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Mine first 45 was "How much is that doggie in the window" and around the same time, another favorite was "The big rock candy mountain"

ToplessRideFL wrote:

phjrsaunt wrote:First one I remember is Tommy James and Shondelles "Crystal and Clover." It had an orange and yellow label. I stored it in my blue cylinder0like record carrying case with a white handle. (Mayhaps I'm a BIT "right brained?")

my 45 box was pink...white handle.


I dont recall that I had an LP box....

Mine was and is a red Beatles one.

My sister and I split the $ 2.39 to buy Meet the Beatles - Feb 1964.
I think my first 45 was I Want to Hold Your Hand.
I think I still have both of them.

Spiders and Snakes by Jim Stafford

45 single - Honeycomb - Jimmy Rodgers

33 LP - For Teen Twisters Only - Chubby Checker

PIA wrote:what are those....

glad you got in here to say that. wasn't sure who else could almost pull it off.

I don't remember exactly what would have been first, but I had a few of each. Never owned an 8-track, but my mom had a player in the house and in the car (Pinto, with the bubble window!)

I bought my last LPs just before 10th grade. I didn't have the cash for both on cassette so I bought them on vinyl and dubbed them over to one of those 120-minute cassettes.

One was a Scorpions album, the other was Kingdom Come....they were both on the big Monster's of Rock tour that year and I had to get caught up

My sister and I got our first record player in 1958. It was a suitcase style thing that didn't even have a changer. Or, if it did we never used a changer.

Our first 45 was Wake Up Little Susie. I always thought it was by Ricky Nelson, but it's by The Everly Brothers. We also got How Much Is That Doggie in the Window. Grandma had that one for so long, we had to have it. I think it came out in 1952. My other favorite at Grandma's was Rock Around The Clock.

I remember getting Chipmunk's Christmas song later on.

I never bought much music because I was so poor, but my favorite album was one I started listening to in 1966 when I moved in with my Grandma. It was The Best of Hank Williams. I listened to that on that same type of little record player, over and over and over.

First 8-track was Bob Dylan ?? Free player and all from Columbia Record Club.
First CD was the double red Beatles 1962-1966.

Now, thousands of vinyls, cassettes, CDs, VHS, Laser Disc, DVDs later, I listen to music constantly. (I can't throw anything away...)

HMMM 45? Al Wilson- Show and Tell
album.. one of the early Olivia Newton-John the one with Angel of the Morning

ragtopW wrote:HMMM 45? Al Wilson- Show and Tell
album.. one of the early Olivia Newton-John the one with Angel of the Morning

With all due respect to the Great Santa, wasn't that song by Merrilee Rush?

phjrsaunt wrote:

ragtopW wrote:HMMM 45? Al Wilson- Show and Tell
album.. one of the early Olivia Newton-John the one with Angel of the Morning

With all due respect to the Great Santa, wasn't that song by Merrilee Rush?

She did, but Oliva covered that song on one of her albums.

Wino you know wrote:

phjrsaunt wrote:

ragtopW wrote:HMMM 45? Al Wilson- Show and Tell
album.. one of the early Olivia Newton-John the one with Angel of the Morning

With all due respect to the Great Santa, wasn't that song by Merrilee Rush?

She did, but Oliva covered that song on one of her albums.

Ahhh.....

I got my first record player for Christmas and when I walked in, Alvin and the Chipmunks were singing the The Chipmunk Song
My first LP--Ricky Nelson

First 45

Rare Earth-Big Brother

First two LP's were Star Wars soundtrack and the "Brown"

soundtrack of Jesus Christ Superstar with Ian Gillian.

My sister had LP's and 45's as did my mother.

I listened to a combo of Beatles, Grand Funk Railroad, Three Dog Night,

Herb Alpert, Dean Martin, Gene Pitney, and Jeanie C Riley on record

before that.

I did have some Disney movie soundtracks but I don't think of them as

a influence on my music interests so I ignored them. They were "kids

music", and I still remember them. I also know about the doggie in the

window and the 3 little fishes and their momma fishy too.

Now my aunt who watched me while I was at work had a Wurlitzer

Jukebox that had Mr. Sandman and that era on it.

I am older in my music than my years, thats a good thing.

My first LP's, that is ones I didnt steal from my older brother, were Santana (yep the first one) and Abbey Road.

Before that, while I had access to bro's LPs I listened to The White Album, Led Zepplin II (Stairway to Heaven was my favorite song a year before it hit the radio), Quicksilver Messenger Service and an unknown called Bloodrock

"My" first 45 I took from my Dad when I was around 5. I played Tennesee Ernie Ford's "Sixteen Ton's" about 386 consecutive times I still love that song. My first album was either an Elton John or John Denver greatest hits. First 8 tracks were Foghat "Fool For The City" and Gordon Lightfoot's "Summertime Dream." Bought them both from the same pay check

Oh, I did have me some 78's too. Who can for get Romper Room's "Do Bee" song

I'm older than Dirt, and Jimmy, and LIPH: my first purchase was a 78 by Perry Como Magic Moments, I think.
That was also about the last 78 I bought, "cause 45s came in.... probably bought a few things before the Beatles.....

First 45's "Listen to the Rythm of the Falling Rain" (can't remember who sang it) and "Walk like a Man" by Frankie Valli and the 4 Seasons. Followed closely by "It's my Party" <--- I still love that song!

I think the first LP must have been "Meet the Beatles"

ScarletB wrote:First 45's "Listen to the Rythm of the Falling Rain" (can't remember who sang it)

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