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?
DSOM
Wasn’t that album issued free to every household in the world?
Guitarzan!
Oscar Mayer Weiner Song.
Jan and Dean: Dead Man’s Curve.
OK don’t laugh. I think I either bought Cyndi Lauper’s first album or Men At Work.
The Who. Who’s Next
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”
Uriah Heep Live
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.
Blue Oyster Cult
Some Enchanted Evening
Van Halen’s “Women And Children First”
🤘😎🤘
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.
(The Best of the Guess Who) I think,in the early 70s
A pristine copy of Santana “Abraxas” in a used record store.
I think the first I bought was the KISS “Alive!” album.
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.
The Fabulous Fabian
or
De De Dinah by Frankie Avalon
It was so long ago I’m not sure which was first. 🙂
Do I win for being the oldest? 😉
“Banana Boat” – Harry Belafonte – RCA, 45 RPM.
Meet The Beatles — first album. Can’t remember what my first 45 was.
Johnny Cash, “Ring of Fire,” 45rpm. Still have it.
De De Dinah (above) was 78 rpm. I still have it.
Bang shang alang
Sugar Sugar
Both by the Archies
‘Introducing The Beatles’ on the Vee Jay label … still got it
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….
Kool and the Gang..
Wild and Peaceful..
It had Hollywood Swinging and Jungle Boogie on it
I got the Archie’s Sugar sugar off a box of cereal if that counts.
Louie Louie….The Kingsmen..
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.
Wait … A 45 of Stan Friberg. Dragonnet
“We’re only in it for the money”
The Night Chicago Died
Paper Lace
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.
First 45: Elton John and Kiki Dee, Don’t go breaking My Heart
First LP: Billy Joel, The Stranger
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. :-/)
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.
Led Zepplin (1)
Topsy, Part II – by Cozy Cole (Great drummer)
Anyone old enough to remember that one?
Can’t believe it Groucho – my first was Sh-Boom.
Boyd is old enough
omg, this place is full of grandparent age fossils..
Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No.1 in B-flat Minor, Opus 23, played by Van Cliburn, conducted by Kirill Kandrashin, The RCA Symphony Orchestra, 1958.
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.
I want to know what F.D.R. in Hell’s first album was!
@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.
The Beatles 1962-1966 double album. I bought in 1979 when I was 11.
The Brothers Four – title album early 1960’s. Can’t count the big band 78’s I bought used.
First 45, Neil Young “Cinnamon Girl”.
First album, “You Are What You Eat” movie soundtrack.
Who’s got the age now?
@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.
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.
Isley Brothers – Twist and Shout
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cTaqn8_gMR0
Richard Cranium,
Is there a Zenith hi-fi console stereo in your musical upbringing?
Maybe some 45’s by Francoise Hardy.
2 clarify first Post
DSOM with own gold
1st was 8 for a Dads penny
8 Tracks to boot
Stayin Alive
2nd post DSOM, The Wall.
Story be spinnin’
MAGA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUmNHkLkDVE
@Unruly ~ yeah, that album was one of the most pirated albums ever … gotta watch out for the fakes
… if you are interested …
http://www.post-age-collectibles.com/records/veejay1062.html
http://rarebeatles.com/photospg/introvj.htm …
First album was Face The Music-ELO-1975
First 45 was Joy To The World-3 Dog Night-1971-72ish? I got it for an Easter gift, when I was like 5 or 6.
@Ted Nougat
Yup, but just barely. Been around them but not in my parents house. I got in on the end of the 60’s, the very end..
I think it was Jim Steinman’s Bad for Good or Pink Floyd Meddle. I was in my mid teens before I started buying albums.
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!
Wait –
DSOM wasn’t Dark Side of the Moon?
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.
def leppard
Photograph
@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?
I’t’s All Light Now
Snoopy Vs. The Red Baron by The Royal Guardsmen
AA-
they’d probably say it was some sort of retooling of the Swastika, because, you know, we’re all “alt-right.”
Anonymous –
“All Light Now”. Is that the Asian version?
I think it was The doors, Riders on the storm
I’ll bet this one is unique to the thread:
Concierto De Las 14 Provincias – Waldo De Los Ríos
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.
1st 45: Brandy (You’re a Fine Girl) – Looking Glass
1st LP: Silk Degrees – Boz Scaggs
I’m enjoying reading all these blasts from the past. Good memories.
A few instrumentals, but “Lightning Strikes” by Lou Christie was my first vocal 45. But “Tie Me Kangaroo” was an early purchase too.
The first 45 I bought was probably Roll Over Beethoven by ELO. I didn’t buy many 45s.
My brother and I bought our first stereo and played mostly 8 tracks. The first one was Seventh Sojourn by the Moody Blues.
I later got into higher end audio equipment. The first album was Toulouse Street by the Doobie Brothers.
@ΜΟΛΩΝ ΛΑΒΕ , the prices were a lot higher when I checked about 15 years ago. Thanks for the links.
And the first 100 or so 78s I ‘owned’ were picked up by me from someones’ garbage can when I was about 7 or 8. Quite the heavy haul carrying them back home.
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.
Beastie Boys Licensed to Ill but we had cassettes and cds
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.
Tone Loc – Funky Cold Medina
a picture changer
I decidedly remember and still feel the pain of a certain baby-sitter who arrived with a Sean Cassidy 45 of Da-Do-Run-Run, and replayed it until we went to bed.
Iron Butterfly: Inagoddadavida
(pardon the spelling)
My parents were eclectic. They had The Sound Of Music and Whipped Cream And Other Delights.
45: Wildfire by Michael Martin Murphey- I liked the song because it was about a horse.
Album: Friends soundtrack by Elton John
Chubby Checker “The Twist”
Who remembers the 45 records printed on the back of cereal boxes? Going by those my first record was a wobbly Bobby Sherman hit!
the purple people eater
Sheb Wooley
I had “Tie Me Kangaroo Down”! I still sing it every once in a while. Flip side was “My Boomarang Won’t Come Back”. Perfect songs for a 10 yr old.
The Partridge Family – October 1970
Procol Harum LIVE In Concert with the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra – April 1972
“Mary Had A Little Lamb” by Thomas Edison.
ELP Pictures at an Exhibition – November 1971
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
@ 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. 🙁
Gene Krupa, can’t remember the name of the record, hells bells it was 64 years ago.
Jimi Hendrix – Electric Ladyland album. Played “Voodoo Child” over and over. Bought every Hendrix album I could find during high school years.
I don’t know about the first 45, but I think my first 33 album was Janis Joplin Live or was it Santana?
I’m pretty sure it was either “Happy Together” by the Turtles or Camp Grenada(hello Mudda Hello Faddah)
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 . . .
Wait wait wait… There were albums you could cut out from the back of cereal boxes???
Where was I? What year? lol
1960s-1970s
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cardboard_record
Where were we?
Probably eating Pop Rocks and Space Dust.
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.
Luna- Thanks. That was before my time. Interesting.
Johnny Ray’s CRY & The Little White Cloud That Cried
Drumb Battle ~ Gene Krupa and Buddy Rich
Mountain Greenery by Jackie & Roy
On my first trip to the record store, I came away with two LPs: Led Zeppelin II and the Beatles (white album).
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.
Bob Dylan Blood on the Tracks
I lent it out and it never returned. Same after I bought it on CD. So I have no problem ripping it from youtube.
A David Seville 45 with 2 songs on each side. “Witch Doctor” and “Gotta Get To Your House.” I don’t remember the other 2 songs.
1976
Queen: A Night at the Opera
Or maybe it was Richard Pryor: That Nigger’s Crazy
@ Loretta-
“Brandy, you’re a fine girl.
What a good wife you would be.
But your ass could steal a sailor from the sea.”
DOWNTOWN by Petula Clark.
“Meet the Beatles” and a 98¢ album of “scary” stereo sound effects from the grocery store.
Meet the Beatles album.
Early AM goodness
Joe Walsh – Life’s Been Good 1978
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXWvKDSwvls
Ram Jam – Black Betty 1977
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqjoHKISCVU
Too High for the Supermarket 1995
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUjhbeiJddo
“Swimming in a Fishbowl”
“Rose Garden” Lynn Anderson
My mom bought me the Davy Crockett theme song from the Walt Disney series on a 78. Still have it but no 78 rpm player.
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?
@ Bayouwulf – last album – Lie to Me by Jonny Lang
Bill Haley, Rock Around The Clock.
The Hollies, Bus Stop, 45. Still have it.
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.
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…..
@ bayouwulf December 6, 2016 at 9:18 am
So glad you asked.
Dark Side of the Moon on DVD.
Funny how this stuff works.
The Ventures, Telstar
Marcel Marceau’s Greatest Hits.
“Crimson and Clover,” 1968, for 76 cents at Treasure Island in Brown Deer, WI.
My Boy Lollipop
My first record was Mary Poppins, when I was 5. I scratched the hell out of it and I still have it.