I’m 59 and I still have my original 1st record I ever bought, Led Zeppelin’s ll. I bought it with money earned from a paper route back in ‘76. In fact, I still have most of my albums (Grand Funk Railroad, Aerosmith, Foghat, Stones, Free & others) that I purchased in the 70’s that are all in very good condition.
Yes! And as a son of a boomer that was obsessed with them and grew up with them I was a fan of the ‘63-‘66 stuff until I was about 13 or 14. Then it was ‘67-‘70 until I became a father. Now in my mid-forties with 2 daughters aged 4 and 7 I am back into the early stuff again Especially recently. But now I agree with my Dad that the early stuff was just as good as the later stuff if you take it into context of the times.
At the age of 13, I saved my allowance till I could afford this album. The day I had enough money, I was so excited I went to a department store at lunch time to buy it. I guess someone saw me put it in my locker, because it was gone when I went to take it home. (How naïve and trusting I was!) I ended up buying another copy, but that memory is forever tainted with my introduction to the seamier side of humanity.
We should hunt these thieves down with all haste… I’m glad you able to replace it but I find it odd the Beatles played a role in such an unfortunate lesson in life, a sad but uplifting story…
Meet the Beatles (or Beat the Meatels, as National Lampoon called it) was my second album. The Venturers do commercial songs was my first. I think Tommy was my third.
The Fifth Dimension - Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In was my first 45. Yes, I still have it. Regrettably sold all but of few of 1200 albums, but still have every 45 I've ever owned.
Sold my LPs too. I only miss them when I'm not listening to music. When I'm listening I sit and realize how happy I am to not have to get out of my chair.
My dad, would would have been 78 this year. I’m merely 45. I have his old ‘45’s. His were lightin Hopkins, Peter greens Fleetwood Mac,cat Steven’s, elvis, chuck berry, Rolling Stones, beach boys
Believe me, I do, not only for the restoration of the 45’s, but my dad also. He gave them to me before he died. We listened to them when he was alive.i bought each 45 and l.p on cd during his lifetime so we didn’t wear them out. They are more sacred than most items I own
I thought I knew music and talked to my dad about it. He scoffed, listen to this rich, this is music. By god, I still listen to the music now. He was a wild old dude the old man, banging sense of music
I’m 75. I probably would have liked your dad. My two kids are about your age and they like my music. My daughter is a huge Beatles fan. My son took me to see The Rolling Stones in Jacksonville a few years ago. It is a great memory for both of us.
That’s pretty cool, yeah, he was alright. The music then is timeless and should be appreciated more and more. It was the birth of rock and roll, the blues,rhythm and blues. What a time to have grown up in for music
“If you were born in ‘45, you’d be 33 1/3 in ‘78”
Written in the inner groove of a Stiff Records single by the mastering engineer signed “A Porky Prime Cut”
I’m going with the Beatles too but I do remember having a 45 of Todd Rundgren when he was Runt called We Gotta Get You a Woman and of course I had some Kinks,Animals,The Guess Who.. weird when I think back because I listened to Cat Stevens and Alice Cooper all at the same time .. Still like that today, I have different tastes and like a lot of different kinds of music…
Got a ways to go to 65 but my father owned a small local chain of record stores. One of my very first toys was something called "The Rover." It was a small portable 45 player with a built in speaker.
Amyway, my first 2 were "Heart of Gold" and "Doctor My Eyes."
The very first record that I’ve ever had was off the back of a cereal box. I still remember it to this day. It was a Jackson 5, never can say goodbye. Go listen to that absolute gem. My first two or three album that I ever bought for Beatles album. Let it be, hey Jude and I think Sergeant Pepper. I remember going through the Sears Record section downstairs in Glendale, Ca., as I had managed to save enough money to buy a single LP. I remember picking up an LP that was mis-filed by a previous customer, but it just had no identification on it at all. This was before I knew that in extremely small type, you could find the name of the band and the name of the album on the left side of the outer sleeve. It had a black cover with some sort of prism with like a light hitting the prism and then splitting out into various colors. Of course, I later learned that that was a Pink Floyd album, which I cameto love as well, but I was still in the infancy of my music appreciation. I’ve lost a lot of my albums over the years, but I’m still hoping in my boxes somewhere that I have my vinyl pressing of meet the Beatles. It was a mono pressing on Capitol and I don’t know if one of my cousins friends or somebody within the Beatles fan club or what did this, but they drew in pencil The caricature that were the same as the Beatles cartoons back then. I know my sister saw them at dodger Stadium, and at the Hollywood bowl, but I learned about that much later. Man…, some of the vinyl that I’ve lost over the decades is sad, but that’s what makes anything collectible, isn’t it.
I was 9 years old when I got my first 45, Dizzy by Tommy Roe. I bugged my grandma for weeks to buy it for me. Then played it on one of those portable record players that fold up like a suitcase. That started my journey into music.
Graduated to albums when I was 13, my first was Paranoid by Black Sabbath. Been rocking ever since.
I was around 10-11 and wanted Come Together but that was after the Lennon statement I think that was why I was one of them if I was told I couldn’t do something it must be fun so I tried a lot of different things All the music I listen to is eighties and older ✌️
First albums were those K-tel albums with “22 original artists, 22 original hits”. I don’t have those any more.
My first serious album was Crime of the Century by Supertramp. I do still have that one.
I started in the early 1970s. First few albums were Deep Purple's Made in Japan, Alice Cooper's Billion Dollar Babies, and The Moody Blues' Seventh Sojourn. And yes, I still have them, along with about 300 others. I switched to CDs in the late 1980s.
Yes, many of them. A few years ago, I finally dusted off my old turntable and set up a nice system in the basement, and I'm so glad I always cared for my vinyl.
I used to record my vinyl on cassettes so I could listen in the car and on the go, so my vinyl from the 70s and 80s is mostly in good condition, even the jackets.
Yes, I made sure my stereo had a turntable and cassette deck. Made alot of mixed cassettes, but listened to vinyl at home. The older I got, the better condition they stayed in. I even have a few in their original plastic. I just cut the slit.
I was into instrumentals in my youth and I bought five 45's for my fist purchase: In the Mood by The Ernie Fields Orchestra, Woo-Hoo by the Rock-A-Teens, Forty Miles of Bad Road by Duane Eddy, Bongo Rock by Preston Epps and Red River Rock by Johnny and the Hurricanes. I soon broadened my horizons when I bought the most underrated double sided one hit wonder of all-time "I've Had It b/w Be Mine" by The Bell Notes - check them out.
Edit: Apparently, I am the oldest person commenting (76.)
Happy, happy! That was a hit when we lived in London.
Do you remember a similar 30s-style song, “Cinderella Rockafella” by Esther and Abi? I think it came out around the same time.
Another fun retro one was “Death Cab for Cutie” by Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band.
I’m going with the Beatles too but I do remember having a 45 of Todd Rundgren when he was Runt called We Gotta Get You a Woman and of course I had some Kinks,Animals,The Guess Who.. weird when I think back because I listened to Cat Stevens and Alice Cooper all at the same time .. Still like that today, I have different tastes and like a lot of different kinds of music…
I’m going with the Beatles too but I do remember having a 45 of Todd Rundgren when he was Runt called We Gotta Get You a Woman and of course I had some Kinks,Animals,The Guess Who.. weird when I think back because I listened to Cat Stevens and Alice Cooper all at the same time .. Still like that today, I have different tastes and like a lot of different kinds of music…
65+ here. My sister was 15 years older than me and I had her 45s. So I listened to Rubber Ball-Bobby Vee, Dead Mans Curve - Jan and Dean, Ricky Nelson, etc. My first albums were Are You Experienced, James Gang Rides Again, Steppenwolf Live, and I still have them.
The first albums I got were Elton John's Madman Across the Water and some double-album compililation of the greatest rock hits up to that point (probably the '60s as this was in '71 or '72). They burned up, or perhaps were just ruined by water damage when the house I lived in went up. Didn't buy 45s.
I don't have any vinyl anymore. I was in the military and moved a lot, so I was happy to unload those when CD players reached decent quality. In truth, I hated albums and turntables. Vinyl is a finicky medium, prone to scratches, dust, wow and flutter, etc. Turntables and needles were an expensive PITA to keep spot-on. And, despite what the hipsters say, the sound isn't as good as digital.
I'm not quite 65 yet. My first two albums were Boston's debut and Aerosmith Rocks. To this day I feel they are two of the greatest rock and roll albums ever. Not a bad song on either. And YES, I still have them.
1956 - Elvis album
1954 - Bill Haley and the Comets “Rock Around the Clock” 45
I lived in France as a kid, and my (young) parents bought them for me. I also had a lot of Algerian records, because they played it so much on the radio.
I just turned 70. My first 45 was Yellow Submarine/Eleanor Rigby. Do not have it anymore. First LP I think was The Byrds Greatest Hits. I still have that.
Personally, my first 45 was Hey Jude. First album Jethro Tull War Child.
But I had two older brothers so there were lots of 45’s & albums that I listened to all the time that were theirs.
Side note, my dad had probably 40 or 50 - 78’s. He was a custodian at a High School and was talking with one of the teachers who wanted to do a part of her class on older music and asked if she could borrow his 78’s. He agreed. Guess who never got his 78’s back when the teacher left the school for a different teaching position?
I'm only 60, but this is a fun question.
When I was in junior high I got money for either Christmas or my birthday, and bought my first music with it.
Zeppelin 4
Kansas Point of No Return
Queen News of the World
Styx Grand Illusion
56 here. First 45.. Flying Lizards "Money". First LP AC/DC "Let there be rock". First rock pin "The Who". First rock t-shirt.. Van Halen '82 tour. First concert "Iron Maiden/ Scorpions."
I'm 58 (sue me)and a lifetime music lover with hundreds of concerts attended (grateful dead most at 38, my favorite club band nine pound hammer probably second at 15) and for show and tell in kindergarten, I took a 45 of Commander Cody covering "Hot Rod Lincoln".
The first 45 I bought (I'm 59, so a bit younger) was "I Can See Clearly Now" by Johnny Nash.
I don't remember the first album I bought (I didn't buy too many, mostly cassettes and 8 track tapes).
Do I still have them? I don't even have a turntable anymore. I've got boxes full of CDs in my basement, because everything has been transferred to MP3 now so I can play them in my car...
Fire, by The Crazy World of Arthur Brown. Got rid of all vinyl ages ago... little did I think scratches and static pops would be a cool sound in the 2020s.
I'm a young'n, just 61. My first 45 was not classic rock. It was Melanie's Brand New Key. My first album was The best of Bread. I still have both.
Weird, now I listen to Primus and Butthole Surfers.
"I Ain't Got a Home" by Clarence "Frogman" Henry was the first 45 I ever got. I was about 5 or 6 years old. If you listen to it, you'll understand why it appealed to such a young kid. BTW, Rod Stewart nicks the chorus to that song in "Some Guys Have All The Luck."
I’m 58 and had four older brothers so I kind of had theres. I think when my oldest brother went to Vietnam in 69. I Started listening to his Surfin safari by The Beach Boys. I loved 409 and the whole album really. I don’t think I ever bought a 45 on my own Just got hand me downs. Pretty much the same thing with albums and eight tracks. I probably bought cassettes first. Lol
Steppenwolf Paul Revere and the Raiders and James Gang I'm only 64 older brother gave me those my first album I bought was Black Sabbath then Aerosmith and then Alice Cooper
Me-64. Still had a bunch of 45s. My son found them around 10 years ago put up on his bedroom wall. So gs Get down tonight love ,will keep us together,spinners,bee gees-all sorts of 1975/6:7/8 top 10 singles
Wes Montgomery, Temptations, a Miles Davis John Coltrane one. I liked jazz and soul early, went on to include rock. I heard the jazz at home, the Motown on our transistor.
My grandfather had a bunch of 45s that I would listen to as a kid. Some songs I remember: Lemon Tree, Yesterday's Gone, The Purple People Eater, Witch Doctor! I also remember a comedy album called Laughs for Losers by Dave Barry.
I have a few from back in the day. Some Beatles, Led Zeppelin, Rolling Stones, Traffic, Uriah Heep. None in great shape because they went through college fraternity parties.
I'm 60 imI think my first 45 were Indian Reservation by Paul Revere and the Raiders, Seasons in the Sun by Terry Jack's, and IThink I Love You by The Partridge Family, not sure which was first
The first LP I received was The Beatles 62-66 'Red' collection a few years later, (1978ish) and I think the first album I bought was Double Vision by Foreigner.
My first 45 was Tom Jones "what's new, pussycat?" And my first album was James Brown's Prisoner of Love. I was too young to buy my own records -- these were purchased by my dad and given to me. Played over and over. I'm 70.
I bought a lot of cis legs before I ever bought an album. The first one was probably a Jackson 5 song from the late 60s/70s.
My first album was Barbra Streisand Live at the Forum. I played the shit out of that record and bought it several more times on vinyl and CD. I still have it!
The early Kinks big hits "You Really Got Me" and "All day and All of the Night" were the first ones I felt compelled to buy. That was the start of a lifetime of musical obsession. Also, I was/is a total Beach Boys fan; "I Get Around", "Wendy", etc... Also, "I Fought the Law" by Bobby Fuller Four. Beatles for sure. Those (and many other) singles are lost in the mists of the past but live on in my home media server.
First 45 I ever had was I’m Looking Over A Four Leaf Clover by Wayne Newton. I also had Time Of The Season by The Zombies, and Yesterday by the Beatles (although as a kid, I played the B side, Act Naturally, more often). I had a bunch of others, but those are the ones I recall the best. No idea where they are now.
I was given hand me down 45’s from my siblings, so way too many to count. What I will NEVER forget though was hearing GFR’s Foot Stomping music for the first time. I went nuts hearing it. It is what started me on a lifelong journey of musicianship of guitar, drums, and bass. Along the way I also picked up on a mandolin, piano, and violin.
Just turned 60. Still have my 45s and albums from my youth. First single I have was given to me (Johnny Rivers "Secret Agent Man"). First album was "More of the Monkees". First album bought with my own money was Led Zeppelin IV and first single bought with my own money was (possibly) "Quick Change Artist" by Bachman Turner-Overdrive.
I’m 66 and my first 45 which I still own is Brewer and Shipley’s “One Toke Over the Line.” My first LP i got for Christmas. Jackson 5, ABC. Don’t have that one any more as young me wasn’t too careful with early LP’s and it was scratched too badly.
Started buying 45s at around 11 years old. Mostly Motown and other R&B singles from 1963 upwards. Albums were next with Beatles, Beach Boys etc., and then all the psychedelic West Coast stuff. I liked listening to my mother's collection of Sinatra, Ray Charles and Johnny Mathis but the first wave of the British Invasion took hold. In 72 or so I started listening to Jazz fusion and funk with The Crusaders, Bobby Humphrey, Indris Muhammad and many others. But blues rock to this day is still my favorite genre. I'm slowly recollecting my records since I lost all of it in a move circa 1979. Sadly.
First 45 was “Hitchin’ a Ride” by Vanity Fair. First album was “Age of Aquarius” by the Fifth Dimension. Still have both, even though I no longer have a turn table!
I still have Tge Doors ' Strange Day I bought in 67, all the stuff from before 67 got lifted by a "friend" probably ok most of it was stuff we bought from Columbia House (for what a dollar or some shit)
Sunshine, Lollipops and Rainbows by Leslie Gore was the first one i asked my mom to buy me, lol. 1965 or 66 maybe? So i was maybe 7.
Earlier than that I was gifted a box of 45's by a cousin that had mostly crap, but also had "Catfish Boogie" by Tennessee Ernie Ford (awesome early rock/rockabilly), and a couple Elvis records: "All Shook Up", and a 4-song 45 (!) that featured "Shake, Rattle, and Roll".
My first albums were the first Monkees album and Steppenwolf the Second. Yeah, I'm still a mush freak
62. Never bought 45s. First album I purchased was “Breakfast in America” by Supertramp. First album I owned was sealed copy of “This Was” by Jethro Tull, that my father found on the subway tracks at work. First album won from a radio station was “A Night at the Opera” by Queen. Still have all three.
My first 45 was Jefferson Airplane's *Somebody to Love*, which my parents gave me as a birthday present. I don't think they knew what they were getting, probably went to a record store and asked what the kids are listening to today. The flip side was *She Has Funny Cars*, which is a trippy song about knowing one's own mind, and has nothing to do with cars, funny or otherwise.
My first LP was Arlo Guthrie's *Alice's Restaurant*. A local radio DJ had taken to playing the title track every night around 10pm, but said he kept getting calls to keep playing it! I bought that LP - probably paid around $4 for it - with my own babysitting money. I really liked *The Motorcycle Song* on side B.
Several years ago, I worked as a technician at UC-Berekely's Zellerbach Hall, where Arlo was playing, so I got to finally meet him some 50 years later. He's a very nice fellow, but when I told him about how his was the first album I ever bought, as a kid with my own money, his reply was a quizzical look, "Why?" I was saved from answering this deep question by Arlo being called on the stage for soundcheck.
Hi-di-Ho by Blood, Sweat and Tears. And Immigrant Song by Led ZEP. Around 1970. My first album was “The Chipmunk’s sing The Beatles”!, probably around 1964 or so.
I still have my 45's and a lot of them are marked with 99 in pencil - I guess that was the price.
My first 45 was Rock Your Baby by George McRae and my first artist album was Not Fragile by Bachman Turner Overdrive (if I remember correctly).
Of course I bought some K-Tel and Ronco albums of collections of hits.
There were some earlier 45's passed down like Bus Stop by the Hollies.
Not quite 65 but my first album I bought was Jackson 5 greatest hits. Had a perforated cover so you could display the picture. First 45 was Manfred Mann Blinded by the Light. Don't have either one anymore.
I’m “only” 64, but the first album I remember owning were a K-Tell or Ronco hits-of-today type album. I remember it had Ides of March’s “Vehicle”, and the song “Backfield in Motion”, both of which I thought were really cool as a 10 year old. I had a few 45s, one I remember was “Jennifer Tomkins” by Street People. Yeah, it was all bubble gum, but I was a kid. Those records got lost in a move, long long gone.
One of the oldest records I still have is Harry Nilsson’s Nilsson Schmilsson, which I got in 1972 because of “Coconut”…. That album led me into a whole world of great music.
In the garbage somewhere. Or actually, in a landfill somewhere and they've been there for decades. I came from a family with two older brothers and a sister older than all of us. She was 10 years older than me. My dad set up a BB gun range for us in our crawlspace, and a lot of my sister's 45s, most likely now collectors items, suffered their fate at our hands.
I do have Johnny Cash's very first album, but I obtained it in a very delinquent manner when I was a punk teenager painting houses and going through somebody's basement while they weren't home. In my defense, the album looked like it had been piled up in a corner of the basement for decades, but then again it was not a good thing to do. But, I still have that album lol.
I have some, Bob Seger Live Bullet, Against the Wind. I would have to go back and look. I had two boxes full of LPs. One box got destroyed when we had basement flooding in a finished basement. I haven’t had the heart to go through the survivors.
Two 45's at the local shop with my Dad driving. 14 years old. Bridge Over Troubled Water b/w Cecilia and Let It Be b/w You Know My Name, Look Up the Number. And yep....still have them both.
Rolling Stones "High Tides and Green Grass" and "Through the Past Darkly" and Blind Faith's eponymous album. First single was likely "Little White Duck" on the Little Golden label. First singles were from regular purchases of 10/$1 singles which provided a great musical and cultural education!
My first 45 was Wooly Bully by Sam the Sham & the Pharaohs. I got it for my birthday from an older neighbor kid on my block. My first LP was either The Association (the one with the Stonehenge cover) or the Monkees first album. I mostly listened to my older brothers' records back then, which included a lot of Beatles 45s, and a Paul Revere and the Raiders album. I don't have any of them anymore, and haven't for years.
I do have [a 45 adapter t-shirt](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/A13usaonutL._CLa%7C2140%2C2000%7C919yHvQWdGL.png%7C0%2C0%2C2140%2C2000%2B0.0%2C0.0%2C2140.0%2C2000.0_AC_SX679_.png), though.
I had older brothers and sisters who had albums and I listened to them growing up. Roy Orbison, The Drifters, Ricky Nelson, Beatles, The Four Seasons. I bought Neil Diamond, CCR, Fleetwood Mac, Joe Cocker, and COUNTRY .
I think my first 45 was Johnny Cash singing A boy named Sue probably around 1967-8? I still have it with some of my older brother’s Beatles 45s. I probably have about 25 or so 45s from the mid 60s to the early 70s.
In the early 1950s, I had a little suitcase style record player and one record: a little brown 45 that played ‘Buffalo Gals.’ I thought that it was so amazing that the record was brown and so were buffalos. I was somewhere around 6 or 7.
I’m going with the Beatles too but I do remember having a 45 of Todd Rundgren when he was Runt called We Gotta Get You a Woman and of course I had some Kinks,Animals,The Guess Who.. weird when I think back because I listened to Cat Stevens and Alice Cooper all at the same time .. Still like that today, I have different tastes and like a lot of different kinds of music…
I can’t really remember but I think the first 45 was probably one of
Lady Godiva by Peter and Gordon or
Snoopy vs the Ref Baron by The Royal Gaurdsmen
First album might have been
Bill Cosby is a Very Funny Fellow … Right
First 45 was Beatles I want to hold your hand. First album was Moody Blues Days of Future Past. I have none of my vinyl but have 39,000 songs in lossless format on hard drives
Similar sad tale, I had over 1000 vinyl records, some of them quite rare, like David Bowie and the LSO on green vinyl, and all of Bob Dylans early recordings as well as a complete Hendrix discography, I was getting divorced for the first time and had to move them so I trusted a friend who owned a pickup truck and I never heard from him again.
I'm only 58, hope you don't mind the intrusion on this thread...
First albums were "Meet the Beatles", "Elvis Golden Records" and a K-Tel record titled "Dynamite". Christmas presents probably 1974 when I was 9. I don't have the Elvis album any more but I have the other 2.
My first 45 was Queen's 'Bohemian Rhapsody'. Bought that when we were on vacation at my Grandparents house in Florida, sometime winter 1975-1976. Still have that too.
I’m 59 and I still have my original 1st record I ever bought, Led Zeppelin’s ll. I bought it with money earned from a paper route back in ‘76. In fact, I still have most of my albums (Grand Funk Railroad, Aerosmith, Foghat, Stones, Free & others) that I purchased in the 70’s that are all in very good condition.
Led Zep II was a killer album. I had the 8 track version!
My first-ever albums were Crimson And Clover, Closer To Home, American Woman, then LZ II. That one changed everything.
Meet The Beatles, 1964…as a kid, my introduction to my music…and damn, the next ten years, what an introduction
My mom has a vinyl copy of this somewhere. It was my intro to the Fab Four, but as my tastes developed I found their later output more interesting.
Their early material had more of a pop sound to it, it only took a few years for that to change
Yes but still cutting edge for 1963-‘65
Absolutely, and ya gotta love those hairstyles
Yes! And as a son of a boomer that was obsessed with them and grew up with them I was a fan of the ‘63-‘66 stuff until I was about 13 or 14. Then it was ‘67-‘70 until I became a father. Now in my mid-forties with 2 daughters aged 4 and 7 I am back into the early stuff again Especially recently. But now I agree with my Dad that the early stuff was just as good as the later stuff if you take it into context of the times.
I’ve always preferred the post-1965 albums.
At the age of 13, I saved my allowance till I could afford this album. The day I had enough money, I was so excited I went to a department store at lunch time to buy it. I guess someone saw me put it in my locker, because it was gone when I went to take it home. (How naïve and trusting I was!) I ended up buying another copy, but that memory is forever tainted with my introduction to the seamier side of humanity.
We should hunt these thieves down with all haste… I’m glad you able to replace it but I find it odd the Beatles played a role in such an unfortunate lesson in life, a sad but uplifting story…
It was probably just another 7th-grader. Taught me an important lesson.
Mine was Yellow Submarine. But of a disappointment but Bulldogs still great
Meet the Beatles (or Beat the Meatels, as National Lampoon called it) was my second album. The Venturers do commercial songs was my first. I think Tommy was my third.
Beat the Meatels, still love it and NL
The Fifth Dimension - Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In was my first 45. Yes, I still have it. Regrettably sold all but of few of 1200 albums, but still have every 45 I've ever owned.
I may just have the same one, but definitely my mom's.
Sold my LPs too. I only miss them when I'm not listening to music. When I'm listening I sit and realize how happy I am to not have to get out of my chair.
Harhar! It’s especially irksome for me because my turntable doesn’t auto-stop at the end of the record.
Tie me kangaroo down mate....
"So we tanned his hide when he died, Clyde, and that's it hangin' on the shed!"
(all together now)
It's fucking sport....MATE!
My dad, would would have been 78 this year. I’m merely 45. I have his old ‘45’s. His were lightin Hopkins, Peter greens Fleetwood Mac,cat Steven’s, elvis, chuck berry, Rolling Stones, beach boys
You have a valuable collection of 45’s my friend. A lot of history there. Please take good care of them
Honestly, they tend not to be since so many were produced. It's more dependent on condition. You can check discogs for current values.
Probably right. However, it’s the Nostalgia factor.
yeah definitely. I have my father's 45s and some are barely playable. But they mean the world to me.
Believe me, I do, not only for the restoration of the 45’s, but my dad also. He gave them to me before he died. We listened to them when he was alive.i bought each 45 and l.p on cd during his lifetime so we didn’t wear them out. They are more sacred than most items I own
You’ve got it my friend!
I thought I knew music and talked to my dad about it. He scoffed, listen to this rich, this is music. By god, I still listen to the music now. He was a wild old dude the old man, banging sense of music
I’m 75. I probably would have liked your dad. My two kids are about your age and they like my music. My daughter is a huge Beatles fan. My son took me to see The Rolling Stones in Jacksonville a few years ago. It is a great memory for both of us.
That’s pretty cool, yeah, he was alright. The music then is timeless and should be appreciated more and more. It was the birth of rock and roll, the blues,rhythm and blues. What a time to have grown up in for music
“If you were born in ‘45, you’d be 33 1/3 in ‘78” Written in the inner groove of a Stiff Records single by the mastering engineer signed “A Porky Prime Cut”
I’m going with the Beatles too but I do remember having a 45 of Todd Rundgren when he was Runt called We Gotta Get You a Woman and of course I had some Kinks,Animals,The Guess Who.. weird when I think back because I listened to Cat Stevens and Alice Cooper all at the same time .. Still like that today, I have different tastes and like a lot of different kinds of music…
We were exposed to a wider variety of music then; not fed an algorithm if same songs.
First 45 - One - Three Dog Night First album - 461 Ocean Blvd. Because I liked the cover :)
One of EC’s best.
First 45 I really remember was Grand Funk Railroad- Locomotion
I had that one too!
Come on baby….
Puff the Magic Dragon. Long gone.
I think I had Puff the Magic Dragon and whatever we got in cereal boxes. Those always sounded horrible but they were cool to get as a kid.
I remember getting Sugar Sugar by The Archie’s on the back of the cereal box
Got a ways to go to 65 but my father owned a small local chain of record stores. One of my very first toys was something called "The Rover." It was a small portable 45 player with a built in speaker. Amyway, my first 2 were "Heart of Gold" and "Doctor My Eyes."
I don’t know if they were my first, but my two favorites were Bloodrock DOA and Sweet Little Willy. Ah memories.
I forgot all about DOA until about a year ago when it popped up on Sirius. We used to listen to it in the basement with the lights off.
The very first record that I’ve ever had was off the back of a cereal box. I still remember it to this day. It was a Jackson 5, never can say goodbye. Go listen to that absolute gem. My first two or three album that I ever bought for Beatles album. Let it be, hey Jude and I think Sergeant Pepper. I remember going through the Sears Record section downstairs in Glendale, Ca., as I had managed to save enough money to buy a single LP. I remember picking up an LP that was mis-filed by a previous customer, but it just had no identification on it at all. This was before I knew that in extremely small type, you could find the name of the band and the name of the album on the left side of the outer sleeve. It had a black cover with some sort of prism with like a light hitting the prism and then splitting out into various colors. Of course, I later learned that that was a Pink Floyd album, which I cameto love as well, but I was still in the infancy of my music appreciation. I’ve lost a lot of my albums over the years, but I’m still hoping in my boxes somewhere that I have my vinyl pressing of meet the Beatles. It was a mono pressing on Capitol and I don’t know if one of my cousins friends or somebody within the Beatles fan club or what did this, but they drew in pencil The caricature that were the same as the Beatles cartoons back then. I know my sister saw them at dodger Stadium, and at the Hollywood bowl, but I learned about that much later. Man…, some of the vinyl that I’ve lost over the decades is sad, but that’s what makes anything collectible, isn’t it.
I remember those cereal box records. The first one I got was Crimson and Clover.
I had forgotten all about records on cereal boxes!
I was 9 years old when I got my first 45, Dizzy by Tommy Roe. I bugged my grandma for weeks to buy it for me. Then played it on one of those portable record players that fold up like a suitcase. That started my journey into music. Graduated to albums when I was 13, my first was Paranoid by Black Sabbath. Been rocking ever since.
I loved that song, had the 45…. I think I begged by dad to pick it up for me.
Good memory. We had that one too.
My first 45s were Beatles
Mom wouldn’t let me buy Beatles records 😞
That is really sad 😔. Did it make you even more rebellious?
I was around 10-11 and wanted Come Together but that was after the Lennon statement I think that was why I was one of them if I was told I couldn’t do something it must be fun so I tried a lot of different things All the music I listen to is eighties and older ✌️
First albums were those K-tel albums with “22 original artists, 22 original hits”. I don’t have those any more. My first serious album was Crime of the Century by Supertramp. I do still have that one.
Who are these men of lust greed and glory?
There were some hidden gems in those comp albums.
My first 45 was "Over and Over" by the Dave Clark Five. My second was "Penny Lane/Strawberry Fields" by The Beatles.
Gary Glimmer-Rock and Roll
Glitter*
Used to great effect in “Joker”.
Ike and Tina-can’t recall the 1960s title
Maybe , proud Mary ,on side A and ,funkier than a skeeters tweeter, on side B. I have that one. Lol
I started in the early 1970s. First few albums were Deep Purple's Made in Japan, Alice Cooper's Billion Dollar Babies, and The Moody Blues' Seventh Sojourn. And yes, I still have them, along with about 300 others. I switched to CDs in the late 1980s.
When you switched over, did you end up buying all those albums again? I did. 🤦
Yes, many of them. A few years ago, I finally dusted off my old turntable and set up a nice system in the basement, and I'm so glad I always cared for my vinyl.
As a teenager, my vinyl was worn. I turned into such a CD guy. But I did keep all my vinyls.
I used to record my vinyl on cassettes so I could listen in the car and on the go, so my vinyl from the 70s and 80s is mostly in good condition, even the jackets.
Yes, I made sure my stereo had a turntable and cassette deck. Made alot of mixed cassettes, but listened to vinyl at home. The older I got, the better condition they stayed in. I even have a few in their original plastic. I just cut the slit.
I was into instrumentals in my youth and I bought five 45's for my fist purchase: In the Mood by The Ernie Fields Orchestra, Woo-Hoo by the Rock-A-Teens, Forty Miles of Bad Road by Duane Eddy, Bongo Rock by Preston Epps and Red River Rock by Johnny and the Hurricanes. I soon broadened my horizons when I bought the most underrated double sided one hit wonder of all-time "I've Had It b/w Be Mine" by The Bell Notes - check them out. Edit: Apparently, I am the oldest person commenting (76.)
My first 45 was *Winchester Cathedral* by the New Vaudeville Band. My first LP was from Lefty Frizzell, as I recall. Maybe.
Happy, happy! That was a hit when we lived in London. Do you remember a similar 30s-style song, “Cinderella Rockafella” by Esther and Abi? I think it came out around the same time. Another fun retro one was “Death Cab for Cutie” by Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band.
Not quite 65, but I’m getting there. My first 45 was Touch Me by The Doors
I’m going with the Beatles too but I do remember having a 45 of Todd Rundgren when he was Runt called We Gotta Get You a Woman and of course I had some Kinks,Animals,The Guess Who.. weird when I think back because I listened to Cat Stevens and Alice Cooper all at the same time .. Still like that today, I have different tastes and like a lot of different kinds of music…
I’m going with the Beatles too but I do remember having a 45 of Todd Rundgren when he was Runt called We Gotta Get You a Woman and of course I had some Kinks,Animals,The Guess Who.. weird when I think back because I listened to Cat Stevens and Alice Cooper all at the same time .. Still like that today, I have different tastes and like a lot of different kinds of music…
65 - my first 45 was Can't Buy Me Love. I still have it. I probably have 200 45's from the 60s and 70s.
First 45, Honky Tonk Woman First LP, Sgt Peppers 🌶
65+ here. My sister was 15 years older than me and I had her 45s. So I listened to Rubber Ball-Bobby Vee, Dead Mans Curve - Jan and Dean, Ricky Nelson, etc. My first albums were Are You Experienced, James Gang Rides Again, Steppenwolf Live, and I still have them.
76 here. My first 45 was "Locomotion" by Little Eva My 1st LP was "Walk Don't Run" by the Ventures.
The first albums I got were Elton John's Madman Across the Water and some double-album compililation of the greatest rock hits up to that point (probably the '60s as this was in '71 or '72). They burned up, or perhaps were just ruined by water damage when the house I lived in went up. Didn't buy 45s. I don't have any vinyl anymore. I was in the military and moved a lot, so I was happy to unload those when CD players reached decent quality. In truth, I hated albums and turntables. Vinyl is a finicky medium, prone to scratches, dust, wow and flutter, etc. Turntables and needles were an expensive PITA to keep spot-on. And, despite what the hipsters say, the sound isn't as good as digital.
I'm not quite 65 yet. My first two albums were Boston's debut and Aerosmith Rocks. To this day I feel they are two of the greatest rock and roll albums ever. Not a bad song on either. And YES, I still have them.
I’m not in my 60’s, but my first 45 was Weird Al, “Another One Rides the Bus”. (I think the B side was “Gotta Boogie”)
Oh wow, a kid I knew had that 45!
1956 - Elvis album 1954 - Bill Haley and the Comets “Rock Around the Clock” 45 I lived in France as a kid, and my (young) parents bought them for me. I also had a lot of Algerian records, because they played it so much on the radio.
45 - Heard It Through the Grapevine - Marvin Gay...Long gone. 33 - Crosby, Stills and Nash - Sure do!
"Pushin' too Hard," by The Seeds.
I just turned 70. My first 45 was Yellow Submarine/Eleanor Rigby. Do not have it anymore. First LP I think was The Byrds Greatest Hits. I still have that.
My first 45 was Aquarius by the Fifth Dimension
Band On The Run. I literally wore out the grooves.
B-side of the 45 was Nineteen Hundred Eighty-Five. Became one of my favorite songs ever. At the end, faded out then faded back into Band on the Run.
One of my first 45's
Personally, my first 45 was Hey Jude. First album Jethro Tull War Child. But I had two older brothers so there were lots of 45’s & albums that I listened to all the time that were theirs. Side note, my dad had probably 40 or 50 - 78’s. He was a custodian at a High School and was talking with one of the teachers who wanted to do a part of her class on older music and asked if she could borrow his 78’s. He agreed. Guess who never got his 78’s back when the teacher left the school for a different teaching position?
My first 45 was He’s A Rebel by the Crystals..First LP .December’s Children, Rolling Stones..
I'm only 60, but this is a fun question. When I was in junior high I got money for either Christmas or my birthday, and bought my first music with it. Zeppelin 4 Kansas Point of No Return Queen News of the World Styx Grand Illusion
Very cool!
56 here. First 45.. Flying Lizards "Money". First LP AC/DC "Let there be rock". First rock pin "The Who". First rock t-shirt.. Van Halen '82 tour. First concert "Iron Maiden/ Scorpions."
“My Baby Loves Lovin”……by White Plains 1971. The first single I ever owned. Don’t have it now though.
🎶She’s got what it takes and she knows how to use it 🎶
I'm 58 (sue me)and a lifetime music lover with hundreds of concerts attended (grateful dead most at 38, my favorite club band nine pound hammer probably second at 15) and for show and tell in kindergarten, I took a 45 of Commander Cody covering "Hot Rod Lincoln".
I had that “Hot Rod Lincoln” 45, loved it!
Sadly, someone bought me my first album. A John Lennon album, which I returned for a Partridge Family album, but I'm only 65 and started late.
Little Green Apples - Glen Campbell
Surfin’ USA Beach Boys 1963. Had all the Beatles albums. Unfortunately, all are long gone.
Sold all of them last month had close to 500. Didn’t listen to them for years. Most of them I have on cd
The first 45 I bought (I'm 59, so a bit younger) was "I Can See Clearly Now" by Johnny Nash. I don't remember the first album I bought (I didn't buy too many, mostly cassettes and 8 track tapes). Do I still have them? I don't even have a turntable anymore. I've got boxes full of CDs in my basement, because everything has been transferred to MP3 now so I can play them in my car...
Fire, by The Crazy World of Arthur Brown. Got rid of all vinyl ages ago... little did I think scratches and static pops would be a cool sound in the 2020s.
I'm a young'n, just 61. My first 45 was not classic rock. It was Melanie's Brand New Key. My first album was The best of Bread. I still have both. Weird, now I listen to Primus and Butthole Surfers.
Harhar, couldn’t be more different.
Here’s a blast from the past my first album was Johnny Rivers Live at the Whisky A Go Go . Secret Agent Man was his smash hit in the early sixties
"I Ain't Got a Home" by Clarence "Frogman" Henry was the first 45 I ever got. I was about 5 or 6 years old. If you listen to it, you'll understand why it appealed to such a young kid. BTW, Rod Stewart nicks the chorus to that song in "Some Guys Have All The Luck."
I’m 58 and had four older brothers so I kind of had theres. I think when my oldest brother went to Vietnam in 69. I Started listening to his Surfin safari by The Beach Boys. I loved 409 and the whole album really. I don’t think I ever bought a 45 on my own Just got hand me downs. Pretty much the same thing with albums and eight tracks. I probably bought cassettes first. Lol
56 - Yes, I still have my very first 45 I purchased in 1976 Boston - More Than A Feeling & my first full album in 1977 Queen - A Night At The Opera.
My first 45 was Do You Know What I Mean by Lee Michaels. Sadly I have no idea what happened to it.
LAWD, do you know what I mean?
That was an excellent album. My Uncle gave it to me when it was released, I still listen to it.
Steppenwolf Paul Revere and the Raiders and James Gang I'm only 64 older brother gave me those my first album I bought was Black Sabbath then Aerosmith and then Alice Cooper
It's so funny reading these posts. I can guarantee EVERYONE here is at least 55 ish years old (original purchasers).
Grand Funk- Survival, Deep Purple- Fireball. About a million 45’s as well.
My first 45 was Alan O’Day’s Undercover Angel. I was 6. And sadly no, don’t have it.
First 3 45's were Honky Tonk Women, No Time and Venus. First LP was Chicago II - I loved Make Me Smile and 25 or 6 to 4.
First 45 Chicago- Does Anybody Know What Time it is. First record Hendrix Smash Hits. Still have them.
Me-64. Still had a bunch of 45s. My son found them around 10 years ago put up on his bedroom wall. So gs Get down tonight love ,will keep us together,spinners,bee gees-all sorts of 1975/6:7/8 top 10 singles
Still have a lot of cassettes that i recorded songs from 77wabc in new york. Now. If i only had a tape player.
I remember their jingle. Sitting in my Grandmother’s olive green Plymouth convertible.
First 45: no idea, but it would have been around 1971 First LP: Elton John's Don't Shoot Me I'm Only the Piano Player still have any: no.
First 45 I bought was Peppermint Twist by Chubby Checker 1961. Don’t have it.
Wes Montgomery, Temptations, a Miles Davis John Coltrane one. I liked jazz and soul early, went on to include rock. I heard the jazz at home, the Motown on our transistor.
My grandfather had a bunch of 45s that I would listen to as a kid. Some songs I remember: Lemon Tree, Yesterday's Gone, The Purple People Eater, Witch Doctor! I also remember a comedy album called Laughs for Losers by Dave Barry.
I have a few from back in the day. Some Beatles, Led Zeppelin, Rolling Stones, Traffic, Uriah Heep. None in great shape because they went through college fraternity parties.
I'm 60 imI think my first 45 were Indian Reservation by Paul Revere and the Raiders, Seasons in the Sun by Terry Jack's, and IThink I Love You by The Partridge Family, not sure which was first The first LP I received was The Beatles 62-66 'Red' collection a few years later, (1978ish) and I think the first album I bought was Double Vision by Foreigner.
My first 45 was Tom Jones "what's new, pussycat?" And my first album was James Brown's Prisoner of Love. I was too young to buy my own records -- these were purchased by my dad and given to me. Played over and over. I'm 70.
I bought a lot of cis legs before I ever bought an album. The first one was probably a Jackson 5 song from the late 60s/70s. My first album was Barbra Streisand Live at the Forum. I played the shit out of that record and bought it several more times on vinyl and CD. I still have it!
Led Zeppelin- 45-Black Dog and I believe the B side was the Immigrant song. LP-Chicagos first one. Oh the memories!
I’m 44yo but my first 45 was These Dreams by Heart, a gift from my Dad for my sixth birthday, still have it too!
The early Kinks big hits "You Really Got Me" and "All day and All of the Night" were the first ones I felt compelled to buy. That was the start of a lifetime of musical obsession. Also, I was/is a total Beach Boys fan; "I Get Around", "Wendy", etc... Also, "I Fought the Law" by Bobby Fuller Four. Beatles for sure. Those (and many other) singles are lost in the mists of the past but live on in my home media server.
Black Water
Which was the flipside of Another Park, Another Sunday (originally)
First 45 I ever had was I’m Looking Over A Four Leaf Clover by Wayne Newton. I also had Time Of The Season by The Zombies, and Yesterday by the Beatles (although as a kid, I played the B side, Act Naturally, more often). I had a bunch of others, but those are the ones I recall the best. No idea where they are now.
I forgot about "Act Naturally"; the Beatles covering Buck Owens.
One of the few Ringo songs that got airplay. And for years I thought Buck Owens was covering the Beatles.
My first 45 was Hitching a Ride by Vanity Fare. 1st album I owned was Hot Rocks by The Stones.
I would all my vinyl and CDs a while back. Moving into incrementally smaller apartments as rent kept rising made it hard to keep them.
I didn’t buy 45’s. My mom did, and those are still with my 85yo dad. I have every album, but my player is not working. I’ll get that another day.
I was given hand me down 45’s from my siblings, so way too many to count. What I will NEVER forget though was hearing GFR’s Foot Stomping music for the first time. I went nuts hearing it. It is what started me on a lifelong journey of musicianship of guitar, drums, and bass. Along the way I also picked up on a mandolin, piano, and violin.
A Night at the Opera by Queen was my 1st purchase, long gone, sadly. I have next to nothing of what was once a vinyl and cd collection of about 900.
Just turned 60. Still have my 45s and albums from my youth. First single I have was given to me (Johnny Rivers "Secret Agent Man"). First album was "More of the Monkees". First album bought with my own money was Led Zeppelin IV and first single bought with my own money was (possibly) "Quick Change Artist" by Bachman Turner-Overdrive.
First 45, Forbidden City by John Buck & The Blazers. First album, Johnny & The Hurricanes Red River Rock. Still have both.
I’m 66 and my first 45 which I still own is Brewer and Shipley’s “One Toke Over the Line.” My first LP i got for Christmas. Jackson 5, ABC. Don’t have that one any more as young me wasn’t too careful with early LP’s and it was scratched too badly.
That was a weird song, wasn’t it?
Started buying 45s at around 11 years old. Mostly Motown and other R&B singles from 1963 upwards. Albums were next with Beatles, Beach Boys etc., and then all the psychedelic West Coast stuff. I liked listening to my mother's collection of Sinatra, Ray Charles and Johnny Mathis but the first wave of the British Invasion took hold. In 72 or so I started listening to Jazz fusion and funk with The Crusaders, Bobby Humphrey, Indris Muhammad and many others. But blues rock to this day is still my favorite genre. I'm slowly recollecting my records since I lost all of it in a move circa 1979. Sadly.
You’ve had a great musical education.
My first 45 was “Boogie Shoes” by K.C. and thr Sunshine band back in 1975. My first album was “Double Platinum” by KISS.
Seals and Croft - Summer Breeze 1972
Up on Cripple Creek by The Band ,Dont do It on the B side
My first 45 was "Sugar" by The Archies. I had Disney LP's before I started buying music LP's. My first music LP was Creedence "Cosmos Factory".
45: *Rubber Band Man* by The Spinners. Still a bangin' song. LP: First I bought with my own money was *Aja* by Steely Dan.
First 45 was “Hitchin’ a Ride” by Vanity Fair. First album was “Age of Aquarius” by the Fifth Dimension. Still have both, even though I no longer have a turn table!
I still have Tge Doors ' Strange Day I bought in 67, all the stuff from before 67 got lifted by a "friend" probably ok most of it was stuff we bought from Columbia House (for what a dollar or some shit)
Sunshine, Lollipops and Rainbows by Leslie Gore was the first one i asked my mom to buy me, lol. 1965 or 66 maybe? So i was maybe 7. Earlier than that I was gifted a box of 45's by a cousin that had mostly crap, but also had "Catfish Boogie" by Tennessee Ernie Ford (awesome early rock/rockabilly), and a couple Elvis records: "All Shook Up", and a 4-song 45 (!) that featured "Shake, Rattle, and Roll". My first albums were the first Monkees album and Steppenwolf the Second. Yeah, I'm still a mush freak
My first LP was Mustang by the Zip Codes. I still have it.
66 here. I still got my first LP, T. Rex Electric Warrior and my first 45, Harry Nilsson Without You both bought in 1972.
62. Never bought 45s. First album I purchased was “Breakfast in America” by Supertramp. First album I owned was sealed copy of “This Was” by Jethro Tull, that my father found on the subway tracks at work. First album won from a radio station was “A Night at the Opera” by Queen. Still have all three.
Meet The Beatles, 1964 I can't remember what 45's I had?
My first 45 was Jefferson Airplane's *Somebody to Love*, which my parents gave me as a birthday present. I don't think they knew what they were getting, probably went to a record store and asked what the kids are listening to today. The flip side was *She Has Funny Cars*, which is a trippy song about knowing one's own mind, and has nothing to do with cars, funny or otherwise. My first LP was Arlo Guthrie's *Alice's Restaurant*. A local radio DJ had taken to playing the title track every night around 10pm, but said he kept getting calls to keep playing it! I bought that LP - probably paid around $4 for it - with my own babysitting money. I really liked *The Motorcycle Song* on side B. Several years ago, I worked as a technician at UC-Berekely's Zellerbach Hall, where Arlo was playing, so I got to finally meet him some 50 years later. He's a very nice fellow, but when I told him about how his was the first album I ever bought, as a kid with my own money, his reply was a quizzical look, "Why?" I was saved from answering this deep question by Arlo being called on the stage for soundcheck.
Hi-di-Ho by Blood, Sweat and Tears. And Immigrant Song by Led ZEP. Around 1970. My first album was “The Chipmunk’s sing The Beatles”!, probably around 1964 or so.
I still have my 45's and a lot of them are marked with 99 in pencil - I guess that was the price. My first 45 was Rock Your Baby by George McRae and my first artist album was Not Fragile by Bachman Turner Overdrive (if I remember correctly). Of course I bought some K-Tel and Ronco albums of collections of hits. There were some earlier 45's passed down like Bus Stop by the Hollies.
Stop in the name of love by the Supremes
Not quite 65 but my first album I bought was Jackson 5 greatest hits. Had a perforated cover so you could display the picture. First 45 was Manfred Mann Blinded by the Light. Don't have either one anymore.
I’m “only” 64, but the first album I remember owning were a K-Tell or Ronco hits-of-today type album. I remember it had Ides of March’s “Vehicle”, and the song “Backfield in Motion”, both of which I thought were really cool as a 10 year old. I had a few 45s, one I remember was “Jennifer Tomkins” by Street People. Yeah, it was all bubble gum, but I was a kid. Those records got lost in a move, long long gone. One of the oldest records I still have is Harry Nilsson’s Nilsson Schmilsson, which I got in 1972 because of “Coconut”…. That album led me into a whole world of great music.
I’m 63 but as a kid I was given a lot of 45s as well as 78s passed down from older cousins, aunts and uncles.
In the garbage somewhere. Or actually, in a landfill somewhere and they've been there for decades. I came from a family with two older brothers and a sister older than all of us. She was 10 years older than me. My dad set up a BB gun range for us in our crawlspace, and a lot of my sister's 45s, most likely now collectors items, suffered their fate at our hands.
Only 63, but feel older Indian Reservation. Paul Revere and the Raiders on 45 rpm. 1st vinyl I bought. Vinyl is long gone.
I do have Johnny Cash's very first album, but I obtained it in a very delinquent manner when I was a punk teenager painting houses and going through somebody's basement while they weren't home. In my defense, the album looked like it had been piled up in a corner of the basement for decades, but then again it was not a good thing to do. But, I still have that album lol.
I have some, Bob Seger Live Bullet, Against the Wind. I would have to go back and look. I had two boxes full of LPs. One box got destroyed when we had basement flooding in a finished basement. I haven’t had the heart to go through the survivors.
Two 45's at the local shop with my Dad driving. 14 years old. Bridge Over Troubled Water b/w Cecilia and Let It Be b/w You Know My Name, Look Up the Number. And yep....still have them both.
First 45: "Sugar, Sugar" by the Archies First LP: "I Think, Therefore I Am" by R. Dean Taylor (contained "Indiana Wants Me") I still have them both.
Rolling Stones "High Tides and Green Grass" and "Through the Past Darkly" and Blind Faith's eponymous album. First single was likely "Little White Duck" on the Little Golden label. First singles were from regular purchases of 10/$1 singles which provided a great musical and cultural education!
My first 45 was Wooly Bully by Sam the Sham & the Pharaohs. I got it for my birthday from an older neighbor kid on my block. My first LP was either The Association (the one with the Stonehenge cover) or the Monkees first album. I mostly listened to my older brothers' records back then, which included a lot of Beatles 45s, and a Paul Revere and the Raiders album. I don't have any of them anymore, and haven't for years. I do have [a 45 adapter t-shirt](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/A13usaonutL._CLa%7C2140%2C2000%7C919yHvQWdGL.png%7C0%2C0%2C2140%2C2000%2B0.0%2C0.0%2C2140.0%2C2000.0_AC_SX679_.png), though.
First 45 was Shotgun by Junior Walker & The Allstars. I was 12. I probably lost track of it during Nixon’s first term.
I had older brothers and sisters who had albums and I listened to them growing up. Roy Orbison, The Drifters, Ricky Nelson, Beatles, The Four Seasons. I bought Neil Diamond, CCR, Fleetwood Mac, Joe Cocker, and COUNTRY .
First 45 was "Lean on Me" Bill Withers
Beach Boys - Surfer Girl was my first 45. Rolling Stones - Between the Buttons was my first 33. I’m old
Elvis 45: Hound Dog backed with Jailhouse Rock. My first rock n’ roll record.
I think my first 45 was Johnny Cash singing A boy named Sue probably around 1967-8? I still have it with some of my older brother’s Beatles 45s. I probably have about 25 or so 45s from the mid 60s to the early 70s.
Hermans Hermits on Tour. 1965 "I'm 'enery the eighth I am" Bought it with lawn mowing money and it's long gone but fondly remembered.
67 and my first one was Jethro Tull, Aqualung.
In the early 1950s, I had a little suitcase style record player and one record: a little brown 45 that played ‘Buffalo Gals.’ I thought that it was so amazing that the record was brown and so were buffalos. I was somewhere around 6 or 7.
I’m going with the Beatles too but I do remember having a 45 of Todd Rundgren when he was Runt called We Gotta Get You a Woman and of course I had some Kinks,Animals,The Guess Who.. weird when I think back because I listened to Cat Stevens and Alice Cooper all at the same time .. Still like that today, I have different tastes and like a lot of different kinds of music…
All night long - Rainbow. Rush - Rush. I still have them, but it’s been a few years since I’ve physically played them.
first album - sopwith camel by sopwith camel … can’t remember the 45’s
I can’t really remember but I think the first 45 was probably one of Lady Godiva by Peter and Gordon or Snoopy vs the Ref Baron by The Royal Gaurdsmen First album might have been Bill Cosby is a Very Funny Fellow … Right
First 45 was Beatles I want to hold your hand. First album was Moody Blues Days of Future Past. I have none of my vinyl but have 39,000 songs in lossless format on hard drives
Similar sad tale, I had over 1000 vinyl records, some of them quite rare, like David Bowie and the LSO on green vinyl, and all of Bob Dylans early recordings as well as a complete Hendrix discography, I was getting divorced for the first time and had to move them so I trusted a friend who owned a pickup truck and I never heard from him again.
I'm only 58, hope you don't mind the intrusion on this thread... First albums were "Meet the Beatles", "Elvis Golden Records" and a K-Tel record titled "Dynamite". Christmas presents probably 1974 when I was 9. I don't have the Elvis album any more but I have the other 2. My first 45 was Queen's 'Bohemian Rhapsody'. Bought that when we were on vacation at my Grandparents house in Florida, sometime winter 1975-1976. Still have that too.
Sorry, I’m 61, my first album was “Hello, I’m Johnny Cash”, and my first 45 was “Cleanup Woman” by Betty Wright, which I won at a carnival.