What was your first record?
The first record I ever owned: ‘At the Hop’ by Danny and the Juniors ( just listened to it, and it made me get up and dance!)
The first record I ever bought myself: ‘Meet the Beatles’
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 |
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. |
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
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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. |
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.... |
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. |
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."
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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. 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 |
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. |
