Do you remember buying your very 1st 45 ?

[Heitkotter77]

For a department store chain EJ Korvettes had the greatest record department. Even as late as 1969 you could find stuff like Mad Twists Rock & Roll LP in their back catalog section. The first time I ever heard the Stooges and Emitt Rhodes was when they were being played in-store. (Passed on the Stooges , bought the Emitt Rhodes)

Many of the NYC department stores had great record departments. I lived less than a mile from the Korvettes in Queens, and walked there at least once a week. A lot of great LP's were sitting in their unsorted racks.
I took plenty of rides to the Jamaica Bus Terminal & main branch of the Queens Library. Even though there were 3 killer record stores in a few block radius, I always made sure to check out the Mays record department, too. You could find plenty of lesser known LPs in there. That's the first place I found Forever Changes, as well as "obscure psych" like Ultimate Spinach & Beacon Street Union.
Alexanders' cutout section was unbelievable.

 

[depravedskippy66]

Many of the NYC department stores had great record departments. I lived less than a mile from the Korvettes in Queens, and walked there at least once a week. A lot of great LP's were sitting in their unsorted racks.
I took plenty of rides to the Jamaica Bus Terminal & main branch of the Queens Library. Even though there were 3 killer record stores in a few block radius, I always made sure to check out the Mays record department, too. You could find plenty of lesser known LPs in there. That's the first place I found Forever Changes, as well as "obscure psych" like Ultimate Spinach & Beacon Street Union.
Alexanders' cutout section was unbelievable.

If you only knew thehn what you know now, eh, Mike?

Pity there's no such thing as a functioning time machine!

 

[Heitkotter77]

If you only knew thehn what you know now, eh, Mike?

Pity there's no such thing as a functioning time machine!

If there was, my first stop would be the Sam Goody near SUNY at Stony Brook, 1972. The bargain bin was filled with sealed copies of Morgen.

 

[bosshoss]

If you only knew thehn what you know now, eh, Mike?

Pity there's no such thing as a functioning time machine!

I have often wondered where and when I would go if I had one 24 hour time machine ticket. Last night, it was London, Oct 28, 1966.

 

[paul messis]

If I had a time machine for one day.... I'd go to Grand Rapids Studio and watch a band cut a fenton 45... then try and grab as many local band 45s as I could and also buy a decent pair of straight legged trousers which actually fit me.

 

[Hicksville Hogwash]

I used my time machine once. Attending a Seeds concert in '67. It never ever worked again.

 

[Hicksville Hogwash]

...and my first 45. I want to say Suzi Quatro - Can the Can but believe Clive Dunns' Grandad :rolleyes: to be more accurate for first 45.

First Album was "Hits of the 50's & 60's" on K-Tel. A double album.

 

[johnmiller]

I bought my 1st 45 in 1958 and still have all 64 of them dating from 1958 to 1963.
Beep Beep - the playmates
come softly to me - the fleetwoods
Born to Late - the pixleys
High Hopes - frank sinatra
everybodys somebodys fool - Connie Francis

Just to name a few Too many to list!

 

[Frantic]

I bought my 1st 45 in 1958 and still have all 64 of them dating from 1958 to 1963.
Beep Beep - the playmates
come softly to me - the fleetwoods
Born to Late - the pixleys
High Hopes - frank sinatra
everybodys somebodys fool - Connie Francis

Just to name a few Too many to list!

and you bought your 1st good record in what year? ha! :rolleyes:

 

[beccabear67]

The Fleetwoods were kind of cool, must've been that Dolton/Boles sound, although I prefer Runaround, Outside My Window, and Mr. Blue. Under all that smooth harmony there could be some raging hormones going nuts... or maybe not. :rolleyes:

 

[johnmiller]

I was 11 years old in 1958 and those songs were popular then. I played bass in a rock band from 1964 to 1969 which was the beginning of the new age of rock and roll.
We were inspired by the rolling stones, the kinks, the who, the yardbirds, and the zombies to name a few.
My avatar is the last band I played in, I'm on the right with the goofy shirt.

 

[bunter]

The Partridge Family -I Think I love You
I bought for a friends birthday present, honest!

 

[greenfuzz]

I was 11 years old in 1958 and those songs were popular then. I played bass in a rock band from 1964 to 1969 which was the beginning of the new age of rock and roll.
We were inspired by the rolling stones, the kinks, the who, the yardbirds, and the zombies to name a few.
My avatar is the last band I played in, I'm on the right with the goofy shirt.

So...name of band, John? Any recordings?

 

[johnmiller]

Our original band name was the nomads, then in 1967 our singer butch stoner got drafted with 3 of us left we changed the band name to Baby Food. In 1968 we recorded some of our songs to get a record contract. Jim Lowe, singer in the electric prunes, did the engineering for us. A few months after the recording mike gannon joined the navy to get out of the draft leaving only joe dooley and I. Our Band ended!! We lived in the sanfernando valley in Ca. I still have my fender bass guitar, it's something very important to me, it helps remind me of our band and what we did and the good times we had, and if it wasn't for the vietnam war, Im sure we could have become a succesfull rock band.
check out
Sancho Panza's thread - Baby Food - two unreleased tunes
He posted 2 of our songs on his thread, I sent him a 3rd song we recorded at the same time.

 

[stevo3199]

My first single was a four track kids ep on the mr. Pickwick label...on it were pretty faithful versions of 'Everything's Archie',the 'Mickey Mouse' theme and I swear a version of the 'Batman' theme that I've never heard ever since it was totally different to the usual 'nanana' one and the theme for 'Captain Marvel Jones' that to my (about) 5year old ears was the most exciting music I'd ever heard even now I remember that it ROCKED(all these years later i could be wrong ) it got knocked off by the neighbourhood bully/arsehole years later in primary school and I've never heard it since,even youtube has failed me...I remember it had a red label and the cover was mostly pink..does anyone else here know of this kids 'artefact '?
As for albums I'm pretty sure it was the Sweets Greatest Hits which amazingly has survived all the music collection 'horror stories/girl trouble' incidents over the years...which is for another thread I'm sure a lot of us still have the scars over!
If we are being technical the first single I actually bought with my own cash(less than a dollar?) was an aus band Sherbet-'life' or 'life is for living'...the sweet record was with my own hard earned dollar bills!
As for a time machine take me back to last Boxing Day and I'd be buying the Decca Stones box set that contained all their uk albums for a measly 50 schmakas that I put back on the shelf after all the other useless crap I had bought earlier in the day had wiped me out...

 

[beccabear67]

butch stoner got drafted

You realize what a mistake for the military that sounds like!

I'm really focused on the L.A. Strip venues like Ciro's and the Byrds lately; any contact with that scene John? I know local bands opened for them in most places beyond there. The Prunes were great too and should've been allowed to do more on their own.

 

[johnmiller]

We did play on the sunset strip as an opening band just a couple blocks down from the whiskey a go go. Don't remember the name of the place, it was in 1967 & 1968.
After we did our opener we sometimes went into the whiskey a go go. I'll never forget seeing big brother and the holding company!!!! Janis Joplin blew our minds!!!! She looked a little scared but her singing was out of this world!!! Just a few years after that she died, I truly miss her!!! And Jimmy And Jim Morrison!!!
Another time we saw Proco Harem!!!
The Whiskey was a perfect place for new bands to play just as they release their first song and start to get attention.

 

[beccabear67]

The Whiskey looks to have had more of a variety than most of the other venues. I remember seeing it on tv shows.

In San Francisco a couple of years ago we chose to pass by the 1090 Page street location where Big Brother and Janis used to rehearse (building gone, wah) rather than 710 Ashbury. Love that one song they trade vocals off on, 'Combination Of The Two'.

I wonder what the first vintage/valuable 45 people here ever bought? I remember paying the ridiculous sum of $15 for a Bob Marley 45 from England with some track not on the albums (Small Axe I think). People were like, you paid that much for a single 45? They were shocked, but it was well worth it in terms of enjoyment to me!

 

[eleelandc]

I remember living in Orleans MA (so this would have been 1975/1976 area) and me and my buddy Mike getting a moving box full of unsleeved 45s at a yard sale for like $5..... scratchy and fun.... I remember the Pipkins' Gimme Dat Ding was in there.... other than that, my memory is pretty foggy... Was more of an LP kid....

 

[johnnyfootballhero]

Mine was "Farmer Brown" (technically "Hurry Up Sundown") by The Balloon Farm.