What was your first 45/Single

[scotty]

Just for something on a lighter note!Just was wondering what was your first 45/single bought.
Mine was Shakin Stevens This ole house Oh yeah i real classic, Aye right.Anyway if youve got a story to add with the first single all the better!

[winston]

Smokestack Lightnin' by Howlin' Wolf. I was blown away by the guitar work and the mood of the song as I recall.

[ajish4]

Hmmm,

My memory not being what it once was.....I THINK

The FIRST 45 GIVEN to me was the Beatles "I saw her standing there" and I THINK it was on Swan records. I STILL have it, but I'll have to take a look to be sure.

The FIRST 45 I BOUGHT was THE MARTIAN HOP, I was REALLY YOUNG, and asked my brother to buy it for me with some birthday money. I HAD to be like 3 or 4 years old....I STILL have it too, and STILL LOVE listening to it too!

FOR those you not in the KNOW......I don't think ANYONE buy GARY will know what the opening SOUND is.....listen carefully!


"THE MARTIAN HOP
The Ran-dells
By Steven Rappaport, Robert Rappaport, John Spirt

Papa ooh mir mir papa ooh mir mir papa ooh mir mir papa ooh mir mir
Ee-ee-ee ee-ee
I got into my rocket ship to see the Martian Hop
I saw the planet shining red so there I made my stop
But as I opened up the door and climbed the ladder down
I saw the Martians on the floor a-dancin' to this sound
Ee-ee-ee ee-ee the Martian Hop ee-ee-ee ee-ee-ee-ee

I saw I was the first one there and so I was surprised
To see the Martians twist and stomp before my very eyes
They did the locomotion and the hully-gully too
I couldn't name a single dance the Martians couldn't do
Ee-ee-ee ee-ee the Martian Hop ee-ee-ee ee-ee-ee-ee

Now right around the stroke of twelve the dance had just begun
They earth kids parked their spaceship down on Mars to have some fun
And so I left my friends, the Martians, stomping on the ground
And even though I'm back on earth I still can hear this sound.
Ee-ee-ee ee-ee the Martian Hop ee-ee-ee ee-ee-ee-ee
(fade out while repeating "papa ooh mir mir")


From: Steven Rappaport, the co-writer, member of The Ran-Dells, and
producer of the record.
<[email protected]>"

[Scastles]

Johnny Horton's, Sink the Bismarck. I was all of 9 years old.

[charlyg]

San Franciscan Nights.

Strobe lights beam, creates the scene, etc....

Or Crystal Blue Persuasion,


One of those two.

[captsandwich]

Afternoon Delight by the Starland Vocal Band. I was 10 years old and clueless, me & my friends went to the store and bought the top 5 singles on the chart that week. I don't remember how we decided the order, but I got #3.
My teen-aged sisters were appalled, I couldn't figure out why.
Whenever I bug my wife about her taste in music, she brings this up.
I am still embarassed by it.

[scotty]

Afternoon Delight by the Starland Vocal Band. I was 10 years old and clueless, me & my friends went to the store and both the top 5 singles on the chart that week. I don't remember how we decided the order, but I got #3.
My teen-aged sisters were appalled, I couldn't figure out why.
Whenever I bug my wife about her taste in music, she brings this up.
I am still embarassed by it.

Embarrassed! Em i bought Shaky! Heres what i mean

[captsandwich]

No Scotty, I win this argument.
Here's the lyrics:

Afternoon Delight

Gonna find my baby, gonna hold her tight
gonna grab some afternoon delight.
My motto's always been; when it's right, it's right.
Why wait until the middle of a cold dark night.
When everything's a little clearer in the light of day.
And you know the night is always gonna be there any way.

Sky rockets in flight. Afternoon delight. Afternoon delight.

Thinkin' of you's workin' up my appetite
looking forward to a little afternoon delight.
Rubbin' sticks and stones together makes the sparks ingite
and the thought of rubbin' you is getting so exciting.

Sky rockets in flight. Afternoon delight. Afternoon delight.

Started out this morning feeling so polite
I always though a fish could not be caught who wouldn't bite
But you've got some bait a waitin' and I think I might try nibbling
a little afternoon delight.

Sky rockets in flight. Afternoon delight. Afternoon delight.

Please be waiting for me baby when I come around.
We could make a lot of lovin' 'for the sun goes down.

Sky rockets in flight. Afternoon delight. Afternoon delight.

Not to mention, it was a sappy 70's AOR melody, with a stupid skyrocket sound effect in the chorus. At least yours could be identified as a distant cousin of Rock and Roll. Mine was pure pap about ****ing in the afternoon. I repeat, I was 10 years old!

[scotty]

Sky rockets in flight!
OK you win

[phlemmy]

I think it was Steve Martin's King Tut. That explains a lot, really.

[whojamfan]

HMMMMM, it was either the A&M release of "Flowers in the Rain" by the Move(no Harold Wilson promo card), or "Crimson and Clover" by Joan Jett. I'd always loved the Tommy James original(the proper one with the fuzz guitar middle section) and really liked her version of it. I've always wanted to combine the two. I was more into buying LPs, instead of 45s.

[ozover50]

Hmmm...... a long time ago! Elvis - "Hound Dog" backed with "Don't Be Cruel". I think it's still in my brother's garage!

[leftyguitars]

The first new one that I bought was 'The Move - Blackberry Way'. The first single bought (from the ex-jukebox stall on the market) was 'Sunny Afternoon by The Kinks'.

[wmthor]

The Statler Brothers' Flowers On The Wall

Playin' solitaire till dawn with a deck of fifty-one
Smokin' cigarettes and watchin' Captain Kangaroo
Now don't tell me I've nothin' to do

[winston]

Jeez Scotty I see that you wanted a story to go along with the first 45/single that I ever bought. Well here's the story mate and it's all true.

I bought the record (Smokestak Lightnin') and I almost played it until the needle wore out. By the time I was finished I could play that damn song note for note. I was determined to do it and I was so happy that I could play it that I heard it for weeks in my head at the oddest of moments. Anyway, I was walking past this row of council houses when I heard a racket coming out of one of them. What's that I thought "that sounds like drums". So I went up to the front door and a very young child opened the door and yelled into the front room as loud as he could "Freddie I think one of your mates is here" or words to that effect.

Freddie was a frightfully horrible kid but we quickly became friends since he was the only person that I knew that owned a set of drums and I of course had a Hofner 6 string and a Vox AC30. I was king of the blues that day Freddie did not know anything about the blues at all, he just knew how to pound those skins and make a racket at breakneck speed. He turned out to be a fairly steady drummer when all was said and done.

After a couple of practises, we called our band The Confederates. It was my first band. It was a blues band obviously but Freddie and I did not appreciate the nuances of the fight between The Confederate Army and The Union Army. We did not realise that calling a blues band The Confederates was sort of odd at best.

We just thought it was cool that we were playing blues and we were white kids from Southern England. Of course we could relate......couldn't we? We never did find a bass player before we both went on with our respective lives. The memory live on though. It was cool because I could play the blues like my heroes.

Our short set list included classics like Walking the Dog, Baby Please Don't Go, Smokestack Lightnin', Talkin About You, Hoochie Coochie Man and so on. I was a huge Muddy Waters fan. Playing Smokestack though made me believe that I could play anything and or course I could. How could I not?