First Album You Ever Bought?

[Glennwillow]

Hi Brett,

The first album I ever bought was Dion's Runaround Sue, which must have been back in 1961. I was 13 years old at that time.

- Glenn

[flaggerphil]

Mine was "Meet The Beatles."

I didn't know until decades later that there was such a difference between the British Beatle's albums and the American ones. It's really startling when you first find out.

[aknow]

Originally Posted by kydave

I'm glad to know other's memories aren't any better than mine.



Joshing... Marvin Gaye's first album was in 1961. It'd be a bit before a Greatest Hits would come along, although arguably, most of his recordings were great hits!

What a voice!!

kydave I thought about that too, seems like it might be 63 or 1964. I got 45's before albums. first 45 was Boney Maroney by I think, The Coasters. Early '60's.

[Scootch]

First album given to me Willie And The Poorboys by CCR.
First album I ever shelled out my hard cold cash for was Steppenwolf LIVE.

[jpd]

Originally Posted by Glennwillow

Hi Brett,

The first album I ever bought was Dion's Runaround Sue, which must have been back in 1961. I was 13 years old at that time.

- Glenn

Glenn....have you heard his latest blues release? The man can play AND sing!

[Herb Hunter]

To repeat what I posted to a similar thread titled, First Album Purchase, from 2007 (link below):

In the summer between fifth and six grade I bought my first two albums but I don't remember the order in which I bought them. I chose them unheard because they each had a guitar pictured on the cover.

Duane Eddy, Lonely Guitar RCA Victor 2798


Chet Atkins, Down Home RCA Victor...........[

http://www.acousticguitarforum.com/f...d.php?t=109899

Incidentally, the Duane Eddy album cover is misleading because Duane only played an electric Gretsch guitar on the record. Though I have been aware of the deception since my teen years, it just now dawned on me that Chet didn’t play the Gibson pictured on the cover. I think he, too, only played an electric Gretsch guitar on the record.

[Herb Hunter]

Originally Posted by cpmusic

Simon and Garfunkel, Sounds of Silence, in mono, when the album cover looked like this (smaller font, without song titles on the front). It probably would have been one of the Beatles' albums, but my sisters always beat me to the punch.

Wow, I only was ever aware of the version with the song titles on the front which happens to be the version I once owned.

[JHD512]

Johnny Cash At Folsom Prison. If memory serves me correctly, I was 11 or 12 ('68 or '69). Wasn't long after that, my uncle took me to my first ever concert to see Johnny Cash. What a show! Mother Maybelle and the Carter sisters were there, as were the Statler Brothers.

I wish I still had the album. Don't know what happened to it, but I bet I played it a hundred times or more back then.

Joe

[UncleJoe]

First album I could call my own was Willy and the Poorboys.

Down on the Corner just grabbed me and wouldn't let go. It drove me to learn the F chord when I took up the guitar. It's been part of my repertoire ever since.

[Muffinhead]

My first album was The Righteous Brothers - Soul and Inspiration.



My second album was Jimi Hendrix - Are You Experienced



My musical tastes did not change, they just expanded.

[catdaddy]

The Ventures Play Telstar And The Lonely Bull was the first LP I ever bought. My favorite track was "Apache".

[M19]

Rubber Soul. "It's Only Love."

Oh, and if you haven't made it over to the 33/45/78 thread, my first 45 was "Lightning Strikes" by Lou Christie.

[seannx]

Originally Posted by flaggerphil

Mine was "Meet The Beatles."

I didn't know until decades later that there was such a difference between the British Beatle's albums and the American ones. It's really startling when you first find out.

Mine was the same!

[KevWind]

My older brother had quite a collection of 45s and then albums so I listened to his whenever he was not home . I spent all my money ski racing.
I did not start buying music until The Doors first album "The Doors" early 1967. I was 17. After that the flood gates opened by the time I was 21, I had several hundred albums

[epluribus36]

Black Sabbath Paranoid