The First record you ever bought?

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What was the first record you ever bought, and do you still like listening to that particular song to this day ?

The very first one I ever bought using my own money was this one when it came into the charts in the UK in 1970..


 

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Don't remember which but would have been a Beatles single or album, an early one.
 

OMG! How on earth do you remember? I love music. I have lot's of it. I used to have an entire 8' wide cabinet full of equipment and records, tapes, etc. But I bought my first record when I was around 13. That was 66 years ago. I have no idea. Holly's a kid so I can see her remembering but you others, how in hell do you do it??
 
AZ Jim said:
OMG! How on earth do you remember? I love music. I have lot's of it. I used to have an entire 8' wide cabinet full of equipment and records, tapes, etc. But I bought my first record when I was around 13. That was 66 years ago. I have no idea. Holly's a kid so I can see her remembering but you others, how in hell do you do it??
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I'm sort of a kid! Okay. Maybe not. But I know when I was 11 I was crazy about the Beatles, so I know when I got enough money I would have bought a Beatles record. I can remember watching them on Ed Sullivan just a couple of weeks before my 12th birthday. There was no singer or group I liked anywhere near as much. By default it was the Fab 4.
 
ndynt said:
Purchased my first record/album at age 12. Gershwin/Oscar Levant's Rapsody in Blue.

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Some coincidence, ndynt, I saw Holly's OP and thought I wouldn't reply because I didn't buy many records as a child, but I thought a little more and I did recall the first record that I bought and even though it was a classical album I thought I'd add it to the thread to further prove to everyone what a weird kid I was. So I scrolled down to the bottom and there was my selection
Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue. I don't recall the orchestra or the soloist of my recording, it wasn't Oscar Levant. But I did attend a performance in NYC where Levant performed the piece.
 
1958 and I was 11 years old, in London, biding time with my parents before flying back out to the Middle East, so went and bought myself a Tommy Steele EP for no other reason than I had a little bit of spending money and had never bought a record before. One of the songs was called Cannibal Pot. No, I wouldn't listen to it now and never really listened to it much after I'd played it once or twice. Wasn't very good even then. ;)
 
AZ Jim said:
OMG! How on earth do you remember? I love music. I have lot's of it. I used to have an entire 8' wide cabinet full of equipment and records, tapes, etc. But I bought my first record when I was around 13. That was 66 years ago. I have no idea. Holly's a kid so I can see her remembering but you others, how in hell do you do it??
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My sentiments exactly. I bought tons of music as a kid, haven't the faintest idea of my first. I'm close to Holly's age and still no clue what my first purchase or purchases were.
 
AZ Jim said:
OMG! How on earth do you remember? I love music. I have lot's of it. I used to have an entire 8' wide cabinet full of equipment and records, tapes, etc. But I bought my first record when I was around 13. That was 66 years ago. I have no idea. Holly's a kid so I can see her remembering but you others, how in hell do you do it??
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LOL...Jim I'm not really a kid.. but comparatively I suppose I am..I don't want you to feel old but my mother was only a teen herself 66 years ago

Music is my absolute passion so not only do I remember what first record I bought but play me most any popular music and I could tell you what year it was in the charts and where I was when I heard it either first or most often.:D
 
hollydolly said:
LOL...Jim I'm not really a kid.. but comparatively I suppose I am..I don't want you to feel old but my mother was only a teen herself 66 years ago

Music is my absolute passion so not only do I remember what first record I bought but play me most any popular music and I could tell you what year it was in the charts and where I was when I heard it either first or most often.:D
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KID! :tongue:
 
I remember my first record purchase well. It was a 45 RPM. some time in the 50's Remember those records[with the big hole in the middle?
The record was Dave Brubeck's "Take Five" a real classic if you like jazz.


 
I remember the first birthday album someone bought for me, it was Barry White's Rhapsody In White, can't say I was thrill, but I appreciated the gesture, they knew it was something to do with Rhapsody, I was in love with, only it was Rhapsody in Blue, George Gershwin that was piece, that I love and the movie based on his life, I was around 14 or 15 at the time. Really sweet of the person for trying.
 
I think my first "grown up" type record was a 45 pm of I Want to Hold Your Hand/I Saw Her Standing There. It must have been an introductory promotion thing. My mother got it for me on a lark. Don't know if this was common everywhere, but old 45's from jukeboxes used to be sold second-hand in a couple of stores. You could get them for practically nothing. When I discovered that it started a buying spree. So I still have boxes of 45s, but no turntable.:(
 
Josiah said:
Some coincidence, ndynt, I saw Holly's OP and thought I wouldn't reply because I didn't buy many records as a child, but I thought a little more and I did recall the first record that I bought and even though it was a classical album I thought I'd add it to the thread to further prove to everyone what a weird kid I was. So I scrolled down to the bottom and there was my selection
Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue. I don't recall the orchestra or the soloist of my recording, it wasn't Oscar Levant. But I did attend a performance in NYC where Levant performed the piece.
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Josiah, kind of relative? Was classical music what you were exposed to, growing up? Or, perhaps I was a weird child, also. :) For me ...this purchase was a rite of passage. The only music allowed in my home was classical. Opera, primarily. This album was "modern". But, I got away with it. The jazz, I discovered a year later, was not accepted though.
 
Yes Nancy we could buy second hand ex juke box records too but they never had a middle so we used to press out the middle from a single we already had and swap them over..then some time later we could buy a seperate middle for that specific purpose.

i too still have all my original 45's in boxes in the attic from my teen years..but like you no turntable any more to play them on. I know you can buy turntables nowadays, but mine are so worn from being played so much and of course they're all in Mono so they wouldn't sound very good..I have no idea why I keep them.

I remember my very first coloured 45. John Lennon's Happy Xmas war is over in Green .. it was very exciting to have colour rather than the usual Black.. :D

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ND...that reminds me of an ex boyfriend who told me that his father used to moan at him for playing the Beatles in the 60's...he would say..''She loves me yeah yeah yeah''?. call that music..at least music was music in my day...then my friend discovered that his grandfather used to moan at his father in his youth in the 40's for playing......wait for it.... Bing Crosby!! ''Too-Ra-Loo-Ral too -Ra - Loo -Ra''.... ''Call that music , that's not music'' :D
 
My favorite was Glenn Miller. His arrangements, massive brass, I had the pleasure of watching his band after the war in Mission Beach Ballroom, Glenn had died of course but Tex Beneke and the band was intact and playing all his music. When that band fired up the floor in front of the bandstand literally shook. His movie was wonderful, also made after his death with Jimmy Steward, June Allyson, Harry Morgan and the Miller band. I love his music to this day.

 
You're not alone Shalimar, my mother refused to let me go too, I had some friends that had transportation there and I was invited. Thinking back, I can't really blame my mom, she was just looking out for me, I was pretty young.
 

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