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What is the first album you purchased, and do you still have it?

My record collection is my passion.  I started buying albums when I was in 9th grade.  I was hooked.  I don;t think I missed a weekend visit to the local record shop in the mall from the time I was 16 until I graduated college.  I still own those albums that I took so much care to choose..Just wondering if anyone else holds such memories dear and are sentimentally holding on to their old albums.  I still play them and enjoy them every bit as much as I did back in the day.
And my first album was Elton John...Goodbye Yellow Brick Road.  Sometimes I look at the covers and think, I have listened to these so much, I am jaded.  But I put them on and enjoy them as much as I ever did.
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Great first album, tostadosunidos! All Summer Long was the first album I truly loved, my favorite of 1964. I wasn't yet sold on The Beatles, and gave my ticket to their '64 Cow Palace show to my mom, who went with my sisters. That summer I went to my first live show, The Beach Boys at The San Jose Civic Auditorium.

Only one year later Dylan played there, backed by The Hawks (later The Band, of course). You KNOW I wish I had gone to that show! I later made music with two guys who had gone, mighty hip for a 15 year old and a 13 year old (he was put ahead two grades in school. Smartest guy I have ever known. Great songwriter, too. He's dead now, but I have the tapes we recorded in 74-5, one of my prized possessions). 

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I joined the Columbia Record Club when I was twelve. I had been buying 7" 45 RPM singles, but LP's were now of interest. You got a free LP when you joined the Club (the 1st one's free, kid ;-), and I picked Johnny Horton's Greatest Hits, which included "North To Alaska". I don't have the copy I received at the time, but an exact replacement.

After that it was The Ventures and other Surf bands (big with teenagers at the time), The Beach Boys, and Paul Revere & The Raiders. Everything changed with the English Invasion.

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