What was your first vinyl purchase? I'm not talking about kiddie records but the first serious album you bought as a teenager. For me it was The Rolling Stones...Big Hits (High Tide & Green Grass). This album was key in my making the transition from bubble gum to rock n' roll. It's still a good album.
It's interesting that after 52 posts in this thread, and probably upwards of 100 performers mentioned, by my count there are exactly 0 female groups and 2 female soloists mentioned (Connie Francis, Joni James), and exactly 1 mixed group that had prominent female members (Fleetwood Mac). And there are 0 classical recordings.
I don't know what all of that signifies, if anything, but the statistics certainly seem striking.
Mama's and the Papa's "If You Can Believe Your Eyes and Ears" (I had an adolescent's crush for Michelle Phillips) and Herman's Hermits "On Tour" (their second album).
I think this is right. Bought with my "allowance" savings. I still have both Lps.
Alan Parsons Project Pyramid in 1978 from The House of Guitars in Rochester NY. Everything prior to that was Kiss, Aerosmith, and Bay City Rollers 45's. s-a-tur-day...hey. I'm so ashamed of myself.
Cheap Thrills - Big Brother and the Holding Company. That one record that I bought for $1.99 at the K-Mart in Brighton, MA in 1969 age 12 started this whole long journey into the netherworld of guitars, amps, hifi equipment, vinyl, CDs, etc, etc, and untold $$$ and one's-that-got-away later.
Either Johnny Winter, "Second Winter", or Savoy Brown, "A Step Further", cannot recall which was first, though they were the first two. $3.99 at the Woolworth IIRC. Of course, that's if you paid retail. My friend's sister worked the cash register and HEAVILY discounted all album purchases for me. (Bar code scanning was yet to be used.)
Scorpions "Love At First Sting" 1984 from Record World in TSS in Elmont NY, I will never forget that day. I bought the record and my dad bought me my first rack system. Remember those all in one units. LOL I use to point the speaekers out the window in a nice quiet Suburban Long Island neigborhood blasting "Rock You Like a Hurricane". Funny thing is I still do that today :)
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