Do you remember buying your very 1st 45 ?

[Darren J Wallace]

Thought I would post this for fun.
How many of you remember buying your very 1st, brand new shiny 45rpm record?
Embarassingly enough, mine was a 45 called Pop Muzik by "M"....bought it at the local Woolworth's Store when I was 12 years old in 1979

My 1st USED 45 was the Beatles' "I Saw Her Standing There/I Want To Hold Your Hand" on the orange and yellow Canadian Capitol swirl label, (wooooooo....a REAL RARITY!!!) from the local flea market in around 1976.

What were your 1st 45's? ....new or used?

 

[chas_kit]

My parents bought me the Carpenters' Sitting on Top of the World, when I was four or five years old. Selected from a number of songs the shop owner played for my brother and I.

 

[Stampy]

I don't remember the first single I bought, but the first one I do recall is Ray Parker Jnr's "Ghostbusters", as one I did get.

 

[MopTopMike]

The first 45 I ever bought with my own money (7 yrs old, with birthday money) was "Gimmie Dat Ding" by the Pipkins in 1970 - 69 cents at Bradlee's Department Store.
First 60's / "old" store-stock unplayed 45s I bought - early March, 1976, I was 12 years old. The 45s were 98 cents each: "Don't You Care" - Buckinghams; "How Can I Be Sure" Rascals; "Don't Bring Me Down" - Animals
Went back almost every week to buy more.

 

[Frantic]

The first 45 I ever bought with my own money (7 yrs old, with birthday money) was "Gimmie Dat Ding" by the Pipkins in 1970 - 69 cents at Bradlee's Department Store.
First 60's / "old" store-stock unplayed 45s I bought - early March, 1976, I was 12 years old. The 45s were 98 cents each: "Don't You Care" - Buckinghams; "How Can I Be Sure" Rascals; "Don't Bring Me Down" - Animals
Went back almost every week to buy more.

Don't remember my 1st 45 (maybe Brown Eyed Girl) But my first Lp was Grand Funk Railroad's Closer To Home along with Led Zep 2. I do however recall Journey's Look into the Future Lp being played the first time a got laid. That's a much better memory Not Journey, the little girl that did the laying

 

[HarvestmanMan]

Sure do! It was at a local comic book shop around 2003 (which is still up and running in the same location). They had a whole box of 45s for 50 cents each, and I picked out Rick Derringer's "Rock and Roll, Hoochie Koo" because I liked the label design. I really intended to just look at them and collect them, not actually play them. I got a few more in sorry shape from the same shop.

Incidentally, five years later at a thrift store right down the street from that comic shop, I found three garage 45s which would drop-kick me into the world of garage bands.

 

[bosshoss]

I definitely bought the following in the mid '60s, when they were first released and in the charts, and I was about 10 years old:

Easybeats - Sorry / Funny Feeling
Easybeats - Easyfever ep
Beatles - I Feel Fine (probably this was the first)
Masters Apprentices - Undecided / Wars Or Hands Of Time
Johnny Young and Company - Step Back / Cara-Lin

Beatles - Hard Days Night LP
Beach Boys - Surfin Safari LP

I remember hearing "Undecided" by the Masters Apprentices, the first time it was ever played on Sydney radio in 1966. I remember the DJ saying it was the first time it was being played in Sydney. I remember being totally blown away, literally stunned. And I remember going to school the next day, standing in assembly and all I could think about was that record, and how was I going to get a copy? And wondering why all the other kids were still acting as if nothing had happened.
It did get to the top of the charts, but the world didn't change the way I expected it would.

I think I've mentioned on a previous occasion, how my Dad grabbed the Easyfever ep off the turntable, and smashed it, because of the lewd panting and groaning in one of the tracks, "Tryin' So Hard".

 

[EXPO67]

The first record I ever bought out of my pocket money was Blondie 'Parallel Lines' LP quickly followed by my first single by The Jam 'When You're Young' both in 1979.

My first vintage 45 was The Zombies 'She's Not There' in 1982.

 

[Mr.Segment]

All my earliest records were used. My father used to travel around on Saturdays, looking for antiques of some sort or another. So the rest of the family used to tag along. I ended up with a pretty mixed bunch of artists, some of which made a lasting impression. I liked rock from as early as I can remember. Therefore, knowing nothing about music in general, I went for the "rock" looking stuff. Nazareth's 1st, David Cassidy Live, Elvis (though I only ended up with shit Pickwick greatest sets), Sha-na-na-na(good grief!) Nitzinger Live better..(which was heavily imported from Spain(?)) and, for some reason, Gordon Lightfoot's Best of .

The earliest 45s I can remember I found at a flea market. Rows and rows of identical 45s, straight from some storage facility that someone had donated. I bought one of each. They were Genesis on Mercury (the US group), Easybeats St.Louis (RareEarth), and Love 7&7 is. I wish I'd bought more of the latter! I could not wrap my head around 7&7 is . I found it to be a very strange sound, fast (which was good) but no metal sound (which was bad). So I cracked it against my desk and threw it behind a shelf. I rescued it many years later and still have it. Plays good actually. Wish I'd payed more attention to it back then. Could possibly have saved me from some hairy metal atrocities in the 80s.

 

[bosshoss]

I went to imported record warehouse clearances on 3 occasions, in Sydney in the 1970s. They were huge, with tens of thousands of records lined up in packing cases, on the floor of a warehouse somewhere in the west of Sydney. All the records were clearance stock, mostly '60s, imported from the USA, in vast quantities. I caught a train to get there, but I've forgotten the locations. The first 2 times was all LPs, and I came away with all the Standells LPs, which attracted me purely by the front cover artwork. Also the GTO's (Girls Together Outrageously) LP. I can't imagine what else I could have found there, if I had a clue what I was looking at.
The last time was in central Sydney, near the corner of King and George streets. This time it was all 45s, and I picked out 3 copies of Teddy & His Patches "Suzy Creamcheese". I was probably attracted by the Frank Zappa reference, as I was keen on him at the time. This must have been 1978, because I played the 45 for our group (Lipstick Killers), and we twisted the Teddy & His Patches tune inside out, coming up with our own tune "Hindu Gods Of Love". It's a very similar riff, and some bits of the lyrics are ripped off as well. I had no idea that the Teddy 45 would later be regarded as "garage", or that it had any value, or that anyone else in the world would have ever heard the record. I just thought it was a weird and bizarre oddity (like "Psychedelic Washing Machine" by the Phyve Of A Cynde, haha). I gave away all 3 copies.

 

[bosshoss]

A7&7 is . I found it to be a very strange sound, fast (which was good) but no metal sound (which was bad). So I cracked it against my desk and threw it behind a shelf.

I love your stories, Thomas. You could have said "I threw it behind a shelf and when I found it, it was cracked", but no. We get to hear the unvarnished, uncensored and truthful details .

 

[Frantic]

I think I've mentioned on a previous occasion, how my Dad grabbed the Easyfever ep off the turntable, and smashed it, because of the lewd panting and groaning in one of the tracks, "Tryin' So Hard".

Hey. that reminds me of the time my dad ripped my Sly Stone poster off my wall in 1971 and said "we don't allow any jungle bunnies in this house"!!!

 

[pfft]

[quote="Darren J]Embarassingly enough, mine was a 45 called Pop Muzik by "M"....bought it at the local Woolworth's Store when I was 12 years old in 1979[/quote]

You call that embarrasing? I have their album! :oops:

First LP: Little Feat (s/t)
First 45: Roxy Music - Trash

The former I still like, the latter not so much...

 

[Frantic]

In the 70s I used to work at a one-stop in Cincinnati and they used to get in pallets of 8 tracks for 10 cents each. They were mostly odd-ball no hit wonders type stuff. I sure wish I had the first 8 track I ever bought outta there. T2...It'll All Work Out In Boomland!!!

 

[EXPO67]

Could possibly have saved me from some hairy metal atrocities in the 80s.

There was a huge heavy metal thing going on back in the 80s....and all of those Glam hair bands.
Most of the girlfriends I had back in those days were into this type of music. They couldn't understand it when I played them Syd's Pink Floyd or some garage revival like The Vipers or The Wylde Mammoths...

My very first records were given to me by my Uncle back in the early 70s. I would have been between 8-10 years old. I can still remember them all and still have them in a box in the garage. Those 45s were as follows:

Free - 'My Brother Jake'
Slade - 'Coz I Love You'
Searchers - 'Needles And Pins'
Beatles - 'Help'
Suzi Quatro - 'Can The Can'
Simon Dupree & The Big Sound - 'Kites'
Kinks - 'You Really Got Me'

It also helped having a Dad who was a Teddy Boy (still has his quiff) playing Rock 'n' Roll all day....

From an early age I knew I liked short snappy songs with catchy melodies and strong hooks.

 

[depravedskippy66]

1st 45 - Draggin' The Line by Tommy James

1st LP - When my older brother went into the Air Force back in 1971 he left behind a small (about a dozen or so) stash of albums which consisted of the likes of Steppenwolf, Three Dog Night, Iron Butterfly, The Moody Blues, Jimi Hendrix and The Doors. Pride of place, however, went to the Stones' "Through The Past Darkly" which, in hindsight, is what got me seriously hooked on their Decca/London output.

 

[Laurent Bigot]

1st 45s were disco crap (Voyage and Cerrone) summer of 78 (I did much better with my first LP, Never Mind the Bollocks, same summer)

1st garage punk 45s was a repro of Gloria by the Shadows of Knight plus a split Surfin' Bird/Liar Liar and the Monkees "Steppin' Stone" in august 81 in a shop which was either in Portsmouth, NH or in Kittery, ME while on my second vacation in the USA

 

[sylvain]

Damn, dudes, reading your comments, seems like there's barely anybody below 45 y old on this board ? Are all the youngsters on the Garage Punk Hideout or on Terminal Boredom ? Means at least that collecting original 60s garage records is not the priority of today's youth ! I remember reading in MTM's book that the "garage community" was probably the tiniest one in this world, would it be that it's the one with the highest concentration of ol'timers as well ?
That said, there's 357 members on this board, when most discussions are carried out by the same dozen of members. Maybe does it mean that there's 340 youngsters hiding in the shade reading your comments, who knows.
As far I'm concerned, my first 7'' was The Assembly's start / stop hit in 1983 when I was 11, and I then bought mostly terrible shit till the mid-90s when I got suddenly caught by the 60s psych and neo garage thing, totally by accident as none of my friends were into those sounds, and I was anyway living in the armpit of France with no access to a real record dealer, apart the local supermarket. Got hooked when I had the chance to head to a bigger town once at the university. I'm now 40 y old, which means "only" 18 years spent in those sounds (among many others), so yes, still a lot to be discovered. Record addiction is a pretty obssessive thing, in which money is unfortunatly the limiting factor (most record maniacs are permanent broke guys, with millions on the shelves and nothing in the plate). Thanks to blogs, boards, etc I've been able to listen those last couple of years X 10 much more records than I've been able to listen to the dozen of years before.

 

[Ned]

The first 45 purchase I remember was Chuck Berry's "Back In the USA", probably in the summer of 1959. I would go to the local record / hifi shop on Saturday mornings with my father when he was buying his weekly allowance of LPs. My babysitter had hundreds of great 45s then & I had heard Chuck's new hit & Wilbert Harrison's "Kansas City" with the great Jimmy Spruill on guitar from her stash & it was a tossup as to what one came home with me. Chuck won, Wilbert would be added a few weeks later.

First LP was the Rolling Stones "England's Newest Hitmakers" in the spring of 1964 with yardwork money. My first taste of sin !

Ned

 

[mansson66]

I can't really remember my first 7"... but I think it was a used Charlie Feathers ep(on Charly rec's - I still have it) that I made my mum buy for me at some flea market when I was a kid just starting to get into rock'n'roll. At the time I was completely out of the loop when it came to 'popular bands' (I had no clue about punk rock either, this being '77 - '78... ). Weird kid :)