What is the first music record you bought?

[David1961]

Here's the first record I ever bought. Had absolutely no idea what the lyrics meant at the time!! Still love this song.

The Doors - Light My Fire - 45 RPM - ORIGINAL MONO MIX - First Pressing - YouTube

 

[bbbamI]

It's funny...I can't remember the first record I bought. However, I do remember the first record that was played on the first record player that came into our house. It was the 60's...I was a kid...I wore this record out!

The Contours - Do You Love Me ( Now That I Can Dance ) - YouTube

 

[Nodak]

The first music I bought was 2 albums; "Meet the Beatles" and The Yardbirds first album which, I think, was "Having a Raveup" but I'm not positive of that.

 

[W2R]

The Kingston Trio's first album, The Kingston Trio.

Side one
"Three Jolly Coachmen" (Traditional)
"Bay of Mexico" (Traditional)
"Banua" (Traditional)
"Tom Dooley" (Alan Lomax, Frank Warner)
"Fast Freight" (Terry Gilkyson)
"Hard, Ain't It Hard" (Woody Guthrie)

Side two
"Saro Jane" (Traditional)
"(The Wreck of The) 'John B' " (Traditional)
"Santy Anno" (Traditional)
"Scotch and Soda" (Dave Guard)
"Coplas" (Guard, Traditional)
"Little Maggie" (Guard)

 

[audreyh1]

Deep Purple in Rock

 

[JDARNELL]

AC/DC Back in Black

 

[Birdie Num Nums]

1st single: Penny Lane/Strawberry Fields Forever
1st album: Mason Williams's Music

Note: There were many great records in our household, that I did not myself buy, but played and enjoyed immensely, before I ever went out to buy my own. I started a collection then that is now huge (vinyl, cassette tape, & digital).

 

[marko]

"For What Its Worth" Buffalo Springfield. (CSN)

Walked into the record store with my striped, button fly, hip hugger bell bottoms and see-through puffy sleeved flowered shirt, soft soled, fringed moccasins.

Man I was cool!

 

[marko]

1st single: Penny Lane/Strawberry Fields Forever
1st album: Mason Williams's Music

Mason William's "Classical Gas" changed my life! (the first music video BTW)

 

[73ss454]

Not the jingle but the song. (heh)

"Palisades Park", Freddie "Boom Boom" Cannon (1962) - YouTube

 

[imoldernu]

Probably around 1942 or 1943... When the only records were "seventy eights".

"In Der Feuhrer's Face"... by Spike Jones... My Christmas Stocking money, and bought at W.T Grant...
Played it over and over and over and over.....

Spike Jones Der Fuehrer's Face - YouTube

 

[Keim]

I must be young for this crowd: The Cars-Heartbeat City.

 

[Tyro]

Being the youngest sibling by 6 years, I grew up listening to the tastes (and records) of my elder siblings, which was fine with me (At that age, what the heck did I know about music anyway?)

First album I recall buying on my own was Bridge Over Troubled Waters. Still have it.... someplace.

 

[Bestwifeever]

I know the Beatles' Yesterday was my first single. I think my first album was Cheap Thrills.

 

[Throwdownmyaceinthehole]

Rubber Soul! Just was talking about that the other day - I think I was in 7th grade.

 

[MichaelB]

My first record came as a gift: Buffalo Springfield
The first record I bought with my own $$ was Steppenwolf, followed soon by Cream Disraeli Gears.

edit to add the images

 

[Rambler]

Styx - Grand Illusion, 7/7/77

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[Ronstar]

I had a few 45's in the mid 60's but I don't remember what they were, and the Beatles white album

 

[grasshopper]

First 45, 442 Glenwood Ave The Three Pixies 1963
First LP, Jan and Dean take Linda surfin. also 1963

What I did yesterday, who knows.

 

[T-bird]

OK, 1st album was:



First 45 was Donovan's Mellow Yellow.

Man that was a long time ago.

T-bird (Class of 2013)
DW (Class of 2012, May a done deal)

 

[HFWR]

My first record came as a gift: Buffalo Springfield
The first record I bought with my own $$ was Steppenwolf, followed soon by Cream Disraeli Gears.

Impressive to an old hippie like myself.

I bought some 45s early on, but couldn't tell you which ones. I believe the first album I bought was Early Steppenwolf, or might have been The Beatles Yesterday and Today, but not the one with the banned cover photo...

Also won a copy of Magical Mystery Tour from a radio station giveaway.

 

[xyz]

Paint it Black - The Rolling Stones

 

[panacea]

AC/DC Back in Black

Ditto!

 

[Midpack]

IIRC this was the first album I ever bought, then age 15. I lived in Germany at the time, so it may not have been as popular in the USA. Not that they were my favorite band, that was and will probably always be The Beatles...#1 on my iPod/iTunes.

 

[MichaelB]

OK, 1st album was:



First 45 was Donovan's Mellow Yellow.

Man that was a long time ago.

T-bird (Class of 2013)
DW (Class of 2012, May a done deal)

In-a-gadda-da-vida - what a great song.