[Music] What was the first single that somebody else bought you?

[Insel affe]

Father came home one night and gave me this single, he knew I played his Eddie Cochran, Buddy Holly, Johnny Cash and Marty Robbins records and said, this is good it’s more your generation…

Despite being a pretty bad father, to me he had good musical taste and set me on the road to rockabilly and Psychobilly.

 

[FamilyGuy]

"I'm in Love" by the Fourmost (a Liverpool group) - my dad bought it for me with the Danset (sp?) record payer that he bought me for my birthday in about 1964 - I was 11 at the time.

 

[banjo]

 

[Weststander]

I don’t think anyone’s ever bought me music, tbh.

Apart from if I asked for something specific as a birthday/Christmas present when younger. Which seems outside the point of the thread.

And I once knew someone who worked at 4AD, who used to pass on spare promos and so on, but again probably not in keeping with the thread.

Am I the only person like this?

Same here. I bought my own vinyl since primary school including later choosing my Xmas present music. Definitely nothing that qualifies to the OP.

 

[zefarelly]

I don't recall being bought a single . .. .I did get my first 2 albums, one for xmas (one step beyond) and one instead of an easter egg (kings of the wild frontier) . . . . I bought singles with pocket money/savings . . .baggy trousers was the first as it wasn't on one step beyond LP. Ghost town was another . . .and einstein a go-go, Landscape. I think my mum bought joan jett, although I quite liked it/her . . . Parents already had blondie, elvis costello and Marley amongst others . . .

 

[cheshunt seagull]

Ragtime Cowboy Joe by Alvin & The Chipmunks.