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

Juicylucy

Everlasting love by Love affair. 1969 🌸

My first record too but I won mine in a competition.

Puppy Love by Donny Osmond ... sigh

The mention of Anyone Who Had a Heart by Cilla reminded me that was my first - I think, costing 6 shillings and 8 pence. My friends didn’t like it and thought I was stupid to buy it. I think the next ones might have been House of the Rising Sun by The Animals which I adored and ‘Tobacco Road’ which I think was by a British Group though an American song.

Interesting how a few on here turned to classical music and didn't appear to have any interest in pop or rock thereafter. I see no reason why people cannot embrace a wide variety of music. Snobbery perhaps?

I used to be quite snobbish about classical music. When I was at grammar school a friend introduced me to Rachmaninov - she considered Tchaikovsky to be rather naff and I followed suit. When I first moved to London I became friends with two girls who are at the London School of Music. One evening we went to the Proms bearing scores of La Mer which we followed, standing right at the front.

Needless to say I got over such silliness a long time ago. I like classical, jazz, rock and pop music. Not all of it - there are many things that I don't like, one of them being the trained, operatic voice.

Finders Keepers - Cliff Richard and The Shadows in 1966. I still have it, still play it too. It is now on it's 3rd record player!

I remember choosing 2 'Top Six' EP's for my birthday. I couldn't remember exactly what was on them, so just looked them up. It was my 11th birthday. One had
A1: Glad All Over
A2: I'm The One
A3: Needles And Pins
B1: I Want To Hold Your Hand
B2: Twenty Four Hours From Tulsa
B3: Hippy, Hippy Shake
and the other
A1: Bits And Pieces
A2: Little Children
A3: I'm The Lonely One
B1: Anyone Who Had A Heart
B2: 5-4-3-2-1
B3: Over You
I'm not sure, but I think they cost 6 &8, the same as a single.

We had an end of term party at school when I was in P7. We could take our own records, so I went to the record shop and bought Mary Wells, My Guy. My first record!

Interesting how a few on here turned to classical music and didn't appear to have any interest in pop or rock thereafter. I see no reason why people cannot embrace a wide variety of music. Snobbery perhaps?

We used to play the classical stuff as well, perhaps we were strange teenagers.

We did like some of the more rousing stuff, Ravel's Bolero (before that ice skating dance!), Der Meistersingers, Grieg's Peer Gynt and my favourite, The Hebrides Overture.

I used to pound some out on the piano, very badly.

she considered Tchaikovsky to be rather naff and I followed suit.
Oh, and the 1812!

Your friend would have thought we were all naff 😁

Apache By The Shaddows. 6s 4p. Played it over and over on my Dansette. Think it was 1959. Still love to hear it

Callistemon21

^Interesting how a few on here turned to classical music and didn't appear to have any interest in pop or rock thereafter. I see no reason why people cannot embrace a wide variety of music. Snobbery perhaps?^

We used to play the classical stuff as well, perhaps we were strange teenagers.

We did like some of the more rousing stuff, Ravel's Bolero (before that ice skating dance!), Der Meistersingers, Grieg's Peer Gynt and my favourite, The Hebrides Overture.

I used to pound some out on the piano, very badly.

Watch out for the French film "Bolero" which came out recently. Ravel was asked to compose a piece of music by a Russian dancer, Ida Rubinstein who had danced with the Ballets Russes.

The ballet is performed in the film, presumably as choreographed by Bronislav Nijinska. It looks like Isadora Duncan. There are several videos on youtube of the dance choreographed by Bejart with some amazing performers, Sylvie Guillem being one of them.

I Believe by the Batchelors as it was my grandmas favourite. She had an old radiogram and I remember listing to Tutii Frutii by Little Richard on it when I was very young.

Another one for Ride a White Swan by T Rex. It was an ex juke box copy as my uncle owned a pub and the juke box machine was updated every couple of months and the removed singles were very cheap as they had the centre section removed to fit into the juke box selector. I had a little adapter to replace the removed middle of the juke box records on my dad's momo record player which he passed on to me and my siblings when he upgraded to stereo in the early 1970s. .

I don’t understand why liking classical music is considered snobbery. It’s just a preference. In any case, there is a vast variety of so-called classical. I shouldn’t think anyone knows it all!

It was the first music I knew, partly via my mother’s radio, partly via school, partly via ballet classes.. In fact I doubt if I heard any other sort of music until I left primary school, so it’s part of me. I’ve liked some pop songs but they are ephemeral in comparison.

Bolero….Anton Dolin (Alicia Markova’s ballet partner) did a solo ballet to that music. I saw it several times as a child, but found it very, very boring.

Grandma70s

I don’t understand why liking classical music is considered snobbery. It’s just a preference. In any case, there is a vast variety of so-called classical. I shouldn’t think anyone knows it all!

It was the first music I knew, partly via my mother’s radio, partly via school, partly via ballet classes.. In fact I doubt if I heard any other sort of music until I left primary school, so it’s part of me. I’ve liked some pop songs but they are ephemeral in comparison.

Classical music is actually just old popular music, which has longevity. Some music from all eras in the last 500 years remains popular, some doesn’t. I don’t think you’re right about all pop songs being ephemeral though, some will stand the test of time - the challenge is in guessing what will be the ‘Greensleeves’ of 2400.

I love that record

Casdon - Vivaldi is a good example . We all know his FourSeasons now (though my father used to say in a grumbling way “Nobody talked about Vivaldi when I was young”) - but he also composed literally dozens of operas. Can you name one? I can’t. Some music lasts, as you say, and some doesn’t.

1957 Paul Anka’s Diana -to play on the Dansette record player I had for my birthday.

Casdon - One infant school I taught at had a headteacher who thought we should not use in school ‘any music the children might hear at home’.

I was 16 and my boyfriend bought me Puppy Love by Donny Osmond. I cannot remember the first record I bought myself but guessing probably a Cliff Richard as he was my crush too 😂

“Sugar, sugar” by The Archies 1969

Bob Dylan Blowin’ in the Wind. My dad was horrified. 😂

Dinahmo

I was given a record player for my 11th birthday combined with passing the 11 plus.I had some birthday money and I bought:

The Little Drummer Boy
Apple Blossom Time by Rosemary June
Slow Boat to China by Emile Ford and the Checkmates.

The next record I bought was Are You Lonesome Tonight (Elvis)

I too was given a record player for passing the 11 plus, which was quite near my 11th birthday so it was combined present. It was a portable one that folded up into a case with a handle. The turntable barely took an LP with about a mm. to spare!

But I was very popular after that with lots of invites to friends houses with 'please bring your record player'!!

My first record was 'Puppy Love' by Donny Osmand, which I bought with birthday money and if I remember correctly was purchased from Boots.

Johnny Mathis
Elvis (need no last name 😉)
Pat Boone

When I was in high school, had a job after school and on weekends - and had my own money! That would have been in the 60’s.

I should add - these were albums, not singles.

Then, the Beatles came…