Who is the first performer you ever saw live in person

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When I was 15yrs old my boyfriend took me to his Senior Prom. The after Prom party was at the Latin Casino in New Jersey. I had the thrill of seeing Nat King Cole. The following year I got to see Johnny Mathis. When he sang "Maria" I looked around the room and all the girls were crying and so was I. They were the first 2 I ever saw live when I was young. As the years passed I saw many others, but none of them left an impression on me like those two.
 

Alabama, before they became famous, playing in a nightclub where you could go up and talk to them.
My boyfriend {now husband} and I went to a James Taylor concert. Carley Simon was in the audience. Afterward, we went to McDonalds, where he sent me inside to get some food. James and several of his band mates were in another line waiting to order. I was too shy to talk to them.
 

Duster said:
Alabama, before they became famous, playing in a nightclub where you could go up and talk to them.
My boyfriend {now husband} and I went to a James Taylor concert. Carley Simon was in the audience. Afterward, we went to McDonalds, where he sent me inside to get some food. James and several of his band mates were in another line waiting to order. I was too shy to talk to them.
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My husband worked with JT a couple of time back in the 90's and he said he was the most self effacing man, and a joy to work with. I'm a HUGE fan, never got the chance to see him in concert so I satisfy myself with youtube videos.. 🥰
 
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In 73' when I was just turned 18 , I saw Billy Connolly and Gerry Rafferty live when they were in the band the Humblebums when they came to play on the the tiny Scottish Isle of Arran where I lived and worked and before Billy became a huge star as a comedian and 5 years before Gerry had a massive hit with Baker Street .

At the end of the show they invited my friend and I back with his entourage to the hotel roof top barn style bar and sang and told jokes into the early hours. It was a lovely night, nothing untoward happened, and we had a great time. :D

 
I was with my husband and his brother it was at night and outside, we were to meet my sister and her husband there at this outdoor concert in Rhode Island.

It was so dark walking quickly across the grassy field, it was jammed packed, my hubby and his brother kept talking and walking fast trying to keep up with them, all of a sudden the talking stopped. Couldn't find his six foot two brother. What happened was he fell into a ditch......the concert was about Stevie Nicks. My first and only live concert I was 34.
 
Johnny Cash when he was really into the bad drug scene. It was the late 60s & I lived in a small town. Two of my buddies from high school & I drove to the big city to see Johnny Cash & The Tennessee Two. Wow! What a show. In those days you could go at the back of the auditorum & get an autography which I did. No more. I loved those old country artists. None of that silly fire & lightning & the stars flying around on some wire. Following that 1st show I saw many artists: Neil Diamond at our university before he became famous, Hank Snow, Buck Owens, Hank Williams Jr. when he was just a kid & singing his daddy's songs, Kitty Wells & Sonny James; just to mention a few. It's a different world with some weird people who want their 15 minutes of "glory" because they do something stupid. Remember John Lennon in New York!
 
The first live performance I saw was Peter, Paul and Mary in 1967. I loved their music and I really enjoyed hearing them sing their hit song "I Dig Rock and Roll Music" where they mention the Mamas and Papas!

A year later I went to hear Simon and Garfunkle when they accompanied themselves with just their own acoustic guitars. The next year I went to see them again and they brought along a drummer and bass guitarist, but when they first played the crowd booed them. That sounded like the reaction Bob Dylan got at the Newport Folk Festival when he played using an electric guitar. The crowd hated it!!!
 
Don't remember specific years .. 60's/70's - Harry Belafonte, Miriam Makeba, Roy Orbison (he just stood there and sang, did not interact with audience).

Also saw Joni Mitchell at a popular place in Toronto called The Riverboat.

Long before then, saw Roy Rogers and Dale Evans in a parade in Alberta.
 
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A singer in the mid 60's Jane Morgan an American singer who sang The Day That The Rains Came Down.

I saw her at rehearsals for Sunday Night At The London Paladium an popular TV variety show in the UK.

Jane was in her dressing gown and had rollers in her hair on stage and sang this with gusto with her strong voice..a fabulous voice and song imo

 
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Don't remember specific years .. 60's/70's - Harry Belafonte, Miriam Makeba, Roy Orbison (he just stood there and sang, did not interact with audience).

Also saw Joni Mitchell at a popular place in Toronto called The Riverboat.

Long before then, saw Roy Rogers and Dale Evans in a parade in Alberta.
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who didn't interact with the audience pinks?... Roy or Harry ?
 
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Santana and the Allman Brothers in 1971 at Winterland Arena in San Francisco. I was a freshman in college at San Jose State.
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Interesting, I had tickets to the Allman Brothers at the Filmore East back in 1971, but, the girl I was to go with stood me up. :( So, instead of going, I gave the tickets to my pal and I went out and got drunk. (young and stupid).
Later on in 71, I caught Harry Chapin in some nightclub in Greenwich Village. (y) Been a fan since.
 
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