Your First Vinyl Disc

by borderreiver Sun Jul 01, 2012 9:11 pm

Rolly prompted me so here we go: What was the first vinyl record you ever OWNED? I'm talking procured by you by whatever means. It was yours, not just something in that cool record storage rack next to your folk's HIFI unit or lent to you by THOSE people who thought that they were so COOL (older relations, by and large).

by Trailrunner Sun Jul 01, 2012 9:21 pm

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1956

by CanuckBob Sun Jul 01, 2012 9:22 pm

Beach Boys Endless Summer 1976

by Splashingcolor Sun Jul 01, 2012 9:32 pm

Meet the Beatles, 1964

by sparks Sun Jul 01, 2012 9:32 pm

Elvis had more than one I think

I bought Don't be Cruel and Hound Dog on a 45 and didn't realize our player only did 78 and 33 without the insert. The store let me change it.

With insert followed by The Coasters (Poison Ivy), Danny and the Juniors (At the Hop), Pat Boone, Chuck Berry, etc

by sparks Sun Jul 01, 2012 9:45 pm

First heard the Beatles and Beach Boys in Hong Kong on Jukeboxes in bars about '62. Bought "Surfin' Safari" there on a pink clear vinyl knock-off. Hong Kong as a British Colony was ahead of San Diego when we got back as far as the Beatles

by Big Daddy Mexico Sun Jul 01, 2012 9:47 pm

BTO 4 Wheel Drive 1976

by CheenaGringo Sun Jul 01, 2012 9:57 pm

Buddy Holly 45's obtained through the US military in the Philippines 1956-1959. Anything and everything we could get our hands on that had been recorded on reel to reel tapes and passed around from 1959 to 1965 in India.

by sparks Sun Jul 01, 2012 9:58 pm

Sorry Trails ... didn't know that was his first album. Only bought his singles

by Rolly Sun Jul 01, 2012 10:11 pm

I don't remember because it was so long ago (during WWII). It was probably something by the Mills Brothers. They were one of my early favorites.

by ferret Sun Jul 01, 2012 10:17 pm

First 45 was in 1963...Rhythm of the Falling Rain by the Cascades
First Album was 1968...The Doors by The Doors...wore it out, bought the cassette and wore that out and now have the CD (and a back up copy)...hope they play "light my fire" as I'm being cremated.

by simpsca Sun Jul 01, 2012 10:24 pm

Elvis!

by seisdedos Sun Jul 01, 2012 10:48 pm

First single: Not Fade Away by the Stones in 1964

First Album: Fresh Cream 1966

by MexicoPete Sun Jul 01, 2012 11:22 pm

You know that is really an unfair question for us old folks. All we had were 78s in those days. And I don't have the slightest idea.

It was probably something from my parents that I didn't really want.

by Rolly Sun Jul 01, 2012 11:53 pm

Pete, It occurs to me that maybe you and I should not be responding to this thread because it asks for the first VINYL record. We were buying records before vinyl hit the market. Our 78s were not pressed in vinyl. The first large-scale use of vinyl came with the introduction of Columbia's LP in the summer of 1948 -- the year I graduated from high school and went off to college.

by MexicoPete Mon Jul 02, 2012 1:14 am

I know what you mean. Thank God for the internet (you know, Google and Wikipedia) I can look up much of what I have forgotten. I for example I had to check the dates in Google before I could post; “I remember our first TV. Dad bought it so we could watch the coronation of Queen Elizabeth not 60 years ago but a year after she became queen in 1953.”

I was still in University when color TV became readily available, and don't laugh, seriously, my scholarship job was to run the big color TV at the University library. To think I was considered a techie, because it was my job to run the color TV. How big was that big TV? I can’t remember, but we all thought it was big. Maybe 21 inches

I hope that's not what they looked at in 2001 when I was asked to write Tech Talk in the Guadalajara Reporter until last year.

Now if I had only purchased a 3DTV, maybe I could have written longer. Only kidding.

by LMarkoya Mon Jul 02, 2012 7:24 am

The Duprees, You Belong to me......made me romantic even as a little boy

by little italy Mon Jul 02, 2012 7:35 am

A guy (boy) next door gave me my first record player and first record, “pretty blue eyes”. The first record I bought was “Rebel Rouser”

by gravy Mon Jul 02, 2012 9:45 am

coasters ....young blood .....searching on the flip side ......still know all the words .... maybe "49 miles on a bad road " Conway Twitty ......wore them out

WHERE ARE ALL THE "SILLY LITTLE LOVE SONGS" TODAY ?

by Zedinmexico Mon Jul 02, 2012 9:47 am

gravy wrote:coasters ....young blood .....searching on the flip side ......still know all the words .... maybe "49 miles on a bad road " Conway Twitty ......wore them out

WHERE ARE ALL THE "SILLY LITTLE LOVE SONGS" TODAY ?

McCartney is still singing them like "silly love songs".

Z

by gravy Mon Jul 02, 2012 9:50 am

Zedinmexico wrote:
gravy wrote:coasters ....young blood .....searching on the flip side ......still know all the words .... maybe "49 miles on a bad road " Conway Twitty ......wore them out

WHERE ARE ALL THE "SILLY LITTLE LOVE SONGS" TODAY ?

McCartney is still singing them like "silly love songs".

Z

yeah but most of the crap today is about "HO'S and gang banging " ...... have you ever heard Mexican rap
AAARRRRRRGH

by Rosa Venus Mon Jul 02, 2012 11:33 am

Pink Floyd, Dark Side of the Moon.

by Flamingo Mon Jul 02, 2012 12:04 pm

Diana Paul Anka 1957

by Mainecoons Mon Jul 02, 2012 12:17 pm

Very first, when I was a young kid:

Toad of Toad Hall

'Toad of Toad Hall' is the first of several dramatisations of Kenneth Grahame's 'The Wind in the Willows' which itself was first published in 1908. The play, adapted in 1929, includes incidental music by Harold Fraser-Simson. Milne extracted the adventures of Mr. Toad (which form only about half of the original book) because they lent themselves most easily to being staged. Milne loved Grahame's book, which is one of the reasons he decided to adapt it.

The play has four main characters: Ratty, Badger, Mole and Toad. The story begins with Mole doing his spring cleaning. Fed-up with the task he emerges on to the riverbank and meets Ratty (a watervole). The two encounter various other creatures during their adventures, such as an otter and his son called Portly, squirrels, rabbits and a kindly old Badger who invites them to say at his house. They also meet the irrepressible Toad who owns Toad Hall, a very impressive property. When Toad Hall is taken over by the wicked creatures from the Wild Wood (weasels, stoats and ferrets) the new band of friends help Toad recover his home which culminates in the 'Battle of Toad Hall' where they are victorious. Toad's caravan and car adventures are included, as well as his imprisonment and escape. Although not specifically a musical, the play contains six songs.

45 RPM with the big hole in the middle. I played this one until it was illegible.

by chelseagirls Mon Jul 02, 2012 12:45 pm

OK with money from my birthday in March 1964:
Singles: You really got me, the Kinks and the Last Time: the Stones
L.P: With the Beatles.
I still have them, but cant play them. have them on my Itunes, though!
for those of you that know English money the single were 7 shillings and 6 pence and the LP, 32 shillings and 6 pence (still written on them!)

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