“Big Bad John” by Jimmy Dean - 1961. I think I place second in the geezer department, behind Son of a Rich.
I think it was She Loves You by the Beatles, but the B-side was Love Me Do which I loved even more.
A lot of 45s met a slow-oven death during the fad of heating them, then “fluting” them into ashtrays and candy dishes and…and, stuff. I’ve got a drawer full of them from the '60s, though, but I need one of those yellow spidey things.
Apparently it’s my mission in life to be the PIA of this thread, but the B-side of “She Loves You” was “I’ll Get You.”
“Love Me Do” was an A-side in its own right. Its B-side was “P.S. I Love You.”
If memory serves, it was “Hot Rod Lincoln” by Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen. That would have been about 1972.
Is that true regardless of where the single was released? As previously mentioned, This Boy was the B-side of a completely different song in the US, as compared with the UK and Australia.
It’s true of the four songs in question with regard to the US and the UK. The only difference is they were all released on the Parlophone label in the UK — whereas in the US, they were passed on by the American branch of EMI when initially released. They came out instead on small, independent labels (Tollie and Swan). But the configuration was the same.
Hey, I had a migraine at the time.
[sub]The Clash? Where did THAT come from? Had to be the drugs…[/sub]
Mine was Bo Donaladson and the Heywoods Billy Don’t be a hero
side 2 was Don’t ever look back. I was about 9 or 10 years old, My mom bought
it for me at the old Nanuet Mall at a store called Music den which was on the bottom floor next to Sears, it cost I think it was about 50 cents, I think I still
have it somewhere.
I don’t know what order, but my first two were The Rolling Stones Shattered and The Cars Good Times Roll. I was about 10 years old.
I remember walking around in the snow and ringing doorbells and asking if I could shovel anyone’s sidewalk for them. I rang the bell of a doctor’s office and the doctor himself answered. He asked how much, and not really knowing what to answer, I replied “two dollars.” The office was on a corner and I had to do both sides and the snow was pretty deep and took quite some time for my 10 y.o. self.
When I was finished shoveling, I rang the bell and told him I was done and with a smile on his face, he handed me $2. I stopped at the music store on the way home and bought The Stones Shattered record with it. I went home and right away put it on my my cheap radio/phonograph/8 track setup and thought to myself, “all that work and all I get is one song?” I know, I got the B-Side too, but it was Everything Is Turning to Gold and I didn’t care for it.
OK. I think there were also different albums released in the US, no? Or with the order of songs changed. I’m cranky I no longer have the Christmas messages they released.
Yes. Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Heart’s Club Band (1967) was the first Beatles album released in which the content was identical across the UK and US versions. All that preceded it had different tracks, and in many cases, different titles.
Dionne Warwick’s “I Know I’ll Never Love This Way Again.”
Here’s the first 78 I bought.
“Tell It All Brother” - Kenny Rogers and the First Edition. 1970.
I kind of had two firsts. When I was about two years old I loved to do the Twist to “Walk Right In” by The Rooftop Singers. Y parents got such a kick out of it that they but the record. The first I actually asked for was “Leaving on a Jet Plane” when I was seven. I still have both records and several players.
F-R David: Words (1982). Was I proud!
Pretty sure the second one was Michael Jackson’s Billie Jean.
Maybe, but in my busiest album-buying year (1984), in New York City, I usually paid $5.99 for a Beatles album (the majority of my purchases). $6.99 was probably most typical for a recent release by a big-name act. Maybe cassettes were cheaper than vinyl. Also, with the single exception of “Revolver”, I bought them all from places like Disc-o-Mat and Record Explosion; at Sam Goody it would have been more like $10, and encased in a dirty piece of formerly white plastic, a primitive sort of inventory-control device.
IIRC, the first 45 I bought was Frank Mills’ “Music Box Dancer”. My mother was very anti-rock & roll at the time, and I figured that song was a safe choice.
I think I’ve only ever purchased 2 or 3 45s, preferring to get my music in album form. I believe the first one was Led Zeppelin’s Immigrant Song, only because it was the only way that I could get the B-Side, Hey Hey What Can I Do, which had never been released (at the time) on an album.
