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....They've got a new album out in case you didn't know....
Boston's first album, it was late 1976. I saved up my dairy farm earnings to buy a kick a$$ stereo system. Listened to is over and over and it drove my folks nuts. They really loved me......
The first album I specifically remember asking my mom to buy for me was the soundtrack to "The Alamo" (1960) along with the Mercury Living Presence recording of the 1812 Overture. The first 45 I bought myself was the Hollies "Here I Go Again" (1964). The first album I bought myself was The Mothers of Invention "Freak Out" (1966) which not coincidentally was the year I started playing bass.
My uncle bought me Elton John's "Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy". The first recording I bought for myself was Aerosmith's "Toys In The Attic".
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My dad bought this Herman's Hermits album for me as my first record and I still have it. Herman's Hermits were also the headlining act for Dick Clark's Caravan of Stars in April 30, 1965 and my mother took me to that as my first concert. I decided that night that I needed to be in a band someday. I was 8 years old at the time.
The explosive success of Herman's Hermits in America coincided with their booking with the Caravan of Stars. This unit lacks some of the depth of other Caravans as the charts are heavily moving away from typical Dick Clark acts. This only emphasizes the singular popularity of the Hermits. The unit's success at the box office encourages Clark to book other British acts for his summer and winter Caravans.
4/30/65 Cambria County War Memorial Arena, Johnstown, PA
Here was the concert lineup.
Talent:
Herman’s Hermits
Bobby Vee
Little Anthony & The Imperials
Freddie Cannon
Brenda Holloway
The Hondells
Round Robin
Reparta & Delrons
The Detergents
The Ikettes
Billy Stewart
The explosive success of Herman's Hermits in America coincided with their booking with the Caravan of Stars. This unit lacks some of the depth of other Caravans as the charts are heavily moving away from typical Dick Clark acts. This only emphasizes the singular popularity of the Hermits. The unit's success at the box office encourages Clark to book other British acts for his summer and winter Caravans.
4/30/65 Cambria County War Memorial Arena, Johnstown, PA
Here was the concert lineup.
Talent:
Herman’s Hermits
Bobby Vee
Little Anthony & The Imperials
Freddie Cannon
Brenda Holloway
The Hondells
Round Robin
Reparta & Delrons
The Detergents
The Ikettes
Billy Stewart
It was about 1969. I heard the 5th Dimension on the radio. I begged my mom to buy me the 45 "Last Night I Didn't get To Sleep At All".
Albums were Beach Boys PET SOUNDS and Beatles SGT PEPPER'S. First 45 single was The Byrds EIGHT MILES HIGH. Showing my age.
I am shocked at all the Mothers references, especially as a first album. I didn't get into them until much later.
The first thing I bugged my mom to buy me was the soundtrack to "2001: A Space Odyssey".
The first single I bought was "Cat's in the Cradle" by Harry Chapin
The first album I bought with my own money was "Pieces of Eight" by Styx.
Yes, I am old. And oddly, very into prog rock, metal, prog metal and "classical" music.
The first single I bought was "Cat's in the Cradle" by Harry Chapin
The first album I bought with my own money was "Pieces of Eight" by Styx.
Yes, I am old. And oddly, very into prog rock, metal, prog metal and "classical" music.
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Owning every Zappa LP was a point of pride of mine through about 1980 - 1. It was around then, just about the time of Ship Arriving Too Late to Save a Drowning Witch, that there were too many releases to keep up with (economically speaking, for the time). Still many favorites. Waka Jawaka Hot Rats, Freakout, We're Only in it for the Money and of course Live at Fillmore East 71. I recall in that period (early 80s) Flo and Eddie ran an employment agency in the San Fernando Valley. "If we can get work, so can you" was approximately their advertising.
