Comments on: Who’s on first? http://lpcoverlover.com/2007/12/26/whos-on-first/ The world's greatest LP album covers, and 45s too Sun, 23 Nov 2008 13:29:23 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: Kylis http://lpcoverlover.com/2007/12/26/whos-on-first/#comment-30821 Kylis Sun, 03 Feb 2008 17:34:41 +0000 http://lpcoverlover.com/2007/12/26/whos-on-first/#comment-30821 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 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

]]> By: Fred Seibert http://lpcoverlover.com/2007/12/26/whos-on-first/#comment-28547 Fred Seibert Sat, 19 Jan 2008 03:08:56 +0000 http://lpcoverlover.com/2007/12/26/whos-on-first/#comment-28547 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. 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.

]]> By: BenT http://lpcoverlover.com/2007/12/26/whos-on-first/#comment-24517 BenT Fri, 28 Dec 2007 14:53:57 +0000 http://lpcoverlover.com/2007/12/26/whos-on-first/#comment-24517 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) 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)

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