Do You Remember The First 45 You Bought?

I bought a number of KISS and Beatles LPs as a kid in the 70s but didn’t buy a 45 til I was 13: Go-Go’s We Got the Beat... think I’d got McCartney’s Coming Up the year before but it was included with the McCartney 2 LP packaging I bought, not a separate purchase

 

Another Brick In The Wall part II circa 1997.

 

Bought with my own pocket money rather than bought for me: Blue Mink ‘Banner Man’.

 

As a 2 year old toddler I apparently convinced my grandmother to buy me She Loves You by the Beatles - green sleeve 1976 issue, and Brotherhood of Man Save All Your Kisses for Me.

It was clearly an important crossroads in my life. Thank heavens I took the right road…

 

January 1973,
Blockbuster by The Sweet.
I was 9 years old.
It cost 45p.
I still have it!!!

 

On the Regal Zonophone label....the A side was mono and the B side stereo.
The first single I bought was Sugar and Spice by the Searchers back on 1963.

 

I do not remember the first 45, LP, DVD or Blu-ray I bought.

Even though I do not remember the first 45, I’m pretty sure I would still have it.

I do remember my first cassette, it was Totally Hot - Olivia Newton-John. I still have the tape but the cassette wore out so I took the tape out and put it in a blank cassette and it still played the last time I played it. I haven’t played it for a while because I have the CD now.

The first (and only) 8-track I ever bought was The Rutles. I found it at a flea market. It also wore out but is long gone now. But I have the 1990 Rhino CD which is the first CD I ever bought!

The first VHS I ever bought was Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid (1969) I laid it back along with Risky Business (1983) paid on it every week. When I got it out Risky Business turned out to be that other video format Betamax but they exchanged it no problem. They did not have Risky Business on VHS so I got something else, I don’t remember what. I now have both these on Blu-ray.

The first VHS I ever rented was Amadeus.

I always buy a dozen or so items in a format before buying the player so when I get the player I have something to play on it. I had The Rutles, The Bonzo Dog Band - Cornology, The Best Of Tommy Quickly, Johnny Sandon, Gregory Phillips & The Remo Four, The Legendary P.J. Proby At His Very Best ... Plus, Liverpool 1963-1968, The Sixties Explosion - Volume One 1961 - 1967 and a bunch of other See For Miles CDs that I ordered from Midnight Records in New York before I bought a CD player.

I bought a bunch of Blu-rays before I bought a Blu-ray player too.

 

Little Willy - The Sweet
1972ish - 6th grade
It is sitting across the room from me right now.

 

Del Shannon's "Hats Off To Larry", in 1961:

 

You sold "She Loves You"?

 

I always wondered whether "Little Willy" was a name or an attribute....

 

No.........that's too difficult.
I would think "was it Elvis? The Beatles? Simon and Garfunkel?". Add to the fact that when young my mom and I had these records that were 'family' - my dad had bought some, she did too I believe,
etc, that I would listen to - it's just confusing.

Those sure were better days though. Young, a real HOME, not alone, cared for, and I had my case thing of singles, and my cheap crappy turntable stereo (which folded out) - those were better days.
A MILLION times better.
I'd give anything to go back in time. I don't like this world now.

 

“Joy To The World” by Three Dog Night was a hit amongst us 1st graders in 1971.

 

I remember that place very well! As a small child in the ‘60s, I couldn’t understand why the mall had the same name as the TV show. The mall had a great neon sign at the entrance, with a boomerang shaped arrow, very mid century modern.

The only record I can recall buying at Sam Goody’s at Green Acres is the LP by Dolenz, Jones, Boyce & Hart in 1976. Most of my records in the early’70s were bought at TSS, a now defunct department store chain in the NYC area.

 

It was either I Wanna Be A Winner by Brown Sauce, or Flock Around The Clock by The Singing Sheep - anyone who says theirs was something cool is lying.

 

Exactly and now I sing in a Brotherhood of Man tribute band, wearing double denim, a shirt with collars you could land a plane on and sporting a fabulous moustache.

 

In September 1963 I persuaded my grandfather to buy "She Loves You" for my 14th birthday. I must have played it a thousand times. A good start to a lifetime's obsession with records and The Beatles.

 

I bought “I want to hold your hand” and “Twist and Shout” the week after the Ed Sullivan show.

 

The first 45 I bought with my own money was the Kinks (Tired of waiting for You / Come on Now)....1965, I was 14

 

Not counting the box of juke box 45s (Beatles, Beach Boys etc.) I was given by an Uncle in the late 70s. I'm pretty sure it was Joan Jett. I know I still have this.

Joan Jett - I Love Rock n Roll



If it wasn't Joan Jett, it may have been Yvonne Elliman - If I Can't Have You...I think they used to play it a lot at the local roller rink. I don't have this anymore.

 

Not my own money (didn't have any at that age) but my Mum bought me The Kinks' "Dedicated Follower Of Fashion" because I was always going on about it.

Bless her.

 

She Loves You, still have it.

 

Pretty Woman - Van Halen

 

1964 Manfred Mann - Do Wah Diddy Diddy