What was the First Record that you Bought?

I said in a pp that it was probably She Loves You, but I think it was actually Telstar, released 1962. I’d dropped massive hints at Christmas, no joy ?, but bought it with birthday money a month later.

Just found it on YouTube. An instrumental classic - it reached No.1 in both the U.K. and the US charts.
I still love it! Ditto so many mentioned by others.

Children of the Revolution - T-Rex, 1972. I was just about to turn 10 years old.

Val Doonican !
I wonder why buying our first record was important enough for us to remember?

Travellin' Light by Cliff. I was twelve and had just been bought a record player.

The single Wig Wam Bam by The Sweet

Heartbreak Hotel by the one and only Elvis Presley.
I was fifteen and madly in love with him! Hmm that takes me back.

Me and my fanatical Beatles fan friends used to order the Beatles records before we'd heard them!

The Wombles album!

Rock and roll by Gary Glitter and something by The Rubettes.

I Feel Fine by The Beatles, bought in the NAAFI in Berlin 1964.

Carole King, “it might as well rain until September” pre Beatles obviously then it was Beatles and Stones all the way!

Lonnie Donegan, Grand Coolie Dam

Return to Sender.Elvis Presley.Can’t remember which year,around 1963.

The first single I owned was My Ding-A-Ling by Chuck Berry 1972

Apache by The Shadows. It cost 6s 4d. Played it over and over again. I still love it.

Esther & Abi Ofarim, Cinderella, Rockefella. I was 10 at the time with little taste. Lol

‘The Carpenters’ album. Cost me £2 10 s in 1974.

Dr Hook: 'A Little bit more'.
My dad threw it out because I played it that much!

Mine was just a single, by Labi Siffre, "It Must be Love, Love, Love"
(think I was in it at the time, but looking back, possibly not!)

My cousin was Miles Kington a double base player and he persuaded me to buy Marty Wilde "Mack the knife' I loved it. I was 13. Fortunately my parents liked it too.

Single was Melting Pot by Blue Mink, which is oddly apt in a way for the times we're living in. Although some of the words might just raise offence as everything seems to, but an interesting view at the time. First Pop LP was Sgt Pepper, still love it and have my original copy also Grieg's Piano Concerto for the first classical one. Got them all still.

YorkLady- I Feel Fine was my 1st record too. I was 8!

‘Sweets for my Sweet’ by the Searchers.

Sandie Shaw Puppet on a String 1967 I was 10 I lived with my Nan , who was crippled with Arthritis, and in a wheelchair, I used to take her out to local shops, and remember, us both choosing this, although I can't recall how we listened to it !!!

'When I fall in love' by Nat King Cole
Lovely voice

Young girl union gap