first records

[wesw]

think my first two 45 s were steve miller band- rock'n me and dr hook- cover of the rolling stone...

...then in sixth grade I had a short bee gees episode, but we won t speak of that except to to say that my friends and I had a record throwing contest in JR HIGH.....

disco was dead and we killed it....

[datsunaholic]

I never bought a record; cassette tapes were the thing when I was that age. But the first album that became "mine" was an LP. My Mom was tossing all her 1960s and 70s LPs (as well as a bunch of my Dads) because she didn't want us kids being influenced by "Devil Worship" rock music. The hardest stuff allowed was Chuck Berry, and she did keep the 50s and early 60s 45s. I didn't know what my Mom was tossing back then (it was the Doors, Mothers of Invention, Iron Butterfly, etc) but she let me keep one record I recognized, which was Simon and Garfunkel's album "Parsley, Sage Rosemary and Thyme", which likely was my Dads.

My Mom didn't allow Rock music in the house until my sisters got into pop music and we all had our own radios. By then it was pretty much a moot point, but I was into country music. Because of that the first ones I bought were Country. The first one I bought was Marie Osmond's "There's No Stopping Your Heart".

By High School the "Seattle Sound" and grunge came out, and I found I liked my music heavy. My buddies had their own band, played the stuff common on Alternative/Grunge stations of the early 90s and I found I liked it. First "rock" single (and to this day the only Single I ever bought) was Nirvana's Smells Like Teen Spirit. On tape. By 1993 I was buying Grunge tapes (I bought Pearl Jam's "Ten" and REM's "Out of Time" while I was in US Navy "A" School). For Christmas 1993 I bought the family a CD Changer and that was the end of tapes, everything new was on CD. First CD I bought was "Common Thread: The Songs of the Eagles" which was an entire album of artists covering Eagles hits. While I still listened to country through about 1995, the turning point was coming home after 6 months at sea and finding the local Country stations were still playing the same stuff they had been playing since 1990. There was almost nothing NEW.

Currently my music collection is a mixed muddle across genres. Stuff ranges from The Beach Boys to The Pretty Reckless, Rolling Stones, Katy Perry, Waylon Jennings and Judas Priest. What you won't find is very much Rap or R&B, but there is some. OK, so the "Rap" is Kid Rock and the Beastie Boys. Not really what folks think of when they think of rap.

[MajGenl.Meade]

Working from the Pre-Nissan guy's post: Tom Jones "Green Green Grass of Home" (for my mother); for me, Donovan "Sunshine Superman". I guess that was in 1967... at the Dover (Kent, England) Market Square indoor market. Used juke-box singles with the plastic triangle insert - probably 25 cents or so in UK coinage. The first album was also from the Market.... Sgt. Pepper's... used 1967/8... obviously not from a jukebox. Then new - two Marble Arch albums - Donovan and The Kinks. Lawdy, lawdy - those was the music days

[Gob]

[Sean]

A Tonic for the Troops - Boomtown Rats

[Guinevere]

Shaun Cassidy, 1976. But that was an LP full album. I had some 45s included in some of my story books.

[TPFKA@W]

First 45 ever was "How much is that doggie in the window".

[BoSoxGal]

The first record I ever purchased for myself was Rex Smith, Sooner or Later, 1979.

[Big RR]

My first album I purchased was Sgt Peppers (I had received a few earlier Beatles albums as gifts), first single was Lulu's To Sir with Love.

[Fafhrd]

My first record was a 78: Spike Jones and the City Slickers, "Der Fuhrer's Face".

[Sue U]

I had some 45s that I had inherited or commandeered from my older siblings -- mostly Martha and the Vandellas, Smokey Robinson, Supremes and, for some reason, the McCoys' Hang on Sloopy. But the first 45 I bought myself was the Rolling Stones' Brown Sugar. That's when I started to learn about rock 'n' roll.

ETA: A few years earlier I had purchased my first LP ever, which was really a three-disc set of the Brandenburg Concertos played on period instruments. (I still have it.) I had never felt much need to purchase pop music, since it was readily available on four different radio stations. But in my teens I started to develop a taste for music that wasn't being played much (if at all) on the radio.

[oldr_n_wsr]

First record was a 45. Venus by Shocking Blue (Hot Sand was on the flip side). Still have that record.
I still have all the lp's I ever bought. Doors, Who, Stones, Jefferson Airplane, Cream, Hendrix, Creedance, Grand Funk Railroad, Doobie Bro's, Steely Dan, Bowie.......
I could go on.

[kristina]

I had some 45s that I had inherited or commandeered from my older siblings -- mostly Martha and the Vandellas, Smokey Robinson, Supremes and, for some reason, the McCoys' Hang on Sloopy. But the first 45 I bought myself was the Rolling Stones' Brown Sugar. That's when I started to learn about rock 'n' roll.

ETA: A few years earlier I had purchased my first LP ever, which was really a three-disc set of the Brandenburg Concertos played on period instruments. (I still have it.) I had never felt much need to purchase pop music, since it was readily available on four different radio stations. But in my teens I started to develop a taste for music that wasn't being played much (if at all) on the radio.

Sue, I think I may have had the same set...ordered in the early 1980s maybe somehow connected with the Smithsonian (?). I think it went the way of many possessions in my recent life re-arrangement.

[Sue U]

The set I have was recorded in the mid to late 1960s and put out by Deutsche Grammophon. I bought mine in 1969 at a record store in the mall. It was the highest quality and most beautiful recording of anything that I had ever heard. Using the original period instruments and style of performance gave it a tonal quality that was totally unlike any other version. I can't remember either the orchestra or the conductor right now, I'll take a look this evening when I get home. Maybe I'll even hook up the old phonograph.

[kristina]

Most likely a different set than what I had. I do recall that mine was period instruments (not sure if they were original or re-creations). I left behind all my LPs when I moved; with no place to put them, and nothing to play them on it was an easy decision. The only one I felt sad about was an album done by a local (Connecticut) band, recorded in the late 70s. I was acquainted with the musicians a little bit, loved their music, and nearly wore out the LP.

My first record was Peter, Paul and Mary; I think I was in 5th grade.

[Big RR]

I recall that album; we had a lot of folk music albums in the house as my mother was a devotee of the genre. a lot of great music there.

[Scooter]

First 45 was Jethro Tull's Living in the Past. I was 8 years old and, no, not yet a fan, but I won it in some radio call-in contest.

[MG McAnick]

I bought exactly two 45s as an early teenager. The first was Ray Stevens' Ahab the Arab. Now there's one they don't play on my favorite oldies station... The other one was Allan Sherman's Hello Muddah Hello Faddah. Yes, I've always had a rather strange sense of both music and humor.

In my defense, there was no such thing as a record store in my little home town. If I sweet talked the local grocery store owner just right, she'd order records for me. By the time I got them, I'm sure they were no longer in the top ten, maybe even in the top 40.

[wesw]

[Daisy]

My first record bought with my Christmas money was Kings of the Wild Frontier by Adam and the Ants.

I must have driven my dad mental playing it over and over again on our family stereo because he bought me a battered second-hand Dansette Junior for my bedroom:D