What’s your first 45/album/tape/ CD or 8-track you can recall? I’ll start with “I hear you knocking”
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Gerry Rafferty - Baker Street, 45 record. My sister gave it to me, the pizza place she worked cleaned out the juke box every so often and gave the employees the old ones.
First one I ever bought, I'm sad to say, Funky Town, 45 record.
First one I ever bought, I'm sad to say, Funky Town, 45 record.
I'm not sure for whom I should feel sorrier. LOL
Do you remember this one? I had the 45 at one time.Cant forget this 1 on vinyl.
The New Vaudeville Band---Winchester Cathedral
LP = Good bye yellow brick road (Elton) & Thriller (MJ)
Tape = Huey Lewis and the news SPORTS
CD = Al Green greatest hits, and SADE (title not important)
I-tunes = The Outlaws Waylon & Willie & Charley Brown Christmas theme song (Vince Guaraldi Trio)
I recently terminated Pandora subscription for Tidal due to sound quality, bandwidth and fidelity, it's taken time to get my library caught up to all the Pandora channels I had saved(since 2012ish), but I can appreciate the differences in my Car, Home Stereos (Martin Logan/Marantz & paradigm powered monitor), and my portable items Riva & Bose aka the golf cart stereos.
Tape = Huey Lewis and the news SPORTS
CD = Al Green greatest hits, and SADE (title not important)
I-tunes = The Outlaws Waylon & Willie & Charley Brown Christmas theme song (Vince Guaraldi Trio)
I recently terminated Pandora subscription for Tidal due to sound quality, bandwidth and fidelity, it's taken time to get my library caught up to all the Pandora channels I had saved(since 2012ish), but I can appreciate the differences in my Car, Home Stereos (Martin Logan/Marantz & paradigm powered monitor), and my portable items Riva & Bose aka the golf cart stereos.
I rarely listen to Pandora anymore. I have Spotify premium so the sound quality is much better (320bps) , also I prefer to either make my own lists, or listen to complete albums. You can always select "artist radio" if you want a random selection.
Back to the main topic. I can remember when CD's were first being introduced, the catalogs were very limited and mostly classical recordings. I did pick up a recording of Stravinsky's Firebird Suite and was blown away by the sound quality.
The guitar solo on "Baker Street" is secretly one of the best of all time.
First 45 was Betty Davis Eyes by Kim Carnes. First album LP AC/DC - If You Want Blood You Got It. First compact disc was The Cult- Manor Sessions (remember purchasing it at Manifest Rekords when it was located on Main Street before moving to Boozer shopping center).
Too many 45s to remember which one was first. I started buying music on my own during the cassette era, so my first was probably "Sports" by Huey Lewis or "Midnight Madness" by Night Ranger. My first CDs I remember well: Van Halen's "Diver Down" and Rush's "Moving Pictures".
First album: Brahms Piano Concerto no. 2, Rudolph Serkin, Piano, Ormandy, Philadelphia Orchestra. Given to me by our next door neighbor who ended up with 2 copies from the Columbia Record Club. I was around 7, and had already taken a couple of years of piano lessons. Yes, I was a music nerd from a very, very early age.
I always thought Ormandy brought a certain force to his recordings. I have heard many renditions of Swan Lake, but I always liked his the best.
That may be a low number.
I wonder how many figured out that the "spaceships" were upside down guitars.
There was a definite "Philadelphia sound" with lush strings creating an overall richness.
You can still listen to the Serkin/Ormandy recording of the Brahms on YouTube. It has stood the test of time. I do like the Ashkenazy recording with Haitink for a digital recording.
First one I bought myself would be a cassette tape of Journey "Frontiers" and I think right about the same time, I won The Cars "Heartbeat City" on vinyl from a radio station, both in 1983.
Yea, Journey was and still is one of my favorites. Steve Perry had a special gift. I usually am listening to more alternative rock or punk rock or singer/songwriter stuff but will never quit listening to old school Journey.Yes, Frontiers is still my favorite album . 1983 great year for music.
45 Three Dog Night - Joy to the World.
Album Chicago
8 Track Led Zeppelin I
CD Paul Simon - Graceland
Album Chicago
8 Track Led Zeppelin I
CD Paul Simon - Graceland
Probably when i was a teenager, i got Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker.. It had just come out..
Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker Suite, released in 1909
Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker Suite, released in 1909
45...rock'in robin...michael jackson
album...Kiss Alive
cassette...thriller...michael jackson
cd...burl ives christmas...my fav singer storyteller of all...
album...Kiss Alive
cassette...thriller...michael jackson
cd...burl ives christmas...my fav singer storyteller of all...
My grandma had a slew of albums from the 70's and 80's at her place, along with an old stereo system with a record player. They were my aunt's that she had collected over the years before moving out. I used to love to go there as a kid and play Michael Jackson's Thriller and an Alvin and the Chipmunks album.
1st album: “Best of the Loving Spoonful” (Christmas gift by my brother for the portable Stereo I got from “Santa” that year)
1st 45 bought at register by me w/own “pocket $$” (Had received several re Christmas gift above) was Tommy James & The Shondells “Crystal Blue Persuasion”
1st 8-Track: “Uriah Heep Live” (friend’s older brother had a copy in his car...it was a medley of ass-kickin’ 50’s rockers at the end that really hooked me!! I knew the songs well, but was floored by the way these guys played them!!).
1st cassette: Bachman-Turner Overdrive “Not Fragile”
Don’t remember 1st CD...probably a Remastered Beatles or Stones album!!
1st 45 bought at register by me w/own “pocket $$” (Had received several re Christmas gift above) was Tommy James & The Shondells “Crystal Blue Persuasion”
1st 8-Track: “Uriah Heep Live” (friend’s older brother had a copy in his car...it was a medley of ass-kickin’ 50’s rockers at the end that really hooked me!! I knew the songs well, but was floored by the way these guys played them!!).
1st cassette: Bachman-Turner Overdrive “Not Fragile”
Don’t remember 1st CD...probably a Remastered Beatles or Stones album!!
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I thought this was just for the first you bought yourself, which for me was a cassette and an album I won from a radio station that I already mentioned. The first cd I ever bought was U2 - The Joshua Tree.
I think the first record I ever got was cut off the back of a cereal box -- maybe Honeycombs. Might've been The Archies, "Sugar Sugar." It actually played, as I recall.
For some reason, Sylvia's Mother by Doctor Hook seemed to be constantly playing somewhere in my memories of childhood.
For some reason, Sylvia's Mother by Doctor Hook seemed to be constantly playing somewhere in my memories of childhood.
My first 45 purchase was Queen “Another One Bites the Dust”.
My first Album purchase was Journey “ Escape”
First Album was a gift of Kenny Rogers “ The Gambler”
I think my first cassette purchase was the Beastie Boys “License to ill”
First CD was George Strait “Pure Country”. Had a girlfriend that loved the movie. I loved some of the one liners that came out of it.
My first Album purchase was Journey “ Escape”
First Album was a gift of Kenny Rogers “ The Gambler”
I think my first cassette purchase was the Beastie Boys “License to ill”
First CD was George Strait “Pure Country”. Had a girlfriend that loved the movie. I loved some of the one liners that came out of it.
