Back in the mists of time do you remember vinyl singles. I have still got mine from late sixties and seventies. I am ashamed to say the first one I bought was "Sparkys Magic piano" then I moved on to "I was kaiser bills batman " by whistling jack smith and then "jumping jack flash" by the stones. What was your first single?
Chantilly lace, by Big Bopper who famously died in a plane crash alongside Buddy Holly and Ritchie Valens
BTW I have some of my dads old 78s here and they are pre Vinyl
I still have 45s sitting in the shed in boxs of 50s all indexed from the front is numbered sleeves and god knows how many albums and picture discs in the loft some are rare collectables.
Showing our age know can't remember the first purchase I bought that many in a week :mfr_lol: :mfr_lol:
It didn't help when I had a friend who worked for EMI records who sold me albums for the price of singles and told me about the limited editions
Being released
Bohemian Rhapsody was my first single, followed by Pretty Vacant. :-)
Still have my first album - Tales from Topographic Oceans by Yes.
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Quote from: Boomer on September 03, 2015, 07:15:22 PM
Bohemian Rhapsody was my first single, followed by Pretty Vacant. :-)
Still have my first album - Tales from Topographic Oceans by Yes.
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Pretty vacant I bet that echoes well through the nuclear sub :mfr_lol: :mfr_lol:
If I crank up the volume on "Tales.." I attract Humpback Whales. <LOL>
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Quote from: Boomer on September 03, 2015, 07:20:00 PM
If I crank up the volume on "Tales.." I attract Humpback Whales. <LOL>
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:mfr_lol: :mfr_lol:
Raindrops keep falling on my head...
https://youtu.be/PPGA4-8oSUI
my first single that I bought with my own money was " Mr Blue Sky" by ELO , bought from Andys Records In Ely Cambridgeshire . My First Album was " A night at the opera" . I still listen to these on a regular basis today.
Ive not included the rubbish that some aunty buys you when you were 7 , like pinky and perky play pop, which was speeded up session singers. I had an aunty that used to get me the Top of the Pops albums , you know , always has a semi naked woman on the front
does anyone remember this rubbish
(http://eil.com/images/main/Top-Of-The-Pops-The--Best-Of-Top-466372.jpg)
Haha yeah I remember those Viper, now that's what I call music meets page 3. There was a series of albums out like that which were worse though.... the latest hits sung by artists nobody had ever heard of. Anyone remember those?
rRay Stevens - the Streak was mine.
Yep. I remember those albums, hit songs but sung by unknowns!
Quote from: viper on September 03, 2015, 11:19:57 PM
my first single that I bought with my own money was " Mr Blue Sky" by ELO , bought from Andys Records In Ely Cambridgeshire . My First Album was " A night at the opera" . I still listen to these on a regular basis today.
Ive not included the rubbish that some aunty buys you when you were 7 , like pinky and perky play pop, which was speeded up session singers. I had an aunty that used to get me the Top of the Pops albums , you know , always has a semi naked woman on the front
does anyone remember this rubbish
(http://eil.com/images/main/Top-Of-The-Pops-The--Best-Of-Top-466372.jpg)
I remember these it was the sleeve that sold them viper. :mfr_lol:
I bet you taped the charts on a Sunday as well trying to edit a short gap between tracks :mfr_lol:
ive got a cassette recording that I made from the TV in 1977 , elo in concert at wembley, recorded direct from the mono tv speaker with a microphone plugged into my PYE mono cassette recorder , it was bloody awful quality. However I was the nutz playing it the next morning on the back seat on the school coach
haha,
ps the same cassette player I used some 10 years later to upload crappy computer games onto my BBC computer