Elton John - Goodbye Yellow Brick Road |
The Beatles - Magical Mystery Tour if memory serves. It's definitely a blur but I do recall joining the Columbis House Record Club and getting The Doors - The Doors and The Soft Parade, Chicago Transit Authority, Blood Sweat & Tears II, Big Brother And The Holding Company - Cheap Thrills, Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisited, and a few more that would take some serious thought. Man I was in heaven when those albums showed up. Must've been 68 or 69. |
I'm 50. I believe I was around 6. Here's what I purchased at E.J. Korvettes, a (now defunct) discount "department" store with one of the great record sections I've ever seen:
Stones-High Tide, etc.
Dave Clark Five-Greatest Hits
Herman's Hermits-Hold On |
The Beatles' Abbey Road, I think... if not, it was something like Foreigner 4. |
First 45 Thunder Road
First Album Martin Denny's Exotica, heard Quiet Village and was hooked |
1970, Black Sabbath, "Paranoid". Don't care much for heavy metal anymore. Brings back great memories. |
The Doors.
Clarion table/receiver and speakers. Worked all summer! |
Beach Boys-It had a blue deuce coupe on the cover. |
Credence Clearwater Revival...Green River. Great. |
First LPs I bought with my own money (paper route and collecting aluminum cans) - Chicago IX [Greatest Hits] and Kenton '76. |
Godspeed! You Black Emperor -- F#A#(infinity) |
Shortly after being transformed by that Stones album, I discovered the Beatles. I spent all my paper route money buying up all their albums. The first one I picked up was The Beatles: Someting New. Still one of my faves. |
Chicago CTA also the last album of theirs I bought |
The Beatles, Yesterday and Today. Bought it in '68 at an Eckerd Drugs store in Clermont, FL. The price sticker that reads; $4.98 list, our price $3.77, is still on it. |
Meet The Beatles. My mother bought it for me to spin on my new RCA turntable! |
I was very much into buying 45's back in the mid 60's...the dime/drug store had several albums, and on sale was the Beatles' Hey Jude. I bought it after much consideration, only to receive my mother's admonition for wasting $3.89. |
Crosby, Stills, Nash. My mom and dad thought it was wierd that I listened to it on headphones in my closet with the door closed in pitch black where my hifi setup was. I didn't know I was into sensory deprivation then and I am out of the closet now. I still listen to it regularly and am blown away by the guitar work and harmonies every single time. |
A Space In Time,Alvin Lee/Ten Years After.Love the way it takes me back to a place so long ago! |
Connie Francis "More Greatest Hits." I had a crush on her when I was a kid.
-- Al |
Cream "Disraeli Gears", 1968....those were the days..... |
Sam & Dave's Greatest Hits & The Who Live at Leeds. At the time I didn't get The Who, but I did identify with Townshend's nose. |
Yes, "Fragile", still on my list of best records. |
The YES Album. 1971. Been a devoted YES fan since. |
Glen Campbell 'Wichita Lineman' and Neil Diamond 'Live Gold'. Purchased at the same time at EJ Korvettes on Fulton Street, Brooklyn. |
For me it was The Beatles' Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band. I figure I got off to a pretty good start! :-) |
