Your First Record

[sp1814]

From a conversation at a mate's barbecue yesterday...

What was the first record you ever bought, or had bought for you?

You have too be honest, even if it's embarrassing now.

I'll open the bidding with mine:

'Devil Gate Drive' by Suzi Quattro.

[dannyk13]

Rawhide by Frankie Laine.

[bookbinder]

Bill Snyder. Flying Fingers.

[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.

[rockyracoon]

Way Down - Elvis Presley

[LeonBlank1995]

I am a bit older than you Sp. It was an early vinyl before they become popular (forget what the material was called) towards the end of the war. And it was an audio of Alice in Wonderland.

Probably worth a fortune now if I had it.

[Mozz71]

Come on Eileen.

[gness]

A Joan Baez EP. Took weeks of my pocket money.

[Spicerack]

My older brother bought me albums that he listened to.
My first buy, probably a Neil Young album.

[bakerwales]

Laughing Gnome by David Bowie - (goes a deep shade of red)!!

[windywillow]

The Pied Piper by Crispian St. Peters.

[Stickybottle]

First single was Mr Blue Sky by ELO

First LP was Equinoxe by Jean Michel Jarre

[sp1814]

Hmmm...this supports the theory I have (and shared with my 19 year old nephew*) that music in the old days 'was better'.

Nothing particularly embarrassing here - but for bragging right, Joan Baez as your first record is pretty hard to beat. Well done gness.







(*For context a month ago he asked me whether Kylie Minogue was in the Spice Girls)

[royfromaus]

Something by the Beatles but not Something by the Beatles.

[Gill55]

wonderful world, beautiful people Jimmy Cliff

[The Builder]

Nothing wrong with a bit of Suzie, sp. The guy who taught me sax plays in her band ;o)
The first record I saved up for was The Stones first album.

However, before that, the first 7" I bought was when my mother sent me off to the local record shop for
"I can't stop loving you" by Ray Charles

My mum was supercool. I had a good musical start ;o)

[LadyCG]

This Ole House by Shakin' Stevens (my mother bought it for me)

She followed that up with The Power of Love by Jennifer Rush and Too Good To Be Forgotton by Amazulu.

Bless her...

[JJ109]

The Carnival is Over - the Seekers

Don't remember why!

[sp1814]

royfromaus

That's actually bloody clever.

And has got me thinking about the best ever cover version (I associate that song with Shirley Bassey).

The Builder - I agree...Suzi was the coolest woman in the western world.

...until Debbie Harry took over.

[sp1814]

LadyCG

Now I've got the chorus of The Ole House playing on repeat in my head.

Thanks.

:-(

[jno]

no embarrassment whatever