Do you remember the first record you ever bought?

[Cooper]

The 1st record I purchased was: House of the Rising Sun by the Animals. Still remember the words but probably didn’t understand them when I was a young teenager.

[TruthBTold]

The first record I purchased was Gladys Knight and the Pips' Imagination. Mainly for this song. I think it was 73 or 74.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4KZs0mLJiQ

[Smurof]

Abbey Road. My record had a skip during Maxwell's Silver Hammer for the "Creeps Up From Behind" line, so I didn't know for years what I was missing! I would only buy 8-track tapes for a good while because of that.

[big-n-tall]

Well the first record I remember buying with my saved up allowance was a single record. I wasnot even a teen yet. It was Jermaine Stewart’s “We don’t have to take our clothes off.” A girl I had a crush on loved the song and we’d listen to it together.

 

[+ nycman]

[+ azdr0710]

don't know if it was the very, very first 45 I ever bought (45s are all we ever got when I was 8 or 9), but I think I bought this about then.....might still have it with my old childhood junk in a box around here somewhere

 

Edited March 2, 2021 by azdr0710

[samhexum]

On 2/11/2021 at 3:32 PM, poolboy48220 said:

the single of "Yo-yo", Donny Osmond. My sisters and I all bought our own individual copies, I can't think why now.

So you could each have  your own individual fantasies of Donny when you slept with the record.

[samhexum]

On 2/11/2021 at 8:05 PM, Cooper said:

The 1st record I purchased was: House of the Rising Sun by the Animals. Still remember the words but probably didn’t understand them when I was a young teenager.

Did you understand them by the time you were an old teenager?

On 3/1/2021 at 1:01 PM, TruthBTold said:

The first record I purchased was Gladys Knight and the Pips' Imagination. Mainly for this song. I think it was 73 or 74.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4KZs0mLJiQ

I bought I've Really Got To Use My Imagination and Midnight Train To Georgia 45s.

Edited October 25, 2022 by samhexum
for shits and giggles

[+ Cash4Trash]

Am I the only real queer on this site? The correct answer is Bobby's Girl by Marcie Blane - my first record purchase.

 

[+ WilliamM]

The original cast recording of the musical The Music Man with Robert Preston

[Stormy]

 

Good bye yellow brick road 

[samhexum]

On 1/30/2021 at 11:47 AM, samhexum said:

Mine was a 45-- Dizzy by Tommy Roe. I was 7 years old.

I was into some groovy music when I was 7.

 

 

[samhexum]

Just now, samhexum said:

I was into some groovy music when I was 7.

I actually took this 45 to school for social studies when I was 8.  I don't remember what the assignment was, but I remember the reason was that it talked about societal issues.   

 

On 10/26/2022 at 5:12 PM, Stormy said:

Good bye yellow brick road 

And now Elton is doing his farewell tour...