What was your first record?

First record was “Headquarters” The Monkees - mom bought it for me at the local grocery store, King Soopers, in Denver

First one bought with my own money was “Closer to Home” Grand Funk Railroad - still remember listening to it with my cousin after my grandpas funeral.  Never got to see them in concert, but my cousin did.  I was always jealous.

It’s interesting that we all remember that first record.  So much music from that time that I say is part of my actual DNA 

My Grandmother bought me Meet the Beatles and i love her and the album....

I have been thinking n thinking what was the first album i bought with my own money.The Beatles 65,bought it at Woolworth's in Manhattan. I was a Freshman in High School Aviation HS class of 69.

I think I was maybe 12 (1970). My parents got me a suitcase phonograph and two 45 rpm records. “No time” by the Guess Who and “Venus” by The Shocking Blue. I now have about 3000 records 

First record my mom bought me (age 7 or 8):  Kiss - Dressed to Kill

First record I bought myself (age 9):  Rush - Farewell to Kings

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LP: Magical Mystery Tour

45: Incense and Peppermint

I sold flower and vegetable seeds door-to-door for my spending money in the spring and summer.

In the fall I raked leaves.

In the winter shoveled snow.

A 45 of "Sky High" by Jigsaw.

I'm a 21st century digital man now.  I own absolutely no vinyl.

Went to visit a friend one Saturday when I was eight and wound up spending the afternoon in his older brother’s room listening to rock and roll 45s. Begged my folks for a copy of Dion’s The Wanderer. My first LP was The Beach Boys Surfin’ Safari, which I received as a gift. The first LP I bought myself was Bob Dylan The Time They are a’Changin. I was 10 years old and shoveled snow for the dough.

Not counting the scores of 45 rpm Beatles records and their first couple LP's that my siblings and I bought together, I'd have to say:

1st: Jefferson Airplane: Crown of Creation

2nd: King Crimson: Court of the Crimson King

Me? Introducing the Beatles on VeeJay records.

Hi, Glenn. 

If you like Mary Robbins, may I suggest you check out the Carolyn Sills Combo.

Great musicianship, brilliant songwriting 

One of their albums, Return to El Paso, retells the story in 5 songs, each from the perspective of one of the protagonists. 

They also try to keep a lot of the classic western swing & other artists alive by including a few select pieces in their live repertoire. 

I'm going to see them live this weekend. 

Enjoy! 

Ken

The Animals Animalization in 1966 or '67 @ 11/12 years old.

My first record was Stevie Wonder’s Talking Book and even took it to school for show and tell say in my music class.

When I joined the Columbia Record Club in 1962 (the model upon which VMP bases it's subscription service), my choice for my free first LP was Johnny Horton's Greatest Hits (I loved "North To Alaska"). Titles that followed were the early Paul Revere & The Raiders albums.

Wow! There’s no accounting for taste…
Bent 

It’s good to still be kicking! It looks like I am one of the oldest people on here. I bought “Peter, Paul and Mary” in 1962, when I was 12. I still have it. It looks like a Brillo pad.
 

Bent

Beatles, Abbey Road. I was only allowed to listen via headphones, as this was getting a little too close to the devil’s music.

First record I owned/purchased was the 45 single "Surfin' Bird" by the Trashmen

Either Three Dog Night's One or Jimi Hendrix Are You Experienced. I would like to believe the latter. 

jay, you made me laugh out loud!

I was around 5 and it was record of Horowitz plays Rachmaninoff piano concerto 2 on 78rpm booklet.

My first purchase was Deep Purple Book of Taliesyn and Grand Funk Caught in the Act.  I always credit the Deep Purple as being my first record, it was the first of the two I selected.

Top pop radio hits released 1967. I can't remember the actual title. A Columbia red 6 eye mono pressing. Paula Clark, Nancy Sinatra, etc... I wish I still had it and I've searched the World Wide Web thoroughly but never even came close. 

First record (45) was "Little Willy" by Sweet. (I was 10 years old). First album was about a year later, BTO's "Not Fragile"

Grand Funk - Phoenix

Norman Greenbaum - spirit in the sky

Davy Crockett 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3fveCH_74U

Sunday at 7 pm laying on the floor a few feet from the TV screen( and being told to move back) watching Disney, the DC series would play on occasion. Woo that was 3/4 of a century ago. 

Think the first record I bought with my own money was Simon & Garfunkel's Greatest Hits, then likely something by The Carpenters. Always loved Karen's voice. Then I discovered rock and roll. 

Hot August Night. Neil Diamond. Bought on a recommendation. Still have it. 

1977 framed 45 thoughtfully given ... 3-piece Cover-Band performing mainstream artists 60’s & 70’s genres during 1970 decade. Italian with vocal chops rhythm / lead, bassist whom kept up following suit were close dear buddies of ... a wild-n-crazy Father perched behind drum kit providing backup vocals on occasion.

First LP purchased around 2005

Cold Roses, Ryan Adams & The Cardinals

In 1963, my cousin Judy gave me her little RCA Victor 45 player. The first record I bought was "I Will Follow Him," by Little Peggy March. That Christmas, my parents bought me my first stereo, a suitcase model from Motorola, plus two Beach Boys albums (Surfin' USA and Surfer Girl), two by Lesley Gore, and one by Skeeter Davis.

One reason I got a stereo for Christmas was because my mother got so sick of my playing "Be My Baby" on repeat during assassination weekend.

My first album I chose for myself was Meet the Beatles in January, 1964.

I still like playing songs on repeat. iTunes and YouTube are good for that.

🤔🙄😬🤦‍♂️...there may have been a couple of 45's...I remember a Spencer Davis Group one, but it hasn't made the journey to now....

First LP.....jazz guitar with Gabor Szabo (Spellbinder, '66)....later, The Pentangles'

double album Sweet Child '68....

Had burnt out on AM top 10 stuff, got into jazz and... I guess you'd call it 'progressive folk' in the early HS era (error? *L*).

Couldn't take the Beatles seriously until the White album.... Hell, I'd even picked up the Blue Cheer lp prior to.....

....just another tale of tail and wasted youth sin-drum.....🙄

The Sixties were great...what I remember of it...😏

...then I begin to space back to some of the 'other' that accompanied all that.......and find this appropo for a segway....

The first record I owned was Bay City Rollers - Saturday Night 45

T-Rex, Electric Warrior. First week it was available. Think I paid something like $1.29 or $1.99 at Kresge’s 5&10 in St. Pete, FL. Got it for a party. Still have it.

Songs of Leonard Cohen. In 1968 I found the album in a record store. I “hid” in among the classical albums til I could return the next day with money. I think it was $3.99. At the time I had a turntable but had not finished building my Heathkit receiver or my coax speakers, cabinets covered with walnut contact paper. 
 

"America" by America (Horse With No Name) LP

I think the first record I bought was Grand Funk Railroad’s " Mark, Don and Mel".

My first 45 was either "Dizzy" by Tommy Roe or one of The Beatles early singles.

My first few albums were all greatest hits (due to limited budget/allowance) by the likes of: The Byrds, Bob Dylan, Donovan, Doors and the Guess Who.

My first "proper" album was either "Crosby, Stills & Nash" or "In The Court of the Crimson King."

John Lennon Double Fantasy

First I ever bought with my own money was the 45 Monster Mash by Bobby "Boris" Pickett. Walked to the record store on a Saturday morning and laid down the $1.00 profit from my paper route. Man I loved that song.

My first was from my paper route money. Elton John Don’t Shoot Me I’m Only the Piano Player

1st record: a 45 of The Beatles "Can't buy me Love"

1st LP:  E,L & P; Pictures at an Exhibition.

Still have the LP and a better British pressing.  45 is long gone ...

Probably RUSH 2112... but it was sooooo long ago and sooooo many albums now I truly can`t remember.

Cheap Trick

Live at Budokan

Played on my ultra low end TT/8 track combo unit.  Can't remember the brand to save my soul!

First 45 I bought I think I can still remember> "Brandy (You're a Fine Girl)" Looking Glass. My granny had bought us the first Beatles album. And my dad was into big band so I listened to a lot of that, especially Three Little Fishes.

My parents were into theater (they were off and on president/vice president of the local Children's Theater) and had the original Jesus Christ Superstar album. Wish I still had that. Still love the album.

First LP was "Made In Japan" Deep Purple. Hmm, maybe I had an Ian Gillan obsession?

Next was Sly and the Family Stone's "Fresh".

Grand Funk's "We're an American Band" was up there too.

At the Hop - a Great song having all that made late 50's rock so much fun

Had lots of 45s  The first one I obsessed voer (and drove my parents crazy) was Pearl Baily It Takes Two to Tango, at 5 years old  Fave 45 - Maybe Runaway Del Shannon or Runaround Sue by Dion

First couple of LP's

Harry Belafonte at around 12 years old, Van Cliburn's Performance of the Tchaikovsky 1st Piano Concerto that won him International fame and the Moscow based Tchaikovsky Competition

Beatles 65

Mary Robbins Gunfighter Ballads 

Still have and listen to the Marty Robbins and the Van Cliburn

The first record I owned was Bay City Rollers - Saturday Night 45 that I played on my new stereo back in the 70s. 

I remember the first album I purchased to play on my first "real" stereo in the early 1970s

- Rod Stewart - Every Picture Tells a Story

sometime in the mid 60’s, I traded some baseball cards for a Herman’s Hermits & Monkees albums & played them on my National brand record player, radio, amp, speaker all in one combo. Panasonic was called National in Japan where it was made & my Dad bought it during a business trip w/ the Matsushita Company procuring parts for his telephone interconnect system he designed & built to compete w/ Ma Bell. 

Cream - Disraeli Gears lp

Grand Funk Railroad.

Cover looked like a locomotive.