Who’s on first?
Our friend Jerome in France sent this. It was his first record ever. Circa 1966. He said his mom got it for him at around age three. I think my first single was “King of the Road” - maybe the same year! What was yours?
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December 28th, 2007 at 9:53 am
My neighbor used to work at Record Club of America, and a few times he dropped by with a box of their “rejects”. I guess these were demo 45s they received, but decided not to offer thru the club. None of the songs ever became hits that I know of, and off-hand, I don’t recall any specific tracks but one tune called “Mississippi River” that began with the line “…We had a rusty railroad shack, on the river shore…”
As far as me and my siblings were concerned, that song was a hit, and we often sang it in the back seats on long car trips thru the States with no good radio stations.
It was probably those boxes of obscurities that gave me a taste for music that nobody else around me listened to.
As far as the first records I ever bought: first single: John Lennon’s “power to the People”
first album: The Ventures in SPACE (bought for a dime at a church yard sale)
January 18th, 2008 at 10:08 pm
Soon after they were hits, Vee Jay released the Four Seasons’ “Sherry” & “Big Girls Don’t Cry” on a double sided single. I bought it at the Hall of Records on New York Avenue, in Huntington, Long Island, in the fall of 1963 with all the change I could scrape up.
February 3rd, 2008 at 12:34 pm
I’m pretty sure my first 45 was Bennie & the Jests by Elton John. But my first LP was Geils - Monkey Island & Led Zeppelin - Presence both from 1977