I was amazed to find that the first album I ever bought was still available on Amazon and E-bay, and that all those great songs from the 70's were really as good as I remembered them. I should buy that album again and get one of those USB turntables and make MP3 files out of it. I'd love to hear Otis Reading, Chicago, emerson, Lake and Palmer , etc. again. This is a great topic for a thread.
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Hey grandpa what's an album?
I remember the actual record albums of 78rpm records that were in paper jackets bound together like a book. Bing Crosby collection.
The first LP I bought was either the Lovin Spoonful's greatest hits or Sgt. Pepper.
Nice thread, thanks
It was either Pink Floyd's The Wall or AC/DC's Back in Black. I was just a kid then. It is hard to remember. Even now, 30+ years later, The Wall still puts me in awe. It is an amazing production and if you think about the technology that they were using at the time, it is mind boggling.
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I bought my mom & dad a "Sing Along With Mitch" album (33 1/3) in the late mid 50's for Christmas....had the words to the songs inside the album and we'd all sing to it, then we'd watch his show when it came along later. LOL...yep, older than dirt about covers it.
Bought tons of 45's, probably Bill Halley and the Comets was my first one, "Rock Around the Clock, in 1956 or 57. (I loved rock-n-roll! Still do, too!) :rotflmao:
Ah, Sing along with Mitch. My folks loved that TV show and when they watched it on TV I'd hide in my room, door closed. The stuff of which nightmares are made.
Electric Ladyland by Jimi Hendrix. :worthy: Later,
Yep, a double album, got that one too. I saw him at the Atlanta Speedway or GA Fairgrounds back at the 2nd (?) annual Atlanta Pop Festival in 71' I believe it was.
I remember waiting on the Beatles to come on the Ed Sullivan Show mid-60s? Anyhow, I had to suffer through The Lawrence Welk Show first and then grandpa cussing about them shaggy haired boys from England.
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Dang, where you been hidin young feller? Ain't seen you post on here in a ****'s age!
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By "album" if you mean any music LP, my first was Dvorak's "New World Symphony" by the Philadelphia Symphony, Eugene Ormandy conductor. Gorgeous, rich orchestral music.
If by "album" you mean an LP collection of tunes, that would be Miles Davis' "Sketches of Spain", one of the greatest of all jazz albums, ever.
I think it was John Denver's Greatest Hits. Either that or Emerson, Lake & Palmer's Brain Salad Surgery.
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When I was stationed on Okinawa, we would fly the whole operation to other bases when the typhoons came along. B-52's to Thailand and Guam, KC-135 tankers to Taiwan, Philippines, Japan, etc. Taiwan had/has no copyright laws, so LP albums cost 25 cents each. The vinyl was so soft the sound quality went away after one play, so we would record the first play on a reel to reel tape machine (remember them?) and sell the album to a local citizen or a teenage dependent for 50 cents. Win-win situation! I think an entire set of Encyclopedia Brittanica cost about 40 bucks in Taiwan, but turn the pages carefully- - - -they would tear easily, they were so thin!
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I was amazed to find that the first album I ever bought was still available on Amazon and E-bay, and that all those great songs from the 70's were really as good as I remembered them. I should buy that album again and get one of those USB turntables and make MP3 files out of it. I'd love to hear Otis Reading, Chicago, emerson, Lake and Palmer , etc. again. This is a great topic for a thread.
Waylon Jennings Live
Gene Watson greatest hits
bought them both the same day with my Christmas money after I got an 8 track player from Santa.
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I remember the actual record albums of 78rpm records that were in paper jackets bound together like a book. Bing Crosby collection.
The first LP I bought was either the Lovin Spoonful's greatest hits or Sgt. Pepper.
Nice thread, thanks
AND, for those in the Midwest, I bought the album at a Holiday gas station of all places.
Jgun, thanks for jogging my memory on ELP, have to look some of those up on you tube.
Bought tons of 45's, probably Bill Halley and the Comets was my first one, "Rock Around the Clock, in 1956 or 57. (I loved rock-n-roll! Still do, too!) :rotflmao:
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I started out with his 8 tracks and then with cassettes he was (and still is) my all time favorite.
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Peter Frampton comes alive.
Yep, a double album, got that one too. I saw him at the Atlanta Speedway or GA Fairgrounds back at the 2nd (?) annual Atlanta Pop Festival in 71' I believe it was.
I remember waiting on the Beatles to come on the Ed Sullivan Show mid-60s? Anyhow, I had to suffer through The Lawrence Welk Show first and then grandpa cussing about them shaggy haired boys from England.
Words of wisdom from Big Chief: Flush twice, it's a long way to the Mess Hall
I'd rather have my sister work in a whorehouse than own another Taurus!
Words of wisdom from Big Chief: Flush twice, it's a long way to the Mess Hall
I'd rather have my sister work in a whorehouse than own another Taurus!
If by "album" you mean an LP collection of tunes, that would be Miles Davis' "Sketches of Spain", one of the greatest of all jazz albums, ever.
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45 for me also.
Very small portable player, do not think it took 33, B sides could be quite odd.
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I had an 8 track player in my red Hillman Avenger/ Plymouth Cricket to some.
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