Which are your favourite records from your younger years?

"It's One of Those Nights" by the Partridge Family takes me right back to listening to Radio Luxembourg with the radio under my pillow so I didn't disturb my much younger sister
Deep Purple "Fireball"- a friend and I used to play records for the lunchtime circuit training group , lunchtime at school - nothing to do with the fact that she fancied one of the guys in it and we both fancied the PE teacher!
Anything by the Eagles or Beachboys - saw them as support acts for Elton John at Wembley Stadium - they were both way better than Elton!
"If I said you had a beautiful body" would you hold it against me by The Bellamy Brothers and anything by Dr Hook, reminds me of my 21st birthday party.

Daydream Believer by the Monkees

And I must add Albatross by Fleetwood Mac,
Take It Easy/ The Eagles
So many.

The first records I bought were -
She Loves You/The Beatles, and
My Boy Lollipop/ Little Mo (I think)
In my school ( a Girls' Grammar) the Upper Sixth always put on a musical show, we called ours Hit For Six, there were a lot of lesser known Beatles songs, and I loved Eleanor Rigby.
In uni in the 70's my favourites were,
Simon and Garfunkel, I had the Bridge Over Troubled Water and Greatest Hits LP's
Cotton Fields/Beach Boys ( lovely memories of '76 when I met DH)
Sailing/Rod Stewart ( 1982 played a lot during Falklands Conflict)
Can't Get By Without You/ The Real Thing.
This is a lovely thread.

Rumours by Fleetwood Mac

Loved it all

Still do

The OP mentioned albums that were in every flat she visited, but there are two more albums that I remember everyone had during that period which were Bridge Over Troubled Water and Tubular Bells.

Go Now by The Moody Blues
Little Red Rooster by the Rolling Stones
A Whiter Shade of Pale by Procul Harem
Eleanor Rigby and All You Need I Love by the Beatles.

I was just that little bit too young to be a hippy, except in the privacy of my own bedroom.

I Love Rock and Roll Joan Jett

Then and now: I Only Have Eyes For You, The Flamingos.

Reach Out (and I'll be there) - Four Tops

Hit the Road Jack - Ray Charles

Bridge Over Troubled Water - Simon and Garfunkel

My earliest 1950s musical memories were from the radio. You can still get all those 'Children's Favourites' on a CD (there are so many!). I loved Elvis as we saw him in the movies.
Then in the 1960s it was The Beatles and so many other groups, too many songs to choose from. However, two albums that still send shivers down my spine (nice ones!) are 'Bookends' by Simon and Garfunkel and 'Feliciano' by Jose Feliciano especially his version of 'Light My Fire'. Both albums remind me of candlelit evenings drinking wine with friends or lovers.

The first record i ever bought was Baby Love by the Supremes and Diana Ross i loved it and played it over and over, must of driven mum and dad mad!!!!!

Everyone in my family listened to music- My parents never complained about any of our choices but they didn't allow us to blast it- Cecilia by Simon & Garfunkel was the first 45 that I purchased and Machine Head by Deep Purple my first LP- I think it's a perfect album .. still

Some favorites:

Sloop John B / Beach Boys

Telstar / The Tornados

Spiral Architect / Black Sabbath

Little Martha / Allman Brothers

Little Runaway / Del Shannon

Magicians Birthday / Uriah Heep

Jackie Wilson Said / Van Morrison

I've Seen All Good People / Yes

39' / Queen

Somebody Put Something In My Drink / Ramones

Kaw-Lijga / Hank Williams

Dirty Old Town / Pogues

So many, many more ..

QuaintIrene, I also loved Tom Leher as a girl! (Remember "New Math"?). My dad played his stuff as well as Stan Freeburg's a lot. I also listened to Dad's John Gary and Frank Ifield albums while I ironed shirts as one of my chores.

My own, first favorite song was "Little Red Riding Hood" by Sam the Sham and the Pharaohs and then in my first year of high school I loved The Association, The Carpenters and The Monkeys.

Diana by Paul Anka
Buddy Holly
Let’s Twist Again, Chubby Chequer
Tom Lehrer
Donovan (From a Flower to a Garden)
Incredible String Band
Maxwell’s Magic Hammer, Rolling Stones
Where Do You Go To, My Lovely? Peter Sarstedt
I’ve Never Been to Me
Leonard Cohen
Yes
Rush

So many memories rushing back...

Tommy Steele, Singing the Blues

The first record I bought was Elvis, Wooden Heart.
Hello Mary Lou, by Ricky Nelson , Buddy Holly, Lonnie Donegan and any of the Musicals and Folk Songs, Pete Seeger.
Radio Luxembourg and listening to the top 20 on Sunday afternoons before the Beatles broke onto the scene and the Stones and Bob Dylan.

Three Times a Lady

My boyfriend got me that

I was 17 and he was 28. Manager of a nightclub

I didn't think I was much of a lady at the time

Puff the Magic Dragon. So sad, it was years later I realised the lyrics were rather iffy. Sparkies Magic Piano. (Seems like a theme there but I really don’t like magicians now). Frankie Howard singing about the goats crossing the bridge.

The first LP I remember buying was Songs for Swinging Lovers, Frank Sinatra.
I may still have it in the attic.
This was in the 1950s/ 60’s.

Every young married couple in the seventies had 2 copies of the Sg Pepper’s LP - as everyone had their own copy and then when they got married and set up house they would each bring their own record. I had all The Monkees LPs and I remember the LP Bridge over Troubled Water being a big part of my life.

anything by the beatles, I wuz there, was my scene and my era. What a time to be a liverpudlian teenager

On my 13th birthday my parents bought me a portable record player. I can still remember what it looked like, pale blue and cream with a lid and a carrying handle on the side. My aunt and uncle gave me a 10 shilling note with which I bought 'Where Do You Go To My Lovely' by Peter Sarstedt (I think there was change ). For a long time it and an LP of 60s covers were the only records I had. A bit later I loved Rod Stewart's 'Maggie May'.

'Young Girl' for me too - both times.

Anything by the Carpenters, Bee Gees and Seekers (original group)

Fool if you think it's over, Elkie Brooks
Unchained Melody, Righteous Brothers
Somewhere over the rainbow, Eva Cassidy
He's not heavy he's my brother, Hollies
Three times a lady, Commodores
If you leave me now, Chicago
I could go on and on!