First Album Ever?

Robbie Bossert · Post by **Robbie Bossert** » 2 May 2003 8:59 am

Do you remember getting your first album? Do you remember albums?

I'll start it off. My first album ever was Kiss Alive II. I got it for $5.00 from a cousin. How did I progress for Kiss to Haggard? The world may never know. I was 9 yrs. old at the time and thought that that's where music was at. Make-up, Fire, Loud guitars, the whole nine. Much like a Barf Brooks show is today.

Howabout' You?

Robbie Bossert

Tommy Minniear · Post by **Tommy Minniear** » 2 May 2003 9:43 am

Lefty Frizzell's Greatest Hits. I bought it in an appliance store that sold cheap guitars, 45's, and LP's: the man who ran the store was a music lover also. That's where it all started and hasn't ended yet! Smiley Roberts is quite a collector. I wonder what his 1st record purchase was: probably something by Jimmie Rodgers --- and it was probably Jimmie's current single at the time.

Tommy Minniear[This message was edited by Tommy M on 02 May 2003 at 10:45 AM.]

Paul King · Post by **Paul King** » 2 May 2003 9:44 am

Too many years have passed for me to remember my first album. However, I do remember buying my first steel guitar album. It was "Hal Rugg Steels The Hits Of Loretta Lynn." I have bought many more since and occasionally I lay down in the floor with headphones and listen while my wife watches the 8:00 movie....Paul

Matt Dawson · Post by **Matt Dawson** » 2 May 2003 9:54 am

The Byrds..Sweetheart of the Rodeo
T.REX....Electric Warrier (bought 'em the same day & still love 'em both).

Eric West · Post by **Eric West** » 2 May 2003 10:14 am

Chet Atkins. The one with Swedish Rhapsody, Glow Worm, Third man theme, Heartaches, and others I can't remember.

My first 45? Tennesee Ernie Ford. 16 tons/You don't have to be a Baby to cry.

Also "It's in the book" Johhny Standley and Art Thorsen.

"Mrs. O Malley, down in the Valley, was having ulcers I understand. She swallowed a cake of grandma's lye soap. She has the cleanest ulcers in the land..."

Gotta admit they were given to me.

First 45 I Personally bought was Rolph Harris' Tie me Kangaroo Down Sport 62.

First LP was LF and ES' Foggy Mountain Boys. 63 Put it on 16rpm and learned my first Banj0*(*censor defeating mechanism) song, Ground Speed. and it went on from there to where I am now..

280+ Dog Years...

EJL

Wayne Carver · Post by **Wayne Carver** » 2 May 2003 11:01 am

A Grand Funk album and a Creedence Clearwater Revival album. My first country album was a Conway Twitty/Loretta Lynn album.

Joey Ace · Post by **Joey Ace** » 2 May 2003 11:26 am

The Rolling Stones "England's Newest Hitmakers". around 1965
It was their second album, came with an 8 X 10 poster.

I spent hours learning the Chuck Berry licks in "Oh Carol".

Michael Haselman · Post by **Michael Haselman** » 2 May 2003 11:43 am

The Yardbirds Greatest Hits in '66. Then I saw them in downtown Minneapolis with Page on bass and Beck on guitar.

Jim Cohen · Post by **Jim Cohen** » 2 May 2003 11:49 am

I think it was the English version of "A Hard Days Night", which my dad brought home from the UK.

Leigh Howell · Post by **Leigh Howell** » 2 May 2003 2:34 pm

Tommy M.
That was a gooder!!!!

Smiley does have a great collection though.

Leigh
My first 45 was "Our Baby's Book" By Ernest Tubb.

Janice Brooks · Post by **Janice Brooks** » 2 May 2003 3:19 pm

First album I paid for
Suger Suger the Archies
First opo 45 I paid for I'm a Beliver the Monkees.

Christmas and bday gifts at a young age included Ben Colders single "Don't Go Near the Eskomos and Johnny Cash's Ring of Fire album. I also bought a few Roger Miller singles in the discount bin.

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John P. Phillips · Post by **John P. Phillips** » 2 May 2003 6:56 pm

I think the first album I ever owned was Gene Vincent and his Blue Caps. GOD am I that old ???????????????

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Craig A Davidson · Post by **Craig A Davidson** » 3 May 2003 5:34 am

I think the title of mine was "Sing With The Hits Of Buck Owens". The Buckaroos played and it had a song sheet so you could sing along. The first with vocals was "Tribute To The Best Damn Fiddle Player, (or my salute to Bob Wills), by Haggard.

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Eric Myers · Post by **Eric Myers** » 3 May 2003 7:33 am

Some Donny Osmond thing - .....so kill me!

Donny Hinson · Post by **Donny Hinson** » 3 May 2003 8:55 am

I think my first album was an Eddy Arnold thing...or maybe Hank Snow. I do, however, remember my first "all steel guitar" album. It was "Steel Guitar Jazz"!. I walked into Fred Walker's music store in downtown Baltimore (he sold instruments, amps and records), and found only two pedal steel albums. One was Speedy West, and the other was that incredible Emmons' thing. I took them both into the "listening booth" (that was a little glass-enclosed room with a record-player, where you could listen to your selections before you bought them...yeah, and that was in the "old days"). Any how, I played Speedy's, and then I played "Buddie's".

I almost went into shock! 

I was mesmerized...as I still am when I listen to that album. That raspy, distorted, incredible steel playing blending in so PERFECTLY with a fabulous jazz quartet---saxophone, drums, piano, and upright bass.

That album, and what it did for the steel guitar, will live on long after we are all gone. [This message was edited by Donny Hinson on 03 May 2003 at 09:59 AM.]

J W Hock · Post by **J W Hock** » 3 May 2003 11:32 am

Hangin On - Waylon Jennings 1967. Man what a bad-ass cover ! This wasn't my father's country music.[This message was edited by J W Hock on 03 May 2003 at 12:33 PM.]

chas smith R.I.P. · Post by **chas smith R.I.P.** » 3 May 2003 11:47 am

Dion and the Belmonts, Where or When, had to be around '57 or '58, and the first single I bought (45rpm) was Richie Valens', Oh Donna.

Greg Simmons · Post by **Greg Simmons** » 3 May 2003 11:50 am

Hangin On - Waylon Jennings 1967. Man what a bad-ass cover ! This wasn't my father's country music.

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Mike Perlowin RIP · Post by **Mike Perlowin RIP** » 3 May 2003 4:56 pm

My first LP was Pete Seegar (with Sonny Terry) live at Carnagie Hall. The album was recorded in 1957. I bought it in 1960.

What ever happened to folk music?

Earnest Bovine · Post by **Earnest Bovine** » 3 May 2003 5:02 pm

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Jerry Gleason · Post by **Jerry Gleason** » 3 May 2003 10:11 pm

The Ventures, "Walk, Don't Run". Probably around 1963. Still have it, too.

Dave Boothroyd · Post by **Dave Boothroyd** » 4 May 2003 12:56 am

The Buddy Holly Story. His first posthumous album.
I still have it too
Cheers
Dave

Bob Watson · Post by **Bob Watson** » 4 May 2003 1:06 pm

The Beatles album "A Hard Days Night", the record label was United Artists instead of Capitol. It was 1963 and I was 7 years old. I picked it up at a grocery store with some money my Grandmother had given me for my birthday. The cost was less than $5.00.

Joe Miraglia · Post by **Joe Miraglia** » 4 May 2003 3:45 pm

Speedy West and Jimmy Bryant-2 Guitars Country style. This was the 10 in. record, with 8 songs.About 1954, that did it I was hooked. Still have the record. Anyone remember- Blue Bonnet Rag-it,s on that record. Maybe I'll try playing it,might be fun,don't think the band I work with would like it , this one I'll keep in the bed room

.Joe

Tony Prior · Post by **Tony Prior** » 4 May 2003 8:34 pm

My sister bought me " 10,000 Elvis fans Can't be Wrong " . I was about 12 or so. It had many many pictures ( the same one) of Elvis on the cover dressed in a Gold Suit. We wore that album out for sure.

That was it for me..Rock and Roll had now taken over my life..

I wonder if Saddam Hussein got his idea about multiple imposters from this album cover ?

tp