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
March 24th, 2010 at 3:19 pm
Pretty sure my first single was “Kandu”, a song about the orca at Marineland in St. Catherine’s, Ontario, Canada. I wish I still had it, as I’m sure the cover would have been worthy of your site!
My first LP was either Raffi’s “Singable Songs For the Very Young” or Marlo Thomas’ “Free To Be … You And Me.” The first one I chose for myself (i.e. asked for for Christmas) was Supertramp’s “Even In The Quietest Moments.”
March 24th, 2010 at 6:33 pm
My first single was a gift from my Mom. It was the Beatles, Strawberry Fields Forever/Penny Lane. A picture sleeve on the Capitol “swirl” label. We played it on our family console and it sounded beautiful to be hearing these songs without that AM buzz. After playing Penny Lane I asked, “What happened to the little horn part at the end of the song? Like the way I heard it on the radio?” Never could figure why they left that part out. Oh, well…
September 19th, 2011 at 4:21 pm
My first 45 I had gotten at my old job at an antique shop. They had Bandaid’s “Do They Know It’s Christmas/Feed the World”, and the shop was closing down, and they said they wouldn’t have enough money to pay me for that week, so they gave me a bunch LP’s, and in one of the sleeves was that 45.
My first album was David Bowie’s “ChangesTwoBowie”, my mom bought me it when I turned 15.
September 19th, 2011 at 7:07 pm
don’t want to give away my age
September 19th, 2011 at 9:25 pm
Well, I don’t think mine gives away my age…
September 19th, 2011 at 9:34 pm
@Tatum — true, all we can tell is you were born no earlier than 1966…”Do They Know It’s Christmas” was released in ’84, “ChangesTwoBowie” in ’81.
October 5th, 2023 at 6:33 am
“Sugartime” by the lovely McGuire Sisters. I’m so embarrassed.