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What was the first record you ever bought?

Monday, 5 December 2016, 22:04 BFH Uncategorized 127

This question was raised in the Tie Me Kangaroo Down Sport thread.

I said I thought it was the first record Irony ever bought. I was sorta right.

I was a late in life buyer of records. I spent my money on sports stuff. I’m pretty sure the first record I ever bought was the album, Get Your Wings, by Aerosmith.

How about you?

 

127 Comments on What was the first record you ever bought?

  8. This is almost embarrassing to admit, what with my current large library of classical and jazz. But my very first record was a 45: Ricky Nelson’s “My Bucket’s Got a Hole in it”

  10. I think I was in 7th grade; I bought the Creedence Clearwater Revival ‘Fantasy’ album for my sister, Christmas, 1968. (I carefully opened the plastic film and played it first before I wrapped it.)

    I didn’t buy another record until I was in my early ’20’s because I didn’t have anything to play them on, but I bought cassette tapes.

  13. Led Zeppelin – Whole Lotta Love
    James Brown – Mother Popcorn

    I was 9. Parents figured I wouldn’t care about what the songs meant, I just liked the beat… So now you know how old I am.

  17. Michael Jackson “Thriller” was the first album I asked for and received for my birthday. With my own money, Bob Seger “Against the Wind” and ZZ Top “Eliminator” at our local swap and shop.

  25. Simon and Garfunkel – sounds of silence.
    It was way before my time, but in our home and cars we had both kinds of music – country and western. Not sure what appealed to me about that but I remember being concerned that my mother wouldn’t allow me to buy it.

    The album released in 1966 and I probably bought it in 1975 so it was probably played on a radio station that mom listed to. (Her first album was an Elvis 45 that she still has but she didn’t like “new rock”)

    So one day I was given the task to weed the garden and I thought it would be cool to listen to music while I worked, so I moved the family turntable and speakers outside. Well at 100 degrees with a black album the end of Simon was inevitable and soon I was listening to the sounds of silence….

  29. The Beatles Second Album. But that was in 1975 when my buddies were all buying Kiss albums!

    First record I borrowed permanently was Snoopy vs. The Red Baron by the Royal Guardsmen on the Laurie record label. Good times.

  33. I don’t recall the record but my father never allowed me to buy cassettes in the 80s. I had to buy the record and he recorded it onto a tape for me to play. He did have a great system but it sucked, unlike a cassette the recording didn’t know to stop at each song and I wasn’t supposed to play the record to avoid wearing it out. Sigh, the snowflakes really have no idea what hardship is.

  35. LOL Frank. Sorry to hear your album didn’t make it. My dad used to nickname the bands he heard me playing – The Bitch Boys, Mon-See and Funkel-Garr. :-/)

  36. Probably Boogie with Canned Heat, or Janis Joplin with Big Brother & the Holding Co. Cheap Thrills album, the cover stamped with “Approved by the Hell’s Angels, Frisco”.

    Need a couple more gigs of RAM, just can’t recall..for sure.

  43. The first record I bought was by the Flintstones, it was carved in stone….but….don’t take it for granite. It was a hard choice but the price was rock bottom.

  45. @ΜΟΛΩΝ ΛΑΒΕ, I’ve got that same Introducing The Beatles album. The ones with covers that weren’t printed on butcher paper are worth quite a bit of moolah.

  49. @Ann Nonymous, got an old ‘trunk’ literally FULL of 78’s from the 30’s, and WWII era from my father-in-law when he passed. He knew every band and singer by the second note since having served in Germany and Korea. Gotta find a decent player that I can play/record all of those to preserve them for his grandkids and great grandkids.

  50. I never bought 45’s. My first albums were Emerson, Lake and Palmer Pictures at an Exhibition and the Yes album. I was nine and had won a gift certificate from a music store at a kid’s fishing tournament.

  59. Can’t remember – I borrowed my older brother’s LP’s and 8 tracks. Maybe It’s A Gas that was included in a Mad magazine. I was obsessed with The Who Sell Out and my brother’s 8 track of Green Grass & High Tides by the Stones as a kid. I can still hear the track skip in 2000 Miles From Home ha ha. Disraeli Gears at nine years old – that was a boy band!

  61. First Single (on 45 RPM):
    Queen – Bohemian Rhapsody (1975).

    I was 10 years old it was Saturday morning (allowance day) I rode my Spider Bike to the local record store in the rain. On the way home the paper bag soaked through and the disc fell out and was immediately run over.

    The lady at the record store was sympathetic and replaced it N/C.

  63. @Fur — I wonder if you showed the picture of the little plastic thingy you had to use to play 45s, if anyone under 35 would know what it is. Wouldn’t it be a hoot if hipsters recycled it as a logo for something, thinking it was just a cool graphic?

  70. The first LP I bought was Tommy-The Who. Then Jesus Christ Superstar. Then Aqualung. The first 45 I “owned” (because my Mom bought it for me) was the theme song for the cartoon Astroboy. I was about 6. The second 45 my Mom bought for me around the same time (when I had chicken pox or something) was a song from the TV Christmas hit Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer. The song was “Tomorrow”, sung by Rudolphs’ deer-girlfriend Clarice. My older sisters provided all the Beatle 45s and LPs so I was set there.

  76. Not one I bought, but one of the first albums I remember listening to was Walter Brennan, something about Yellow Ribbons in Her Hair. Mom and dad had some Roy Rogers records too.

  78. There weren’t a lot (or actually any) record stores in the area I grew up in. AM radio was the thing, and I ended up rarely buying records that had songs in the AM radio regular rotation and which were played a hundred times a day. I did end up with a couple of Beatle’s albums, but much later.

    For whatever reason, Led Zepplin and Pink Floyd didn’t do much for me, although I enjoy Pink Floyd now. And…no disco. Ever.

  91. A B C of a fav playlist
    random tasting dish

    1910 Fruitgum Co – Yummy Yummy Yummy
    2 Live Crew – Me So Horny
    3 Dog Night – Mama Told Me Not To Come
    38 Special – Hold On Loosely
    5th Dimension – Up Up & Away
    Ace Of Base – All That She Wants
    Ace Of Base – Don’t Turn Around
    Ace Of Base – I Saw The Sign
    Aerosmith – Toys In The Attic
    Aerosmith – Walk This Way
    Alice Cooper – Schools Out
    Arlo Guthrie – Alice’s Restaurant
    Atlanta Rhythm Section – Imaginary Lover
    Atlanta Rhythm Section – So Into You
    B-52s – Loveshack
    Bachman-Turner Overdrive – Let It Ride
    Bad Company – Rock ‘N’ Roll Fantasy
    Bangles – Walk Like An Egyptian
    Barry Manilow – Copacabana
    Barry White – Can’t Get Enough Of Your Love Babe
    Beach Boys – Kokomo
    Beastie Boys – Fight For The Right To Party
    Beck – Loser
    Bee Gees – Jive Talkin’
    Bee Gees – Stayin Alive
    Billy Idol – White Wedding
    Billy Joel – We Didn’t Start The Fire
    Billy Ocean – Caribbean Queen
    BJ Thomas – Hooked On A Feeling
    Blood, Sweat & Tears – You Make Me So Very Happy
    Blue Oyster Cult – Don’t Fear The Reaper
    Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band – Old Time Rock & Roll
    Bob Seger – Night Moves
    Bobby Mcferrin – Don’t Worry Be Happy
    Bone Thugs – Crossroads
    Bonnie Tyler – It’s A Heartache
    Boston – Smokin
    Brownsville Station – Smokin’ In The Boys Room
    Carly Simon – Anticipation
    Carly Simon – Nobody Does It Better
    Carly Simon – Your So Vain
    Carole King – I Feel The Earth Move
    Charlie Daniels Band – Devil Went Down To Georgia
    Cher – Gypsies, Tramps & Thieves
    Cher – Half Breed
    Chris De Burgh – Don’t Pay The Ferryman
    Chumbawamba – Tubthumping
    Clash – Should I Stay Or Should I Go
    Cliff Richard – Devil Woman
    Climax Blues Band – Couldn’t Get It Right
    Collective Soul – December
    Collective Soul – Shine
    Cowsills – Hair
    Cranberries – Linger
    Cranberries – Zombie
    Crash Test Dummies – Mmm Mmm Mmm
    Cyndi Lauper – Girls Just Wanna Have Fun
    Cypress Hill – Insane In The Membrane

  92. @ Illustr8r

    I could never get those boxes to fit on my Old Man’s record player. Even when I flattened the cereal box, it kept hitting the arm and knocking it off. 🙁

  97. My dad and mom bought me the Beatles “I Want to Hold Your Hand” 45 when it came out. When I came of age, in high school, I used to go up and down the record shops on Hollywood Blvd, looking for LPs of British regimental marches, particularly with Scottish bagpipes. Yes, I was a weird kid . . .

  100. A 45 rpm: Ricky Nelson, ‘Poor Little Fool’. And I drive my poor opera loving mom and sister nuts, because i’d set the arm so that it would repeat, over and over and over and over.

  104. FDR surprised me. I woulda thought it would have been anything by Canned Heat…

    I guess my first record as a kid was a cereal box version too – pretty sure it was Wheaties. It was a baseball record (that I think was the size of a 45, but with the small hole and played at 33rpm) anyway it had interviews with Whitey Ford, Mickey Mantel, etc. My older sister had a record player to play it on. Mom & Dad only had a behemoth Magnavox radio/record player that only had 78rpm on it.
    My first real record was “You’ve Lost That Loving Feeling” by the Righteous Brothers which I won in a contest. The first record I actually paid money for I don’t remember, but I wasn’t until the 70s and I think it was Stage Fright by The Band.

  116. I didn’t buy records until late in life either, Fur. I think the first one was Fleetwood Mac’s “Rumors.” However, my sister And I played my Mom’s old 45s on her portable record player. It resembled a small travel case with a hinged lid and carry handle. I remember the song, “It was an itsy bitsy teeny weeny, yellow polka dot bikini.” Here’s a question for everybody.

    What was the last albumn you bought?

  120. Plastic Ono Band / John Lennon
    I was 10. Before that, my aunt, who was a druggie, used to give me psychedelic albums for my birthday or Christmas. My mother thought she was trying to get me to tune in, turn on and drop out.

  121. lovin spoonful, first album……

    first single i bought was a christmas present for my brother, but don’t remember which song – wrapped it up in a little box inside another wrapped up box inside another wrapped up box until it ended up as a four foot long package, about two feet wide, and maybe a foot high……that was fun…..

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