Oh goodness, my very first?
Saturday Night Fever - 8 Track
First 45 was Hanky Panky/Tommy James & the Shondells. I must have been 10 or so.
First album was More of the Monkees. I’m guessing '67?
The Monkees were cool.
So was Batman.
Duran Duran’s first release on cassette. I used to listen to it on my mono tape recorder. Twenty years later, I can still sing all the lyrics to that whole album, front to back.
Holy crap, jjimm, I bought the War of the Worlds LP by Jeff Wayne and thought it was the coolest thing I’d ever heard. Thanks for mentioning that one; I’m ready to dust it off next time I get to my parents’ basement.
45 RPM with Yummy Yummy Yummy on one side and I can’t remember the other. (whew, I’m sure glad there are so many other purchasers of 45s here:D)
I still think it’s pretty good (albeit slightly cheesier than I remember). A few years ago they released a techno remix version which was quite good too, if a little repetitive. Did you get the one with the fantastic airbrush picture booklet?
Mine was Rock Around the Clock by Bill Halley and The Comets. This was back around 1953 or so. I think it was a 78, though it might have been a 45. I don’t remember what was on the flipside.
Young MC, Stone Cold Rhymin’, when I was 12 and on cassette. I still know most of the words…
First single: Cast - Beat Mama
First album: Lighthouse Family - Postcards from Heaven
Both on cassette
I just remembered that I actually bought a Hall & Oates 45 before getting Duran Duran on cassette. But I can’t remember for sure what that 45 was (probably “Kiss on my List”), while that Duran Duran cassette influenced me enormously.
And in response to jjimm, I don’t recall an airbrush picture booklet with War of the Worlds, just a big picture on the inside of the double LP sleeve. Also, I realize that what was cool at 10 years old could possibly be cheesy now that I’m 30… but I’ll bet hearing it will make me feel like I’m 10 years old again! And I should search out the more recent techno remix you mentioned. I’m already sure I would like it.
It was 1973 and having just turned 8, I was officially ready to graduate from Fischer Price music.
I heard a song on the radio by Terry Jacks titled Seasons in the Sun. I was blown away by it. I had a little red T.V. type thing which had a record player on the top and a filmstrip viewer so you could watch stuff like The House of Usher and Ali Baba on the screen while the record played the soundtrack. I completely wore out 4 of those Seasons in the Sun 45’s.
I guess that was what started out what would turn out to be an ongoing love affair with music.
Mighty Mighty Bosstones’ “Let’s Face It” on CD.
Nothin to laugh at there ! I bothered my parents endlessly till they bought the Kiss Alive albums for me . The first thing I bought myself was Judas Priest- Screaming for Vengeance , also an album, back in 82 when I was 14 .
Both cassette, and both bought at the same time.
Rush “2112” and the Doobie Brothers “Best of the Doobies” I was 15 at the time.
I now no longer listen to either band or cassettes.
Best of the Easybeats when I was 15 on vinyl.
Crash Test Dummies’ And God Shuffled His Feet on cassette when I was 12.
The Rose ST - Bette Midler
I was 8. I think my tendancies were already showing.
Bridge over troubled water - Simon and Garfunkel (vinyl, 13).
Bon Jovi: Slippery When Wet when I was in the fourth grade. I think I still have the cassette pack away somewhere
First album: Pink Floyd’s The Wall in 1980.
I know I bought a few 45’s before that, but the only one I can remember now is “The Night Chicago Died.”
I Got You Babe, by Sonny and Cher. Ohmygod.
I also bought the Daytripper/We Can Work It Out 45, but it wasn’t my first.