What was the first music you bought with your own money?

Mine was Dreamboat Annie by Heart. I loved Heart, and sang along with every song on this record like a damn castrati.

I remember my mom taking me to buy it at K-Mart in 1976 for about $6.

The next record I bought was 52nd Street by Billy Joel.

So, what was the first music you bought with your own money?

That's the first thing you ever bought with your own money?

And I'm still 17. Why did I not buy things before that? I never went to town, never went to any places were things were bieng sold.And where would I get the money? What work I did on the farm was unpaid, and I didn't get pocket money... so what could I buy? Then I got some money for either birthday or christmas, and went into town especially to buy something with it.. well actually, that and a few other things but hey... like I said, Country Bumpkin, Australian style.

P.S. Not any more, moved into the city and University 3 weeks ago!

May it and University treat you well.

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but it was the Footloose soundtrack.

I should shoot myself for that one.

Let's Hear it for the Boy! Remember the video for that one with the breakdancing in it? :rofl:

Cuts Like a Knife...:)

Carole King's "Tapestry"

I do love that record. Very well done. I especially love the drummer, Russ Kunkel. He did all of the James Taylor stuff in that era too. King of the 70s soft rock drums!

You're cool

It was a 45 of "Tom Dooley" by the Kingston Trio.

means hours of listening to the Kingston Trio.

Lemon Tree...that's the other one that pops in my head from riding with Pops.


BTW...he never STOPPED listening to ABBA.

He's 59 & I'm 58.

I love the Kingston Trio, especially "A Worried Man".

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Classic rock radio has ruined all possible chance of me enjoying Steppenwolf. Now, The Guess Who...that's another matter!

...among others. Sad how that has been forgotten.

Do you remember how they had an old geezer who was their spiritual advisor or some deal?

He was dancing like someone 1/4 of his age.

Here it is.

I was 7.

I remember watching Kiss Meets The Phantom when it first aired. Wow...what a terrible movie!

But I was such a KISS enthusiast at the time I actually thought it was good. It wasn't until about 5 years later when it was aired again that I realized how truly dreadful it was. Just brutally bad.

"Rip, Rip, Rip and Destroy!"

When a girl has a heart of stone there's only one way to melt It.
Just add ice.

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that was the first music I bought...
love is blue...paul mauriat and his orchestra
simple simon says...
this magic moment...jay and the americans
silence is golden...the tremeloes
honey....bobby goldsboro
galveston...glen campbell
jean...oliver
everyday people...sly and the family stone
war...edwin starr
baby, i need your loving...the four tops
tighter, tighter...alive and kicking
hair...the cowsills
tears of a clown...smoky robinson and the miracles
indiana wants me...r. dean taylor
this girl is a woman now...gary puckett and the union gap
montego bay...bobby bloom
the horse...cliff noble & co.
crimson and clover...tommy james and the shondells

I really can't remember what I bought first...but, I started buying 45's at age 7. My allowance went to music. That summer my uncle stayed with us. He was 16 at the time and he would make suggestions. I thought he was the coolest person in the whole world. :)

...or maybe Chicago's "Harry Truman." Dreamboat Annie was among my first LPs.

Ethel, you shameless hussie!

Everything She Does is Magic by The Police

and

Woman by John Lennon

the University of Maryland Record Co-op.

Somewhere very close in there were "Quadrophenia" (The Who), and The Rolling Stones "Big Hits (High Tide and Green Grass)" and "Through The Past, Darkly (Big Hits Vol. 2)", and the Sgt. Pepper and Magical Mystery Tour albums from the Beatles.

From the same, great, store.

Highway 61 came out in 1965, I was born 3 years later.

I just always had an interest in the music of that time. I did buy more music of "my" era later on, but my first albums were all 60's stuff.

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I ruined my brother's copy of Aja by sneaking listens of Deacon Blues when I was about 6 or 7.

Station to Station album.

Stay still rules :)

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I bought it for "Bennie and The Jets."

It was the first music I ever "owned", and I must have driven my family nuts with it. It's the very first music that completely captivated me.

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purchased from Smith's Records in the Lake Forest Plaza, the outlet faced an ice skating rink. I can't imagine what Katrina did to the inside of that mall.

I bought a 45 of "Long Tall Sally" and "Tutti Frutti".

The first embarassment is that I am admitting that I'm quite old, relatively speaking. This purchase was all the way back in the mid-fifties.

But what is really embarassing is that the record was by Pat Boone, not Little Richard. I guess I was listening to this music on AM radio and in those days they were only playing the rip off covers of the real music. A few years later, I had learned who the real musicians were.... Little Richard, Fats Domino, Chuck Berry, Buddy Holly. I saw these guys live many times in the old Alan Freed R&R shows.

As if the shame of having purchased it weren't punishement enough...

I hate that "man".

When I finally discovered The Kids Are Alright it was all over for me - that's all I would listen to.

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Oh my, have times changed!!

Approximately as embarrassing as speedoo's choice: the LP by the Hullaballoos.

They were one of those manufactured bands, put together to capitalize on Beatlemania. They were also a mop-top foursome, although their hair seems to have been blonde wigs intended for women to wear. Their hit was a Buddy Holly cover, but I didn't know that at the time. I bought the LP, thinking it would be ten equally cool tunes. This was when I was introduced to the concept of "filler." One of the tracks was a wretched cover of "Louie Louie," and that, I remember dimly, was one of the (few) rockers!

The *last* record I bought was the recently rediscovered tapes of the Thelonious Monk quartet with John Coltrane at Carnegie Hall. Obviously I have better taste now :P

"Recorded in England!"

by Tommy Roe and the Shondells

and

Yummy, Yummy, Yummy I've Got Love in my Tummy by the 1910 Fruit Gum Company

... b/w Stepping Stone.

At the local drug store.

Made me cry every time I heard it.

this was back before they got big. They were a fixture at First Ave/7th Street in late 80s. They played all ages Sunday shows all the time. So much, in fact, it was a joke among my friends that if we didn't have anything else to do on Sundays, we could always go catch Soul Asylum at the Entry!

Growing up in Minneapolis in the 80s totally spoiled me for music. Where else could you go see Husker Du, the Replacements, Soul Asylum or the Suburbs at the local clubs?

There was a time when I was profoundly embarrassed by owning that album, but I've gained a new appreciation for Denver and his music. I even went out and bought the CD a few months back (the album is long since gone).

but before that, I had accumulated a very large 45 collection (large for a pre-teen, I should say). I still have most of them stored away.

A couple of the highlights:

"Heart of Glass" by Blondie (w/ picture sleeve)
"Sweet Talkin' Woman" by ELO (w/ picture sleeve, on clear purple vinyl)
"Dancin' Fool" b/w "Baby Snakes" by Frank Zappa (yes, it made the Top 40)

...plus a bunch of others I can't recall at this moment.

"Sweet Dreams" by the Eurythmics, and "I Come from a Land Down Under" by Men at Work. Yeah, I'm a child of the 80's. :) I still love those songs.