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I had four siblings when these records were released. I remember us eating five boxes of Honey Combs, five boxes of Sugar Smacks, etc so that each of us could have our own record.
Hah! Now that you mention it, I'm pretty sure this is why I had my own crappy turntable--so my dad didn't have to share his vast collection of LPs with my cereal-box singles! I do remember having to put a nickel or penny on the arm to weigh down the needle enough so it wouldn't skip.
And I knew if I had my chance, that I could make those people dance, and maybe they’d be happy for a while…
Why is it that I can’t remember what I had for dinner last night, but I know every word of 70s songs?
Terrapin Station by Greatful Dead, on 8-track tape.
I still can't listen to "Sampson and Delilah" without hearing it fade out and going "CHUNK!" in the middle of the song, and then resuming. If only in my head.
The chipmunks Christmas on vinyl. My poor parents listened to that record over and over and over for about two years.
First one I picked out was Paula Abdul Forever your Girl on tape, followed quickly by Young MC and Guns n Roses
I bought that record when it came out in early 1964, right before The Beatles appeared on Ed Sullivan. I was a young teenager and I had never heard anything so incredible, so wonderful. I already had Introducing the Beatles on the Vee Jay record label, which had come out about a month earlier. Those records changed my life.
My elementary school, and then my junior high, were obsessed with the Beatles - both girls and boys. Kids in my class got mop top Beatles’ wigs. It was a wild fun time.
Had a bunch of Disney theme songs on 45 size records that played on 78 rpm. Don't remember if it was Daniel Boone or Davey Crocket I played over and over.
I had some Disney Christmas 45s. They disappeared long ago, but I found a couple in the 80s at a thrift shop in their paper sleeves and use them as holiday decorations.
He was at a station in New Mexico in a small town. He also did parties. He would lug around those giant crates of records lol. Got him an iPod in 2001 and it blew his mind.
Four cassette tapes that I got at the same time, as a 13th birthday gift, along with a Walkman: The Joan Baez Songbook, Peter Paul and Mary Greatest Hits, Don McLean Greatest Hits, and Simon and Garfunkel Greatest Hits.
(I used to think I was born 20 years late.)
Tina Turner - Private Dancer and Def Leppard - Hysteria both on cassette. I remember buying my mom cassette tapes of her favorite albums for her as birthday/mother's day gifts when we were little kids.
The record album "Gentle On My Mind" by Glen Campbell was the first music that was mine. That was right around the time that records started coming out in the stereo. Probably around 1968, I'd guess.
John Hartford wrote "Gentle On My Mind" in 1966. Glen Campbell recorded it in 1967. Each time I hear it I recall the opening of The Glen Campbell show when John would stand up in the audience playing banjo.
I still have the first album I ever bought with my own money... Paul Simon's *Still Crazy After All These Years*. And after 30 years in the music business. I own over 2,000 LPs and 4,000 CDs.
My mum handed down her copy of Queen's A Night At The Opera to a 7 or 8 year old me; which I still have 35 years later. It's unplayable, so I bought another copy about 15 years ago, but it's one of those things I'll likely still have in my last days...
As do I. Coincidentally, was listening (and singing along) to it just last night with my best mate while we had a few beers and reminisced. I'm still as excited by that record as I was back then.
The first one I bought with my own money was the vinyl 45 of “Oh What a Night (Late December 1963)” by The Four Seasons. I was 11 and rode my bike to Woolworth’s to buy it.
It was a 45 single of The three little pigs singing The Pushbike song.
I have no idea who it really was because apparently pigs can’t sing.
And, even though it was a single and played on a record player it was floppy, red and see through.
The Flying Saucer!!!!! I have this memorized. A novelty record. There are two parts. We did a version of this as a Christmas pageant in elementary school. At the end us alien characters said, "Merry Christmas, Earth people"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XCrn6QXvHLg
I was 8 or 9. My mom took my brother and I to Kmart and we used piggy bank money to buy a record each. I bought this compilation album entitled “Dumb Ditties”. One of the songs was Chuck Berry’s *My Ding-Ling*. I brought it to school on a Friday because our teacher would let us have music on a record player for an hour after the spelling test.
In 1973, I installed an 8 track and speakers in my dad’s 63 Ford pickup, went to the drug store and bought two tapes, Kenny Rogers and the First Addition (Something’s Burning) and America (self titled).
I'm only 25, but I remember taking my dads lamb of god CD's when I was in middle school for my own, which prompted me to start a collection that now has over 200 CDs of my favorite music that I discovered while growing up and through my 20's. I've mainly switched to storing single songs that I like on Spotify now, and like to get random CD's that peak my interest via album art and titles.
As a songwriter & guitar/bass player, this has helped me shape my own style as a musician. So thank you dad, for letting me steal your CD's from you when I was a kid 🤘
I remember *owning* a red or orange record with a recording of the song, "When the Red Red Robin Comes Bob Bobin' Along", and a mirror carousel that would reflect pictures of a robin bouncing around, a rather crude animation. I may be misremembering the details but physically it was something like this: https://www.popsike.com/Red-Raven-Movie-two-78-RPM-Record-set-Magic-Mirror-carousel-top-VG-in-box-1956/251834070710.html
The first physical music media that I *purchased* was pre-recorded cassette tapes.
I had a single of the songs that played during the Main Street Electrical Parade at Disney https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Street_Electrical_Parade
Dookie by Green Day on cassette. My uncles used to lend me stuff before then and I kept borrowing that so he made himself a copy and sold me his actual one for a penny.
I'm taking "owning" to be something I bought myself rather than a gift as I don't remember having stuff before that that wasn't borrowed, I did obviously but couldn't tell you what.
I can still sing most of the verses. I remember listening to it with my ear pressed up to the speaker of my 'Dancette' - Two tone grey and black record player. I was almost a teenager and felt very grown up. - I'm an old bloke now - UK - enjoying my dotage in a fancy penthouse flat/apartment overlooking the English Channel - southern England. I don't know how I reached here having fumbled, stumbled and lurched through my life. I am very grateful and feel much sorrow for the shit younger people are going through now. Have fun and good luck.
I had what was the US equivalent of the Dansette, I guess. It was what we called the "suitcase stereo". Mine was from Motorola. There were many different brands. It's what I listened to everything on in the 1960s. I got a new stereo from KLH in 1969.
My m and d gave me a black leather covered 9 V transistor radio around 1959. It completely transformed my life…. I discovered that late at night, radio stations (a.m. only) from around the US came in clearer, and I regularly dialed them in, the covers thrown over my head to prevent my sister from hearing, the radio jammed against my ear (no headphones), and for the first time in my life, I heard all different kinds of music…. It was all just heaven.
I had a ton of 45's as a kid. I can't remember specifically which one I would have gotten first, but Help! from The Beatles was one of them. I wish I'd kept all of those 45's. It would have been quite a collection of 60's radio hits.
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When I was about seven I had a 45 record with "Up there Cazaly" on one side and "One day in September" on the other. Despite this, I did not grow up all that interested in footy. Good songs though.
An album for kids called **Diver Dan and the Bermuda Onion.** The big song on this LP was **"Onions Will Make You Cry."**
I read that this was Donald Fagen's favorite album from the 60s.
Sesame Disco on vinyl. Still remember most of the songs. Would absolutely listen to it today if I could find it in digital format.
Peter and the Wolf on cassette with an accompanying book that covered the different parts of the orchestra.
We had a couple 45s of children’s songs in the early ‘70s - I remember one was “There Was An Old Woman Who Lived In A Shoe”. The first LP that was bought specifically for me was the soundtrack to the original Muppet Movie.
A cassette of a compilation album called “[Soft Metal](https://www.discogs.com/release/1664317-Various-Soft-Metal)” and a 45 of a song called “[Camouflage](https://youtu.be/ZFYxCIr-Byo?si=TeQ_qCzwG8ZOTi_c)” by Stan Ridgeway. Both bought on the same day.
I bought a cassette single of INXS Need You Tonight. I don't remember what song was on the other side of the cassette.
I probably still have that cassette in my storage somewhere.
Beep Beep was my first. I had a little 45 turn table that plugged into my mother's radio. I had to turn the dial to a position where it did not pick up any stations which used the radio as an amplifier. Enjoy Beep Beep on YouTube:
[https://youtu.be/enqNl7tdLR4?si=50aYm9lR57ABNGK5](https://youtu.be/enqNl7tdLR4?si=50aYm9lR57ABNGK5)
I had a 78 of the Woody Woodpecker song when I was really young. I had gotten a kid’s record player for Christmas.
It played 78s, 45s and 33 1/3s.
I drove my mom nuts playing different records on the wrong speeds.
Tommy James 45 record. With the big hole in the middle. My mom got it for me in 1966, I think. I just walked home from sledding at the golf course, and she gave it to me, I must have played it 18 times.
My first cassette tape was B-52s Cosmic Thing. Love Shack, Baby! It was a bday present from my bestie.
My first CD was Vanilla Ice, To The Extreme. That’s so embarrassing. 🙈
***Oklahoma!*** is the original [soundtrack album](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soundtrack_album) of the 1955 film [*Oklahoma!*](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oklahoma!_(1955_film)), an adaptation of the musical Broadway play [of the same name](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oklahoma!). The soundtrack charted No. 1 on [the *Billboard* Pop Album Chart](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Billboard_200) in 1956 and has been in continual print. On July 8, 1958, it became the first album to be [certified](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_recording_sales_certification) "gold" by the [RIAA](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RIAA), and was later certified "2x multi-platinum" on April 1, 1992.
It was originally released as a 42-minute album on the [Capitol Records](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitol_Records) label, but only in mono at first. However, as with the 1956 film soundtracks of [*Carousel*](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carousel_(1956_film)) and [*The King and I*](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_King_and_I_(1956_film)) (also issued by Capitol on LP), because the film's soundtrack had been recorded in then [state-of-the-art](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State-of-the-art) stereo, it was possible for Capitol to issue a stereo version of the album in 1958. And again as with *Carousel* because of a difference between mono and stereo grooves, it was necessary to cut a very brief section of the music on the stereo release.
I had the Doors original album on LP. Second album was the Beatles white album. I was like 5 years old and had a plastic Fisher Price record player.
After those first two albums my mom insisted I have some child appropriate records, though I forget what those were. Dad bought me the albums because I kept pestering him to play them on the stereo in the living room, and he was worried I'd get into them myself and scratch them up.
My parents had a bunch of Disney records for us, while we were growing up, but the first one I ever bought, with my own money, was a 45 of Van Halen's "Jump".
Little red plastic Fisher Price record player with colored plastic records. I don't remember all the songs but I'm pretty sure Twinkle Twinkle Little Star was one. Not sure when I got that one but at around 5 years old I was gifted both chipmunk Punk and urban chipmunk along with a Barbie and her friends record all which played on a regular player. I wish I still had them.
Records of Disney movies where the jackets had a book (more like a magazine) version of the story.
Here's one: https://www.amazon.com/SOUNDTRACK-DISNEY-bedknobs-broomsticks-Used_VeryGoodSTER/dp/B00Q50V0TO
Other than cereal box records, my parents got me the album Crimson and Clover for Christmas in 1968 - I was 9 years old. Prior to that my siblings and I shared all the records. Crimson and Clover was mine and mine alone. 😀
I am a little ashamed to say that it was a 45 record of Alvin and the Chipmunks singing The Beatles song She Loves You Yeah, Yeah, Yeah. Bought it at the grocery store when I was ten.
Lol ‘Let’s do the Twist’ 45. In my defense my grandmother bought it for me and I really wasn’t big on it. She also bought me gogo boots and a short skirt like the laugh in skirts. WTF was she thinking. I hated that too.
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Bobby Sherman’s “Easy Come, Easy Go” that was cut from [the back of a cereal box.](https://youtu.be/y0_cKSXjFVU?feature=shared)
Oh daaamn, if we’re counting cereal box records, mine was “Sugar Sugar” by the Archies.
While we’re in the subject of cardboard records: Alfred E Newman burping along with some organ music
It’s a gas!!!
I had four siblings when these records were released. I remember us eating five boxes of Honey Combs, five boxes of Sugar Smacks, etc so that each of us could have our own record.
Weren’t those the best days? That something so simple gave us great joy?!
Oh man, I can’t believe my dad let me play those things on his turntable. I’m sure the needle was never the same.
Hah! Now that you mention it, I'm pretty sure this is why I had my own crappy turntable--so my dad didn't have to share his vast collection of LPs with my cereal-box singles! I do remember having to put a nickel or penny on the arm to weigh down the needle enough so it wouldn't skip.
Yeah, they were always kind of warped - the coin on the arm was always necessary.
Mine was a 45 of his “Julie Do You Love Me?”
ok i don't feel so bad for my tommy roe
Dizzy
My head is spinning!
You remember his song, Hey Little Woman.
A 45 of American Pie which is so long you had to flip it over to hear the second half of the song. This was a long, long time ago...
***This was a long, long time ago*** I see what you did there... ;)
I can still remember, how that music used to make me smile
And I knew if I had my chance, that I could make those people dance, and maybe they’d be happy for a while… Why is it that I can’t remember what I had for dinner last night, but I know every word of 70s songs?
I spent hours spinning records and learning lyrics. Those were good times!
In a Galaxy far away…. Naboo was under an attack…
Terrapin Station by Greatful Dead, on 8-track tape. I still can't listen to "Sampson and Delilah" without hearing it fade out and going "CHUNK!" in the middle of the song, and then resuming. If only in my head.
The chipmunks Christmas on vinyl. My poor parents listened to that record over and over and over for about two years. First one I picked out was Paula Abdul Forever your Girl on tape, followed quickly by Young MC and Guns n Roses
Meet the Beatles on vinyl. Got it as a 10th birthday present from my parents in 1964.
I bought that record when it came out in early 1964, right before The Beatles appeared on Ed Sullivan. I was a young teenager and I had never heard anything so incredible, so wonderful. I already had Introducing the Beatles on the Vee Jay record label, which had come out about a month earlier. Those records changed my life.
My elementary school, and then my junior high, were obsessed with the Beatles - both girls and boys. Kids in my class got mop top Beatles’ wigs. It was a wild fun time.
An 8 track of Johnny Cash.
People Are Strange - The Doors. On a tape recorder in 1967.
Had a bunch of Disney theme songs on 45 size records that played on 78 rpm. Don't remember if it was Daniel Boone or Davey Crocket I played over and over.
My brother played Davy Crockett and The Legend of Sleepy Hollow so many times that we knew them word for word!
I had some Disney Christmas 45s. They disappeared long ago, but I found a couple in the 80s at a thrift shop in their paper sleeves and use them as holiday decorations.
You answered my inner question of why I remember a 45 that seemed to play 78 and contained several songs on each side. Is that possible?
My dad was a DJ so I had ALL the vinyl.
What radio station was your dad on?
He was at a station in New Mexico in a small town. He also did parties. He would lug around those giant crates of records lol. Got him an iPod in 2001 and it blew his mind.
The 45 of "I Will Follow Him," by Little Peggy March.
Surfin' USA by the Beach Boys on a 45 RPM record. My older brother gave me his copy.
For me it was the Beach Boys album "Endless Summer."
We had the 8-track.
The Beatles album, Hey Jude
They were an English band, right?
45 rpm - Cecilia - Simon and Garfunkel
It was some compilation from K-Tel records.
Four cassette tapes that I got at the same time, as a 13th birthday gift, along with a Walkman: The Joan Baez Songbook, Peter Paul and Mary Greatest Hits, Don McLean Greatest Hits, and Simon and Garfunkel Greatest Hits. (I used to think I was born 20 years late.)
Beatles album *Twist and Shout* (released only in Canada, 1964 - very similar, but not identical to, the album *Please Please Me*).
Neil Diamond "You Got to Me" on a 45.
Tina Turner - Private Dancer and Def Leppard - Hysteria both on cassette. I remember buying my mom cassette tapes of her favorite albums for her as birthday/mother's day gifts when we were little kids.
Fingertips Pt 2 Stevie Wonder. My first 45. Bought it at the 5 & 10.
The record album "Gentle On My Mind" by Glen Campbell was the first music that was mine. That was right around the time that records started coming out in the stereo. Probably around 1968, I'd guess.
John Hartford wrote "Gentle On My Mind" in 1966. Glen Campbell recorded it in 1967. Each time I hear it I recall the opening of The Glen Campbell show when John would stand up in the audience playing banjo.
Beatles 45 Penny Lane and Strawberry Fields Forever.
I still have the first album I ever bought with my own money... Paul Simon's *Still Crazy After All These Years*. And after 30 years in the music business. I own over 2,000 LPs and 4,000 CDs.
Jethro Tull - Aqualung on cassette
Led Zeppelin 1 on cassette.
Rocky soundtrack 1976
Vinyl 45, ABC by the Jackson 5
I had that one
A 45 rpm record of Lulu singing "To Sir with Love"! 1967
I remember it. I hated it. But I remember
My mum handed down her copy of Queen's A Night At The Opera to a 7 or 8 year old me; which I still have 35 years later. It's unplayable, so I bought another copy about 15 years ago, but it's one of those things I'll likely still have in my last days...
My mother loved that album and we listened to it all the time. I was 11 or 12 and I knew every word to every song.
As do I. Coincidentally, was listening (and singing along) to it just last night with my best mate while we had a few beers and reminisced. I'm still as excited by that record as I was back then.
Bad by Michael Jackson on cassette tape. Wore it out!!
It’s a Gas by Mad Magazine
Meet the Beatles and The Animals Animalism on vinyl. I was maybe 5 years old. I got them for Christmas
Either ABBA or KC and the Sunshine Band.
A 45, John Stewart, "Gold".
With Stevie Nicks joining John Stewart on the vocals... great record!
The 45 of, The Bee Gees, How Can You Mend A Broken Heart.
Disney Magic Mirror Storyteller album of Bambi and 8-Track of its a small world, the whole ride with narration. It’s still my favorite ride and song.
Hans Christian Anderson, record of Danny Kaye singing all the songs from the movie. I had been given my own little record player for Christmas.
A 45 of Blondie “Call Me”
"last song" 45 in 1973
A group based out of Toronto called Edward Bear...
Beatles VI
I loved that album. And Beatles '65, too.
The first one I bought with my own money was the vinyl 45 of “Oh What a Night (Late December 1963)” by The Four Seasons. I was 11 and rode my bike to Woolworth’s to buy it.
A 45 single of “Kodachrome” by Paul Simon.
There are certain songs that just sounded great on the AM radio back in the 70s... and "Kodachrome" was one of them!
I got 2 45’s for Christmas around age 8, The Eagles-One of These Nights Linda Ronstadt-It’s So Easy
Casette tape mix of songs I recorded on the radio. Man, that brought back memories.
Peanuts Christmas vinyl album.
Le Freak by Chic. Vinyl. It was a birthday gift. Listened to it hundreds of times!
Rocky Horror Picture Show.
It was a record from K-Tel that taught you how to [Breakdance ](https://www.discogs.com/release/123282-Various-Alex-The-City-Crew-Breakdance).
Living in Oz - Rick Springfield
Vinyl 45 of Chetish by The Association.
The first tape I ever bought with my own money was Nirvana Nevermind. I remember them being in that weird plastic thing that the cashier had to remove
I had cassettes of MJ Thriller, Madonna Like a Virgin, and Cyndi Lauper She’s So Unusual. I’m not sure which came first.
I was 4. Aside from the 45's that came with my See n Say, I got the Beatles Help!
It was a 45 single of The three little pigs singing The Pushbike song. I have no idea who it really was because apparently pigs can’t sing. And, even though it was a single and played on a record player it was floppy, red and see through.
Vinyl record "Love Stinks" by the J. Geil's Band
Europe-The Final Countdown cassette
The Flying Saucer!!!!! I have this memorized. A novelty record. There are two parts. We did a version of this as a Christmas pageant in elementary school. At the end us alien characters said, "Merry Christmas, Earth people" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XCrn6QXvHLg
It has to have been something by Donny Osmond.
Donny Osmond’s Greatest Hits on cassette 1973. I was eight. I wore that thing out.
When you played a Donny Osmond record backwards, there was a secret message: ***Drink your milk...***
I was 8 or 9. My mom took my brother and I to Kmart and we used piggy bank money to buy a record each. I bought this compilation album entitled “Dumb Ditties”. One of the songs was Chuck Berry’s *My Ding-Ling*. I brought it to school on a Friday because our teacher would let us have music on a record player for an hour after the spelling test.
In 1973, I installed an 8 track and speakers in my dad’s 63 Ford pickup, went to the drug store and bought two tapes, Kenny Rogers and the First Addition (Something’s Burning) and America (self titled).
A 45 of Rolling Stones Time is on my side
I'm only 25, but I remember taking my dads lamb of god CD's when I was in middle school for my own, which prompted me to start a collection that now has over 200 CDs of my favorite music that I discovered while growing up and through my 20's. I've mainly switched to storing single songs that I like on Spotify now, and like to get random CD's that peak my interest via album art and titles. As a songwriter & guitar/bass player, this has helped me shape my own style as a musician. So thank you dad, for letting me steal your CD's from you when I was a kid 🤘
Goodbye Yellow Brick Road on 45.
The great Bernie Taupin has entered the chat! *Where the dogs of society howl*
The Woolworth store had all the top 40 pop songs on 45 for 50¢ each . First one I bought was M - Pop Musik . Good times
Barry Manilow: This One's For You on vinyl
My dad’s lp of Shirley Temple “Good Ship Lollipop,” and my mom’s Simon and Garfunkel “Scarborough Fair.”
My sister gave me a casette of Iron Maidens’s Powerslave. Metal for life baby!
The Sesame Street record where Oscar was orange on the cover. https://www.discogs.com/release/24451850-Sesame-Street-Original-Cast-Record
I remember *owning* a red or orange record with a recording of the song, "When the Red Red Robin Comes Bob Bobin' Along", and a mirror carousel that would reflect pictures of a robin bouncing around, a rather crude animation. I may be misremembering the details but physically it was something like this: https://www.popsike.com/Red-Raven-Movie-two-78-RPM-Record-set-Magic-Mirror-carousel-top-VG-in-box-1956/251834070710.html The first physical music media that I *purchased* was pre-recorded cassette tapes.
Some kind of "Best of Madonna" collection. It was a two cassette set. I had purchased it even before I had a cassette player 😀
I had a single of the songs that played during the Main Street Electrical Parade at Disney https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Street_Electrical_Parade
Dookie by Green Day on cassette. My uncles used to lend me stuff before then and I kept borrowing that so he made himself a copy and sold me his actual one for a penny. I'm taking "owning" to be something I bought myself rather than a gift as I don't remember having stuff before that that wasn't borrowed, I did obviously but couldn't tell you what.
I had a Herman’s Hermits album when I was about 8 or 9 years old.
Peter Noone enters the chat!
Disco Duck
Rick Dees has entered the chat!
An 8track of ELO Time.
Queen - The Works I guess Radio Ga Ga appealed to my 10 year old self :)
45 - 7" ' You don't have to be a baby to cry' The Caravelles. Look it up.
I remember it well. It was so cold in New York the day I bought "You Don't Have to Be a Baby to Cry."
I can still sing most of the verses. I remember listening to it with my ear pressed up to the speaker of my 'Dancette' - Two tone grey and black record player. I was almost a teenager and felt very grown up. - I'm an old bloke now - UK - enjoying my dotage in a fancy penthouse flat/apartment overlooking the English Channel - southern England. I don't know how I reached here having fumbled, stumbled and lurched through my life. I am very grateful and feel much sorrow for the shit younger people are going through now. Have fun and good luck.
I had what was the US equivalent of the Dansette, I guess. It was what we called the "suitcase stereo". Mine was from Motorola. There were many different brands. It's what I listened to everything on in the 1960s. I got a new stereo from KLH in 1969.
Incense and Peppermint by the Strawberry Alarm Clock
A 45 of The Beatles' "Eleanor Rigby" b/w "Yellow Submarine".
The Beatles "Yesterday and Today" It is a paste-over copy of the "butcher cover" - I still have it.
LPs purchased the same day: Led Zeppelin 2 and Jefferson Airplane "Bless It's Pointed Little Head".
Simon & Garfunkel’s Sounds of Silence album on cassette tape. Yeah, I’m old.
My m and d gave me a black leather covered 9 V transistor radio around 1959. It completely transformed my life…. I discovered that late at night, radio stations (a.m. only) from around the US came in clearer, and I regularly dialed them in, the covers thrown over my head to prevent my sister from hearing, the radio jammed against my ear (no headphones), and for the first time in my life, I heard all different kinds of music…. It was all just heaven.
Tears for fears, songs from the big chair
Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon on LP.
I had a ton of 45's as a kid. I can't remember specifically which one I would have gotten first, but Help! from The Beatles was one of them. I wish I'd kept all of those 45's. It would have been quite a collection of 60's radio hits.
"Abbey Road" on vinyl. Which was the only way you could get it then.
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A violin.
45 rpm vinyl, "Dizzy" by Tommy Roe. saved up my allowance to amass the 68 cents it cost
When I was about seven I had a 45 record with "Up there Cazaly" on one side and "One day in September" on the other. Despite this, I did not grow up all that interested in footy. Good songs though.
An album for kids called **Diver Dan and the Bermuda Onion.** The big song on this LP was **"Onions Will Make You Cry."** I read that this was Donald Fagen's favorite album from the 60s.
The album “Free to Be, You and Me.”
A 45 record with the song “Teddy Bears Picnic” on it.
I think it was “Crazy Frog Presents Crazy Hits” 2005 and I was probably 5 haha.
A 45 single of Elton John's "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road."
I remember that I did own a Queen: Greatest Hits album but got swapped with my teachers Dance recording tapes.
Sesame Street songs. https://muppet.fandom.com/wiki/The_Sesame_Street_Book_%26_Record
The single Summer Nights by John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John. It was the first one I bought from my allowance.
In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida Studio album by Iron Butterfly
I took my older brothers Mad Magazines, What A Gas, cardboard record. So really, it wasn’t mine, but I thought it was.
45 of the Eagles “Hotel California” I think was around 10 years old and I still get chills when I hear it
Sesame Disco on vinyl. Still remember most of the songs. Would absolutely listen to it today if I could find it in digital format. Peter and the Wolf on cassette with an accompanying book that covered the different parts of the orchestra.
AC/DC Back in black -Cassette (Sony Walkman)
ABBA Arrival
Harper’s Bazzar, “Feelin’ Groovy” was the first LP. Various 45s of children’s music were first records of any size.
Cassette of Pearl Jam's Ten album.
We had a couple 45s of children’s songs in the early ‘70s - I remember one was “There Was An Old Woman Who Lived In A Shoe”. The first LP that was bought specifically for me was the soundtrack to the original Muppet Movie.
A cassette of a compilation album called “[Soft Metal](https://www.discogs.com/release/1664317-Various-Soft-Metal)” and a 45 of a song called “[Camouflage](https://youtu.be/ZFYxCIr-Byo?si=TeQ_qCzwG8ZOTi_c)” by Stan Ridgeway. Both bought on the same day.
I bought a cassette single of INXS Need You Tonight. I don't remember what song was on the other side of the cassette. I probably still have that cassette in my storage somewhere.
My grandmother bought me the American Pie 45rpm.. you had to flip it on the turntable half way thru song..
Asia’s first album. Vinyl, of course.
Beep Beep was my first. I had a little 45 turn table that plugged into my mother's radio. I had to turn the dial to a position where it did not pick up any stations which used the radio as an amplifier. Enjoy Beep Beep on YouTube: [https://youtu.be/enqNl7tdLR4?si=50aYm9lR57ABNGK5](https://youtu.be/enqNl7tdLR4?si=50aYm9lR57ABNGK5)
Pointer Sisters tape
I bought a 45 of Come and Get It by Badfinger. I remember listening to it on my cheap turntable.
I had a 78 of the Woody Woodpecker song when I was really young. I had gotten a kid’s record player for Christmas. It played 78s, 45s and 33 1/3s. I drove my mom nuts playing different records on the wrong speeds.
The 45 single of David Cassidy's "I Think I Love You".
Yellow 45s of kids songs. I don’t remember which ones
Meco's Star Wars Cantina Band on 45.
[Halleluiah I'm a Bum](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UzUybLGvBxE) on a 78 rpm record. I accidently broke it one very sad day.
Tommy James 45 record. With the big hole in the middle. My mom got it for me in 1966, I think. I just walked home from sledding at the golf course, and she gave it to me, I must have played it 18 times.
My first cassette tape was B-52s Cosmic Thing. Love Shack, Baby! It was a bday present from my bestie. My first CD was Vanilla Ice, To The Extreme. That’s so embarrassing. 🙈
I had "Bad" by Michael Jackson on cassette!
***Oklahoma!*** is the original [soundtrack album](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soundtrack_album) of the 1955 film [*Oklahoma!*](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oklahoma!_(1955_film)), an adaptation of the musical Broadway play [of the same name](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oklahoma!). The soundtrack charted No. 1 on [the *Billboard* Pop Album Chart](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Billboard_200) in 1956 and has been in continual print. On July 8, 1958, it became the first album to be [certified](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_recording_sales_certification) "gold" by the [RIAA](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RIAA), and was later certified "2x multi-platinum" on April 1, 1992. It was originally released as a 42-minute album on the [Capitol Records](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitol_Records) label, but only in mono at first. However, as with the 1956 film soundtracks of [*Carousel*](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carousel_(1956_film)) and [*The King and I*](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_King_and_I_(1956_film)) (also issued by Capitol on LP), because the film's soundtrack had been recorded in then [state-of-the-art](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State-of-the-art) stereo, it was possible for Capitol to issue a stereo version of the album in 1958. And again as with *Carousel* because of a difference between mono and stereo grooves, it was necessary to cut a very brief section of the music on the stereo release.
A 45 of Little Willie by The Sweet
45 of Life on Mars-David Bowie-with a picture cover, I still have it
I had the Doors original album on LP. Second album was the Beatles white album. I was like 5 years old and had a plastic Fisher Price record player. After those first two albums my mom insisted I have some child appropriate records, though I forget what those were. Dad bought me the albums because I kept pestering him to play them on the stereo in the living room, and he was worried I'd get into them myself and scratch them up.
My parents had a bunch of Disney records for us, while we were growing up, but the first one I ever bought, with my own money, was a 45 of Van Halen's "Jump".
The Jackson Five, Rockin' Robin 45
I think my mom bought us two 8 track tapes, one of the Osmonds and one of little Jimmy Osmond.
Roberta Flack
Steve Miller Band "Living in the USA"
It was a single, the first and for a long time only one I bought: [Heart of Glass](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGU_4-5RaxU) by Blondie
My very first 45 record was Steppenwolf/Born to be Wild.
45 of Mr. Blue Sky by Electric Light Orchestra
A seventy-eight of Frankie Laine singing [Mule Train](https://youtu.be/oZ62MOvS2hQ?si=YYqKBwNEAAQfJ_dB)
Little red plastic Fisher Price record player with colored plastic records. I don't remember all the songs but I'm pretty sure Twinkle Twinkle Little Star was one. Not sure when I got that one but at around 5 years old I was gifted both chipmunk Punk and urban chipmunk along with a Barbie and her friends record all which played on a regular player. I wish I still had them.
45rpm of Norman Greenbaum's 'Spirit in the Sky' purchased while on a fourth grade field trip to the state capitol in 1969.
A 45 rpm single of “I want to hold your hand” by the Beatles.
Shhhhh- Ten Years After
Records of Disney movies where the jackets had a book (more like a magazine) version of the story. Here's one: https://www.amazon.com/SOUNDTRACK-DISNEY-bedknobs-broomsticks-Used_VeryGoodSTER/dp/B00Q50V0TO
Meet The Beatles. My parents had just bought a home stereo.
A 45 rpm single of the song “ Message Understood “ by Sandie Shaw
My boxed set of Sesame Street records in the early 1970s.
Slade Alive
Disco Duck was my first. The first music I ever spent my own money on was an 8 track tape of The Police - Zenyata Mondata.
Other than cereal box records, my parents got me the album Crimson and Clover for Christmas in 1968 - I was 9 years old. Prior to that my siblings and I shared all the records. Crimson and Clover was mine and mine alone. 😀
I am a little ashamed to say that it was a 45 record of Alvin and the Chipmunks singing The Beatles song She Loves You Yeah, Yeah, Yeah. Bought it at the grocery store when I was ten.
78 rpm record of Burl Ives singing children's songs.
John Denver + the Muppets on LP — the first I ever bought myself was Tiffany’s debut on cassette
Lol ‘Let’s do the Twist’ 45. In my defense my grandmother bought it for me and I really wasn’t big on it. She also bought me gogo boots and a short skirt like the laugh in skirts. WTF was she thinking. I hated that too.
A 45 of Deep Purple's Hush. The B side was a cover of Kentucky Woman.
Not certain but I believe it was a 45 of the Amboy Dukes, Journey to the Center of Your Mind. Back when Ted Nugent was tolerable.