The very first new record you bought

[Hiney]

You Wear it Well - Rod Stewart

 

[The Merry Prankster]

The Man Who Sold the World - David Bowie

 

[fork me]

I had my first recordplayer long before I started school, along with a stack of old 45s and a couple of albums given to me by a friend of my Dad's.

As a result of my young age, the first record I ever bought was this:

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Sadly, I still have it!

Fork Me

 

[Meade's Ball]

Musical Youth - Pass The Dutchie. I think it was the b-side i still refer to lyrically, concerning the theft of an apple pie and Dennis being responsible. I hope it was either about relentless social consumption with the giant drunken teeth of Dennis Thatcher chattering concurrently, or big, fat Dennis Taylor eating anything he could get his upside-down hands on whilst dreaming of 1987 and his midnight snooker finish.

 

[El Presidente]

Crazy Horses by The Osmonds (Dr Dre Remix)

 

[Carrot Cruncher]

I want to give a cool answer, I really do. However the reality is...

 

[Lord Bracknell]

Mine was a 78.

'Singing the Blues' by Tommy Steele and the Steelmen.

No. 1 on 11 January 1957, displacing "Singing the Blues" by Guy Mitchell.

 

[Buzzer]

First single - Return of Los Palmas 7
First 12" - Einstein a gogo

 

[NMH]

Mine was a 78.

'Singing the Blues' by Tommy Steele and the Steelmen.

No. 1 on 11 January 1957, displacing "Singing the Blues" by Guy Mitchell.

Why didn't you get the Guy Mitchell version first?

Racist.

 

[NMH]

First single - Return of Los Palmas 7
First 12" - Einstein a gogo

I trust you rushed out and bought the ALBUM soon after that Buzzer??

 

[Yorkie]

Twist and Shout EP. The Beatles. 10/6d.

The very same with a 10/- voucher that I won in a twist competition. I put the other tanner to it.

 

[Buzzer]

Certainly did, NMH. Great album but got scratched when my guinea pig ran across it.

 

[Blackadder]

Blackberry way by The Move

 

[Lord Bracknell]

Why didn't you get the Guy Mitchell version first?

Racist.

I was going to answer this by saying that I probably saw it performed on the Six-Five Special. But, having checked, it wasn't until five weeks after the Tommy Steele version got to Number One that Don Lang and the Frantic Five first belted out the theme tune to the show that changed the world.

It's always possible that I bought the record weeks after everyone else, of course.

And I see you can still buy it now for just £4 + £5 postage on eBay.

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[Lord Bracknell]

Blackberry way by The Move

Now you're talking!

Birmingham's finest.

When I was still at school, we booked Carl Wayne and the Vikings for a Friday night dance to raise money for the fund to refurbish on old cinema organ that the school had bought.

 

[dougdeep]

The very same with a 10/- voucher that I won in a twist competition. I put the other tanner to it.

I bought it in Sweetmans, in Meeching Road, Newhaven.

 

[NMH]

Certainly did, NMH. Great album but got scratched when my guinea pig ran across it.

You were supposed to put the tone-arm on the record, with a proper needle.

They always sound weird when you use a guinea pig.

 

[clippedgull]

'Congratulations' Cliff Richard

 

[Alex Alex Dawson oo! oo!]

First 45: Can't Buy Me Love
First LP: Beano Album/Bluesbreakers with Eric Clapton - John Mayall (Macclesfield legend)

 

[NMH]

Now you're talking!

Birmingham's finest.

When I was still at school, we booked Carl Wayne and the Vikings for a Friday night dance to raise money for the fund to refurbish on old cinema organ that the school had bought.

Ah yes, the MOVE have quite a distinct family-tree, which had roots in Mike Sheridan and the Nightriders (which included Roy Wood), and grew such excellent branches as The Idle Race, then later ELO (Jeff Lynne seen fronting the Idle Race below)