First record you bought

[badgerx16]

On the heels of the "10 tracks" thread, and possibly one for the slightly more mature members, ( although vinyl is making a come back ), what was the first record, single or album, you bought?

 

For me, I bought 2 singles for my birthday in 1972; School's Out by Alice Cooper, and Amazing Grace by Judy Collins.

Edited 14 hours ago by badgerx16

[rooney]

Rock Around the Clock by Bill Haley and the Comets circa 1955

[Weston Super Saint]

1982 world cup single "this time".

Spoiler alert, it wasn't "this time".

[revolution saint]

I always pretend it was something by The Jam but actually it was Boxer Beat by JoBoxers.

[ecuk268]

Purple Haze  -  Jimmy Hendrix  1966

[trousers]

Album:

 

Single:

 

 

[spyinthesky]

'Brown Eyed Handsome Man'...Buddy Holly

[benjii]

I think it was "Bad" by Jacko.

 

[benjii]

Second was Bros or Right Said Fred, I think.

[Sheaf Saint]

Ghostbusters - Ray Parker Jr.

[egg]

I'd love to say it was Blue Monday or something cool, but it was a complete embarrassment...Green Door...Shakin Stevens. FFS. 

[Lee On Solent Saint]

Think it would habe been Like A Prayer, with my own money at least.

[trousers]

56 minutes ago, Sheaf Saint said:

Ghostbusters - Ray Parker Jr.

The song that Huey Lewis & The News successfully sued for ripping off one of their tracks... for which you, sir, are complicit in the crime, as a result of your purchase...

 

 

[Sheaf Saint]

1 hour ago, trousers said:

The song that Huey Lewis & The News successfully sued for ripping off one of their tracks... for which you, sir, are complicit in the crime, as a result of your purchase...

 

 

In my defence, m'lud, I was only 9 years old and had never heard that song before.

I guess that same defence from RPJ didn't wash with the judge.

[AlexLaw76]

[Sheaf Saint]

2 hours ago, egg said:

I'd love to say it was Blue Monday or something cool, but it was a complete embarrassment...Green Door...Shakin Stevens. FFS. 

It's okay, my first album was bloody Five Star 🤦

[Lord Duckhunter]

First album I owned was The Beatles 1962-66 (red) album. Before that I’d just played around with my mum & Aunties records. Parents got me that for Xmas. 
 

First single  I bought myself with my paper round money was “how does it feel” by Slade. First LP bought was either “Wings at the Speed of Sound” or “Venus and Mars”, can’t quite remember which, but I had them both around the same time…

Last piece of vinyl I ever bought was around ‘87 and I wish I could remember what it was. I know it was then because I moved abroad that year and when I came home in ‘91 it was all CD’s….Strange to think I don’t own a thing now, just a subscription to Apple Music. 

[Lighthouse]

Wham! - Wake Me Up Before You Go Go.

1 hour ago, Sheaf Saint said:

It's okay, my first album was bloody Five Star 🤦

Mine was The Smurfs Go Pop, if that’s not too cool for school, I don’t know what is.

[Sevvy]

Boogie Nights, Heatwave, 

[Sergei Gotsmanov]

Queens Greatest Hits a cassette....

[Whitey Grandad]

You Really Got Me

The Kinks

[Holmes_and_Watson]

50 minutes ago, Sevvy said:

Boogie Nights, Heatwave, 

If only I had something like that.

2 hours ago, Sheaf Saint said:

It's okay, my first album was bloody Five Star 🤦

But that was definitely one my brother got. To be fair it was just one of many from the Britannia Music Club. We didn't get pocket money as such, but got recurring things bought for us. Since my brother was in Britannia, I didn't have to ask for music. He'd let me order things too, once in a while.

That's why, by the time I was buying music my tastes were already refined. Which is why I reckon it was something by the Bangles. 🙂

[Hamilton Saint]

First opportunity I had to buy records was money earned as a paper boy for the newsagent on Hollybank Estate in Hythe in 1969. I bought mostly singles (45 rpm)--the first one was "Get Back". Singles cost 7/6 back then. The first album (LP) I bought was The Righteous Brothers Greatest Hits--prompted by the re-release (in 1969) of their single "You've Lost That Loving Feeling". There was a record shop on Pylewell Road in Hythe back then--near the Co-op grocery store.

Edited 2 hours ago by Hamilton Saint