Played it on my portable plastic turntable with built in crackling speakers turned all the way up. Over and over.
Drove my parents nuts.
I also had the Beatles. I could only afford one record a month before I started working for my own stuff.
First singles I ever bought with my own money were Roundabout (Yes) and Superstition (Stevie Wonder).
And I left them and my friend’s house and he “lost them.”
Motown all day long.
Favorite C-W….. Farewell Party—Gene Watson
Favorite Folk Rock…..Master Jack—Four Jacks and a Jill
Favorite Seasonal…..Silent Night—The Tractors
Favorite Easy listening…..Wonderland by Night—Bert Kaempfert
Tommy James and the Shondells. Crimson and Clover.
Born raised in Cleveland. Listened to Motown endlessly on CKLW known as the “blackest white station in America.” The station was Canadian but represents Detroit, really. If I needed a change, I went with the old “WIXY 1260 ” for slightly different mix. All the AMs in NE Ohio played Motown and Rock. It was a great time to be alive.
The first 45 I bought was Day Tripper/We Can Work It Out. I still have it.
Beatles
Motown
Clapton in all his identities
Dylan
George Harrison
Chicago blues artists. Southside boy here, back in the day, and the music was everywhere.
Buffalo Springfield and its offspring
Who
….
It would be easier, for me anyway, to pick a decade and list who and what wasn’t on the turn table.
Raspberries
Deep Purple
Bo Donaldson and the Haywoods
Jigsaw
Chicago
Still crank e’m today….
Swear to God, this was the first 45 I bought.
I was eight years old. Dam that takes me back.
My Boomerang Won’t Come Back. Forget the groups name. Also 1 eyed 1 horned flying purple people eater.
Funny stuff when you’re 8.
Buddy Holly, Patsy Cline, Kingston Trio, later on Beatles, Stones and the rest of the British invasion…then the Psychedelic era!
Boy, you people are old.
I’m a bit arcane…
Yes
The Beatles
Intergalactic Touring Band
The Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah band
Sugarloaf
Uriah Heep – (NEVER hear them anywhere today)
Moody Blues – (Pre “Nights in White Satin” ONLY!)
IF^2
Steppenwolf
Dr. Hook and the Medicine Show
KLAATU
J. Geils band
Dylan
Arlo Guthrie
and for comedy there was Monty Python, (I owned them all) and Firesign Theater.
Never had a turn table, always listened to my sisters 45s.
Everly Bros.
Bobby Day
Kingston Trio
Richie Valens
The Crests
The Teddy Bears
The Skyliners
The Platters
Sheb Wooley
First 45 I bought. 1961. I forgot to post the link, above, excuse I’m technically old enough to be allowed forget shit now and then..
Stoobie
Klattu was great.
I have two of the LPs buried away in a closet somewhere.
The rumors were quite fun..
Anything Ricky Nelson
“The Lion Sleeps Tonight”
“Purple People Eater”
Elvis Presley’s “Love Me Tender”
Yea, BUBBA, we be old!
I was never into 45s, hell, the stuff I listen to was rarely released as a single. I always considered it a mortal sin to “stack” anyway….it propagated the rice crispy effect.
I put my most played & multi-record sets on reel to reel for uninterrupted play & to preserve the vinyl. I was a stickler….never loaned my vinyl to anyone, buy the tape, I’d reel it for you.
Whether we played phone or radio, my dad never failed to come in and say, “Turn that noise down!”
Phono.
Irritating spell check.
Derek and the Dominos
The Temptations
Eagles
Smokey Robinson and the Miracles
45s that I played regularly on my parent’s Zenith hi-fi console –
Neil Young: Heart of Gold
Jackson Browne: Doctor My Eyes
Badfinger: Baby Blue
O’Jays
Spinners
Diana Ross
Jackson Five
Moody Blues: Question of Balance, and Every good boy deserves Favor, Pink Floyd Dark Side, Jefferson Starship Spitfire, Santana’s First Album.
Five Albums was the max you could pile on the spindle.
45s?
Roy Orbison’s Pretty Woman, Steppenwolf’s Magic Carpet Ride, Mungo Jerry’s In the Summeritme
singles – Dr Hook, Wild Cherry, Beatles, Paul Revere & The Raiders, etc, Motown, Bobby Sherman 45 from the back of a Raisin Bran box LOL, Bill Cosby Ursalena and the flip side Hooray for the Salvation Army Band
albums – Beatles, The Who Who are You, JJ Cale, Don McLean, early Heart, early Aerosmith, early Van Halen, AC/DC
I remember my dad coming back to my room telling me to turn the noise down, I should go listen to the stuff he was playing on his monster console in the living room…I did and cracked up. I was listening to a Beatles song maybe Ticket to Ride and he was listening to the very same song by the Boston Pops Orchestra. He wasn’t a happy camper when I enlightened him as to the original composers were!
Just make sure that whatever you do don’t play Country Joe and The Fish singing the Fish cheer from the Woodstock album while your mother is in the room and told me to turn it down right when it got to the gimme a F part and I didn’t. I didn’t know that my Mom could smack me that hard in the face and sending me sailing across the room. I learned the hard way (I had it coming for being an ass) and never did it again and turned the music down or off whenever she was around.
My first 45 I owned, my parents bought it for me. It was a yellow vinyl of the theme of the TV cartoon AstroBoy. Too bad I didn’t hang onto it. Prolly worth 17 cents today.
My older sis’s 45 collections were what I heard. I didn’t even have to bother playing them, I heard all the 60s’ music from their bedroom next to mine. Their collection was too big to post here.
Last year Fur posted a list of my old 45s. Found the rest of them, but haven’t catalogued them yet.
First 45 was “I Want to Hold Your Hand”.
First album was “Meet the Beatles”.
Beatles, Motown, Southern Rock, Eagles, etc. Parents collection included Patsy Cline, Kingston Trio, Mahalia Jackson, Elvis, Johnny Horton, Marty Robins and more. I’m forever thankful that my parents exposed me to a wide range of music genres from the get-go!
I still have all of my over 100 45s and we have five boxes of 33s in the basement.
Hubby has always been an audiophile and wouldn’t allow me to play any of my 33s on his expensive turntable so, when we got married, I took a YUGE collection of classics to the record store and traded them in for new albums. Boy, scratches and all, that collection might be worth something today if only for the cover art.
@Doc — Hahaha!!! My mom was the same! She hated me playing The Beatles but loved her Boston Pops Beatles album! 🙂
Stoobie – 10-4 on the Uriah Heep and Firesign.
1st 45 I had was a country song “Abilene”, forget the artist/band.
Kingston Trio and Oak Ridge Boys
For a New Englander, I sure love that banjo.
“Happy Days Are Here Again” and anything by Fats Waller.
@Sturge – If you love the banjo, check out the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band.
Steve Martin even played for them in the early years.
For one thing, I never used the stacker for multiple records.
I carefully removed a record from the album cover and paper inner liner and played it individually.
If I wanted continuous play, I would do an in line recording (output jacks to inputs of my reel to reel recorder and record them in the order in which I wanted to hear them. The modern equivalent would be to copy CDs on the computer via iTunes, which now allows us to do a playlist on iPad or iPhone.
I can’t believe you listened to 45’s. My wife is your age and she did not have 45’s.
I have a shit load of 45’s. Mostly Les Baer’s.
^^^^^^^^^^
Bwhahahaha!!
Wanna donate one?
We mostly had 8-track tapes.
Only vinyl was mostly CCR.
Cut my teeth on Neil Diamond, Beatles, Anne Murray, Dean Martin, & Nitty Gritty Dirt Band.
First 45 was The Beatles’ I Want to Hold Your Hand/She Loves You, still have it. One particularly painful memory was leaving Mustang Sally on repeat and my mom came in and broke it in two. Between that stack and the transistor AM radio, everything was cool.
So what was on your turntable playlist?
Beatles.
Tom Jones What’s New Pussycat
Played it on my portable plastic turntable with built in crackling speakers turned all the way up. Over and over.
Drove my parents nuts.
I also had the Beatles. I could only afford one record a month before I started working for my own stuff.
First singles I ever bought with my own money were Roundabout (Yes) and Superstition (Stevie Wonder).
And I left them and my friend’s house and he “lost them.”
Motown all day long.
Favorite C-W….. Farewell Party—Gene Watson
Favorite Folk Rock…..Master Jack—Four Jacks and a Jill
Favorite Seasonal…..Silent Night—The Tractors
Favorite Easy listening…..Wonderland by Night—Bert Kaempfert
Tommy James and the Shondells. Crimson and Clover.
Cherish – The Association
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E55Ak8WCB1Q
(I was a slow-dancin’ kinda schooler…)
Born raised in Cleveland. Listened to Motown endlessly on CKLW known as the “blackest white station in America.” The station was Canadian but represents Detroit, really. If I needed a change, I went with the old “WIXY 1260 ” for slightly different mix. All the AMs in NE Ohio played Motown and Rock. It was a great time to be alive.
The first 45 I bought was Day Tripper/We Can Work It Out. I still have it.
Beatles
Motown
Clapton in all his identities
Dylan
George Harrison
Chicago blues artists. Southside boy here, back in the day, and the music was everywhere.
Buffalo Springfield and its offspring
Who
….
It would be easier, for me anyway, to pick a decade and list who and what wasn’t on the turn table.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_BOp4luu40o&list=PL7v9kKtAchkz-Rct7XE71Y8oJoapD1u07&index=34
…and BOC, Grateful Dead, Fleetwood Mac (Early Fleetwood Mac)Bluegrass, Blues.
My playlists are digital these days.
Raspberries
Deep Purple
Bo Donaldson and the Haywoods
Jigsaw
Chicago
Still crank e’m today….
Swear to God, this was the first 45 I bought.
I was eight years old. Dam that takes me back.
My Boomerang Won’t Come Back. Forget the groups name. Also 1 eyed 1 horned flying purple people eater.
Funny stuff when you’re 8.
Buddy Holly, Patsy Cline, Kingston Trio, later on Beatles, Stones and the rest of the British invasion…then the Psychedelic era!
Boy, you people are old.
I’m a bit arcane…
Yes
The Beatles
Intergalactic Touring Band
The Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah band
Sugarloaf
Uriah Heep – (NEVER hear them anywhere today)
Moody Blues – (Pre “Nights in White Satin” ONLY!)
IF^2
Steppenwolf
Dr. Hook and the Medicine Show
KLAATU
J. Geils band
Dylan
Arlo Guthrie
and for comedy there was Monty Python, (I owned them all) and Firesign Theater.
Never had a turn table, always listened to my sisters 45s.
Everly Bros.
Bobby Day
Kingston Trio
Richie Valens
The Crests
The Teddy Bears
The Skyliners
The Platters
Sheb Wooley
First 45 I bought. 1961. I forgot to post the link, above, excuse I’m technically old enough to be allowed forget shit now and then..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F1IyrZZQd0g
Stoobie
Klattu was great.
I have two of the LPs buried away in a closet somewhere.
The rumors were quite fun..
Anything Ricky Nelson
“The Lion Sleeps Tonight”
“Purple People Eater”
Elvis Presley’s “Love Me Tender”
Yea, BUBBA, we be old!
I was never into 45s, hell, the stuff I listen to was rarely released as a single. I always considered it a mortal sin to “stack” anyway….it propagated the rice crispy effect.
I put my most played & multi-record sets on reel to reel for uninterrupted play & to preserve the vinyl. I was a stickler….never loaned my vinyl to anyone, buy the tape, I’d reel it for you.
Whether we played phone or radio, my dad never failed to come in and say, “Turn that noise down!”
Phono.
Irritating spell check.
Derek and the Dominos
The Temptations
Eagles
Smokey Robinson and the Miracles
45s that I played regularly on my parent’s Zenith hi-fi console –
Neil Young: Heart of Gold
Jackson Browne: Doctor My Eyes
Badfinger: Baby Blue
O’Jays
Spinners
Diana Ross
Jackson Five
Moody Blues: Question of Balance, and Every good boy deserves Favor, Pink Floyd Dark Side, Jefferson Starship Spitfire, Santana’s First Album.
Five Albums was the max you could pile on the spindle.
45s?
Roy Orbison’s Pretty Woman, Steppenwolf’s Magic Carpet Ride, Mungo Jerry’s In the Summeritme
singles – Dr Hook, Wild Cherry, Beatles, Paul Revere & The Raiders, etc, Motown, Bobby Sherman 45 from the back of a Raisin Bran box LOL, Bill Cosby Ursalena and the flip side Hooray for the Salvation Army Band
albums – Beatles, The Who Who are You, JJ Cale, Don McLean, early Heart, early Aerosmith, early Van Halen, AC/DC
I remember my dad coming back to my room telling me to turn the noise down, I should go listen to the stuff he was playing on his monster console in the living room…I did and cracked up. I was listening to a Beatles song maybe Ticket to Ride and he was listening to the very same song by the Boston Pops Orchestra. He wasn’t a happy camper when I enlightened him as to the original composers were!
Just make sure that whatever you do don’t play Country Joe and The Fish singing the Fish cheer from the Woodstock album while your mother is in the room and told me to turn it down right when it got to the gimme a F part and I didn’t. I didn’t know that my Mom could smack me that hard in the face and sending me sailing across the room. I learned the hard way (I had it coming for being an ass) and never did it again and turned the music down or off whenever she was around.
My first 45 I owned, my parents bought it for me. It was a yellow vinyl of the theme of the TV cartoon AstroBoy. Too bad I didn’t hang onto it. Prolly worth 17 cents today.
My older sis’s 45 collections were what I heard. I didn’t even have to bother playing them, I heard all the 60s’ music from their bedroom next to mine. Their collection was too big to post here.
Last year Fur posted a list of my old 45s. Found the rest of them, but haven’t catalogued them yet.
First 45 was “I Want to Hold Your Hand”.
First album was “Meet the Beatles”.
Beatles, Motown, Southern Rock, Eagles, etc. Parents collection included Patsy Cline, Kingston Trio, Mahalia Jackson, Elvis, Johnny Horton, Marty Robins and more. I’m forever thankful that my parents exposed me to a wide range of music genres from the get-go!
I still have all of my over 100 45s and we have five boxes of 33s in the basement.
Hubby has always been an audiophile and wouldn’t allow me to play any of my 33s on his expensive turntable so, when we got married, I took a YUGE collection of classics to the record store and traded them in for new albums. Boy, scratches and all, that collection might be worth something today if only for the cover art.
@Doc — Hahaha!!! My mom was the same! She hated me playing The Beatles but loved her Boston Pops Beatles album! 🙂
Stoobie – 10-4 on the Uriah Heep and Firesign.
1st 45 I had was a country song “Abilene”, forget the artist/band.
Kingston Trio and Oak Ridge Boys
For a New Englander, I sure love that banjo.
“Happy Days Are Here Again” and anything by Fats Waller.
@Sturge – If you love the banjo, check out the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band.
Steve Martin even played for them in the early years.
For one thing, I never used the stacker for multiple records.
I carefully removed a record from the album cover and paper inner liner and played it individually.
If I wanted continuous play, I would do an in line recording (output jacks to inputs of my reel to reel recorder and record them in the order in which I wanted to hear them. The modern equivalent would be to copy CDs on the computer via iTunes, which now allows us to do a playlist on iPad or iPhone.
I can’t believe you listened to 45’s. My wife is your age and she did not have 45’s.
I have a shit load of 45’s. Mostly Les Baer’s.
^^^^^^^^^^
Bwhahahaha!!
Wanna donate one?
We mostly had 8-track tapes.
Only vinyl was mostly CCR.
Cut my teeth on Neil Diamond, Beatles, Anne Murray, Dean Martin, & Nitty Gritty Dirt Band.
First 45 was The Beatles’ I Want to Hold Your Hand/She Loves You, still have it. One particularly painful memory was leaving Mustang Sally on repeat and my mom came in and broke it in two. Between that stack and the transistor AM radio, everything was cool.
Power Records!