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Do You Remember Your First Music Purchase?

Lisa (my better half) and I, were doing some vinyl listening this weekend. She posed an interesting question. What is the first record in your collection that you had ever purchased?

Since my music aquisitions started in about 1965, needless to say, my first music purchase was a record. For some of the younger folks on this site, their first music purchase may have been a CD.

For me it was Gary Lewis and the Playboys, "Everybody Loves A Clown". It took me about 2 hours to figure out since I have, I would guess, about 2500 albums. I still have the album and it still plays pretty well considering it's probably been tracked by about 20 different stylii. I had A Webcor Stereo that my parents had purchased me for my 6th birthday. It had a 7" BSR turntable and an AM/FM "radio" built in, with 2 "detachable" speakers.

What is the first piece of recorded music you ever purchased and do you still own it?
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I wish I could say something cool like the Beatles or Stones (I did buy a 45 of 'Angie' quite early, as I recall), but to the best of memory, my first music purchase was an album by the Partridge Family, probably because I had seen the television show and had a crush on Susan Dey. Plus, I saw how all the girls went crazy over David Cassidy. Later, I bought 'Frampton Comes Alive' because I saw how all the girls went crazy over Peter Frampton.

The first time I remember being utterly captivated by the music itself was Blue Oyster Cult's 'Don't Fear the Reaper', which I played over and over and over and still love to this day.

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