What was the First Record that you Bought?

Guy Mitchell ‘Singin’ the blues’. I think I must be a lot older than most of you!

Monster Mash - Bobby Pickets & the Crypt Kickers. Cost 49p in Woolworths I remember

It would have been either an Adam Faith one or a Freddie and the Dreamers one - probably a Freddie one.

Ride a White Swan, T Rex, 1970

Ever lasting love by Love affair.

OMG, FC, you are younger than my sons and when they were your age, one of them filled the house with Prince; and the other bought Queen. Nothing quite like royalty!
When I got a record player for my 21st, in 1961, I went out and bought Beethoven's Archduke Trio.

Fishpieplease

FannyCornforth...think the shop you’re referring to in Stourbridge was Mark and Moody’s

I think that you are right!
Thank you very much Fishpie

Never had a record player when young. My DH, when he was my boyfriend, bought me ‘Which Way You Going Billy? by The Poppy Family, and I think we bought one then, probably about 1971.
I really liked that record, thought it very mournful and sad.

I had older siblings. My brother was into Eddie Calvert and even bought a trumpet. he went on to Slim Whitman, I loved Smoke Gets in your Eyes
sister was a Frankie Lane fan. Other sister Shirley Bassey......Then me Cliff Richard...went on to Elvis.

Mony Mony by Tommy James and the Shondells.
6/6d from Jill Hanson's Coventry 1968.
My dad had a redundancy payout and gave me and my brother pocket money for the first time.
He bought Fire by The Crazy World Of Arthur Brown.
We played them to death on our newly acquired Dansette record player.

At the Hop by Danny and the Juniors. Still can’t hear that recording without getting up and dancing.

My Sweet Lord by George Harrison. Already had records my dad had bought - Shirley Bassey and Tony Bennett. Still love those to this day.

Sorry,PamelaJI just saw that someone has already posted re Twinke's death.

PamelaJ1

Terry by Twinkle. Wonder what happened to her?

She died about four years ago from liver cancer. Sad.

Green door - Frankie Vaughan

We were given a second hand record player by an uncle and allowed to choose a single each. I chose Ride A White Swan by T Rex, I was about 10 years old. I did get to see Marc Bolan when a friend and I went to the television studios to see a programme being made (some thing like Ready,Steady Go). Whilst I was young and naive and thought he was wonderful, sadly on recordings I can see that he was high as a kite and actually looked quite unwell

Sugar Baby Love by The Rubettes. No idea why. It's quite dreadful. My 13 year old ears must have loved it though.

"I Want You Back" by the Jackson Five. It was an ex-juke box record that didn't have a middle! You could buy the middle bit separately

Do you remember when you could go into a booth in a record shop to hear the latest records before you bought them? Or didn’t buy them!
I think singles were 6s8d at the time.

I went to London with my brother to a new record shop in Oxford street called Virgin. It was over another shop and sold records at a discounted price. I bought Teaser and the Firecat by Cat Stevens from a young long haired man called Richard Branson.
I wonder what happened to him ?!!!

The first single I brought was Have I the right by the Honeycombs back in 62/63 price 6/8d
Although I started to get LP`s in early 70`s
Mick

Is - beg his pardon!

Paul Anka, naughtynanny

I think he was Canadian

Don’t Bring Me Down by the Pretty Things. I felt like such a rebel!

Diana. I can’t remember the singer’s name but played it all the time.