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Do You Remember Your First Music Purchase?

Lisa (my better half) and I, were doing some vinyl listening this weekend. She posed an interesting question. What is the first record in your collection that you had ever purchased?

Since my music aquisitions started in about 1965, needless to say, my first music purchase was a record. For some of the younger folks on this site, their first music purchase may have been a CD.

For me it was Gary Lewis and the Playboys, "Everybody Loves A Clown". It took me about 2 hours to figure out since I have, I would guess, about 2500 albums. I still have the album and it still plays pretty well considering it's probably been tracked by about 20 different stylii. I had A Webcor Stereo that my parents had purchased me for my 6th birthday. It had a 7" BSR turntable and an AM/FM "radio" built in, with 2 "detachable" speakers.

What is the first piece of recorded music you ever purchased and do you still own it?
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It was either the Supreme's "Where Did Our Love Go" or the first Manfred Mann album, the one with "Doo Wah Diddy". The Supreme's record is still one of my favorite albums and get consistent play. Don't know what happened to the Manfred Mann disc, but it proved very influential in that it introduced me to a number of classic blues tunes. I'd never heard "Smokestack Lightning" before, nor did I even know who Muddy Waters was at the time.

Darrylhifi, I believe it was the Lemonpipers who did "Green Tambourine".
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