Do You Remember The First 45 You Bought?

First 45 was a picture sleeve copy of a British group named “The Beatles” and a song called “A Hard Day’s Night”. I immediately wrote a number 1 on it with a magic marker and stamped my name on it three times so my younger brother wouldn’t take it. Brilliant.

On a side note, I was long ago told that my first “favorite song” was Rosemary Clooney’s version of The Teddy Bears Picnic.

 

Hugo Montenegro, The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly. Subsequent purchases: Anthem by Hello People and Mason Williams, Classical Gas.

 

Star Wars by Meco along with C'mon Aussie, C'mon by The Mojo Singers...

 

Sherry baby , in 1973. Golden oldies was the series, for under a dollar. Sam goodys

 

I was thinking I have that one too but checked and mine, with ps, is...... TAKE IT AWAY 1982 Tug Of War lp. From the same Sam goodys

 

Awesome !

 

With my own money ... Crocodile Rock - Elton John

 

1976. Blinded by the Light by Manfred Mann's Earth Band-- with the B-side, Starbird No. 2.

 

I bought my first 45s in the mid-1960s, at the ages of about 10 to 12.
I bought an assortment of fairly hip rock/pop--The Beatles,The Stones,
The Byrds, The Animals--and occasionally some not quite so hip stuff
--Herman's Hermits, Gary Lewis and The Playboys.

My dad, originally from Louisiana, appeared to like the bluesy sound he
heard in the Animals records, such as We Gotta Get Out of This Place,
It's My Life, and See See Rider.

One evening as I was listening to one of the less brilliant pieces of pop
product--Tony and The Tigers maybe, or Paul Revere and The Raiders
-- my dad stopped by for a brief listen, then said, "That's okay, kid,
but when are you gonna bring home another Animals record?"

 

"C is for cookie" by the Cookie Monster. I was three.

 

Yes, because I’ve only purchased 1.

Stones- Honky Tonk Women

 

Rod Stewart, ‘Angel’ from Beatties record department, Solihull.

 

I know I wanted this:

but I like to think it was:
https://youtu.be/VQmmByJwKFI

 

Probably "Dizzy" by Tommy Roe, can't recall for certain but that would have been one of the first.

 

It mught have been Starbuck's Moonlight Feels Right.

 

Easy! I Think I Love You by The Partridge Family on Bell. Mom bought it for 7 year old me at Montgomery Wards in St. Paul, MN. In less than a year I had graduated to Three Dog Night, and soon after The Rolling Stones.

 

I bought a promo copy (the Decca hot pink promo label probably caught my attention) of this this for 5 cents out of a used bin at a local place called "The Farmer's Market" - it was actually next to Grumman Aircraft in Long Island, New York so the potato farms were long gone, around 1960 -- I was about 5 or 6. Little did I know it would play a big part in music I love to this day, and worth every penny!
Johnny Carroll (and His Hot Rocks) - Corrine, Corrina:

 

Uncle Albert Admiral Halsey - Paul and Linda Mac.

For a dollar at Places’s dime store off 42nd and University. Black sleeve reading “The Beatles on Apple”.

 

my dad bought me if you could read my mind love by gordon lightfoot when i was 7.he liked lightfoot and thought i would.he was right,i still like him after all these years.

 

I don't remember my first one for sure, but I do remember getting Start Me Up and Rod Stewart's Tonight I'm Yours in picture sleeves when I was young. Must have been among the first, if not THE first.


The sleeve weirded me out.

 

Still think it's a beautiful tune.

 

ABC b/w The Young Folks

 

May 1965 b/w “Yes It Is” bought it at the Woolworth’s right across from the post office.
Still have it.

 

This one, which I bought to get "Hey, Hey, What Can I Do?"

Led Zeppelin This Is Led Zeppelin - EX Australian 7" vinyl