# What was the first 45 RPM you bought? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 1, 2014, 11:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-first-45-rpm-you-bought/685064 "2014-04-01T11:17:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 7
**Author:** ![AllShookDown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d9b06d/32.png) [@AllShookDown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AllShookDown)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2014, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-first-45-rpm-you-bought/685064/121 "2014-04-08T17:48:36Z")
I’m pretty sure it was American Pie (relased as a single in 1972 when I was 11-12). I remember playing it over and over on my parents’ stereo console (similar to Don & Megan Draper’s), transcribing the lyrics. I clearly remember there was a jigsaw puzzle going on a card table in the room at the time. I bought it at the local (very small town) place called Hanson’s which sold TVs, radios, toasters and other small things like that. Mr. Hanson fixed all that stuff, too. It was the only place in town that sold records. ---
**Author:** ![Labdad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/439d5e/32.png) [@Labdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labdad)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2014, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-first-45-rpm-you-bought/685064/122 "2014-04-08T18:32:02Z")
> [@jasg](#): > > I was just a kid too - age 9 & lousy taste in music. > > 1958 - [Beep Beep (song) - Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beep_Beep_(song)) > > [http://youtu.be/enqNl7tdLR4](http://youtu.be/enqNl7tdLR4) Hey! I used to LOVE that song, and thought it was very hip! Of course, I was 7. ---
**Author:** ![PeacePlease](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/71c47a/32.png) [@PeacePlease](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PeacePlease)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2014, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-first-45-rpm-you-bought/685064/123 "2014-04-08T20:13:11Z")
‘Bad, bad Leroy Brown’ and ‘Playground in my Mind’. Remember it like it was yesterday!! I even remember where and when I bought them…1973…Kmart…shopping with x-mas money. I was 10. I also remember the first cassette I bought. Around the same time. I don’t recall the year but it was the album that had ‘Paint it Black’ on it. Still love that song and still wonder where my parents were when I listened to that one over and over!! ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Pig](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c57346/32.png) [@Little\_Pig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Pig)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2014, 6:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-first-45-rpm-you-bought/685064/124 "2014-04-10T06:55:50Z")
98.6 . I was in the 5th grade. ---
**Author:** ![installLSC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/54ee81/32.png) [@installLSC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/installLSC)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2014, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-first-45-rpm-you-bought/685064/125 "2014-04-11T01:20:22Z")
Can people who started buying 45s after their golden age post too? Because I didn’t buy my first 45 until my second year in college–1995. Elton John’s “Philadelphia Freedom” with a very awkward sleeve photo, and the Elton/Lennon concert version of “I Saw Her Standing There” on the flip. ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2014, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-first-45-rpm-you-bought/685064/126 "2014-04-11T02:24:29Z")
> [@AllShookDown](#): > > I’m pretty sure it was American Pie (relased as a single in 1972 when I was 11-12). I had that! (I didn’t remember that I did until you brought it up.) My parents bought it for me; I hadn’t yet reached the age of buying music for myself. If I remember right, the song was so long it took up both sides of the 45. ---
**Author:** ![Reeses\_Monkey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/reeses_monkey/32/2885_2.png) [@Reeses\_Monkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reeses_Monkey)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2014, 11:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-first-45-rpm-you-bought/685064/127 "2014-04-11T11:12:12Z")
> [@installLSC](#): > > Can people who started buying 45s after their golden age post too? Because I didn’t buy my first 45 until my second year in college–1995. Elton John’s “Philadelphia Freedom” with a very awkward sleeve photo, and the Elton/Lennon concert version of “I Saw Her Standing There” on the flip. Sure! Heck I didn’t even know they were still making 45’s then. Was it a re-release or did you go to a used record store? Remember those? I miss those. ---
**Author:** ![kopek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kopek/32/337_2.png) [@kopek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kopek)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2014, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-first-45-rpm-you-bought/685064/128 "2014-04-11T14:50:48Z")
Crimson and Clover - early 1969 with left over Christmas money as I recall. ---
**Author:** ![installLSC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/54ee81/32.png) [@installLSC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/installLSC)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2014, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-first-45-rpm-you-bought/685064/129 "2014-04-12T00:36:10Z")
> [@Reeses\_Monkey](#): > > Sure! Heck I didn’t even know they were still making 45’s then. Was it a re-release or did you go to a used record store? Remember those? I miss those. Got it used in a record store in Spokane. There weren’t many new 45 coming out in the nineties, but I do remember getting Pearl Jam’s “I Got Id” (released in 1995) at another record store. ---
**Author:** ![dada2fish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ccd318/32.png) [@dada2fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dada2fish)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2014, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-first-45-rpm-you-bought/685064/130 "2014-04-12T02:58:20Z")
Simon Says by 1910 Fruitgum Company. Hey shut up, I was five. I used my birthday money. I still have it too. ---
**Author:** ![OtisCampbellWasRight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/d78d45/32.png) [@OtisCampbellWasRight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OtisCampbellWasRight)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2014, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-first-45-rpm-you-bought/685064/131 "2014-04-14T17:58:44Z")
:DIt was “They’re coming to take me away” by Napolean the 14th. We played it so much that my mother smashed it. Good times. ---
**Author:** ![x-ray\_vision](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/x-ray_vision/32/351_2.png) [@x-ray\_vision](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/x-ray_vision)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2014, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-first-45-rpm-you-bought/685064/132 "2014-04-14T18:27:46Z")
> [@OtisCampbellWasRight](#): > > :DIt was “They’re coming to take me away” by Napolean the 14th. > > We played it so much that my mother smashed it. Good times. That’s weird. I only read the first line of your post and for some reason it reminded me of us playing _“The Battle of New Orleans”_ over and over…until my mother smashed it. She really lost it. Yeah, good times. 🙂 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-first-45-rpm-you-bought/685064.md?page=6)