What were the first ever records that you bought and when?

I Feel Fine - The Beatles 1964. I still have it along with approximately 150 singles.

Primrose53

I think my older brother bought me my first record and I think it was Emerson, Lake and Palmer.

🤣🤣🤣 where did that come from? I think it was Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young.

Hellogirl1 - having grown up and widened my taste in music I think I might agree with Laurence Harvey and I can safely say that was the only Cliff Richard I ever bought whereas I have followed Laurence and enjoyed his films especially "Butterfly Eight" with Elizabeth Taylor. Going off piste here but that's what a thread like this does to me often!!!!!

My first record bought with my own money was daydream believer by the Monkees . My sister and I loved the tv show . I think I was about 10 or 11

My brother made our record player (he’d have been about 15) and the first record I bought was ‘Why’ by Anthony Newley. I think it was 1958, I was 11. I think records cost about 6s 3d then, we used to get most of them from Woolworths.

Grayling1, I think Shrine on the Second Floor was from the film Expresso Bongo. I remember being very indignant at Laurence Harvey`s character calling Cliff a snotty nosed kid!

NotAGran55

Christmas 1964 when I was 9. I had my Dansette record player from my parents and bought the singles with some Christmas money.

Does anyone else still have theirs?

My son has mine he is a collector of radios etc. so he still cherishes it . It was blue and bought in 1962.

Yes, it was this - I’ve still got all my records, they are more evocative than photographs.

In 1958 I bought Michael Holliday's record of " The Story of my Life " . I think that was the only popular music record I bought as I discovered classical music after that .

I don't remember the first single I bought but the first LP was The Animals probably around 1965 when I started my Saturday job. I even remember the record shop in Norwich, near Castle Meadow, opposite British Home Stores.

Crocodile Rick Elton John and Atlantic crossing album rod Stewart. Still love rod. Also ra dancer marmalade.

Poetry in Motion by Johnny Tillotson

The first record I bought was Do You Mind by Anthony Newley in about 1960. My father worked for EMI and he brought home a 78rpm (!) of Elvis singing Blue Suede Shoes and a demo disc of Cliff singing Theme For A Dream.

My first record was Eve of Destruction by Barry McGuire. It was a protest song released in 1965 when I was 13. I must have played it over and over because I still remember all the lyrics.

Very first record was Daydream Believer by The Monkees. Think l was about ten or eleven. Played on my Dansette record player. Happy days.

What memories this post has brought back! I too used to listen to my transistor under the blankets. My first purchase was a Cliff Richard "EP" (extended play if I remember right). It was many years ago obviously and the only song I remember was "Shrine on the second floor). I played it over and over driving my parents mad but I was an only child and was let off over many things and we all liked music and shared the radiogram. Mother with "crooners", father with traditional Scottish music and me with anything I could get my hands on. My first LP was Roy Orbison and I still have it along with my Beatles LPs and EPs,

Cliff Richard - Move It bought with my 12th birthday money. It was the first of many 45s that formed my record collection which was mostly made up of Cliff, Everly Brothers, Adam Faith, Billy Fury et al until the Beatles and Stones took over.

I couldn’t afford to buy LPs until I earned money from holiday jobs but I’ll always remember the first ones were Manfred Mann (when they were a blues band) and Georgie Fame and the Blue Flames.

I think my older brother bought me my first record and I think it was Emerson, Lake and Palmer.

In the mid ‘70s, Silver, our Boss let us have a radio on in the office. Every time Stranger on the Shore was played, the Transport Manager would leap to his feet and waltz ‘Beryl’ an older lady around the room. It was almost a daily event- brings back memories.

The first LP I bought was Atom Heart Mother by Pink Floyd. I never bought singles only albums.
I still have a few but nothing to play them on now.

I also had a Dansette player for Christmas, I think I was 12. With my Christmas money I bought Obladi Oblada by the Beatles and played it on repeat for hours.
My brother about 3 years previously was given a Dansette as well and I remember hearing Go Now by the Moody Blues for hours on end.

The wide range of choices is interesting and shows the wide age range of GNers. Those of you buying in the 60s had a much wider choice of pop/rock music than those of us born in the late 40s. I remember listening to Childrens' Favourites and Two Way Family Favourites for the occasional rock and roll record that would be played. There were no other popular music programmes. When I was a teenager my parents bought me a tranny and I listened to Luxemburg under the bedclothes. Then one day my Father came home from work and told me about Radio Caroline which started broadcasting in 1964.

We are so lucky with the variety of channels available to us.

Grandmadinosaur, Grocer Jack (Excerpt From A Teenage Opera) was by Keith West. I remember my little sister singing it as a toddler, except she sang "Boser Dack" instead!

Mid fifties: The Dam Busters, Elvis Presley's Rip It Up, and Paddy Robert's EP which included The Belle of Barking Creek.

Red River Rock. by Johnny and the Hurricanes 1959