First single/LP/CD bought?.........and when?
 

Okay so ash has started the 80s threads and hes got me thinking.............first single I got?..................well I saved up I think abought 40 empty Golden Wonder Crisp bags and sent them away and got ...........Poison Ivy by the Lambrettas (it was quite catchy..........................Kenny Rogers - Coward of the County was also on selection:rofl:) think that was 1980. First single bought? Madness - Our House..................I remember going to Woolworths that day..............we were so easy pleased 1982. First LP? Now thats what I call Music (original) 1982?.................First CD's - Wilson Philips and Del Amitri.1990.

Back to 80s memories.................Re. Mike Reid dying (aka Frank Butcher Eastenders).................anyone remember Run..run..runaround (obviously being shouted in a deep, rough, cockney accent......................Brill:thumbsup:

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hi jacky g here
first single i ever bought i think was haircut 100.....fantastic day

i remember we inherited a record player,it was a red box with a white stripe......and you had to put 2p on the needle arm to stop the record jumping...ah the good old days.....singing with hairbrush in mirror..

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I'm not sure I want to admit to any of this, could be quite embarrassing but I was very young! My first record bought for me was by someone called Trini Lopez!!! and the first record I bought was Andy Williams.

I am not quite as old as these might suggest though!:rofl:

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I can still hear the sound of a record playing................all the crackles and jumps................remember the fluff clogging on the needle? Or did I just have a dusty house:rofl: Yip and I did the hairbrush singing too...............no singstar for us:rofl:

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Donny Osmond - Puppy Love :o:o:o

Still know all the words :eek:

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First Single - The Lotus Eaters - First Picture of You (Early 1980's)
First Album - The Human League - Dare 1981
First CD - Depeche Mode - Enjoy the Silence (2 years before I had a CD player:o) 1990

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First LP: The Beatles "Let It Be" 1970. I had picked the winners of a double that my nan put on for me. It paid $38 for a 50c outlay. I only saw $10 of it though :frown::sneaky: But from that I got the record.

I was never much of a collector of 45's, preferring the LP's instead. My first album on CD was Bob Dylan's "Masterpieces". I got that early 90s (had had it on vinyl before then.)

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Pass de dutchy by some family type band,or it might have been Pink Floyd-Brick in the Wall.

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First single - A Good Heart by Feargal Sharkey. Mmm, vinyl. Still have it somewhere!
Couldn't name my first album or CD though

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The first single I bought was Bohemian Rhapsody - Queen in 1975. I got it from John Menzies in St.Helens for 45p. I think that shows great taste for a 10 year old but then I'm biased :lol:.

My first LP was Abba's greatest hits, bought in 1975/6 period I think.

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Musical Youth sang Pass de Dutchy;)

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Elvis - Greatest Love Songs
Closely followed by the Grease Double LP!:thumbsup:

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LP - Jimi Hendrix - Experience

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Ballad of Bonnie and Clyde - was it Georgie Fame??? Anybody know???

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hi everyone

my first singe was by Toyah, sorry cannot remember the name but i remember her hair on the front was all multicoloured, and my first album was by spandau ballet, closely followed by ultravox.
i cannot remember what my first cd was,
singing in mirror has just reminded me of me and some friends making up dances to the songs,, now that was a long time ago :rofl:

with regards

kirstie

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First single - Well I bought 3 (it was Christmas) Sugar Sugar by The Archies, Blackberry Way by The Move, can't remember the 3rd but possibly a Cliff Richard single.
First LP - a Top Of The Pops LP of cover versions.
First CD - Probably 10cc The Original Soundtrack (in those days there weren't may to choose from.

Rob

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Life on mars by David Bowie.
I dropped it as I walked home and chipped the very edge so had to be careful how far in to place the needle.
Anyone else remember having to put a 10p coin on the arm of the record player to stop it jumping? :blink::eek:

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First single - my grandad bought me a Jimmy Osmond single.
(Can't remember what it was called! :o But it wasn't
long-haired lover from Liverpool!

First Album - Paul Young - No Parlez (on cassette!)

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That was it! How strange is that Sarah!

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In my day it was an old penny. Life on Mars was an early single for me as well, loved the phone ringing and "what a lovely one" at the end of the record. I always had to turn the volume up for that. Do you remember that part of the record?

Further story about the Blackberry Way single I mentioned earlier is that my Father was so sick of me repeatedly playing it he broke it and put it in the bin.

Rob

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First single I got was Rubettes - Sugar Baby Love (as Xmas pressie about 74)
First single I bought (as I remember) was _ Madness - One Step Beyond (79) or Matchbox - Rockabilly Rebel (also 79) - both charted in November/December of that year, when I went up to Secondary School .... memories.....:)
First Album - mmm.......that would be one of the Larry the Lamb in Toytown albums, the one with the Dachshund ("Oh Mr Earnest Sir" was the catchphrase of Larry) or possibly something me dad got from the Cash & Carry - again a pressie, not sure the first one I bought but it was probably from Graduate Records, the "home" of UB40 and probably some heavy metal, SKA or 80s stuff.
First CD - Level 42 - World Machine, about 86 (got a shiny philips oversampling CD player via "the trade" - nice) - unfortunately it did not sound as good as my early 1970s Swiss turntable - I was an early digital-skeptic......actually, my numero uno "FTS" sticker (FTS = "favourite track selection" - a gimmick from philips that stored 256 or something favourite CD selections in the player memory, not that I had 256 discs!!!) is on the Sam Cooke "Wonderful World" compilation CD, so that must have been early on. Think I got that from RCA when I worked there.......:thumbup:

Sligtly OT - but relevant - how about Juniour Choice??
 

Almost forgot that prior to owning all the vinyl I used to sit by my Sharp radio cassette player during Juniour Choice (sat and Sun am) and the Top 40 shown (Sunday pm) to tape everything I fancied and had ooddles of cheap tapes of classics like:
Puff the Magic Dragon
Two Little Boys
Nellie the Elephant
Morningtown Ride (I sing that to the kids now as a lullaby)
Must admit that the old Sharp got a fair old hammering what with the pause button wearing out! Happy Days.........:D:thumbsup::D

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David Bowie: Great choice :thumbup:

We used a 10c piece on the arm. Wouldn't a 10p piece have been a bit heavy for a poor old 45?

Hey you remember those radiograms/early stereos with the thingy that held up to like 6 records, and one would drop down after the end of the record that was playing?

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My first ever single was Forever Autumn by Justin Hayward. I got my nan to buy it for me as she worked in WH Smith's.:)

Jac

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[QUOTE
Hey you remember those radiograms/early stereos with the thingy that held up to like 6 records, and one would drop down after the end of the record that was playing?[/QUOTE]

The autochanger, someone must have made millions out of that.

Rob