The very first vinyl record you bought.....

[PeteUSA]

Regretfully, I dont think this thread will appeal to the exeweb youngsters like Lez and Max, since I doubt if they can barely recall cassettes, let alone the dear old vinyl us mature types grew up with.

I think my 'Avatar' thread has run its course after seven years, so we need a different slant. It could be that the younger element might contain some avid vinyl collectors who keep searching for 'Smile' by Queen, or Freddie Mercury AKA Larry Lurex with 'I can hear music', which is extremely collectable. I'm pretty sure that there must be a fair faction of younger exewebbers who for some reason have an affinity for a record that even if if they were to young to buy it themselves, they remember it with fondness because it was a favorite of their mum or dad.

I'll go first, since I'd better get the **** taking over and done with!

The first record I bought was in 1954, and it was 'Dont Laugh at me cos' I'm a fool' by Norman Wisdom. This was a 12" disc which played at 78 RPM and was the type that if you sat on it, or dropped it, it broke into a 1,000 pieces!

Anybody else got fond memories of those dear old vinyl (acylic) days?

 

[urinal]

I once had quite a big collection of singles the first being Crocodile Rock by Elton John, who wasn't considered so naff in those days. My first album was Pinups by David Bowie. Otherwise, I remember my Mum playing Help by The Beatles, Downtown by Petula Clark and Spanish Flea by Herb Alpert.

 

[Swanaldo]

Vinyl collectors who keep searching for 'Smile' by Queen.

'Smile' was Roger Taylor and Brian May's band before recruiting Freddie Mercury and thus becoming Queen, rather than the name of a song.

Here to know too much about Queen.

First single I can remember owning was Merry Christmas Everyone by Shakin' Stevens.

 

[Mike Blackstone]

'Here Cones The Night' by Them. Must have been around 1963-64? I've still got it! Goodness knows when it was last played though, along with lots of other 45's from the 1960s, all stored in boxes in their original 'wrappers.'

 

[StroudGrecian]

Chicory Tip - Son of my Father - 1972

 

[memoman]

The Beatles - Sgt Pepper's

It's in mint condition. I got it last year for £4 at a boot sale. Though only as an investment.

 

[Swanaldo]

Make sure you also pay into a pension to supplement your astute investment, memo.

 

[Red the Paper]

Money by Flying Lizards and London Boys by David Bowie

 

[GJW]

First mainstream single was Father Abraham and the Smurfs with the Smurf Song, in 1978. I was bought a single from Woolworths when I was about 7 that was songs from the Wizard of Oz.

I really miss those days.

 

[cityregular]

Regretfully, I dont think this thread will appeal to the exeweb youngsters like Lez and Max, since I doubt if they can barely recall cassettes, let alone the dear old vinyl us mature types grew up with.

I think my 'Avatar' thread has run its course after seven years, so we need a different slant. It could be that the younger element might contain some avid vinyl collectors who keep searching for 'Smile' by Queen, or Freddie Mercury AKA Larry Lurex with 'I can hear music', which is extremely collectable. I'm pretty sure that there must be a fair faction of younger exewebbers who for some reason have an affinity for a record that even if if they were to young to buy it themselves, they remember it with fondness because it was a favorite of their mum or dad.

I'll go first, since I'd better get the **** taking over and done with!

The first record I bought was in 1954, and it was 'Dont Laugh at me cos' I'm a fool' by Norman Wisdom. This was a 12" disc which played at 78 RPM and was the type that if you sat on it, or dropped it, it broke into a 1,000 pieces!

Anybody else got fond memories of those dear old vinyl (acylic) days?

Lonnie Donegan----Cumberland Gap