1st Album you Ever Owned?

acresverde -- Hey, I've got the Surfin' Bird single, too. I also remember '50's - Early '60's L.A. Deejay Lloyd Thaxton using a puppet to lip synch the tune on his daily local teen TV dance show. I have the Dominique '45, as well. I guess we're brah's under the skin.

@millercarbon

Very enjoyable post!  Have to agree "Nilsson Schmilsson" has stood the test of time better than "Yellow Brick Road."  At least you had them both early on.

BTW I recall hearing way back then that pressed cardboard egg containers made a pretty good acoustical treatment for walls.

This is bordering on "true confessions."

Dean Martin on 33, had all his hits at the time, and Sonny and Cher’s first 33 and a Justin Wilson, comic album, (my dad got that one). All at the same time. Sonny and Cher.. My first.. Man was she a knock out, he was kinda bad.. Smart guy though.. 1966-67?

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Steppenwolf 

Can't remember exactly. Was either Hans Christian Andersen or Grimms Fairy Tales. Would listen for hours to witches being destroyed, etc. (circa 1956).

When I was a kid the Doors 1st album A true classic !!

Not sure on album but I clearly remember my first 45 - I was 4 years old and picked out The Beatles "Yellow Submarine" with "Eleanor Rigby" on the B side.  I listened to it a million times on my plastic lidded TT that sat on a wire rack.

I mentioned the first album I ever "owned" - jazz trumpet - was a gift from my dad in 1964.

But it wasn't until early '69 that I actually had enough disposable income to buy one for myself: "Blood, Sweat & Tears" 2nd album (untitled).

After that I pretty much made up for lost time.

@mijostyn
I was thinking the same thing: Meet the Beatles is running away with this for now.

@tvad
You might be the only human to have ever purchased the Partridge Family and then ELP in succession!

It looks like Meet The Beatles is going to get the award! 

Crosby Still and Nash debut album.
Bought at the Singer Sewing store at the MacDade mall in Holmes Pa. (Suburb of Philly),
I was so excited to be buying it. That album (music) still holds up for me today.

K Tel - 22 Explosive Hits

I think it was Meet The Beatles

The James Bond Goldfinger soundtrack! Bought in 1964 at a King's Department Store. After seeing the movie. About $3.29. I was 12 years old!

Great thread. My first was a superb compilation album...Stereo Plus 3, which was a promo LP released by City National Bank. This promo LP featured Gladys Knight, Beatles and other great performers. If you can find a copy today, its a great listen.

@ kirschner and keegiam    "Dominique...inique...inique...what a catchy little tune (for '63). Just had to go to utube and check it out after all these years. What caught me off guard was how uptempo it was compared to memory.

Can't remember my first 12" LP but the first record I ever bought was a 7" "Surfin' Bird", mainly for the shock factor I knew it would have on my parents.

After seeing them on Ed Sullivan, Meet the Beatles in mono still have that copy and it still brings a thrill.

High Tide and Green Grass
Rolling Stones

First album I ever purchased myself was Meet the Beatles. I had other albums but they were all given to me and were either classical compilations or silly stuff like the Howdy Doody Song Book.

Chicago - “CTA”. Still one of my favorites.

Peter and the Wolf.

Pink Floyd, Relics, second was ELP, Picture at an Exhibition. They were both cheaper, new, than the average for albums at the time. Third I think was Dark Side of the Moon, my first at full price.

Foreigner Cold as Ice-45rpm wish I still had that one!

First full album, Rush: Permanent Waves

Cream, Wheels of Fire.

Black Sabbath Greatest Hits and Never Say Die (just released in 1978)

At 10! Holy crap! All I could do at 10 was drool over dad's copy of Whipped Cream and Other Delights https://985thejewel.com/2019/09/12/meet-the-whipped-cream-lady-from-one-of-the-most-iconic-album-cov...Well okay drool may not be quite accurate but this is a family website!

The 5th Dimension* ‎– The Age Of Aquarius. At the age of 10. I’ve been collecting albums for over 50 years now. :-)

It was probably K-Tel.

Can't remember but here are some of the earliest.....
Stones "Goats Head Soup"
Chicago "V"
C S N ( sailboat cover)

Sgt. Pepper’s mono $3 monkey ward

ELP-Pictures at an Exhibition

Yikes - the Singing Nuns.  I had forgotten them for good reason.  1963: "Dominique."

October 1964; bought my first "stereo" for $35, and my first 5 albums: the first 3 PP&M albums, Meet the Beatles, and The Singing Nun. Still have copies of them all, though not the originals. Those were the days... 

Great question! Wish I could remember! First one I can remember clearly and for sure - and still have that copy - was Goodbye Yellow Brick Road. Being a double album it was pretty expensive for a kid with a paper route and so I had to wait for Christmas. Then playing it in my room, trying to get away with as much volume as I could. I was already an audiophile with acoustic treatment, guess you could say my bedroom was my first listening room.

But I really think the first one I owned was Nilsson Schmilsson. At least I can remember playing Without You and Jump Into the Fire over and over again, my preferred technique being to lay on the floor with the speakers on either side like headphones. Dang I was a resourceful little audiophile!

Actually, this is as much deduction as memory, but that probably was the first. Nilsson Schmilsson came out in 1971, when I was in Jr High and right about the time I bought my first stereo, a receiver/turntable combo, speakers bought separately, from Radio Shack. My bedroom was my listening room, complete with (I kid you not) acoustic panels.  

Great question because I still have and listen to both albums. Only now they are White Hot Stampers, and while I still enjoy Elton I now appreciate Nilsson way more than I ever did as a kid. Happy to say the same goes for a lot of my other music from my Jr High school days. DSOTM. So poor we were- and yet so rich.

Thanks for taking me back.