Your First Vinyl Record - LP/Single

[littleme61_6]

What was the first LP/Single you bought?.  

My first single was Bridge Over Troubled Water - Simon & Garfunkel 

My first LP was a version of The Top of The Pops. 

[astrologica]

'Rock around the clock'....... Bill Haley. 😂😂........OMG, I feel really old now!

[jd.linklater]

First LP - Miles Davis, Birth Of The Cool

First single - The Kinks, You Really Got Me

[silvermalc]

Helen Shapiro--Walking back to Happiness !!

[silvermalc]

Walking back to Happiness--Helen Shapiro !!

[al**bear]

I bought two sampler LPs from a bargain bin I think in 1970 (might have been Wollies)

Age of Atlantic

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Age_of_Atlantic

You can all Join in

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You_Can_All_Join_In

I still have them, but are beat up and well played

Both in original condition are worth a few bob nowadays

[theelench]

First single was  Anyone Who Had A Heart.   Cilla Black.

First LP was by Tyrannosaurus Rex (the one with Ride A White Swan on it). 

I remember feeling ripped-off because M. Bolan never seemed to write a whole song, just a couple of verses, then filled up the track by repeating them and lots and lots of de-de-dahs.

[023mjc]

I was a big Beatles fan so my first single was Paperback writer. My first Album was Rubber Soul which my parents bought me for Christmas.

[margaret*e]

The Beatles, She loves you, and on the other side,  if my memory hasn't completely gone love Me Do in 1963.

[cee-dee]

Tommy Steele, Singing the Blues.

[evoman3957]

The version I bought was by Dave King, but I can't find that one..........I was about 6 years old at the time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWR3IkfHdLE

[Anonymous]

First single I bought.

I was madly in love with him.

https://youtu.be/8lwLbx1_ZmA

[jd.linklater]

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@al**bear wrote:

I bought two sampler LPs from a bargain bin I think in 1970 (might have been Wollies)

Age of Atlantic

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Age_of_Atlantic

You can all Join in

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You_Can_All_Join_In

I still have them, but are beat up and well played

Both in original condition are worth a few bob nowadays

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I had both of those Al and the follow up Nice Enough To Eat

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nice_Enough_to_Eat

First time I'd heard bands like Fairport Convention, Spooky Tooth and Blodwyn Pig

This was the very first sampler album as I recall, another excellent line up

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rock_Machine_Turns_You_On

Those were the days

[littleme61_6]

I was too  and I swooned over Donny Osmond. 

[al**bear]

I think in late 68

In the Wollies bargain bin I bought

Hermans Hermits - Sunshine Girl

&

Yummy Yummy Yummy - supposedly by Ohio Express (US record label Buddah records recorded it), but is really played by session musicians,

But they did Do their later singles

But I really loved the B-side --  Zig Zag

which is a really weird recording - Years later I found out - it was really a recording by the '1910 Fruitgum Company'  - called  'Poor Old Mr. Jensen' from their album 'Simple Simon'  some of it PLAYED BACKWARDS and missing the string section

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g7KrcU6GHNw

weird again, the Canadian release of Yummy Yummy Yummy, has Zig Zag played forwards -  both versions are in that Youtube clip - switches  over at 2.05 

If you are into weird music trivia, check out Buddah records - They are infamous for some of the stuff they put on B-sides and on Albums

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jd

there was also a follow up to Age of Atlantic - The New Age of Atlantic, released a few years later

[dark_castle1]

The first LP I bought was the soundtrack to Easy Rider.

[calibra101]

First single was Wow by Kate Bush . LP was The Kick Inside by Kate Bush.

[vamo48]

First single was one of those Woolworths cover versions: Roy Orbison's Dream Baby.  

First LP was Bringing it all back home by Bob Dylan

[aand2136-voqfz8yx]

The first single I bought was Merry Xmas Everybody (it was spelt like that on the label, although the 's' was back to front). It was the original back in 1973 and cost me 70p from WH Smith. I still have it and in it's original white sleeve with the Philips advertising logo on.

Can't remember my first LP, but I know Moody Blue and Elvis in Concert in 1977 were early purchases

[Anonymous]

I tried to think and think which LP I bought first. I didn't have a lot of money when I was a young teenager so I only bought a few myself. An LP cost almost 20 guilders in those days in Holland. Pretty expensive.

The first one must have been "Money" by PInk Floyd.

I remember getting "Abraxas" by Santana.

"Houses of the Holy" by Led Zeppelin.

"Stationtostation" by David Bowie.