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First musical recording you ever purchased?

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D M C said:
I suppose that this has less relevance, what with all the streaming and whatnot that the kids do nowadays, but I'm pretty sure that it was the Serendipity Singers, Crooked Little Man for me. Ok, I'm pretty sure my mom bought it for me, but what what single or album started this whole thing for you?
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It's a bit hard to remember between my parents, siblings, and myself just who bought what, and when. Might've been the Kingston Trio, Chubby Checker, Elvis, or even "Snoopy vs. The Red Baron" or one of the Monkees tunes if going strictly by laying down my own money. I'm going to say "Hound Dog" by Elvis started it for me though, since that's the first title I can actually remember from my misguided youth. Like tangentmusic, I had an older sister who was all over the British Invasion, but I also fell asleep most nights in the early 60s to the sounds of WABC in NY, and was always especially fascinated by the Motown stuff.

So much for singles. I think "Flowers" by the Stones was the first album I actually bought.
 
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My dad worked for a company that as one of their very many lines of business, made audio cassette tapes (not what he did). But as a perk, he got the tapes at cost, so he would bring home a 10 pack brick of 90 minute "chrome" tapes, and I'd record songs off the radio, or "high speed dub" albums from friends. (you can likely tell this was early 80's - hahaha)

I had a bunch of albums copied - including Yes, Clapton (Cream, etc), U2, etc. I think one of the first albums I "had to buy" was Appetite For Destruction. Everyone in school had a copy - but as such, I wanted one from the store with the full fold out liner notes.

After that I bought a ton more albums from that genre on tape before moving to cds around 1989, and then "buying a bunch" - which was about 50 over a few years. This was not a lot by my peers standards, but I still had my cassettes and would copy friends cds on to tape. :)

From Hair Metal to Heavy Metal to Seattle Grunge, all while still enjoying classic 60's and 70's rock. Sabbath, Clapton, VH, Led Zep, Metallica, and then in to Satriani and Steve Vai. Its no wonder I was drawn to electric guitar! (and from there to bass, as a bunch of us played guitar but our band needed a bass player - which is how that started... 26 years ago!)
 
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Probably AC DC Dirty Deeds (Done Dirt Cheap). I was about 8 or 9, and there was a counselor who listened to that record pretty much nonstop at YMCA summer camp that year. When I got home I had to have it.

And until I bought it, I thought it was Dirty deeds, dunder chief. Also thought there was a verb brocktahu, meaning promoted or sponsored, as in "This broadcast of the NFL brocktahu'd by..."
 
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I listened to a lot of top 40 radio before I bought an album... And there were all the records my parents had, but they were mostly children's story records and classical. Then I bought Eric Johnson's Ah Via Musicom and listened to cliffs of Dover a bunch. Then there were more influential ones by Primus, they might be giants (Apollo 18 first), and Zeppelin. Then lots of classical, classic rock, and progressive rock. And some jazz. But that's more than you asked for.
 
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I was in middle school and I wanted a hard rock/heavy metal album. My father hated hard rock and I didn't have any friends that listened to it so I knew nothing about it. I had been eyeing a cassette tape at the mall for a while because the cover was a cool painting of some guy exploding out of a grave on a motorcycle, when I finally had some money I bought it. It was...Meat Loaf-Bat Out Of Hell. I put it on and instantly knew it was a mistake. I listened to it many times but could not escape the fact that it was LAME. Thus began my quest for albums that sounded as hard as the cover art!
 
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The first I ever spent my money on was Chicago 16. But it was for a girl for her birthday. I remember because I had my mom swing by the store on the way to the party. I bought the cassette. When we got there I told her "You might want to go ahead and open this." She did. She screamed like.......a girl. We were in her back yard for the party. She put the cassette in her boom box and played it over and over until the party was over.
 
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D M C said:
I suppose that this has less relevance, what with all the streaming and whatnot that the kids do nowadays, but I'm pretty sure that it was the Serendipity Singers, Crooked Little Man for me. Ok, I'm pretty sure my mom bought it for me, but what what single or album started this whole thing for you?
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First 45 bought, Wilson Pickett, Hey Jude, Duane Allman on slide.
First album, Abbey Road, was young but thought the whole Lennon-McCarntney thing with Hey Jude, showed promise.
 
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This was my first music player:

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Frankie Avalon - Why - is the first 45 I remember owning. My cousin gave it to from her collection, to use with the close-n-play.
Beatles - I Want to Hold Your Hand - is the 2nd 45 I had.

No clue what the first record I ever bought was. Probably something from the Monkees, The Archies, or the Partridge Family.
 
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