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What was the title of the first 45 rpm record you bought?

Sven Karma said:
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Oops. My fingers appear to be on fire as I type this.

The Kinks are the only 60's UK band I can listen to on a sustained basis.
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I think there may be something seriously wrong with you, I mean you guys had Cream, Traffic, Dave Mason, Eric Clapton and a hundred others that my feeble mind can't recall at the moment. Perhaps some psychiatric help may be in order. :ROFLMAO::cool:
 
The Beatles never did anything much worth listening to after they broke up. All Things Must Pass is probably the best post Beatles albums. McCartney and Lennon did a couple of good songs, but that's about it.
 
911Sparky said:
You should go to YouTube and watch Return to Forever with Stanley Clarke and the late Chick Corea playing School Days. It will give you a new outlook on Jazz, a truly awesome song.
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Ok, I went and watched it - it was a three song thing with Return to Forever, Crystal Silence, and I can't remember the other. I can't fault them for their amazing talents, but I still just don't like jazz. I really can't put my finger on exactly why - the tempo? That (to me) there are several sounds that sound unconnected (again - to me)? I don't know just what it is.
It took me a little longer to actually find School Days....I liked it a little more than the others, but still, jazz is just not my thing.
 
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VySky said:
Can't remember. I do recall my cousin and I playing Tommy Roe "Dizzy" and "Heather Honey" over and over in 1969.




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Sheila was better, IMO. He wrote a ton of songs, not all of them good.
 
j brown's body said:
Mine was "Secret Agent Man" by Johnny Rivers in 1966

My first single was "Where did our love go" by the Supremes, which my older sister gave me in 1964 when she bought the lp. I spent those years pouring ever her singles collection.

Got my mom to buy me a copy of "Like a Rolling Stone" in '65.
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"Big Bad John"

Jimmy Dean - 1961.

25 cents, 45 rpm. paid for it with empty pop bottles & found pennies.

Still know the words:

"....now they never re-opened that sorry pit
just put a big old sign in front of it.
Only a few words written in that sand
...here lies the body of a big, big man."

A few years later I fell in love with a voice. Found out later she was from the other side of some tracks. I would never meet my dream girl, Diana Ross. "where DID our love go...?"
 
911Sparky said:
My parents loved Hee Haw too, since we only had one TV, my brothers and I were a captive audience. I will admit Roy Clark picked a pretty mean guitar.
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He did, and Buck Owens was good too even if I didn't love the music. It was just all the stuff in between - the 'humor'.
 
911Sparky said:
I think there may be something seriously wrong with you, I mean you guys had Cream, Traffic, Dave Mason, Eric Clapton and a hundred others that my feeble mind can't recall at the moment. Perhaps some psychiatric help may be in order. :ROFLMAO::cool:
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Welp, you're not the first to say that, and being generationally rather punk year zero that's not my kind of list lol. The first song I really remember lodging in my head is this, only learned much later that it was written by Randy Newman:


 
Fearandloathing said:
"Big Bad John"

Jimmy Dean - 1961.

25 cents, 45 rpm. paid for it with empty pop bottles & found pennies.

Still know the words:

"....now they never re-opened that sorry pit
just put a big old sign in front of it.
Only a few words written in that sand
...here lies the body of a big, big man."

A few years later I fell in love with a voice. Found out later she was from the other side of some tracks. I would never meet my dream girl, Diana Ross. "where DID our love go...?"
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Followed up with the classic,

 
I think this was it. Didn't buy it because I knew the music or anything about the artist, just that it was like 7 cents at Gibson's when I was a kid. I took the leap from Disney tunes to pop songs.

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Sven Karma said:
Welp, you're not the first to say that, and being generationally rather punk year zero that's not my kind of list lol. The first song I really remember lodging in my head is this, only learned much later that it was written by Randy Newman:


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I didn't realize you were that much younger than me, my apologies. Most of the younger generation are not into classic rock, just as I refuse to listen to the Beastie Boys, Rap, and some of the other newer music.
 
Demon said:
Ok, I went and watched it - it was a three song thing with Return to Forever, Crystal Silence, and I can't remember the other. I can't fault them for their amazing talents, but I still just don't like jazz. I really can't put my finger on exactly why - the tempo? That (to me) there are several sounds that sound unconnected (again - to me)? I don't know just what it is.
It took me a little longer to actually find School Days....I liked it a little more than the others, but still, jazz is just not my thing.
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I'm glad you gave it a look, jazz fusion is not for everybody. I love the interaction between the musicians and I have been a fan of Stanley Clarke since
he did a collaboration with Jeff Beck about 100 years ago. :ROFLMAO::cool: Be good Demon, and keep listening.
 
911Sparky said:
I'm glad you gave it a look, jazz fusion is not for everybody. I love the interaction between the musicians and I have been a fan of Stanley Clarke since
he did a collaboration with Jeff Beck about 100 years ago. :ROFLMAO::cool: Be good Demon, and keep listening.
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I did see that Jeff Beck one listed on YouTube. I will give that one a listen, probably tomorrow. But you know, this sounds a little like 'eat your peas, they're good for you'. ;)
 
Demon said:
I did see that Jeff Beck one listed on YouTube. I will give that one a listen, probably tomorrow. But you know, this sounds a little like 'eat your peas, they're good for you'. ;)
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If you want to hear the best Beck/Clarke collaboration, listen to "Hello Jeff", if you want to grow up to be big and strong. :ROFLMAO::ROFLMAO::cool:
 
911Sparky said:
I'm glad you gave it a look, jazz fusion is not for everybody. I love the interaction between the musicians and I have been a fan of Stanley Clarke since
he did a collaboration with Jeff Beck about 100 years ago. :ROFLMAO::cool: Be good Demon, and keep listening.
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I liked it for a while, but it kind of wore off. This, though, is still one of my favorite albums.

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Bum said:
Deep Purple - Smoke on the water
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Ahhhhh. I remember one night during a thunderstorm, sitting in the backseat of an old Thunderbird, stoned on my a**, listening to that song cranked as loud as the stereo would go, watching lightening rip through the sky--the music was too loud to hear the thunder. A glorious show--I've never forgotten it.
 
911Sparky said:
If you want to hear the best Beck/Clarke collaboration, listen to "Hello Jeff", if you want to grow up to be big and strong. :ROFLMAO::ROFLMAO::cool:
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Ok, I ate my peas and listened to Journey to Love. I have to say, much better! But still, lyrics....
 
911Sparky said:
I didn't realize you were that much younger than me, my apologies. Most of the younger generation are not into classic rock, just as I refuse to listen to the Beastie Boys, Rap, and some of the other newer music.
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Class of '62. There's so much in that sentence to unpack that I don't know where to begin so you get the record I would have bought had I heard it at the time:

 
Hamish Howl said:
Absolutely. I spent the 80s listening to Abba, ELO, and Elton John and just let people assume I was listening to some shitty glam band.
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All of those were included on my playlist ...err, 8-track collection.
 
Sven Karma said:
Class of '62. There's so much in that sentence to unpack that I don't know where to begin so you get the record I would have bought had I heard it at the time:

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Ok, I screwed that guess up, you are actually older than me. How is it you failed to be attracted to the Beatles, Stones, Led Zeppelin and all the other great bands who started in your back yard?
 
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