What was the first single and album that you bought/were given?

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I was given a portable record player (a sort of plastic suitcase containing a turntable and lousy speakers) for my tenth birthday.

With it I got 3 LP records, chosen by my mom:
Partridge Family (I forget the name of the album)
5th Dimension’s Greatest Hits - this was actually good.
Donny Osmond (I forgot the name of this one too, but he was a kid at the time)

My mom hadn’t a clue what music to get me, obviously.

My best friend had one record, given her by her big brother, which we played on my record player until it wore out:
Abbey Road.

First 45 My best friend bought:
They’re coming to take me away (Ha Ha) - Napoleon XIV
First 45 I bought:
Somebody to Love - Jefferson Airplane
We pooled our allowances and chose 45s together

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First single: Alice Cooper’s Billion Dollar Babies, bought in a Goodwill for .25¢

First Album: Boston, Boston, first album bought with my own money (from selling roses on the side of the road, my summer job when I was…maybe 13?)

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First album: Big Ones by Aerosmith

First Single: Big Me by Foo Fighters
I never noticed that “big” coincidence before :smiley:

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First singles: “I’m A Believer” & “Snoopy vs. the Red Baron”, Dec. 1966 (they hit #1 and #2, respectively, the following week – I had an ear for pop hits even then!)

First album: “Wear Your Love Like Heaven” by Donovan, probably late 1967/early 1968. (This was Disc 1 of the double album “A Gift from a Flower to a Garden” – the two discs were released as separate albums in the US.)

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Given: Star Wars soundtrack 1970-something

Bought: Alice Cooper ‘When Zipper Catches Skin’ & ‘Welcome to My Nightmare’ 1982 instead of Michael Jackson’s Thriller. I think my investment paid off =)

I dont recall what my first singles were or when. I do remember my cousins passing down some of theirs to me - Kung Fu fighting was one of them. 1979 maybe?

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1st album bought: Funky Divas by En Vogue (purchased in 1993)
1st album given to me: I don’t know…it may have been Michael Jackson’s Thriller in 1982 or '83, but that was more for my sister than me

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1st Album - Destroyer - KISS

Can’ remember the 1st single.

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First Album: Thriller, I think.
First Single: I can’t really answer this. My Dad knew some guy that worked at a radio station, and one day he gave us a huge box of 45’s that they were throwing out. There were probably a couple of hundred in there. It probably would have been sometime in the early 80’s. The only ones I remember are “Magic Power” by Triumph and “Limelight” by Rush (can you tell I’m Canadian?).

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1st 45 - Steppenwolf, Born to be Wild, 1967. I was five years old.

I seem to remember getting some bubble gum crap in grade 4, but the LP I remember that started the collection was Mike Oldfield, Tubular Bells in 1973. I was eleven, and it completelyblew my mind.

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Both when I was 8 years old:

1st single - A Boy Named Sue

1st album - **The Mason Williams Phonograph Album **(a birthday gift from my grandparents, because *Classical Gas *was big at the time)

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Well, I’ve never actually purchased an actual music CD at a store, only downloaded them from iTunes (I wasn’t really “into” music as a kid, or really until…last year actually, when I got my iPhone). And because of the wonders of both purchasing one song at a time and of downloading songs for free on torrents, I’m not exactly sure. The first complete album I downloaded might have been Fantastic by Toy-Box, though.

Valete,
Vox Imperatoris

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Single: Love Me Do by the Beatles
Album: Wednesday Morning 3 AM by Simon and Garfunkel

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First Single-Don’t Let the Sun Go Down On Me by Elton John
First Album- Bad by Michael Jackson

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First Buy, Single:

Nancy Sinatra
Sugar Town/Summer Wine
1967
First Buy, Album:

Dionne Warwick
Dionne Warwick in Paris
(featuring an incredible arrangement of “Message to Michael”)
1966(but bought in 1967)

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Never bought a single.

My first album was Adios Amigos by The Ramones.

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First single bought: The Streak, by Ray Stevens (“oh yes they call him the Streak (looka that, looka that!) fastest thing on two feet” :rolleyes:)

First single I stayed up late at night to hear on the radio: **Fame **by David Bowie; I loved the funk riff and the cool computer-speak Fame riff at the end…

First Album: pretty sure it was **Free for All **by Ted Nugent; if not, it was KISS Alive

I was a boy of discerning, sophisticated tastes…:smack:

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Single: Band on the Run, 1973 (?) My dad bought it for me to prove to me that it was NOT, in fact, “Man on the Run”. It was my first grown-up record. (age 6 or 7)
Album: Andy Gibb, Flowing Rivers, 1978. Age 11. Or possibly that Meco Star Wars disco album. Paid for it with my own money, ordered it off TV.

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Single: The Kinks - (Wish I Could Fly Like) Superman, which I bought for the B-side Father Christmas

Album: Either the soundtrack for The Rocky Horror Picture Show or The Beatles 1967-1970 compilation.

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The first single I got was Crocodile Rock in 1973 probably. Because my older brother and sister bought albums I didn’t buy any, I bought singles.

The first album I bought was Abba’s Greatest Hits, around 1976 I’d say

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I don’t remember the first album, but the first single was REM - Stand.