First Ever Single & Album You Bought!!!!

MutleyRules · **Posted:** Mon Feb 20, 2017 3:50 pm

Baggy Trousers - Madness....we all got a record voucher for Easter off my aunty....dunno why but set me up for life!!!!

Our David wanted 'embarrassment' but sold out so I got Baggy Trousers!!!!

Tracey - Super Trooper - Abba
Mark - Doo Doo Doo Da Da Da (which was good as he had a stutter as a kid)!!!! :laugh:

Lee - Kings of the Wild Frontier - Adam & The Ants
David - Stop The Calvary - Jona Louie (only cos he couldn't get Embarrasment....sold out)!!!!

I think the above is correct....if not blame Boots when they sold singles for 99p!!!!

First Album....Absolutey - Madness!!!!
Me mam bought me it cos she felt guilty not putting a pack lunch up for me prior to a 10 mile sponsored walk with St.Josephs school....still my favourite Madness Album!!!!

ToTheHartlepool2-0 · **Joined:** Sat Jan 31, 2015 6:08 pm **Posts:** 1333

Build Me Up Buttercup - The Foundations. Woolies Peterlee Chare.

kevin pooles gloves · **Joined:** Tue Oct 07, 2014 2:28 pm **Posts:** 9712

First album: London Calling by the clash.
Still listen to it on me MP3.

Sussex UK · **Joined:** Wed Dec 28, 2016 10:34 pm **Posts:** 3580

Pyjamarama-Roxy Music
New Boots and Panties-Ian Dury

Malcolm Dawes Knew My Father · **Joined:** Wed May 11, 2011 4:25 pm **Posts:** 4198

Single: Tommy Jones & the Shondells: Crimson & Clover

Albums (got 3 at once for a new record player): Led Zep 1, Spooky Tooth - Spooky Two, Moody Blues - On The Threshold Of a Dream.

After a couple of weeks I took the Moody Blues record back to Binns in Hartlepool and swapped it for something else - it was shit. Said it had a fault and didn't play properly. I must have done that about 20 times - they never seemed to mind!

The Colonel · **Joined:** Mon Aug 21, 2006 8:49 am **Posts:** 4891

I hardly ever bought singles but two I remember getting from WH Smiths around 80-81 were

The Vapours - Jimmy Jones
The Beat - Stand Down Margeret/Best Friend

First Album?

Easy

Cool For Cats -Squeeze.

born toulouse · **Posted:** Mon Feb 20, 2017 4:27 pm

Can't remember first single but it was almost certainly by Slade or T Rex. First album was Showaddywaddy

tREE_wiTH_hAMStER · **Joined:** Sat May 19, 2007 11:00 am **Posts:** 20758

Maddison Avenue

Warwick Hunt · **Posted:** Mon Feb 20, 2017 4:49 pm

1st single - Under The Moon of Love by Showaddywaddy

1st album - The Beatles. Forget the name but it was the one that keeps getting reissued of their Hamburg recordings.

johnjo · **Joined:** Wed Feb 27, 2013 5:57 pm **Posts:** 321

Xmas box Love is a many splendid thing / the four aces and Rock around the clock/ Bill Haley. Yes you had to wind the gramophone up then and change the needle for every record.

Joe Mac · **Posted:** Mon Feb 20, 2017 5:04 pm

First Single

Wild Wild West - Will Smith

First Album

5ive - 5ive

I wanted Real Slim Shady but the woman at Woolworths told my Dad it had loads of swearing in so he wouldn't let me buy it.

MutleyRules · **Posted:** Mon Feb 20, 2017 5:08 pm

The Colonel wrote:

I hardly ever bought singles but two I remember getting from WH Smiths around 80-81 were

The Vapours - Jimmy Jones
The Beat - Stand Down Margeret/Best Friend

First Album?

Easy

Cool For Cats -Squeeze.

Best Friend....best Beat single....FACT!!!!

Mr Irrelevant · **Joined:** Thu Aug 17, 2006 8:25 pm **Posts:** 22671

January - Pilot. Awful dirge but my little sister wanted it for her birthday.

Album was Once Upon A Star by Bay City Rollers for my girlyfriend. That must have been around the long hot summer of '76.

The Bishop · **Posted:** Mon Feb 20, 2017 5:16 pm

The first album I remember buying was Showaddywaddy - Red Star, I think. First single I remember buying was Dollar - Give me back my Heart, although the first single I remember getting was off my Great Aunt, Brotherhood of Man - Save all your Kisses for me.

I do remember by the record counter in Boots in Bishop they had a bargain bin, where I made my pocket money go further with records and tapes!

I had quite a few Top of the Pops albums too, can't remember if the songs were by the original artists though?

Mr Irrelevant · **Joined:** Thu Aug 17, 2006 8:25 pm **Posts:** 22671

No they weren't.

yloop · **Posted:** Mon Feb 20, 2017 6:12 pm

tREE_wiTH_hAMStER wrote:

Maddison Avenue

Mine was Vic Reeves and the Wonderstuff - Dizzy

Album wise (aside from complilations etc.) was Definitely Maybe

KeithNobbsBigToe · **Joined:** Wed May 01, 2013 11:32 pm **Posts:** 1057

Album - kings of the wild frontier - adam ant. I was about 6.
Single - living doll, cliff Richard and the young ones - no comment aside from it was for charity.

Barriewardrobe · **Posted:** Mon Feb 20, 2017 7:15 pm

Album : Fabulous Poodles - Unsuitable
Single : Laurel & Hardy - The Trail Of The Lonesome Pine

Micky fisher ate my socks too · **Joined:** Thu Jul 25, 2013 4:35 pm **Posts:** 82

The verve-urban hymns
Savage garden-I want you(god knows why)

Both on cassette as my Mam wouldn't get me a cd player

demented twig · **Joined:** Mon Feb 20, 2012 10:09 pm **Posts:** 1043

single the Faces-Angel/what made milwaukee famous
album T.Rex -electric warrior

alibarthez · **Joined:** Tue Nov 25, 2014 10:06 pm **Posts:** 1072

Single.....MARY HOPKIN, Those were the Days

Album....T-REX by T-REX

JBPoolie · **Joined:** Tue Feb 03, 2015 12:19 am **Posts:** 138

Showing my age but 1st single was Cilla Black's 'Anyone Who Had A Heart' and 1st album was the Rolling Stones imaginatively titled debut album 'The Rolling Stones'.

Brian Honour's Left Foot · **Posted:** Tue Feb 21, 2017 11:19 am

Ride a white swan - Tyrannosaurus Rex

Nicely out of tune - Lindisfarne and Split - Goundhogs

minesapint · **Joined:** Fri Jan 29, 2016 9:48 am **Posts:** 13

Tyrannosaurus Rex - A Beard of Stars

Never bothered with singles although I remember my parents buying me Puff the Magic Dragon by Peter Paul & Mary somewhere near York Road.

Fensy · **Joined:** Thu Aug 17, 2006 9:15 pm **Posts:** 6476

I remember buying Tom's Diner by DNA and Susanne Vega from Hit Parade in York Road, not sure if it was my first one though

The first non compilation album I bought was either REM - Out Of Time or Extreme - Pornografitti

ElvisC · **Joined:** Mon Aug 15, 2011 9:55 am **Posts:** 4504

"Two Little Boys" Rolf Harris, Xmas 1969.

Can't remember which album but it will have been one of the later Beatles on vinyl.

Me Dad had a Triumph Herald with an 8-track cartridge player in and I can remember that more than records for a big chunk of the early 70s! Awful things, like a giant Cassette Tape. We had "Abbey Rd" and things like Creedence Clearwater Revival, plus those "Motown Chartbuster" comps.

Bossa Nova · **Joined:** Sun Feb 01, 2015 1:51 am **Posts:** 376

First album, "Beatles for Sale". Actually, I only owned 50% as I shared the cost with my brother. It was also a reel to reel tape as we only had a tape recorder. We used to record "Thank Your Lucky Stars" and "Ready, Steady, Go!" by shoving the mic against the TV speaker (14", black and white, two channels). The recordings were usually ruined by me mam coming in saying "is there any more pots in here?", although one Beatles performance was ruined by me dad saying "do you want whole nut or fruit and nut" one boxing day. First single was "Voices in the Sky" by the Moody Blues, not their finest hour but it did have a nice flute solo.

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