The Ox? Dang!
I still love seeing Pete & Roger with Zak & Co. Last show '19. In th middle of big (non medical) changes, plus too little $, AND Covid concerns to go earlier this year.

My favorite concerts were Tommy Oct '69 at the Filmore East; two Who's Next Concerts at Forrest Hills July '71 and introducing the full, transcendent "Pure & Easy" from "Lifehouse"; one of the 3 '79 concerts at MSG; the '89 Tommy reunion tour including "Too Much Of Anything", the '15 Forrest Hills show, and the '19 show.
Seen them around ?19 times.

[SergeStorms]

135. Well, you've got me there.

I've seen them seven times and I thought that was a lot! 🤯 19 times! Good on 'ya though. An incredible band, for sure.

[electric_blue68]

136. Ty! Music, esp when I can go to live shows has been/is a big part of my life! The Who is one of...

my 6 favorite bands. U2, and Springsteen I've seen almost as many times, as well.

All of these are over long periods of time '68 -'89; then 2015 & 2019 for The Who.
'75 - ? early '10s for Bruce.
'83 onwarrd for U2.

[debm55]

143. I saw Bruce up at PSU in 75. When I taught in Philadelphia, we would go to the Stone Pony in NJ and

there he was with this shaggy beard. After that, there was a contract dispute with the record company and he sat out of performing .

[electric_blue68]

150. Oh, that's cool! We heard about him through our WNEW-FM Rock radio station....

bits of his first & second albums (he had a lot of DJ fans), but he was competing with the Original CBGB's bands where my attention was drawn. A year after I'd graduated Art College which was not more than 8 blocks north of it!

Actually I went down to The Bottom Line (great club) in '75 to see the f I could hear them from the outside during his famous ?6, 8, ?10 night run? I couldn't. 😔

By the time BTR came around we got interested. Bought tixs for his '76 show in a theater. We 4 we're split up in 2.
My friend & I turned to each other (we'd seen plenty of concerts in general already) and said (while you could cut the excitement around us(!) with a butter knife) - "are you excited?". Ehhhh, not really at that point.

Then....
they opened with "Night". By ?3 songs in...
we became raving fans for life! 😄🎸🎤🎼 🎶


You were a teacher? Respect!

And I love Philly! My sis was there for a year at school. So I visited her several times. Had a lot of fun. 🧡

[debm55]

151. I taught at Rhodes Middle School 29th and Diamond in the NW section of Philadelphia. What did you go

Art School for? Nobody in Pittsburgh knew who Bruce was. I remember he played at a small auditorium at PSU. Kids were so energized by this kid's music that they were jumping around and dancing all over the place. It was magic. I had a degree in Art ED/Elem ED.

[electric_blue68]

152. PSU was in Pittsburgh? Stopped there for lunch on my Trailways bus travels across the USA in '79....

They could have lit all if NYC's 5 Burroughs up for a whole night on his and The E Street's *****Energy****"! 😄

Definitely R&R *Magic*!

Which subject(s) did you teach?

I majored in Graphic Design (though I tried to push as much Illustration into it as possible), and minored in Sculpture (modern assemblage types). I loved sculpture as much as 2D art!

I loved painting, too. I thought I could cut it better as an Illustrator vs a painter. I wasn't that good at realistic painting then, slowly improved want to try it again for my own satisfaction. I also did love paintingAbdtacts!
Truely though I loved to create images from people's stories. It didn't work out except except on small occasions. Though some of what I did was pretty cool.

[debm55]

154. No Pitt was the college in Pittsburgh. PSU was Penn State University in the center of the state.

During 40 years I taught it all to all grades. In PA an art teacher can teach K to 12, I taught Art in High School for two years. With the elemmentary degree, I could teach all subjects. I loved Science, SS, and Reading. Mixed my Art background with the subjects. Loved it

[electric_blue68]

155. Got it. An art background? Cool! Good idea mixing some art into the various subjects...

Art my favorite, History/Social Studies, some Sciences definitely (like not really biology too much).

[denbot]

127. My buddy turned me to Paranoid, the whole 70's black lights garage setup had to lay down

Then

Auqua Lung dropped and and and we all but ran to “Spuds” for the moment Auqua Lung dropped, yup that badassed.

The real is embarrassment is that I think my sisters and would joint purchase Beatles 45’s

but I think my first 45 was The Royal Guardsmen

[LakeArenal]

6. Shadows of Knight. Gloria

Edit: First Album. Meet the Beatles.

[debm55]

45. Lake, another dancing song-G_L_O_R_I_A

[Mr.Bill]

79. I had that album!

Played the hell out of it.

[FirstLight]

8. Prince and the Revolution "Let's go Crazy/Darling Nikki"

...I just moved all my vinyl out of storage and that was the ONLY one that broke!

[debm55]

14. Sorry First Light, I know the feeling. My basement flooding and all my vinyl got ruined.

And I will join you in your tears.

[electric_blue68]

112. Aarrrgghhhhh, no! 😥

[Walleye]

10. First 45 record I think was Roll Over Beethoven by Chuck Berry

[debm55]

46. Walleye, wasn't it great to dance to. It was before my time. But I still loved to dance to it.

[Not Heidi]

11. Your Black Sabbath album was Paranoid

All part of our friendly service. 👋

[debm55]

18. Thank you, the story that went with it ---I bought it on my birthday. My grandmother took me to a

KMART and told me to pick out anything I wanted. So I went to the record department and she took the album and paid for it.

[Not Heidi]

22. GO, GRANDMA!

❤️👵

[Ferryboat]

12. 1st album 3 dog night, Jeremy was a bullfrog was the hit

Couldn't decide between that and Sticky Fingers. Absolutely made the wrong choice in retrospect dooming myself to nerddom for junior high.

[debm55]

23. Ferryboat, I really like Three Dog Night. Towards the end of the career they played in the local

mall and everyone was singing. I had my baby with me and we were singing and dancing. Sticky Fingers, are the group that sang--if you want it, hear it is, come and get it? Everyone is a nerd in JH except for football players and cheerleaders.

[Ferryboat]

26. Your thinking of Bad Finger

I should have been more specific. The Rolling Stones Sticky Fingers. Not necessarily the greatest band in the world but they were pretty good.

[debm55]

47. Thanks and sorry for the mistake.

[Prairie_Seagull]

71. FYI, it was Jeremiah. The song was "Joy to the World" My memeory sucks but

I think this was my first one also. Maybe it was the 45. May have been "the pusher".

[AZSkiffyGeek]

15. 1st album(s)

I got several at once after Christmas in 82.
Journey - Escape
Foreigner - 4
REO Speedwagon - Hi Infidelity
Rick Springfield - Working Class Dog
Genesis - Abacab
and Asia - Asia

My first 45s were earlier after my 5th or 6th birthday - 75/76:
Beatles - Got to Get You In To My Life (it was rereleased in the mid 70s)
Wings - Silly Love Songs
Elton John - Don’t Go Breaking My Heart
Sylvers - Hot Line

[debm55]

25. AZ, good collection, I had Working Class Dog-Jesse"s Girl.Your 45 are pretty good too. Who was the

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woman who sang that with Elton?

[AZSkiffyGeek]

29. Kiki Dee!

Don’t know anything else about her. She joined him at his final show at Dodger Stadium a couple weeks ago. Looked the same, but her voice was shot.

[debm55]

48. AZ, I don't remember her singing anything after that. But I didn't know her name, so maybe she was

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still singing.

[judesedit]

16. I think mine was Manfred Mann Doo wa diddy lol

That was a long time ago. I loved a lot of the 50's music, too. And lots of motown, cause I love to dance. Then came my hippie days with lots of rock, folk, jazz and bluesy stuff. Still love all that.

[debm55]

30. Judesedit, Loved Motown-Supremes, the Temps, the guy groups, and the girl. I still watch them on

Youtube and get up and shake these 67 year old body. Yes, I liked the singer songwriters in college, but like you said I loved all kinds
still do.

[judesedit]

132. Smokey, Marvin, Tower of Power, Luther, too many to say

So many back then. Of course, I loved The Stones, too lol

[debm55]

97. Judesedit, I remember that song. Didn't they also do a version of Bruce's Blinded by the Light?

[judesedit]

133. They did. Good, too.

[SergeStorms]

17. Introducing the Beatles.

Late 1963 or early 1964. I got into music at the merging of Motown, the California Beach sound, and the early British invasion. The British invasion appealed to me the most, with Motown coming in second, and California Beach music last.

[debm55]

49. I had the very first --not bought but given to me by a cousin who got 2 for her birthday. Don't

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know what happened to it.

[sdfernando]

19. I do not as we had a lot of them around the house

I don’t know which I bought or when….but let’s go back even further….Do you remember the first 78 you bought?

[debm55]

31. Hey, I am old, but not that old.

[SharonClark]

37. My dad worked for a Decca records distributor

when he was a teen. We had a lot of 78s when I was a kid but nothing to play them on.

[debm55]

40. When do the 78 date from?

[sdfernando]

57. The Grammophone Company

set 78rpm as their standard in 1912….by 1925 it was an industry standard.

[debm55]

96. My aunt was given a stand up, victrola. You had to crank it to make it play. The records only had

one song and were solid vinyl or whatever they used at the time. It even had the terrier dog on it. The only songs I remember was -
Yes, We Have no Bananas and Road to Tipperary. It was still in the basement when my aunt died. She was favorate and promised me I could have it and and record collection. However, her daughter failed to pay school taxes and the house was boarded up. Would have loved to have had it.

[debm55]

32. baked , I would call up the local radio station every night and ask them to play Nights in White

Satin. Very mellow group.

[unweird]

27. First Album - Monster by Steppenwolf

[debm55]

34. Was Born to be Wild on that album or was it on the Soundtrack of Easy Rider? I liked them too. For

"relaxing"

[unweird]

39. No, I think those were earlier releases

Monster took up one side of the album or mist of it as I recall.

[Upthevibe]

60. unweird..........YES!

Great song - Monster. The words....Wow!!!

I was the youngest of four. My brother was 10 years older and one of my sister's was eight years older. They had MAJOR album collections. But I think this one belonged to the sister who was two years older.

I was SOOOOOOOOOOOOO lucky that my siblings had great taste in music and bands.

While my friends had teeny bopper posters of people like David Cassidy, I had posters of Jim Morrison and The Doors.

[electric_blue68]

115. Loved that song! Luckily our NYC FM radio station would play it!

[Chipper Chat]

28. First 45- Ebb Tide by Frank Chacksfield.

1st LP - Carousel soundtrack

[debm55]

99. Chipper, I like tracks from musicals also. My aunt, who had the Victrola, turned me on to some great

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Broadway songs--the original Sound of Music, Music Man, West Side Story.My Fair Lady, Camelot,etc. She was like a mother to me and I miss her. She had no children and was so good to me, Just say my mother didn't go for that. told her to have her own child and I wasnt allowed to my aunt's. But I will always remember my sweet aunt Rosella and her Broadway collection of albums.

[Chipper Chat]

102. the carousel soundtrack cost 4.98

My dad Went Ballistic over the Price
(1956)

[wnylib]

35. Not sure which was the first 45, but

it might have been Sherry by the Four Seasons.

I think the first album was the soundtrack to West Side story. What can I say? I loved the movie.

Lots of other 45s and albums after that - Motown, Beatles, several individual artists and groups. Still have a few albums, but nothing to play them on. Don't know what happened to the 45s.

[SharonClark]

38. First album - Meet the Beatles

[GP6971]

44. 45...Elvis Presley's Hound Dog

first LP... Surrealistic Pillow by Jefferson Airplane.

[TlalocW]

50. It's the one on the right.

I can't remember how many Skee-Ball tickets it cost.

[debm55]

51. For real? How old were you?

[TlalocW]

53. Somewhere between 8 and 10

I remember being very concerned at my birthday party at ShowBiz Pizza when the gorilla on keyboards looked straight at me. I kept looking over my shoulder when I was in the arcade.

[debm55]

55. was it at Chucky cheese or that Bear place that served pizza while hillbilly played banjoes

[TlalocW]

56. It was ShowBiz Pizza Place

They did have a bear character that played banjo. They had an entire animal animatronic band.

[debm55]

81. They had one at the local mall. it didn't last too long. My son had a birthday party there. Pizza

wasn't the greatest, but the kids liked it. TY for reminding me of the name.

[GReedDiamond]

52. First 45 - Surfin' Bird by The Trashmen...

First album, Blind Faith...

[debm55]

82. Was Steve Winwood in Blind Faith? I loved John Barleycorn and Can't find my way home. Memories.

Oh and Dear Mister Fantasy.

[GReedDiamond]

84. Hi debm55...

...yes, Steve was in Blind Faith. Fyi, last name is spelled "Winwood."

[debm55]

86. Sorry, had a brain fart.

I'll go change it. Thank you.

[GReedDiamond]

87. No worries, easy error to make...nt.

[Different Drummer]

89. Surfin' Bird is Peter Griffin's favorite record.

[GReedDiamond]

92. Ha! That's hilarious!!

Never saw that episode, thanks.

[NBachers]

58. Shout Shout Knock Yourself Out by Ernie Maresca and Nut Rocker by B. Bumble and the Stingers - 1962

First album? It may have been Del Shannon's Little Town Flirt album in 1963. I still like all that music today.

[Earl_from_PA]

59. Uriah Heep - Sweet Freedom.

I bought The Who "Live at Leeds" the following day...

[Wolf Frankula]

61. Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.

by the Beatles. Not to be confused with Chief Petty Officer Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band by the Bugguses.

Wolf

[electric_blue68]

137. At 14 I wasn't yet allowed to go down to the (scary) Village in NYC by myself. So my dad...

took me, and my younger sister to walk around.

Boy, were she and I excited when we saw SPLHCB Album Cover taped up on the window of the Record Shop we passed by! 😄👍

[Upthevibe]

62. debm55............

Good thread!

Mine: Abbey Road - The Beatles.

[debm55]

77. Thank you and for all DU members for sharing their memories.

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[I_UndergroundPanther]

63. Electric light orchestra

Thier first album
Badfinger the one with midnight sun, and come and get it on it
Crack the Sky first album
Al Stewart Year of the Cat
And Pink Floyd Dark side of the moon.

We also had a DJ friend who ran a local radio station. Sometimes he gave us promotional albums..

My favorite of them that I picked when I got my stereo was Focus Dutch Masters.
I had 4 others,one of them was 10 years After.

I got these records the day I got my own stereo.

I was 13. Here is my 1st. Stereo,looks so dated now..70's early 80's. The posters are the Pretenders and Led Zepplin.

[debm55]

117. Panther. got one like that with huge speakers and player and records. It was a pin in the ass

up to PS. and back fo r the summers.

[ProfessorGAC]

65. First Album With My Own Money...

...was Wheels of Fire, by Cream. It was actually a mistake..
I didn't read the song list and I thought I was buying the album with "Sunshine Of Your Love". (Disraeli Gears)
A fortunate error because as a jazz piano playing kid, I got that second disc with the live stuff and they're great improvising. Loved it.
My first 45 was almost certainly a Beatles record, though I couldn't guess which one.

[Chainfire]

66. 45: Kind of a Drag by the Buckinghams.

[MissMillie]

67. Don't remember the first 45 I purchased, but

I do remember that the first album I bought was "in Search of the Lost Chord" by the Moody Blues.

I got it quite a few years after its release (maybe even a full decade). My brothers and 2 of my sisters are a bit older than I am, and I grew up listening to their music... and fell in love with the Moody Blues.

[tblue37]

68. 45--"Downtown," by Petula Clark; album--"Meet the Beatles."

[Boomerproud]

69. More of the Monkees was my 1st bought album .

Ticket to Ride might have been my 1st single I think. I had so many albums and 45s growing up. That's what I spent my money on.

[Doc_Technical]

70. First 45 "You Showed Me" by the Turtles

First album "Midnight Ride" by Paul Revere and the Raiders

&list=OLAK5uy_k-dBIZwgkU7VBvvXcM249JAioRgEODfxE

[Coventina]

72. First 45: "Celebration" by Kool & the Gang

[Coventina]

74. First Album: The Go-Go's "Beauty and the Beat"

[Prairie_Seagull]

75. Many great momories in this thread.

Thanks debm55. We can all agree on the importance of music. You ROCK. It's nearly if not completely spiritual.

[debm55]

76. Thank you and all DU for sharing their memories with us.

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[Different Drummer]

78. First album was "Frampton Comes Alive."

My first 45 was Stevie Wonder's "Sir Duke."

Having responded to this, both "Do You Feel Like We Do?" and "Sir Duke" are playing in my head. Off to YouTube to find and play them!

[Mr.Bill]

80. My first 45 was most likely a Beach Boys record.

Can't remember which song, but we had just moved to California and I was a pre-teen caught up in the cars and surfing culture.

First album was The Dave Clark Five. For quite some time I prefered them to the Beatles.

[Buckeye_Democrat]

88. My first two 45's weren't what I wanted! Lol!

I liked energetic music as a young boy, and I still do. My parents, on the other hand, grew up on farms during the Great Depression and they liked boring country ballads and the like. So they were no help for me when I struggled to identify a song title or performer among music that I just happened to hear and enjoy.

My intended purchases as a very young boy in the mid-70's:

1. Bill Haley & His Comets: Rock Around The Clock
2. Elvis Presley: Jailhouse Rock

What the local record store ordered for me, based on my childish attempts to describe the songs:
1. Happy Days Theme Song -- Pratt & McClain
2. Elvis Presley: Hound Dog (I think I only described the chorus parts of Jailhouse Rock, while at least knowing that Elvis was the singer, but I somehow got another Elvis song that I didn't like as much)

About a year later, I was more interested in more recent rock songs anyway... and I knew the titles and artist names.

[IcyPeas]

91. my first 45 was either Secret Agent Man by Johnny Rivers or Happy Jack by The Who

I remember having both of these singles.

[karynnj]

93. Hard Days Night was my first album. I don't remember buying any singles.

Using moneymaker baby sitting. Then I slowly bought the earlier ones and each album as it came out.

[Elessar Zappa]

98. My first CD

was the Green Day album “Dookie”. Btw, War Pigs is on the album “Paranoid”.

[debm55]

100. Thank you, Elessar. My first CD was David Bowie--Aladdin Sane. or A lad insane.

[Elessar Zappa]

163. Bowie is great.

Even though I’m only 38, I prefer the music of the 60s-90s. I’m sad that rock music is no longer a thing in modern music.

[Tree Lady]

103. I think it was the Turtles in 1965

I was only 9. Small record, I had one of those small box like record players when I was young. As I became a teen had larger record player with speakers for albums.

[debm55]

107. My uncle sang in a group called the Vogues. They did "Turn around look at me" and Five o'clock world

His company sent him albums and he gave them to me--Alice Cooper, Jimi Hendrix, and some others. They were freebies from the
company, so I did count them.

[TexasBushwhacker]

106. First 45 was Help by the Beatles

First album was The Monkees.

[debm55]

108. Texas, do you remember the cost? I know here at the record shops, 45 were 3 for a $1.00. but I can't

remember the price of albums. At PSU, in the mid 70's they had a record resell shop where you could buy an album for a buck. That's how I got some Beatle's albums.

[TexasBushwhacker]

121. I know the Help single was 99 cents

But that was because it was the Beatles. I think LPs were $3.99.

[electric_blue68]

109. Possibly Tommy by The Who in '69...

🤔 I was on the younger end of Beatles' fandom (11 in '64), so albums by The Beatles, and then The Monkees were bought by my parents as B-Day or Xmas gifts.

I was 16 when Tommy came out so probably w my allowance $.

First 45?
My parents probably bought me The Animals "House of the Rising Sun", and Mitch Ryder & The Detroit Wheels - "Devil w a Blue Dress" in '66. They were the first two bands my sis ever saw (my mom took us & one of our cousins).

Maybe something by The Byrd's - Mr Tambourine Man, or Turn! Turn! Turn!
I really don't remember that in a solid way.

[LudwigPastorius]

110. :

[electric_blue68]

116. Fun thread! When I had to move into a place with roommates, and a small bedroom I had to leave 200..

Albums or so behind. Mostly Rock. Some movie soundtracks



I was able to take more singles.

[debm55]

122. electri, used one of corrageted boxes you but together. All my friends helped me move. the box broke

the steps and I lost some. But I did rebuy.

[electric_blue68]

130. Oh, Ouch!! Good u could replace them....

I didn't have a stereo system to take with me anyway. Still hurt, though.
My sis held on to 10 albums, and a bunch of singles for me. 👍

[sakabatou]

118. I think my first CD was the Backstreet Boys

Yeah, I was young.

[Raven]

128. The Everly Brothers, "All I have to do is Dream" 1958.

[Hotler]

131. Elvis Presley, In The Ghetto on a 45. nt

[dawg]

134. Still love it.

[csziggy]

138. Roberta Flack - I think it may have been her first album "First Take"

Since I bought it in 1970 and it had "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face" on it. I never bought a 45 - they were on the way out by the time I started buying vinyl.

The first CD I ever bought was Encore by Tangerine Dream. I wore out my vinyl copy. I bought a CD player to play it. The vinyl version was no longer available.

[debm55]

146. I loved that song. It touched my heart.

Thank you csziggy for the memories.

[Stuart G]

139. The very first 45 that I bought was the ...."Theme from the "Magnificent 7" a movie with a lot of

stars, but great theme music.

[debm55]

145. I remember that song and the movie. Wasn't it based on a Japanese movie--The Seven Samuri?

[SKKY]

140. Kinda embarrassed to say this, but...

...The first 45 I ever purchased, or rather, the first piece of music I ever purchased was a 45 of "Hey Deanie" by Shaun Cassidy. It was like 75 cents at Uncle Lee's Discount City in Greenville, Kentucky. It was the song everyone was singing at the time and I was like 7 years old. I didn't know any better.

[debm55]

144. Don't feel so bad. I remember I bought a Mountain album for 1 song. I don't think they had 45 then.

[Initech]

141. Mine was Dookie by Green Day and Ten by Pearl Jam.

And I still have both of them!

[debm55]

147. Do you still listen to them?

[Initech]

149. Yup! Saw Green Day last year and Pearl Jam this year.

Both put on excellent shows! Green Day is always a good time live, and you definitely get your money's worth at Pearl Jam!

[dembotoz]

142. monster mash

[debm55]

148. That's always popular around Halloween. I had Frankenstein by J Winters. Loved to dance to both!

[Hekate]

156. It might have been Thelonius Monk's "Blue Monk" because a guy I knew came in whistling it...

It was so unusual and really grabbed me, so I asked him what music it was, and he said the college bookstore had the album.

I have quite broad tastes for instrumental music. During my early college years I bought “Four Oboe Concertos” because I love oboes. Then Ravi Shankar’s album after my friends and I drove into Los Angeles to hear Shankar on the sitar and his accompanist on the tabla. Used to replay them in my head on long drives.

For singing I prefer folk music.

[cksmithy]

157. Meet the Beatles

I was in 7th grade when they were on the Ed Sullivan show, I actually remember the of sense of falling in love with them. When they came to the West Coast, my older sister and I got tickets to see the Beatles at the Cow Palace. We saw them every time they came to San Francisco, California, we even bought matinee and evening tickets once. We saw their last show at Candlestick park.

I have every Beatles album from Introducing the Beatles, I think it was available before Meet the Beatles to Let it Be. I also have other albums, by other artists, but the most of a group is the Beatles. After they stopped recording together I bought a few albums, tapes of them on their own. Love the Traveling Woolberries? with George, Bob Dylan, Tom Petti, Roy Orbison, and the other guy, whose name I always forget. deb55 you ask the most fun questions.

[debm55]

158. I had the album too. Watched them on Ed Sullivan Show on a Sunday night. Had a few others. Bought

Red Album(early stuff) and the Blue Album (latter stuff) George was my favorite. Had to get his get his album All Things Must Pass-played it over and over.
Thank you for your kind words-- But I do have terrific help from DU members.Buy the way, I never saw the Beatles, but I heard the reason they stop touring was because of girls yelling for them. Was it loud when you went?

[cksmithy]

159. Yes, it was loud, you had to yell to the person

next to you to be heard, but it was so wonderful. As I understand it, they just wanted to do musical things only possible in studio. I just love them, John was always my favorite. I saw Ringo in concert several years ago, he was great with his all star band. I never saw Paul, the times were never right. I only bought American albums, there were different albums in the uk, I do not have any of them.

My husband and I saw Country Joe McDonald multiple times while at college, singing the fish cheer, "I feel like I'm going to die rag." One, two, three, what am I fighting for, well I don't give a ..." Jimmy Hendrix, the Doors, Willie Nelson, and so many more at small venues from 500 to 2000. Oh, those were the days.

[LeftInTX]

160. Album: Boots by Nancy Sinatra...(Cuz I loved the album cover)

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Single: Good Vibrations - The Beach Boys

Boots the album basically contained a bunch of Beatles covers by Nancy Sinatra, but I had seen the album advertised in all those Columbia record ads and just had to have it.



The back of the album was a hoot...
I was only 10 and when I read it, I was floored...

"What is this engima?", I thought to myself.



Liner notes on the back cover by Stan Cornyn begin

"How should I sing this?" "Like a 16 year old girl who's been dating a 40 year old man, but it's all over now." She looks good, dresses good, lives good, eats, drinks, loves, breathes, dances, sings, cries good. Five foot three and tiger eyes. A mouth made for lollipops or kisses, Stingers or melting smiles. Ninety-five pounds of affection.

She's been there already. Barely in her twenties, she looks younger. That look like Lolita Humbert or Daisy Clover. The power to exalt, or to destroy " ..."A young fragile living thing, on its own...."

And on it goes....

Ah...the power of marketing......

&ab_channel=weissebrauen

I wonder if the album art itself was the reason the album was so popular? Besides Boots, the album didn't offer much except a strange narrative about Nancy Sinatra. Nancy Sinatra was 25 when she recorded Boots.

My mom thought it was strange that I wanted the album instead of just the 45 because I was really into the song Boots, but nope, I wanted that album because of the photo!

[debm55]

162. We had these white go go boots, and wear them while singing and dancing to Nancy's song. Wow, that

back cover story is racy wasn't it

[LeftInTX]

165. It's something else. They were really trying to write a mysterious "novel" about the engima

that is Nancy Sinatra..LOL

They could have said,
Nancy, who was inspired by her father Frank Sinatra has been singing since she was a little girl

But instead, they create this image of this girl who came from "out of nowhere".....
A girl down on her luck singing for "crepes and Cokes"...LOL

[Mad_Dem_X]

161. First album: Grease soundtrack

I can't remember the first 45 I bought.

[debm55]

164. Yes, it had some very memorable songs on it. Good for dancing.or listening.