What was the first album and single you bought

newlad



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Message Posted:
08/10/2010 19:59

I go way back to 1972 for my first album which was "a nods as good as a wink to a blind horse" by the Faces.The first single i bought was Take me bak home by Slade.For some reason there was no c in bak on the record.Happy days eh,

Paul.

proger1



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Message Posted:
08/10/2010 20:02

Motorhead "Ace of spades" but quite some time before because I had to save up for the album was Silly Thing "Sex Pistols" only to find that I prefered the B side Tempole Tudor "Who Killed Bambi"



Who killed bambeeeeee

proger1



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Posts: 2919

Message Posted:
08/10/2010 20:03

Sorry, Tenpole Tudor before I get crucified by the punk rebellion

Brinsley


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Message Posted:
08/10/2010 20:15

This one, which I saved up my pocket money for and then my Father went ballistic when I played it on his Hi-Fi system! The one with the arm & needle! I now have to agree with him, so much for old age!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZKyEyxwqS2c



Richard

Quarmby


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Message Posted:
08/10/2010 20:15

Lonnie Donegan 'Battle of New Orleans' and Living Doll by Cliff Richard in 1959. First LP can't remember.

zerochlor


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Message Posted:
08/10/2010 20:17

A good 1 i bought,but not my 1st was, a dream of blue turtles by sting

gooligan


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Message Posted:
08/10/2010 20:23

1st single was Liberator by Spear of Destiny.

davedee



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Posts: 479

Message Posted:
08/10/2010 20:25

Single Rip It Up Little Richard. 1957



Album (l.P) Little Richard,For Christmas 1957.



And still got both of them !!

newlad



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Message Posted:
08/10/2010 20:27

Spear of destiny,we once recorded in the same studio in Brid,

Paul.

juliamoons



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Message Posted:
08/10/2010 20:28

Helen Shapiro - Walking back to happiness

eager


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Posts: 1272

Message Posted:
08/10/2010 20:32

It was either Go Now by the Moody Blues or You really got me by the Kinks !

jardap


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Posts: 318

Message Posted:
08/10/2010 20:38

First single i bought was 3 Wheels on my Waggon for my Mums Birthday.

First one for me was Wild Thing by the Troggs

First album was one by the Rolling Stones

measey


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Message Posted:
08/10/2010 20:39

How much was that Doging in the window.

gooligan


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Message Posted:
08/10/2010 20:45

I didn't know you had to pay measey,i thought the whole idea was to watch for free ) )

Goonerboy


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Message Posted:
08/10/2010 20:48

Errrr Madoona Like a Virgin

newlad



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Posts: 7819

Message Posted:
08/10/2010 20:56

Gooly,you are on form mate.Just like Donny,

Paul.

LooseBoots



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Posts: 1258

Message Posted:
08/10/2010 21:08

Beatles white album.....well have of it.....shared it with my best friend till found out liked his half better.can`t remember the single but remember first one i listened to......Wild Wind by Jonny Leyton.....i think

stilluvithere



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Message Posted:
08/10/2010 22:30

Living Doll and Beatles for sale which I bought for my mothers birthday. She didn't appreciate it very much but I did

No1Doyen


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Posts: 16617

Message Posted:
08/10/2010 22:48

Single. Love Me Do - The Beatles

Album - Please Please Me - The Beatles

Smity



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Posts: 826

Message Posted:
08/10/2010 23:24

Wow now I feel old

Ist single Summer Holiday Richard

Ist ablum Bridge over troubled water Simon & Garfunkle

darrener2


Joined: 30/12/2008
Posts: 187

Message Posted:
08/10/2010 23:27

First single: World Without Love - Peter & Gordon. Bought with birthday money and I was too young to go to town on my own so my Mum had to take me.

Six years later, second record bought and first album: Air Conditioning - Curved Air. Managed to go by myself for this one. ;-)

jeffsangrace


Joined: 22/12/2009
Posts: 267

Message Posted:
09/10/2010 00:08

First Single -------- Little Piece of Leather - Donnie Elbert and Tired of Being alone - Al Green ---- Both bought second hand off a mate who was skint at the time.





First Album(s) -------- Electric Warrior - T Rex and Aladin Sane - David Bowie

andy-f


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Posts: 1256

Message Posted:
09/10/2010 00:14

i remember buying my first northern soul record ( im on my way by dean parish ) mates at school where going on about this music so i went to wigan market where a wigan casino DJ had a record stall a bought it without hearing it first , this was 1977 and the rest is history i was hooked and still am !

kennyb1


Joined: 06/06/2009
Posts: 88

Message Posted:
09/10/2010 01:13

R Dean Taylor Ghost in my House and Freda Payne Band of Gold

They are still my fav all time records

Keep posting

Keep smiling

Kennyb

branwell



Joined: 09/08/2010
Posts: 141

Message Posted:
09/10/2010 03:27

Msg 22

How could you degenerate from Little Piece of Leather to T-Rex!!

branwell



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Posts: 141

Message Posted:
09/10/2010 03:30

Msg 18

There was a 4 year gap between 'Living Doll' and 'Beatles for Sale' -what happened?

PS Did you know 'Beatles for Sale' was released in UK on same day as JKK was shot?

jimchris09


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Posts: 547

Message Posted:
09/10/2010 03:41

Oh dear...think my first ever album was The Monkees! However, within a year or so I did cash it in and buy Anold Layne by Pink Floyd ! I then progressed rapidly buying Wheels of Fire by Cream.

sloan



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Message Posted:
09/10/2010 05:42

How odd! My first single was Cliff Richard's 'Living Doll' as well, which I played on my new Decca record player. I cannot remember my first album.

MartinM


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Posts: 166

Message Posted:
09/10/2010 07:02

My first Album was "Hits 68" from Woolworths. A compilation album by singers who sounded almost as good as the originals. It was probably about 10 shillings, a LOT of money for me in those days. Trying desperately hard to remember the label, I think it might have been Wooly's own, but having difficulty .Help any one?......

Groucho



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Message Posted:
09/10/2010 07:04

Album - Led Zeppelin II... a real baptism of fire.



Single - Mason Williams - Classical Gas, Still a very good single.

MartinM


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Posts: 166

Message Posted:
09/10/2010 07:22

I bought my copy of Led Zeppelin II from Jon Moss for 50p, he later went on to be the drummer for that strange bloke who wore a dress and a hat and sang Karma Chamaeleon . You know who I mean. Blimey, this thread is REALLY stretching my memory. Boy George?

Groucho



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Message Posted:
09/10/2010 07:26

Didn't Boy George have a bit of a thing for the drummer?

Rocker



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Message Posted:
09/10/2010 09:06

Frankie Vaughan "Green Door" The Album was Charlie Prides Country Great Hits.

mermaid


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Message Posted:
09/10/2010 09:23

Adam and the Ants, had his face all over my bedroom wall and used to put makeup on my poor little sister to look like him.

Kantara


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Posts: 661

Message Posted:
09/10/2010 09:35

First album "Big Hits" from Rolling Stones

First single "Seasons in the sun" Terry Jacks

neilhodgin


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Posts: 256

Message Posted:
09/10/2010 09:42

First album parallel lines Blondie

jeffsangrace


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Message Posted:
09/10/2010 09:46

Message 25



I like all kinds of music from Crooners, Swing, Soul, Jazz, Funk, Disco, Pop and Rock etc ----- so i kinda think that explains my first record buys - keep an open mind and listen to everything as some stuff in there tends to suprise you from time to time.

millzer


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Posts: 978

Message Posted:
09/10/2010 10:51

Not sure if it was THE first, but certainly one of the first



A side http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2mdXLfx0xoQ



B side http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysFrt3V7nvI&feature=related

dougskud



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Posts: 356

Message Posted:
09/10/2010 11:07

Hi All good morning



My first single was Island of Dreams by the Springfields



My first LP was the sondtrack from West Side Story



regards

Doug

Groucho



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Message Posted:
09/10/2010 11:09

Jeff,



Me too... what's wrong with T-Rex? Great stuff, great dance music.

authentichoccie


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Message Posted:
09/10/2010 11:11

First single I bought with my own money was Relax by Frankie Goes to Hollywood! Hadn't even heard it but knew it had been banned so just went and bought it to see what the fuss was about! I remember hiding it from my Mum as the sleeve was a bit risque!!

teatime


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Posts: 852

Message Posted:
09/10/2010 11:27

First single - Rise and fall of flingle blunt, The Shadows

First album I can remember queing at the shop for on it's release was Sgt Peppers, The Beatles (Not really sure if that was the first I bought though, at this age the memory fades!!!

MrsSnakes



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Posts: 1100

Message Posted:
09/10/2010 11:59

Cant remember the first Album as it was a complimation but my Grandad bought me Alantic Crossing, Rod Stewart in 1975 for my 15th Birthday and my first single was I think 1972 Crocodile Rock, Elton John.

newlad



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Posts: 7819

Message Posted:
09/10/2010 13:11

What no Leonard Cohen fans on here.Shame on you,

Paul.

No1Doyen


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Message Posted:
09/10/2010 13:12

Paul. You're on your own! ) )

Jeannie


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Message Posted:
09/10/2010 13:28

Tell Laura I Love Her by Ricky Valance



Can't remember the first LP - I think it may have been The Temptations Greatest Hits, many years later.

newlad



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Message Posted:
09/10/2010 13:35

Bill,

How did you know that,SPOOKY!!!!!

flowerfairy


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Message Posted:
09/10/2010 13:36

Newlad, cohen...Oh yeah......Wicked!!!!!!!!!!!!!!, like marmite, you either love him or hate him....we love him.



My first single bought was Freddie and the dreamers, 'I understand'. Can't remember what my first album was, I had to wait until I left school to afford that. Still have them all here somewhere!!!

newlad



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Message Posted:
09/10/2010 13:40

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cGGSo530bdA



Cheers fairy.Not on my own now Bill,

Paul.

marcosthechef



Joined: 30/11/2009
Posts: 646

Message Posted:
09/10/2010 13:57

My 1st Album was bought for me by my dads old mate Gerry Harknett and it was The Partridge Family featuring David Caseddy, I think ?? FFS,

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTvUT_Hx4Dc



the 1st single i bought was 10cc Donna



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AjWfX913BRQ

Dusterbruce


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Message Posted:
09/10/2010 15:52

First single 'Banana Boat Song' by Inia te Wiata, about 1957. It was a 78 so did not survive.



First album (cringe) South Pacific!

jimchris09


Joined: 13/02/2009
Posts: 547

Message Posted:
09/10/2010 16:28

South Pacific is great! I was in the chorus in a wonderful amateur production of parts of it in the mid-80's in Kadoma, Zimbabwe...well, we thought it was wonderful!

PaulW



Joined: 20/07/2009
Posts: 651

Message Posted:
09/10/2010 16:50

1964 Juliet by The Four Pennies, bought at Woolwich covered market with my pocket money. I did have LP's bought for me but the first one I bought was The White Album by the Beatles.

Glasbury


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Message Posted:
09/10/2010 16:53

Can't remember the LP but the single was Layla by Derek and the Dominoes. Saved up my pocket money for this.

Dusterbruce


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Message Posted:
09/10/2010 17:13

South Pacific was great in 1958, but seems very dated now. Still enjoy seeing the film though.

fatboy



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Message Posted:
09/10/2010 19:38

Led Zeppelin first album

single was White Rabbit Jefferson Airplane

branwell



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Message Posted:
09/10/2010 23:55

Was the Woolworth's label 'Embassy'?

spider


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Message Posted:
10/10/2010 00:56

Bridge over troubled waters..Simon and garfunckel AHHH ya know how to spell it ) )



Laugh you may )





Spider,X

CyprusChill


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Message Posted:
10/10/2010 05:31

msg 2. for many reasons.

My first album which i still have and now playing through my ears Whole Lotta Love by Led Zepplin.

As a child that danced about places such as Germany, Cyprus, South Wales.

My first Motorhead concert would have been some 32 years ago.

Still to this day my girlfriend / wife, with total understanding of perhaps my never return; from many of my engineering locations (sod me and the coffin its expensive).

A Church rendering of Ace Of Spades and a carving of 'Thats the way i like it baby and im not gonna live forever'.

We are mates with Lemmy and this year is his 35 anniversary. Such a character, we love him. x

TopTen


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Posts: 1246

Message Posted:
10/10/2010 13:53

Single was " Running Bear " Jonny Preston

Album was the Kinks first album

Dusterbruce


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Message Posted:
10/10/2010 14:10

The Woolworth's label WAS 'Embassy'



It was red. I understand any that survive are quite valuble.



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embassy_Records

pammick


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Posts: 722

Message Posted:
10/10/2010 15:33

My two first singles were Cliff Richard's 'Livin' Doll' and Buddy Holly's 'Brown Eyed Handsome Man'. My first EP was by the Shadows and my first album was 'The Buddy Holly Story' in 1959.



Yeah great days spent at my local youth club. I was only 12 years old, but I lied about my age and manage to get in and Rock 'n' Roll the evenings away with the lads & lasses who were quite a few years older than me. It was my first girlfriend who started me off with my lifetime love of listening to Brenda Lee. I did once see her on stage in York about 20 years ago - and she was as good then as she was when she first started singing in the late 50's.



DJ MIKE

suzi1951


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Posts: 191

Message Posted:
10/10/2010 16:39

First single was Let's Twist Again by Chubby Checker. Remember getting three singles for £1. Didn't buy albums at that time and cannot remember what was my first one.

cyprusgiant


Joined: 08/07/2009
Posts: 467

Message Posted:
10/10/2010 17:14

First Album I had was for passing my 11+ and was With The Beatles which I still think is their best having bought all the others. First single was Bobby Vee and Night has a thousand stars.

cyprusairsoft



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Posts: 2066

Message Posted:
10/10/2010 17:14

pink and perky xmas special!!!!!!



moody blues go now

Jeannie


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Message Posted:
10/10/2010 17:17

Max - message 64 - not trying to teach my grandmother to suck eggs, but shouldn't that be The Night Has A Thousand Eyes"?



Jean

jimmyG


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Message Posted:
11/10/2010 13:01

1st LP - The Spencer Davis Group, 1st Single - Freda Payne - Band of Gold

greylag


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Message Posted:
11/10/2010 13:33

Stevie Winwood,now your talking,

Grey.

mmmmmm



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Message Posted:
11/10/2010 13:42

45" single: Horse with no name - America - STILL a classic



33" LP album one of those K-tel ( or whatever) rip off of hits... not the real artists - I'm ashamed to say :(

metin


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Posts: 1588

Message Posted:
11/10/2010 13:50

Sıngle was 'The Legend Of Xanadu ' by dave dee dozy mıck & tıch !!! lol



Fırst album, The Monkees.

MartinM


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Posts: 166

Message Posted:
11/10/2010 14:41

Metin What Happened to "Beaky"?



Thanks for that Groucho



Embassy



My mates and I used to club together to buy 10 Embassy and share them out!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

MartinM


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Message Posted:
11/10/2010 14:43

Sorry!!!! thanks Dusterbruce

ang1706


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Message Posted:
11/10/2010 15:13

First LP I bought was Sensational Alex Harvey Band- Tomorrow Belongs to Me



First single-The Rubettes, Sugar Baby Love !!

mamachina


Joined: 22/11/2008
Posts: 730

Message Posted:
11/10/2010 15:21

First single a Denis Lotis, cant remember which one closely followed by Green Door!! Cant remember an album, tho I think an Eartha Kitt as a present for someone!!

branwell



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Posts: 141

Message Posted:
11/10/2010 17:23

re. Msg 70 ....did you know that Dave Dee was first policeman 'on scene' at Eddie Cochran's fatal car crash?

magalan


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Message Posted:
11/10/2010 17:28

Msg 75: And rumour has it that he stole Cochran's guitar.........................

Dusterbruce


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Posts: 1125

Message Posted:
11/10/2010 17:29

Msg 71



I started on Embassy, used to buy 20 on Fridays on the way to the pictures, lasted me all weekend, 3/8d for 20! You collected the vouchers for gifts.

Mondays it was 10 No6, 1/8d for 10 packet, lasted until Friday.

No wonder I have emphysema!

No1Doyen


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Message Posted:
11/10/2010 23:01

I'm really pleased for Paul (Newlad) because he's found another Leonard Cohen fan. ) )

Blackbird



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Message Posted:
11/10/2010 23:20

My Olds Mans a Dustman....Lonnie Donegan, can't remember the first album...probably an early Elvis

greylag


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Posts: 1110

Message Posted:
18/10/2010 21:03

Just bought an album by Richard Thompson called dream attic.Anyone heard of him,

Grey.

simbas



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Posts: 5943

Message Posted:
18/10/2010 21:08

Single --- House of the rising sun ---- Animals

Album ------ Green Onions ----- Booker T and the MG's

vonny


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Posts: 476

Message Posted:
18/10/2010 21:27

My First album was The Bay City Rollers. We even dressed to look like them in our half=mast tartan edge trousers,striped socks,baseball boots and tartan scarve. I remember turning up for school one day feeling very proud of my outfit, soon got sent home though :(

Yinglis


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Posts: 290

Message Posted:
18/10/2010 22:19

Loved the Bay City Rollers & had the high waisted trousers trimmed with tartan ha ha but 1st single was Donny Osmond " Puppy Love" and 1st album was most probably a Top Of The Pops with singers covering the real deal .... Y x

breezyboy


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Posts: 1179

Message Posted:
19/10/2010 11:52

Apache - The Shadows 1960

LP The Paul Simon Songbook

rocking


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Message Posted:
19/10/2010 18:44

1956 Elvis Presley Heartbreak Hotel and my mum asked me to get Slim Whitman singing Rose Marie. Both 78s, and was 4 weeks before I saved up enough to buy another record.

come_on_aylin


Joined: 14/06/2008
Posts: 908

Message Posted:
19/10/2010 19:01

1st single was Gypsys, Tramps and Thieves by Cher, cost 50p if I recall correctly. A few years later I bought A Day at the Races by Queen.

girne 29


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Posts: 1488

Message Posted:
19/10/2010 19:23

Meat Loaf--- Bat out of Hell

mikelapta



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Message Posted:
19/10/2010 19:34

"My Boy Lollipop"by Millie,think it was a 78.

Bought my Dad "Living Doll"by Cliff.Mmmm,my Dad said he will never be any good.

Then when I got my Saturday morning job,wages 7shillings,tried to buy a Buddy Holly every other week.

jimchris09


Joined: 13/02/2009
Posts: 547

Message Posted:
19/10/2010 22:30

Greylag...Richard Thompson is one of the greats...said to be what all rock gutarists dread - a good folk guitarist who can play electric (For more proof of this listen to THE great -but sadly late-John Martyn). I cherish the album he did with his wife Linda "I Wanna See The Bright Lights Tonight". He was a member of Fairport Convention in the late 60's and early 70's when Sandy Denny was the vocalist. Check out "Liege and Lief" by them

jakki



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Posts: 865

Message Posted:
20/10/2010 12:09

Roxy Music - 'For Your Pleasure'

jimchris09


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Posts: 547

Message Posted:
20/10/2010 12:16

Roxy were/are one of the very best. Excellent live. Saw the original band way back in 72 at a place called the Hardrock near Old Trafford cricket ground....think it's a supermarket now! Enjoyed a concert by them at The Arena in Manchester about 7 years ago. Brian is always a guest on Jools Holland's shows so he must be good!