What was the first ever record you bought?

Alice Cooper - Billion Dollar Babies

Obviously too cool for school. My first LP was

This was the first record I bought using my own funds- well it was the first one I picked up and paid for as I also bought this at the same time. From that moment on I have consistently made my Bank Manager a very happy man.

hey Debs the first release was actually on Jam records - with a splodge of Jam on the label 

Andy, is this the one?

Debs

This one

yep that's it thanks Debs!  brings back a few memories - spent that week's 50p pocket money in Woolies while visiting my grandparents and played it first on their huge radiogram/recordplayer that looked like a wooden sideboard in the front room they only used for visitors - sounded awesome :-)

My first 45 was one of those three:

a song in 3/4 time by a popular Italian pop group;

the italian cover by the same group;

Later I swapped the Byrds' 45 at school with this:

but the first LP I owned was this:

given to me for Christmas by my 8 years old younger brother.

All this happened between 1965 and 1966 of course.

M

First single was 'Last Train To San Fernando' by Johnnie Duncan and the Blue Grass Boys - disapointed to find that the small and cooler 45 rpm version wouldn't play on my gramophone so had to settle for the 78'

Ommadawn - Mike Oldfield sometime in the 70s

My first buy was Deep Purple in Rock.

I never listen to that kind of music anymore, But yesterday my son was playing Metalica on my stereo and I went and dug up my old LP and said,'listen son,this is the real deal' not knowing if it would stand the test of time, but it did. My son was truly impressed that 'the old man' had this kind of music in his collection and asked if I would please play this instead of Carmen Gomes or Diana Krall .

First record: Into the Groove, Madonna, 7" (could have been worse)

First vinyl LP: Scoundrel Days, a-ha (not so sure about this one)

First cassette: not sure. Either Ghostbusters soundtrack or Songs from the Big Chair (Tears for Fears). Both since rebought on CD and still enjoyed

First CD: Waiting for Cousteau, Jean-Michel Jarre. Still in good condition, still played and enjoyed.

First download: Still not succumbed.

You can date me pretty accurately from the above information...

Mark

I'll go with 38? 

David McWilliams Singing Songs : LP 1967

Not bad... I'll be 40 in nine days' time.

My first 45 rpm was the infamous Robert John, The Lion Sleeps Tonight for the whooping cost of $0.99 (I still have the disk in my collection and more importantly, something that I can still play it on)

That was followed up with my first LP purchase, Pink Floyd Dark Side of the Moon, German pressing (still the best sounding of the many copies of Dark Side of the Moon that I have.  That cost me all of $3.99 at the time.

Anyone else have this gem?

Cover version of Wild Thing worked for me aged 10 or thereabouts.

"Wild Thing I need you to hold me tight...

Not quite that tight!"

Buddy Greco, Soft & Gentle. 

I was 12 when I bought The Byrds EP, Eight Miles High, which also had Mr Tambourineman, All I really want to do, and Turn! Turn! Turn!, which was the only song my parents said they liked after challenging me to show how I had wasted 10/6 from my meagre resources. What a time! 

It was either new seekers I like to teach the world to sing or middle of the road soley soley both of which I still have.

A 7" EP entitled 'Tweety's Good Deed'. 'Snowbound Tweety' was featured on the flip side.

Wish I still had it! 

I think mine was "How much is that doggie in the window?" by either Frank Ifield or Adam Faith. Then "Little white bull" which was definitely Adam Faith. I was about 4.

Holst - The Planets Suite, Sir Malcolm Sergeant and the LSO in 1971 and still got it! First 45 was Children of the revolution by T.Rex. Record player was a phonobook that my Mum got from somewhere.

Sorry - it was "Lonely pup in a Christmas Shop" by Adam Faith, and then "Little White Bull" by Tommy Steele. My memory must be going. It was 1960.