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1st Album you Ever Owned?
I hope this topic stirs up some great memories and further sharing of good music.
What was the first vinyl "LP" album you ever owned?
Mine was "Maynard '64" (Maynard Furgeson). I was 10 and learning to play trumpet, and my dad bought this album for me. He worked a lot, so it was really cool that he took the time to chase it down.
I cherished it and still have it, but it didn't take long to learn there was much better jazz out there. In all fairness, I grew up listening to my parents playing Glenn Miller, Louis Armstrong and Tommy Dorsey - a pretty decent start given the general lack of recognition in the white middle class as to how African culture had molded the music they loved.
Please share your first LP experience!
What was the first vinyl "LP" album you ever owned?
Mine was "Maynard '64" (Maynard Furgeson). I was 10 and learning to play trumpet, and my dad bought this album for me. He worked a lot, so it was really cool that he took the time to chase it down.
I cherished it and still have it, but it didn't take long to learn there was much better jazz out there. In all fairness, I grew up listening to my parents playing Glenn Miller, Louis Armstrong and Tommy Dorsey - a pretty decent start given the general lack of recognition in the white middle class as to how African culture had molded the music they loved.
Please share your first LP experience!
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I grew up in central Mass. My cousin Jean, who was a teenanger and used babysit me and my younger brother, actually gave me 2 incredible albums, Sgt. Pepper and Hendrix- Are You Experienced late in 1967. She had brought them over several times and we'd listen to them. Then she simply gave them to me and bought new copies for herself. I was only 6! I was hooked! Got my first album with my "allowance" I'd saved the next year and bought Beatles- Magical Mystery Tour- I absolutely LOVED Strawberry Fields Your Mother Should Know and I Am The Walrus. I still collect and cherish my vinyl collection today- about 10K 45s and 1500+ albums, and probably 700 CDs. Great memories sitting in front of my parents stereo in the dining room listening to those albums with my cousin and older brother. |
I was 12. 1969 Diana Ross Presents The Jackson 5. The jackson 5 was also my first concert too! I can’t remember if my Mom and Dad’s stereo console was a magnavox or what? But between my Dad’s and Mom’s R&B, X-mass, Classical and Jazz and my olders sisters Rock & Roll, Funk, R&B and Soul there was a lot of music played in that home. |
Not surprising: "Meet the Beatles" Surprising: "Meddle" (2 "first albums" in 100+ posts) "Meddle" had kind of a cult following when it came out (my freshman year), but I would have figured it was still pretty obscure in the grand scheme of things. Apparently not so. Maybe it's that old hippies are over-represented on Audiogon? |
My parents bought my sister and I Meet the Beatles. I still have it. Not specifically for me, but the other I remember very well was Prokofiev’s Peter and the Wolf. I absolutely loved that album as a child, could listen to it over and over, and is one I still wish I had today. Have no idea who narrated it, or who the orchestra/conductor was. |
My first records were 7" 45 RPM singles, the original format for Rock ’n’ Roll and Pop-Rock music. It was the music we heard on AM Top 40 radio in the very-early 60’s, and sold on 45’s for 49 cents apiece. The only albums in the house were my Mom's Ring Of Fire by Johnny Cash and Naughty But Nice by Pearl Bailey, and my Dad's Andy Williams Greatest Hits ("Moon River" still brings me to tears; a fantastic song by Henry Mancini). Then the Surf and Frat Band (as it is now called by Rock ’n’ Roll historians) music explosion came along: Groups (as we called them, not Bands. Bands and Orchestras were what backed solo singers) that didn’t necessarily have singles: The Ventures, Dick Dale, The Astronauts (a Surf Group out of Colorado?!), The Kingsmen (who DID have a hit single---their Garage classic of "Louie Louie"). Then The Beach Boys---who married Surf guitar with Chuck Berry chord progressions and lyrical themes and Four Freshman vocal harmonies (at least at first. Brian Wilson quickly evolved into a master songwriter and arranger) became the biggest Group in the world (even in England), with Paul Revere & The Raiders and a few others like them trailing aways behind. Then The Beatles and the other British Invasion Groups appeared out of nowhere, and EVERYTHING changed. Everybody bought Meet The Beatles, but by that time I already had a fair number of LP’s. My earliest LP’s were Chuck Berry’s Greatest Hits on Chess Records, Johnny Horton’s Greatest Hits ("North To Alaska") on Columbia (I joined The Columbia Records Music Club), Teen Beat by Sandy Nelson (an instrumental album by Nelson, an L.A. studio drummer), everything by The Astronauts and Ventures, same with The Beach Boys and Paul Revere & The Raiders (if you’re laughing, listen to their "Him Or Me". Fantastic Rock ’n’ Roll!). |
CTA was one of my earliest. Chicago and BS&T represented the best early marriage of brass and rock. Unfortunately, they both soon went "pop" to chase big bucks. Neither group ever matched their first 2 albums (yes, including Al Kooper's BS&T). EJ Korvette: $2.94 was all I needed to see in the local paper. Made at least 1 trip per week. |
What a great topic and rabbit hole of memories that have followed! Walked into Licorice Pizza, went straight to the Jimi Hendrix section, and there it was, Electric Ladyland from Europe (w/ the naked women on the front cover!). I grabbed that (so to speak) and Jeff Beck's Blow by Blow. Yes, like many of you, 50+ yrs later, still have both. Pictures at an Exhibition...favorite symphony. Thanks, |
Grew up in Frankfurt Germany, born 1968. I may fail to remember what I did for my birthday or New Year’s the previous year, so this fun thread says something about the significance of music in my and everyone else’s life posting here. First album was Kiss “Dynasty” First piece of recorded music came with my first playback device, a little cassette player and a tape that had on one side Abba “Super Trooper” and on the other the soundtrack to “Zorba, the Greek”. First concert my dad took me to was Santana at the Old Opera in Frankfurt. |
My Dad won a raffle at a local gas station's grand opening. It was a "Stereo" Garrard record changer with ceramic flipover cat, tube amplifier, speaker and other channel in removeable lid. Came with a stack of stereo LPs...original cast B'way soundtracks, pop, and Hit Parade collections, including Best of The Coasters, Bobby Darin, Nat Cole. The first album I bought to play on this was "Having A Rave-Up with the Yardbirds". Soon after...the Stones' "High Tides and Green Grass" and the Beatles' "Rubber Soul". Then...the first Paul Butterfield Blues Band album. That one opened my ears up big time. |
The first time I went record shopping was shortly after I got my driver’s license in 1976. We lived over two hours from New Orleans, where there was a record store called The Music Box which from time to time had $3.99 album sales. I had been saving up and planning this for some time. Drove to New Orleans and bought four albums that day, which was probably the most I ever bought at once. Here they are, in alphabetical order by band name: Blue Oyster Cult, "Agents of Fortune" Jethro Tull, "Songs from the Wood" Led Zeppelin III Queen, "A Night at the Opera" I haven’t burned out on any of them yet. These were virtually contraband at my parent’s house, guaranteed to start a verbal war, so I had to listen (on their stereo) when they were gone, quickly shutting it down and stashing my music when the dogs barked to warn me of their return. I got busted when the fuse in their Fisher receiver kept blowing and I ran out of replacements (no I wasn't clipping - the fuse would blow when the unit was turned on; replace the fuse and it wouldn't blow for the second turn-on). It would be another year before I moved out and bought my first fledgling stereo system. Duke |
Deep Purple – Fireball ... and I remember playing it on my "record player" which had speakers on it. I was 14 and bought this record with the money I earned being a paper boy. I delivered the paper everyday...and hated Sunday's, a big ass paper and delivered at dawn. I learned a lot doing it for 2 years. I even bought a little motorcycle, my dad said if I saved up 50 dollars we would get it and I would make the 13 dollar payment every month...which I did for a very long time until he graciously said I owned it. My dad was great. :) |
Crosby, Stills & Nash. Still have it. Worked at a college radio station in the early 1970s (WESS FM) and we got demo's of just about everything. The station had 1,000s of albums by the time I left school, so there was little need to buy records. I did not have space for them in any case or $$$ for a turntable and stereo. Went on to work in commercial radio at WVPO AM/FM and again thousands of records for use on air. |
Close to the Edge by Yes. I clearly remember sitting in the basement, watching the tone arm drop and being blown away but what I heard. The bass player in our high school band was a big Yes fan and said I had to get it. Never heard them before and it totally opened my eyes & shaped my musical appreciation. |
keegiam OP122 posts You may be on to something, I listened many nights to great rock, Jazz and watched MTM and Bob Newhart with my best friend.......his name was Dave. |