What's the FIRST vinyl you ever bought?

The soundtrack to Goldfinger. I played it over and over on our old Webcor console. When I was time to turn it down, I would end up listening to the ceramic cartridge needle talk so as not to wake up the household. I still have that LP. It is the worse for wear, but I purchased a couple of better copies of it when I got my first Sondek. I loved the John Barry Bond soundtracks. They still sound pretty good today.

[QUOTE]Originally posted by Rich Cundill:
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Same here, bought for me by my brother, Xmas 72, 73? First single, Blockbuster-Sweet, from Woolworths, 45p

I Wish I Was A Spaceman. Theme tune to FireBall XL5. & Yes.. I do have grey hair..
Followed by Stingray! c/w 'Aqua Marina.. & thunderbirds. Still have them to. First lp was an Elton John (only one I ever did get by him).

First LP,

Led Zeppelin 2

Still gets a regular airing.

7" single - something or other by Abba!
12" single - Only You - Yazoo (with the brilliant situation on the B side)
LP - Regatta De Blanc - The Police.

andy c!

"I get Around" c/w "Don't Worry baby" on a Capitol 45. Not counting the Roy Orbison-alike version of "Pretty Woman" on the Embassy label that my mother bought me at Woolies, in the belief that I wouldn't know the difference!

Two of my first abum were bought at the American PX in West berlin in 1965, "The Rolling Stones Now" and a Beatles album containing things like "Matchbox" issued by Capitol.

If memory serves the Beatles album was called "Something New by the Beatles".

Hawkwind... Hawkwind... Hmmmmmmm wonder if id bought a Zepplin album first, i'd have ended up *guesting for them *?

1st single: Fox on The Run - Manfred Mann
1st LP: Relics - Pink Floyd

God this is a hard one to remember

7" Jam - Town called Malice
12" Cameo - Word Up
LP NOW 1 Chrissy present
Cassette Adam and the Ants - Kings of the wild frontier.

"Meet the Beatles" February 1964

The first vinyls I, age 9, in 1962, ever bought were 78's(!!!) of "Tequila Rock" by the Champs(?) and "Peppermint Twist (Parts I & II)" by Joey Dee & the Starlighters (also ?...memory is fading)...these improbable lacquers were obtained at a shop in Lahore, W. Pakistan (in Gulberg Circle) that also sold cabinet record-player/radios and sewing machines. Although not that long ago, the memory seems positively Kiplingesque now. Later family hols in New Delhi garnered EMI India pressings of With The Beatles and A Hard Day's Night, which began my slow descent into rock'n'roll bohemia.

First vinyl (given): "Muppet show volume 1" (which I still have.

Realistically, this (for me) should be "first tape" though, as my parents' TT was awful, and I was actually "scared" of using vinyl (due to damaging it, breaking the needle, it getting stuck) for years! So:
First tape album: "NOW 10" (got given "NOW 5", 2 years previously)
First cassingle: "Sacrifice/Healing hands" by Elton John.

My taste then went rapidly downhill when I followed up the Elton John cassingle with, ahem, Craig McLachlan and Check 1:2's "Mona" - d'oh! (of which, I also have "Do the Bartman" - will it never end!?)

First vinyl was either "The Best of The Guess Who" (by The Guess Who of course!) or "Get Ready" by Rare Earth.
First 8-track (!) was "Innagoddadavida" (sp?) by Iron Butterfly. Funny how that self-indulgent drum solo crossed tracks and the player would "cerchunk" in the middle of one phrase...
David

Pink Floyd's Animals bought on Cup Final Day 1978, think it was Ipswich v Arsenal?

Stevedog, you mean that you played with Hawkwind?

I have just bought their album In Search of Space pressed in lovely 180g vinyl.

Nick

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Originally posted by Roger the Shrubber:
Pink Floyd's Animals bought on Cup Final Day 1978, think it was Ipswich v Arsenal?

It certainly was - Ipswich 1 Arsenal 0 - with a 72nd minute goal by Roger Osborne. What wonderful memories. Now we lose 4-0 at home to Preston and were lucky to get 0.

Rotf

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Stevedog, you mean that you played with Hawkwind?

Yup guilty as charged. As Tubilah Dog we toured with the Hawks for quite a while as guests. Dave asked me to sing on a coupe of tracks with them live. We also played with Hawkwind as Hawkdog or The Agents of Chaos which was usually the Dogs plus Dave and Harvey Bainbridge.

Stevedog, great... I saw them live a couple of times in Leeds in the late 80s and in Glasgow in the early 90s.

I've just noticed the dog connection in your various band names, forum name etc.

Nick

Rachmaninov Piano Concerto No 2, Julius Katchen, mono version conducted by Fistoulari. Still got it, and I don't think it has ever been bettered.

Before that, I bought shellac 78's - Now that makes me really old!