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’

 

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I bought two when I got my first turntable:

Styx - Paradise Theater

Alan Parsons - I Robot

My Dad had a TV business and sold Hi-Fi systems in the 1950s.  I bought--at cost--a "portable" Zenith stereo record player, compact unit with two 5.25" speakers facing forward.  My first record, although I do not remember the name of the album, was a Tommy Dorsey/Fank Sinatra album, and my second was a recording by the Cleveland Symphony Orchestra, with George Szell conducting Beethoven's Fifth Symphony in C Minor.  I was hooked!

The Ventures "Surfing" played on my Knight Kit stereo that I built. It was 1963...!

The first?  Davey Crocket theme song from the Disney series with Fess Parker.  Then Mad Magazine’s Twist Rock and Roll LP.  But my first real album was “Having a Rave Up with the Yardbirds”, which introduced me to both Eric Clapton and Jeff Beck. Heart Full of Soul was why I bought it at Model’s in Rochelle Park, NJ., but it also had The Train Kept A-Rollin’, I’m A Man, Evil Hearted You, and Smokestack Lightning. 

Yellow 78 speed Superman ,Faster than an arrow.....Leaps tall buildings in a single bound. Cannot remember the flip side.

Probabably Chicago’s Greatest Hits (paint).  Unless you count Jungle Book and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang soundtracks. 

Boston- self titled. I was 8 yrs old. Blew my mind. 
never heard a guitar sound like that. 

1967, I was 12 years old.  I saw the Beatles play Hello Goodbye on the Ed Sullivan Show.  I went the next day and purchased the 45.  When I got home, I played it and then flipped it over.  I Am The Walrus was on the B side.  That is exactly when I decided to save my money and buy a guitar.  From that point on, listening to music and playing guitar has and always will be a passion of mine.

The Troggs, "Wild Thing" from the Base Exchange at the (then) Lowry Air Force Base in Denver during the annual school clothes buying trip. My mother was aghast. I still have it, but not the clothes

My mom waited tables at a local barbecue joint when I was a kid. The fellow who serviced the juke box would often give her some 45s when they were changed out to bring home to me for what passed as our record player. Lots of Merle Haggard, George Jones, etc., but for some reason, I remember getting Brook Benton, rainy night in Georgia in the deal, and I still love that song

first LP I remember buying myself was the eponymous John Prine in 1971

was Paradise then and remains so today'

“it’s a Small World after All” Disney Records 

just kidding Satisfaction-Rolling Stones on 45 

1st LP Beach Boys-Surfing USA (now MIA)

The first albums I bought with my own money were The Eagles, Hotel California, & The Beatles, Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (reissue, obviously, lol). 1976. I was 11. 

First record  a 45rpm Alvin and the Chipmunks .

Later my first albums . all bought at once ,

The Beatles  "Srg, Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band ", 

Strawberry Alarm Clock " Incense Peppermint '

The Rolling Stones  " Their Satanic Majesties Request "   original cover  

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The first was a 45. It was Elvis Presley’s "Hound Dog/Don’t Be Cruel". My first LP was "Rubber Soul" (Beatles, of course). I thought every song could be #1. What a record!

Kenny Rogers and the First Edition-"Something's Burning"

It was actually an 8-Track tape.

Probably something by 101 Strings on a 'portable stereo'. Now that was some really great music, my first classical music. Oh my! :-)

I had that Goldfinger soundtrack too - still brilliant music and title song. But my first rock album I bought was Rolling Stones 'Aftermath', because I liked 'Paint It Black' so much.... 

1964 - I was 12. The Goldfinger soundtrack. Bought after I saw the movie. $3.29 at King's department store in Stamford, CT.

"Rock The Boat" Hues Corporation. Earned my $1 by washing my grandfather's dark green Plymouth Duster then off to S. S. Kresege. 49 years later my grandparents would have been arrested having a barefoot 9 year old being paid to wash a car in the street(lol).