Post a song from the first album/tape/CD you ever bought

[MrCoffee]

Beastie Boys - Hold It Now, Hit It from the album Licensed to Ill. I think I was 12 when I bought the tape.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3F-Rsx4o7TA

[mikeytherat]

1. "That's the Way of the World" - EWF

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wydn_Hajb4I

mikey_the_rat

[southpaw]

2. 'Border Song' - Elton John

Vinyl album "Elton John's Greatest Hits"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3VIH11m6QGk&feature=related

[SacredCow]

3. I think it would have been this....

KISS- Dynasty, from 1979 (the graphic in the beginning of the vid says 1997 for whatever reason?). I would have been all of 8 years old.

They were starting to internally combust by this time, so I'll post the disco-esque song!


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HnqUAbGMjLI

(link is guaranteed rickroll free)

[Ptah]

4. Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass Tijuana Taxi

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qG-1DqpjyZY

[truedelphi]

9. From around the same era

Five o'Clock world

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVVuA8UYgYo

It was either this as a 45 that was my first, or something by The Supremes.

[Phillycat]

5. Wanna Be Startin Somethin - Michael Jackson

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4175680517499334775&q=wanna+be+startin+something&ei=lDyTSO_4DYWqrgLAvbAu&hl=en

Thriller was my first album. Double gatefold vinyl. It holds up pretty well, music-wise, too.

[1awake]

6. We're not going to take it...

Twisted Sister

..My first ever purchased tape.

[livetohike]

7. "Till There Was You" - Meet the Beatles

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uy3WqQxrpVY

[hobbit709]

8. A classic

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gvUP0myptUA

[Rambis]

10. Johnny Horton The Battle Of New Orleans

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4Q47i4zGBs

[Richardo]

11. "Carry On", CSN&Y, "Deja Vu", 1970

I would have been about 13. I can't get to "the youtube", I'll post it this evening.

In the meantime, lyrics:

One morning I woke up and I knew
You were really gone
A new day, a new way, I knew
I should see it along
Go your way, I'll go mine and
Carry on

The sky is clearing and the night
Has gone out
The sun, he come, the world
is all full of light
Rejoice, rejoice, we have no choice but
To carry on

The fortunes of fables are able
To sing the song
Now witness the quickness with which
We get along
To sing the blues you've got to live the tunes and
Carry on

Carry on
Love is coming
Love is coming to us all

Where are you going now my love?
Where will you be tomorrow?
Will you bring me happiness?
Will you bring me sorrow?
Oh, the questions of a thousand dreams
What you do and what you see
Lover can you talk to me?

Girl when I was on my own
Chasing you down
What was it made you run?
Trying your best just to get around.
The questions of a thousand dreams
What you do and what you see
Lover can you talk to me?

:smoke:

[Richardo]

44. youtube as promised...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihPrviF1UNY&feature=related

[Tikki]

12. Vinyl...James Ray..."If You Gotta Make A Fool Of Somebody"...

Dang, person who placed this on U2B was right around
the same age as me in '61..I believe that the scenes in the video
are prob from PA or some place like that...
I grew up on the West Coast...
But loved this album...played it until it frayed.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U37o2dEpswY
More Tuba...


Small World in '61..

Tikki

[MJW]

13. can't--but I gurantee

it was somethng dorky --like "how much is that doggie in the window" by Patti Page LOL The 50's was so much (not) fun

[greendog]

14. Tubular Bells - 1973

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4eZJh3FFg0&feature=related

[AwakeAtLast]

15. *giggle*

Remember, I was seven.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3497831562873407554


(7 y/o WMU) :loveya:


:rofl:

[meegbear]

16. Alice Cooper - Muscle of Love

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_LDKtNEuOQ&feature=related

[BOSSHOG]

17. "This Diamond Ring" Gary Lewis and the Playboys 1966

[AlCzervik]

18. The Who, Meaty Beaty big and bouncy and it was around 1978.

[Doc_Technical]

19. "Kicks" by Paul Revere and the Raiders.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jtsOPFFocCc

[Pool Hall Ace]

20. Hamilton Streetcar - Brother Speed

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p4IQ-aL5X0c

[soleft]

21. Julie, Julie, Julie Do you Love Me?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JsMONykezJM

[Inspired]

34. OMG....this brings back memories!

[Westegg]

22. Kiss "Destroyer"; Bruce "Born To Run"; ...

...Beatles "White Album" and Beach Boys "Endless Summer." Can't post songs just now, but I can tell you that it was the winter of '76, at the National Record Mart in the Monroeville Mall (Pittsburgh), and I finally got my dad to buy me some records. Those were my first four. Dad gamely sprung for TWO double-albums! I was 12. (I must have just gotten a good report card, or something). As the lady behind the counter rang up the vinyl and took my dad's money, she told him, with much enthusiasm, "Oh, you're really gonna like this Springsteen album!" To which my father, a psychiatrist born in 1929, and a major classical music aficionado, retorted dryly, "I'm sure I will."

And maybe he did! He certainly heard it often enough for the best part of the next decade.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

23. "Tonight" from West Side Story

That was THE album when I was in junior high.

[kwolf68]

24. Wow...

either something by the Commodores, Kiss, KC and the sunshine band....i dont know what my first one was however.

[Adsos Letter]

25. Okay.....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xfaA_9ycD8


:D

[SeattleGirl]

26. The Rolling Stones - "Ruby Tuesday" from Between the Buttons

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92-RzJrcp-Q

[Unvanguard]

27. "Folk Song Army" - Tom Lehrer

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yygMhtNQJ9M

[ceile]

28. "True Faith"

I think my first purchase was "Substance" New Order
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cpzgJfJrJIg

[Arkansas Granny]

29. Bert Kaempfert - That Happy Feeling from the album of the same name.

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=gUkMx5cfZBo

This was in the early 60's.

This was one of my favorite 45's from the same time. Nat King Cole - Ramblin' Rose

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BpBNO5kEi0s&feature=related

[Z_I_Peevey]

30. Cecelia by Simon and Garfunkle

It was so naughty.

I think I bought it on cassette, to play on my cutting edge tape player that cost a whopping $72.

[BlueIris]

31. Uh...I can't really. My first CD (don't laugh) was "Chant," a collection of chants

by Benedictine monks.

[Javaman]

32. Blitzkrieg Bop -The Ramones. nt

[Forkboy]

33. Either Kiss - Hotter Than Hell or Cheap Trick's first album.

Kiss - Watchin' You
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JSTUAO89WQw


Cheap Trick - Hot Love
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mnhf2dNKgT0


I still love Cheap Trick to this day.

[GOPisEvil]

35. Michael Jackson, "Rock With You" from the album Off The Wall.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hK3Y1Ehv9c

[Xipe Totec]

36. Yes!

Roundabout


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIVi7KY_WJ8

[crim son]

37. ELO Discovery

"Shine A Little Love"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYuImesJYUs

[Inspired]

38. I Think I Love You

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bIuKtp3yCTw&feature=related

I loved David Cassidy back then!

[Lyric]

39. Does it have to be one that I bought, or can it be one that I asked for

and was bought *for* me?

Bought for me, at my request: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dzp0JETG0Pw
I bought on my own: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8G2aPcF5quc

[Amerigo Vespucci]

40. The Beatles - I Am The Walrus

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqOKvonLrH8

:toast:

[SalmonChantedEvening]

41. My Old School - Steely Dan's Countdown to Ecstacy

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rz5iDa7tL34

[Left Is Write]

42. More Than A Feeling.

Guess what album it was? ;)

I bought the LP when I was 12, I guess about two years after it came out. It was the first musical recording I ever bought. I still have it.

[PBS Poll-435]

43. Valerie - Steve Winwood

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=anCg5EiB2AM

[MrSlayer]

45. "Take Me" - Kiss - Rock n Roll Over.

I was 6.

[Broken_Hero]

46. Ride the Lightning by Metallica,

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjlgUx7_aN0

Fight Fire with Fire, its the first song on the tape.

[begin_within]

47. Bang a Gong

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4vG7cj13Ok

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

48. I don't remember

but I think it was on a wax cylinder.

[MrScorpio]

49. Sex Machine, baby!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUgIQej9SMg

[RushIsRot]

50. My first purchase was a 45 RPM single - Gogi Grant singing

The Wayward Wind, but I'm old.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

58. coolness

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ev7GBLRJ5Ac

The wayward wind is a restless wind
A restless wind that yearns to wander
And he was born the next of kin
The next of kin to the wayward wind

In a lonely shack by a railroad track
He spent his younger days
And I guess the sound of the outward-bound
Made him a slave to his wand'rin ways

And the wayward wind is a restless wind
A restless wind that yearns to wander
And he was born the next of kin
The next of kin to the wayward wind

Oh, I met him there in a border town
He vowed we'd never part
Though he tried his best to settle down
I'm now alone with a broken heart

And the wayward wind is a restless wind
A restless wind that yearns to wander
And he was born the next of kin
The next of kin to the wayward wind

The next of kin to the wayward wind

[Ysabel]

51. the third...

(not the first - this cost me 30 cents at a garage sale) in the seventies...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1EacQEhrbBQ

[Mr. Blonde]

52. I vividly remember getting Led Zeppelin IV

It was Halloween and my dad had me ride down to Wal-mart on my bike to get it. I was like 12 or 13.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9i2fqxSjTI

And thus began about a 2 year period where I pretty much only listened to Zeppelin. I read what I feel is a pretty true post about Zeppelin. "There comes a time in every teen boys life where he thinks Led Zeppelin made the best music ever. What is more no one else was/is even capable of making anything remotely close."

I certainly believed that. I still feel the urge to get the Led out every once in a while, but I'm now willing to concede that other bands have their moments too.

[elocs]

53. It would have been "Hey Little Cobra" by the Rip Chords.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0Ue7B5vuWM

One of the members of the Rip Chords, Bruce Johnston, went on to become a Beach Boy.

[hellbound-liberal]

54. From a bootleg 8-track: Rare Earth-I Just Want to Celebrate

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmdKTFKpWk4

[Flaxbee]

55. You May Be Right - Billy Joel

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hxNOCl7S7lU

[Doug.Goodall]

56. Uriah Heep - The Magician's Birthday

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qq7mPR8hh8k

It was on 8 track tape. In fact it was a double length 8 track.

[many a good man]

57. Harry Chapin: Cats in the Cradle

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zlHdjjHNEC8

On edit: This my first and only CAT post ever!

[Tuesday Afternoon]

59. I bought like 6 or 7 ~ 45's ... I remember they were:

Silence is Golden ~ The Tremeloes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wP3YCZvuB6A

This Magic Moment ~ Jay and The Americans
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WpePWo56zm4

Carrie Ann ~ The Hollies
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sgA4-bLcoN8

Love Is Blue ~ Paul Mauriat Orchestra
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XOuuT0ssqyQ

The Horse ~ Cliff Nobles & Company
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bsbO5NnuBlQ

The Letter ~ The Boxtops
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wD9mCp8SifM

Build Me Up, Buttercup ~ The Foundations
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iol0B-clFFM&feature=related

Simple Simon Says ~ 1910 Fruitgum Company
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ksR0si3ZloY

I was very young...like maybe 7 or 8. That is the way I remember it. :shrug:
So what! It's bubblegum!! Sue ME!! I was only 7 :D

[Enrique]

60. Joe Jackson "Stepping Out"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnbj0w8iOeM

[sarge43]

61. Four Preps, 26 Miles

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJM61CTenss&feature=related