The First Album You Bought

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Mine was probably a 45 rpm album by Elvis. For those that have forgotten there were 45 rpm albums. My fist regular album was probably a Shelly Berman or Bob Newhart or Bill Cosby comedy album. Then I went Motown, The Shirell's, Four Tops, Otis Redding, Temptaions.
 

I could only afford singles from the time I was a teen until I was in my late 20's or so.., so aside from those awful K-tel style albums, I didn't actually buy a real album until Brothers in Arms - Dire Straits in the mid 80's
 
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My very first album I bought in 1956 ...
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My 45's were Little Richard, Fats Domino and many more Elvis ... Hound Dog, Heartbreak Hotel, Don't Be Cruel, etc......
 
I have no idea but I had a good sized collection of 45’s and LP’s my favorite 45 was Dizzy by Tommy Roe and my favorite LP was Let it Be, when the Beatles broke up I was in shock for about a week. This was a big deal to me back then as music was and still is a huge part of my life.
 
My younger brother, bless his heart, bought me what he thought was a Beatle's album. It was an LP of Beatle's songs. I could only afford to buy 88cent 45's. My
older sister had mixed LP's which were played over and over - and over.
 
I think that there might have been an Elvis Presley album (Love Me Tender) , but the first one that I remember getting was the Party Doll album by Buddy Knox.
He was in Spokane (Washington ) in concert , along with Jimmy Bowen, Buddy Holly and the Crickets, and the Big Bopper, probably a year or so before the plane crash that killed both Buddy Holly and the Big Bopper. I remember going backstage after the concert, and standing in line forever to get autographs of all of them. I

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Olivia said:
It was the Beatles album with the album cover of when they first appeared on the Ed Sullivan show. I've been looking for a photo of that album and am still looking.
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I think that it was either of these two

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My brothers had these albums and they were my favourite thing to play on the recorder but puff the magic dragon was my first album and then Donny Osmond which I won at bible school for learning Psalm 23.

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I can't remember the first album I ever bought. However, I had a 45 rpm record player in my old 55 chevy in high school. It was a Norelco Auto Mignon and at the time combined with a reverb unit mounted in the truck, it was the cats meow. :D Surprisingly, that record player worked pretty good and rarely skipped even when driving on some rough roads. Pretty pricey at the time, but how does one put a price on "cool"?:) Only drawback was forgetting to put the records back in the carrying case causing the sun to warp a lot of my records. :mad:
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I actually never heard of 45 rpm albums. I thought all vinyl albums were 33 1/3 rpm. I guess I'll have to do some research. My first 33 1/3 album was Freak Out, by the Mothers of Invention, followed by scores of others, that I still have. My first 45 rpm single was I Got You, Babe, Sonny and Cher.
 
fmdog44 said:
Mine was probably a 45 rpm album by Elvis. For those that have forgotten there were 45 rpm albums. My fist regular album was probably a Shelly Berman or Bob Newhart or Bill Cosby comedy album. Then I went Motown, The Shirell's, Four Tops, Otis Redding, Temptaions.
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I can't find any info on 45 rpm albums put out by Elvis. Dog, let me have the name of the album and what tunes were on it. Thanks!
 

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