1st record you remember hearing

This was my absolute favorite movie as a child. And don't even get me started on Mary Poppins Returns.

 

Palisades Park - Freddy "Boom Boom" Cannon. I was 4 1/2 years old (mid-1962)

 

"Here Comes the Sun"

 

My dad had some old Al Jolson 78's. I'm sure that was the first.

 

Bobby Fuller Four - I Fought The Law

 

My mom played Ring of Fire at least once a day. Didn't pay any attention to it until my cousin put on Jailhouse Rock. Everything changed.

 

Vague memory of One Bad Apple by the Osmonds in very early 1971. I turned 4 that February. I remember far more clearly the major top 40 hits from the spring and summer of 1971, especially Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey by Paul and Linda McCartney. At 4 I was fascinated by the sound effects and some of the distinctly British sounds of the spoken phrases like “butter pie!? The butter wouldn’t melt so we put in a pie”.

 

Good ‘ol YouTube. Somebody else has uploaded my first record player memory!

 

My parents played Rodgers & Hammerstein musicals like Oklahoma & Carousel mostly. I also remember some Mitch Miller records along with the Sons of the Pioneers Cool Water album. They also used to buy classical records that came in blue plastic bags instead of normal album covers. The first LP I owned was More of the Monkees.

 

Bedtime's gettin' a little earlier the last few years . . . cain't go liken I useta . . .

 

The Wall was, without a doubt, my first encounter with an album. I was 7 or 8.

 

That's . . . unfortunate.

 

Either this or The Ballad of Davy Crockett



I remember more my father sitting on it when he was putting on my galoshes. He wasn’t happy.

 

Surfin' USA...specifically "The Lonely Sea".

 

Nice story. I had a bunch of Golden Records, and was into music already by 3 or 4. Probably dug music in my cradle.

 

"Surfin' Safari"

My mother bought Endless Summer in 1974 when it came out. I was 5. I had never noticed music. I've been obsessed ever since.

 

Something by CCR that my older sister played, meh.

 

That was a Rex Allen tune.

 

I had a "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea" like this. I can still remember the Ned Land song lol.

 

CRIMSON AND CLOVER 45rpm.

 

First album I remember listening to was an album Tales of Uncle Remus. It was a set of three 78s with songs sung by Johnny Mercer and dialog from the Disney film "Song of the South".
I think I was about 4 years old.
The first record I bought with my own $ was Hot Rod Lincoln by Charley Ryan.
It was a 45, I was 10.

 

I was 12 years old and sitting on the curb in front of our house on a beautiful sunny day. Has a little transistor radio and was just turning the knob back and forth trying to find something interesting and I happened upon 93KHJ, Boss Radio from Los Angeles and the Kinks - Sunny Afternoon came on. The most influential moment of my life. Haven't stopped listening to and playing music since. Music is Life!

 

It is impossible for me to answer the question. The music was always there.

My Dad (pic in avatar) was a teenage radio jock in the late-50s to early 60s. It's how he worked his way through law school. He eventually became a judge, which is ironic because my Mom told me after he died that the only reason he wanted to be a lawyer was to make good money and buy his own radio station. (Turns our criminal law wasn't that profitable.)

All this to say that when I was born, our house had a "hi-fi" going most of the time. Looking through his records and 8-tracks now, the first full album I listened to at an age where I was decently aware could have been Meet The Beatles, Gord's Gold, or even more likely some golden age folk or modern jazz. I also had two older brothers who introduced me to all kinds of rock and orchestral music. And my Mom let me play all her '50s teen idol 45s on her little suitcase phonograph.

I started buying my own records in 1978, when my age was still in the single digits. My first purchase was a late-'70s Magical Mystery Tour LP. I liked the comic insert. Still have it. (Though I prefer to play the mono.)

 

Er maybe a Tinkerbell sound turn the page of a book type or.....

A plastic or Flexi toy type disc or......

Are you lonesome tonight Elvis 7"?

 

Rudolph the Red-nosed raindeer




Peace,
Tony