Your taste exceeds your tender years. 
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“I Want To Hold Your Hand” by the Beatles in 1963. Capitol Records with the yellow and orange spiral label. Flip side might have been “There’s A Place” but that’s a guess. I might still have it packed away, but if I do, it’ll be in terrible condition.
I Saw Her Standing There is the flip side. Was gifted a bunch of those Capitol 45s as a six-year-old by my babysitter. Would play them on my Mickey Mouse record player. Over and over. My favorite was Strawberry Fields. I joke that I was born to take drugs/be an addict, as evidenced by my six-year-old fascination with the druggiest song the Beatles ever wrote.
It’s All Too Much and Tomorrow Never Knows are close seconds. For the record.
See what I did there?
Me, too, although that wasn’t the b-side on my version.
Did anyone else have a music store that let you make custom compilation 8 tracks? You would pick your favorite 45’s from their selection. They’d put them in this jukebox 8 track recorder machine. Then the customer selected the songs (just like a jukebox) and it recorded them on a blank tape. I can’t recall what they charged per 45 but it was cheaper than buying the 45. The entire tape cost several bucks.
I had several of those compilation 8 track tapes in high school.
Ha! I was wracking my brain last night trying to remember what was on the B-side of This Boy but couldn’t for the life of me remember. Now it turns out, This Boy was the B-side!
I like it better than I Wanna Hold Your Hand, in any case.
The record cost me a hard-saved 9/6d.
**Clutch **- Pitchfork
It was the early 90s and my friends and I were in high school and just getting into hardcore/punk. We were going to tiny little “clubs” in bad parts of DC to see shows, and one of our first shows was a Baltimore band called Next Step Up, a Cleveland band called Integrity, and a young band from Germantown, MD playing one of their first shows called Clutch. I was impressed enough that I bought their 7", a first pressing, and it is now in a frame on my wall.
Jewel/Osco sold current 45’s for 79 cents or 39, depending on current chart rank. My first pair, bought together, were “The Night Chicago Died” (Paper Lace) and “Doctor’s Orders” (Carol Douglas). 1974, I guess? I doubt I paid the higher price, and they were more likely on their way down the charts by that point than up. Nine years old, anyway.
I’m intrigued; how do you say that and what’s the USD (then or now)?
“Nine and sixpence.” A little less than half a pound. If my calculations are correct, at the current exchange rate, that’s about 79¢, but in 1964 it would have been somewhere around $1.32.
“Heart of Glass,” Blondie. Flip side was “The Tide Is High.” Purchased at a Fred’s store in Memphis in the early 80s.
My parents bought me “Ragtime Cowboy Joe” by Alvin and the Chipmonks. The first one I bought could have been “Daydream Believer” by The Monkees.
12 pence in a shilling
20 shillings in a pound.
9/6d would be 9 shillings and 6 pence.
“It cost me nine-and-six.” = nine shillings and sixpence. That equates (not allowing for inflation) to 95 Australian cents.
“Spirit in the Sky” by one-hit wonder Norman Greenbaum.
Yep, had that one and the younger brother played it until the groove was gone.
Thank you all for the money 411.
Not wishing to hijack, but what does the “d” for pence mean, and why not 9 1/2 shillings? I suspect the answer is We’ve always done it this way, followed by, Go ask yer mother. 
Mine was Hey Jude… on the first release date.
I’m in Canada, but while there were some differences in release dates from the U.S., you’re still absolutely correct. I had a brain fart regarding the year. I bought “I Want To Hold Your Hand” after their appearances on Ed Sullivan which was 1964, not '63.
And I bow to your knowledge. I had all those 45s at the time (as well as the Dave Clark Five’s) but a lot of the details about them have faded away.
Yes, I saw what you did there and I salute you for it. And for your taste in music, which was more advanced than mine. I didn’t start listening to records and the radio till I was 12.
I think the d stood for some latin word starting with d. Helpful, am I not? 
Similarly, I don’t know why the symbol for a pound was £.
Correct: denarius. The symbols £. s. d. were derived from the Roman coins libra, solidus, and denarius.