Can you remember the first music album you bought?

The Monkees Greatest Hits. I bought it right after I bought my first stereo around 1970.
Around 1980 I got my first CD - The Carpenters Greatest Hits.
 
Sure do remember it. Bought it for my older brother for Christmas, if that counts.

" The Ventures in Space " by the Ventures. He loved the group and was learning to play guitar at the time.
He won't let me play the album or even touch the actual album, but I could hold the cover while he played it on
the family record player.

The first album I bought for myself would have been " Meet the Beatles ".
 
When I was a small boy I would spend the long school summer recess with my grandmother at her fish & chip shop. How I adored my granny, a very hard working woman, she would spoil me so much. My grandmother's shop was in a row of others and she was good friends with the cafe owner, George. That's Uncle George to me, children were taught respect back then. George had many a mix of diners, you would see labourers in overalls mixing with business types in suits.

Bought for his younger customers, George had a jukebox, and generous to a fault, when a popular record was on the decline and the next rising star replaced it, George presented me with the old record. I couldn't play it, never had a record player, but I so loved those records. That practice went on right up until I went to college, I had hundreds of former jukebox hits.

This thread is of course all about your first album, I never got into albums, never really got into the music of the sixties either, even though I'm a baby boomer. That's all George's doing, those records from the early fifties contained much African American music, artistes that only became known when the sixties bands played their music.

Later a letter from my granny told me of George's passing, she mentioned that George always had a soft spot for her grandson, George knew that I never had a record player. Well I do know, you remember that jukebox? It would never play albums of course..............................

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horseless carriage said:
When I was a small boy I would spend the long school summer recess with my grandmother at her fish & chip shop. How I adored my granny, a very hard working woman, she would spoil me so much. My grandmother's shop was in a row of others and she was good friends with the cafe owner, George. That's Uncle George to me, children were taught respect back then. George had many a mix of diners, you would see labourers in overalls mixing with business types in suits.

Bought for his younger customers, George had a jukebox, and generous to a fault, when a popular record was on the decline and the next rising star replaced it, George presented me with the old record. I couldn't play it, never had a record player, but I so loved those records. That practice went on right up until I went to college, I had hundreds of former jukebox hits.

This thread is of course all about your first album, I never got into albums, never really got into the music of the sixties either, even though I'm a baby boomer. That's all George's doing, those records from the early fifties contained much African American music, artistes that only became known when the sixties bands played their music.

Later a letter from my granny told me of George's passing, she mentioned that George always had a soft spot for her grandson, George knew that I never had a record player. Well I do know, you remember that jukebox? It would never play albums of course..............................

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Wow, what a great story. Priceless memories and a great collection of 50's music.
 
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