Your First Record

[Fairlight]

Can you remember the first record you bought? Mine was IN DREAMS by ROY ORBISON. It still sends tingles down my spine :)

[gness]

Oh yes..... a Joan Baez EP....... :-)

[Buenchico]

I asked for a record player for my 8th birthday, together with some of my favourite records. They included this:

[Mamyalynne]

Simon Dupree & The Big Sound ~ Kites but I didn't buy it, someone gave me a box of demo discs when I got my first Dansette and that was the first I played.

[Mamyalynne]

I played this next and actually got to meet the lady years later

[Buenchico]

The first record I bought (or got my mother to buy for me) once I'd got my record player was this. I insisted that it had to be Bert Weedon's version, as I'd seen him perform it children's TV. (Blue Peter, probably). I wasn't interested in The Shadows.

[tonyav]

That you your self actually bought, or someone bought for you ?
Can't quite remember if it was the theme from 'Crossroads' or 'Go Now' ( the Moody Blues ) was the first that my mom bought for me. I do remember having Morning Town Ride ( The Seekers ) bought for me as a Christmas present by an aunt of mine as a small lad though.

[Buenchico]

The first LP I bought ('cos they weren't called 'albums' then) was this one, simply because it was heavily advertised on Radio Caroline and I thought that I'd be the first to hear an artist who (according to the advertising) was due to become as big as The Beatles were:
https://tinyurl.com/y4b3dch9

I'm still waiting for him to achieve worldwide fame though ;-)

There were some good tracks on it, such as this one:

[tonyav]

What a second record, Mamya.

The first record that I can actually remember buying my self was this.
I bought Marvin Gaye 'Save The Children' for the B side 'Little Darling' Although it had been released as an A side some years before. I'm sure that I must have bought some records before that though.

[andy-hughes]

My first single was John I'm Only Dancing by David Bowie, to go with my first stereo. I have two older sisters, so The Beatles' songs came into the house on release, which was great.

My first album was the soundtrack to the film Vanishing Point, and my first 'rock' album was Abraxas by Santana.

[tonyav]

I went to the cinema to see Vanishing Point, andy. I went to see the Dodge Challenger though ( music was pretty good though ).

[margarettom]

The first proper record I bought was Cliff Richard's Living Doll. But we used to buy ex-juke box records cheap (and put plastic centres in them)and I remember having Buddy Holly's Raining in My Heart and Marty Wilde's Donna.
By the way - I agree about In Dreams!!

[Mozz71]

I think I'm a little younger than some of you old timers. Mine was Come On Eileen by Dexys. Ny first albums were Queen's Greatest Hits and Billy Joel's An Innocent Man (in hindsight, one of his worst albums!) which I got together for Christmas one year (1983 I think)

[Arrods]

We used to buy 78s from Woolworths on the Embassy label. I think they were mostly cover versions.

First 45 was 'Only the lonely' by my all-time hero.

Re 'Go now' mentioned earlier, coincidentally going to see 'Go now' at the theatre tonight which features one of the drummers who spent some time with the group.

[Zacs-Master]

I bought a compilation album called England’s top 10 (or could have been 12) in 1973. All original artistes which included David Bowie’s LoM, Free-All Right Now, Nazareth - bad bad boy and a few other crackers.
My first single was Teenage Rampage by The Sweet.

[Bobbisox1]

Beatles Please,Please Me in 1963

[bhg481]

"Rock Island Line" by Lonnie Donegan - the 78rpm Decca version.

First LP was "Chirping Crickets" by Buddy Holly.

I've still got the LP; the single got broken at the Youth Club.

[BAKERS DOZEN]

The first single I bought was a present for my best friend. She wanted "My old man's a dustman" by Lonnie Donegan and I remember it cost 4s 9d. The first LP I owned was In Dreams by Roy Orbison and Mr BD bought it for me for my 14th birthday.

[Bobbisox1]

Bhg, I hated skiffle lol, do you watch Spotlight TV ,all 50s for an hour, it's on each Friday at 4pm , it's channel 87 Freeview but we get it on Sky 376, we record it for later that evening

[lady-janine]

Something by Count Basie. What an explosion of sound. Can't remember which.

[Zacs-Master]

Yeah, found my first album. Aint the Internet wunneful!
https://www.discogs.com/Alan-Caddy-Orchestra-Singers-Englands-Top-12-Hits/release/9983326

Not sure why it says Alan Caddy orchestra as it was all original artists. Also Ray Dorsey is written as Ray Dorset!