Seminal Record In Year You Were Born?

1961 for me. The era of Orbison and Elvis, I guess. Likely some great music if you know where to look, but nothing stands out for me at all. I'm few years early for the Beatles and Stones which is when music really started for me.

I can't recall what was on those new-fangled 78rpm "records"................

I'll have a "google"

Oh dear!

When I typed in "YEAR" Records, I got

• Adoption Records
• Army Records
• Census Records
• Immigration Records
• RAF Records

Even when I scrolled down a bit, no sign of Music Records !!

Ok found a list, but these are the only ones I can recognise

• Annie Get Your Gun
• Show Boat
• Let it Snow, Let it Snow, Let it Snow
• Winter Wonderland
• When Irish Eyes are smiling

It was probably the early 60's that I became aware of "Pop" music with the likes of Elvis, Buddy Holly and Pat Boone.

To be honest, I can't remember! It seems a bit pointless to Google it......but my earliest recollection of music was the Beatles 'She Loves You' on the radio. I was 3.

Quite a few in mine...

As the original question did not stipulate the diameter (this one is only 7" across):

Elvis - Heartbreak Hotel.

Deep Purple 'Machine Head' - something to do with some smoke on a lake or something...

1961 for me too. Remarkably Elvis Presley spent 18 weeks at the UK number one in the singles chart that year with four different singles. Less remarkably my first musical memories are The Beatles with I want to hold your hand being the first song I ever tried to sing along to. My mother reliably informs me she has been trying ever since to forget.

 Well, I had to do a search but came up with John Lee Hooker, Boogie Chillen, presumably on a 78.

I think I might have a listen to this and the first track.

Clive

Not sure if they had records when I was born!   Maybe Shellac ones.

Top record seems to be Francis Craig - Near You.  

Take your pick

Billie Holiday ( MG C-161) is the third 10 inch LP album of original material by jazz singer Billie Holiday, released on Clef Records in ? (her final album would also be given the same title, prior to being changed to Last Recording instead). The recordings took place in ? and ?. Holiday never entered the recording studio in ?.

1958 

I was really into the rattle.

No 1 when I was born was The Seekers 'The Carnival is Over'. No idea what that sounds like. The next few weeks was The Beatles 'Day Tripper'. It was probably them the week I was conceived too-'Ticket to Ride'!

Born Dec 1965

Bruce

The Number one single on the day I was born, "Johnny Remember Me" - John Leyton

Well, it appears that big hits when I was born were Dean Martin's That's amore and Frank Sinatra's I've got the world on a string.... Nothing that can be called seminal.

Kevin-W, Telstar was the first thing I heard when I left the boarding school where I had spent one year from 62 to 63. It probably accounts for my love for melodic electronic music: it was the sound of the world after my one year's sentence...

M

Gilly Gilly Ossenfeffer Katzenellen Bogen By The Sea

Pink Floyd - Animals (1977)

What a great year!