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1st Album you Ever Owned?

I hope this topic stirs up some great memories and further sharing of good music.
What was the first vinyl "LP" album you ever owned?

Mine was "Maynard '64" (Maynard Furgeson).  I was 10 and learning to play trumpet, and my dad bought this album for me.  He worked a lot, so it was really cool that he took the time to chase it down.

I cherished it and still have it, but it didn't take long to learn there was much better jazz out there.  In all fairness, I grew up listening to my parents playing Glenn Miller, Louis Armstrong and Tommy Dorsey - a pretty decent start given the general lack of recognition in the white middle class as to how African culture had molded the music they loved.

Please share your first LP experience!
keegiam
keegiam OP
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@firberger

Damn good start.  Both important rock classics.  I had quite a few albums by the time LZ2 came along, but was knocked out when I later picked up LZ1 and heard the more raw, basic blues I really connected with.

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4krowme
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 I will never forget the day that my older friend gave the Elton John album to me. I was probably 11. He was like that, generous. Why the hell don't I still have it? That is the bad part.
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larsman
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I loved the song 'Paint It Black', so the first rock album I ever got as a young'un was 'Aftermath' by the Rolling Stones, back in 1966 or so. When I saw that the last song, 'Going Home', was listed at over 10 minutes, I thought that that had to have been a misprint on the cover, because songs don't last that long! Found out that some did! 
edcyn
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larsman -- my faulty memory tells me it was Light My Fire that was the first rock/pop hit that pushed rock songs beyond AM radio's Three-and-a-half minute limit.  So what happened was that AM radio stations would play a version of the tune that chopped out the lengthy instrumental in the middle. Dylan’s Like a Rolling Stone was similarly hacked up. In any event, it wasn't long before any rock band worth its salt would include one super-long album cut.
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