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I don't remember. (No, it's not the album name.) Well, guess it were Dad's bobbin tapes and "Kuzya the grasshopper's adventures" (Soviet musical for children).

The first one I owned was one of those K-Tel Collections of Silly Hits with Ahab the Arab, Alley Oop and stuff like that.

The first one I purchased for myself was:

My first was Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy. Bernie's lyrics on that particular disc are close to his best, and the totally weird cover art was also a drawcard.

I can remember it took me an eternity to get the money together...

Beatles - Hard Day's Night, 1964 - followed a year or so later by Rubber Soul.

Mrs. Hays, my piano teacher, recommended this so off I went to the Ft. Buckner PX on Okinawa and scored it.

The first album I owned was a copy of Peter, Paul and Mary's "In The Wind" that my dad brought back from a business trip. It's pretty funny, but the cover photo showed that they were obviously "Beatniks" with those outrageous beards. These days, they would more likely be mistaken for district attorneys....
The first album I bought was The Kingsmen's "Louie Louie" which I found in the bargain bin at the A&P grocery store for $1. Miserable album. Little did I know, that their bass player, Norm Sundholm, would eventually have a hand in the design and marketing of the first bass speaker I would ever own that would kill you and everyone around you before it would blow out - the Sunn 118VH folded horn.

goofyfoot wrote:Mrs. Hays, my piano teacher, recommended this so off I went to the Ft. Buckner PX on Okinawa and scored it.

Cool... I'd like to believe that if I'd had someone like Mrs. Hays as a piano teacher that my musical trajectory might have been somewhat different.

I bought these two at the same time.

My first gifted (not bought) LP's were soundtracks from Disney and other children's movies. At age six I'd be sitting on my bed, playing Peter Pan, Dumbo, Pinocchio, or Tom Thumb on my portable phonograph and reading Green Eggs and Ham, while my folks sat in the living room listening to Camelot, West Side Story, or South Pacific, my Dad reading the latest Tarzan paperback and my Mom reading every classic author she could find. Grandma loved The Kingston Trio and Hitchcock.

Followed shortly by Toys in the Attic, Rocks, and Frampton Comes Alive..

kiramdear wrote:My first gifted (not bought) LP's were soundtracks from Disney and other children's movies. At age six I'd be sitting on my bed, playing Peter Pan, Dumbo, Pinocchio, or Tom Thumb on my portable phonograph and reading Green Eggs and Ham, while my folks sat in the living room listening to Camelot, West Side Story, or South Pacific, my Dad reading the latest Tarzan paperback and my Mom reading every classic author she could find. Grandma loved The Kingston Trio and Hitchcock.

God how I wanted to live your life.

Bighouse wrote:My first album...I remember it well...listened to it on my parents' console stereo system (more furniture than hi-fi) that could also, oddly, cut wax 78 rpm disks...I can remember unwrapping the shrinkwrap and pulling out the vinyl and from the paper sleeve...and listening with my head next to the speakers...bought it with my own hard-earned cash from mowing lawns...

T Rex- Electric Warrior

Well, I guess since album covers are all the rage (love it!) here's mine....



Wish Marc Bolan had lived long enough to see what he could have really have done...

My older sister had some albums, so when my mom was shopping I went to the bargain basement under the store, and found treasure.
I then talked her into getting me a BEATLES ALBUM!!!!!

..... or so I thought.
Obviously I didn't quite understand what "Instrumental Background Re-creations" meant. On the other hand, the fold-out album has the words, chords and chord diagrams of the songs and that helped my guitar playing a whole lot.

I still have the album.

eatswodo wrote:

goofyfoot wrote:Mrs. Hays, my piano teacher, recommended this so off I went to the Ft. Buckner PX on Okinawa and scored it.

Cool... I'd like to believe that if I'd had someone like Mrs. Hays as a piano teacher that my musical trajectory might have been somewhat different.

Yeah, heard that, brah. These were the next two I scored, again based on Mrs. H.'s recommendation. How in the heck did I turn into a rock 'n roll degenerate? {:=)

Bighouse wrote:

tyarbrough wrote:First lp was Foreigner's "Double Vision."

I'm hot blooded you can check it and see I've got a fever of a hundred degrees

Oh I'll bet you had Boston and Kansas too.

Pretty much. I had Styx, Boston, Journey, etc. in heavy rotation for years. I don't listen to much of that any more, although I have a nostalgic connection to those bands.