FabSwingers.com forum: 1st record you ever bought

By *olf64 OP Man
over a year ago

redditch

you should always remember the first record you ever bought whether it be 7" or lp on vinyl or maybe cassette or now cd ,

mine was was Paper Lace - Billy dont be a hero 45p

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Players Association - Turn the Music Up 12" 99p

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Nights in whiter satin...

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"you should always remember the first record you ever bought whether it be 7" or lp on vinyl or maybe cassette or now cd ,

mine was was Paper Lace - Billy dont be a hero 45p"

Christ that 's dear. Mine was 6/11d

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By *entscotscplCouple
over a year ago

falkirk ish

mines was cum on feel the noize

slade cost 50p if i mind right

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Tumble Connection by Elton John, bought it from Virgin records when it was just a real flea pit of a shop at the bottom of the Moor in Sheffield....The sort of place your mother banned you from going to..lol

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By *aucy3Couple
over a year ago

glasgow

in a broken dream-python lee jackson.(rod stewart)

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Thats The Way Love Is .... The Isley Brothers

Can't remember what it cost me, but it was 1971

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By *ertnbeckyCouple
over a year ago

oldham

metal guru from woolies

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Paper Lace ... Billy dont be a hero. Wow I loved that!

My first record bought when I was 16 was "we don't have to take our clothes off" by Jermaine Stewart.

Oh how things change!??

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

aww loved that song

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By *corpio67Man
over a year ago

hillingdon

1958 Cliff Richard...Dynamite

still got it!!!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Wombling Merry Christmas

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By *yuiop08Man
over a year ago

Salford

Spirit in the Sky by Doctor and the Medics.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

boom town rats.....i dont like mondays

couldnt possibly guess what it cost,whatever it was im sure it was a fortune to me then

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Paul Hardcastle - 19 I think. I started buying a few records in the mid 80s but I think it was my first.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

bat out of hell

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By *etillanteWoman
over a year ago

Pushbike Song - The Mixtures I think it cost 7/6d

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

elvis presely..

Hound dog

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

New Seekers " ...teach the world to sing"

On holiday in Tenby, the summer of... {any ideas?}

First album Genesis... "Trick of the Tail"

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By *he BananamanMan
over a year ago

WORCESTERSHIRE

apache--the shadows

cost me 6 shillings and 8 pence i think?.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

wait for it so embarrasing i am ashamed to admit it

"Gotta pull myself together" The Nolans sisters.

In my defence I was about 8 and bought it with my birthday money and I had yet to develop any musical tastes whatsoever.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

" This old House " By Shakin Stevens..

dont tell everyone tho eh !!

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By *ewis455Man
over a year ago

Oxfordshire

"The Jam" town called Malice

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By *etitesaraTV/TS
over a year ago

rochdale

First album i bought with my own money was AC/DC's 'For Those About To Rock', closely followed by Iron Maiden's 'Killers'.

Y'know whats really sad? I can't remember the LAST album i bought....

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Tainted Love - Soft Cell

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

bohemian rapsody - queen in 75.still sounds as good as it did way back then

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

now this is going to be embarassing Musical Youth,pass the dutchie £1.13 on 7"

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I must have been about 15 I think...Love Machine by the Miracles.

Happy days!!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Dollar Rock N Roller Disco (Boomtown Rats, Sparks, Buggles etc) on vinyl. I bought it from a carboot sale for 25p when I was 11. I still have it in my collection today and cherish it!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

the carnival is over ..the seekers 1963 i was 8 got the money from potato picking ( at least me mum and dad didnt send me downt mine !!!)

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

true colours by cyndi lauper

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Whitney Houston - I Wanna Dance with Somebody

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

The Walk- The Cure..

A pal of mine reckons that the 45 I own is now worth a few euro as it's from the initial release!

I'll not be parting with it, it's a classic!

Bippy x

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

The laughing Gnome David Bowie...

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Blackfoot Sue, Standing in the road, 45

David Bowie, Man Who Sold The World, LP

Puccini, Tosca, first full opera

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By *acreadCouple
over a year ago

central scotland

First single Seven seas of rhye by Queen

LP Space Oditty David Bowie.and cost half a weeks wages.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Chiquitita ( think thats how you spell it) by Abba ... my taste in music has improved a bit since then

tho I confess I do still like it!

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By *acreadCouple
over a year ago

central scotland

I have a wide and varied taste in music and there is nowt wrong with Abba

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By *emmefataleWoman
over a year ago

dirtybigbadsgirlville

"Frankie" Sister Sledge

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

kids in america kim wilde

still a great tune

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By *ittle_brat_evie!!Woman
over a year ago

evesham

all that she wants

Ace of Base

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By *uton_coupleCouple
over a year ago

luton

sugar sugar by the archies 1969

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By *lumsy colinMan
over a year ago

basingstoke

i am really proud of my 1st record i was 4 years old and it was chelsea fc 1972 hit blue is the colour and i still have it

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By *olf64 OP Man
over a year ago

redditch

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By *olf64 OP Man
over a year ago

redditch

"Players Association - Turn the Music Up 12" 99p"

awesome what a cool first record brilliant

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I have never bought a record . I really should get off this thread lol

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By *ertngladCouple
over a year ago

thornton -cleveleys

First album i bought was "The Magnificant Moodies" by The Moody Blues, It has their "Go Now" track on it and i could only get it in Mono. My first single (I think) was Jeff Becks "Love is Blue" followed by "HI ho silver lining" on the origional label, and still got them.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Spirit in the Sky by Doctor and the Medics. "
damn had the original Spirit in the Sky by Norman Greenbaum but the first record I ever bought was The Tokens with The Lion Sleeps tonight on RCA Victor, not as some people think the Inkspots or The Chipmunk or any of the 78s in my collection I bought them later

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

going underground by the jam

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

The streak ray stevens from woolworths

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By *unky monkeyMan
over a year ago

in the night garden

First single: Denise Denise - Blondie

First album: Police - Outlandos d'Amour (honest this album is really good it's just they went shit straight after it)

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

i carnt remember my first album i bought but i doo remember a bad christmas present i got of a aunt i was about 15yrs old and got a original walkman and a tape of boys II men album i didnt now who they were but just smiled and said thankyou

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By *ugby 123Couple
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over a year ago

O o O oo

Young Americans ......David Bowie.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"you should always remember the first record you ever bought whether it be 7" or lp on vinyl or maybe cassette or now cd ,

mine was was Paper Lace - Billy dont be a hero 45p"

i remember tons of stuff and remember buying my first records during my lunchbreak from Sat job at Woolies. Can't remember what it was though.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

A 45 RPM single of Chuck Berry “My Ding-a-Ling”…

Although I have to say….....cough-cough...ahem....honestly,,,I only wanted it for the B-side which was a really rockin version of Johnny B. Goode…. Even as a little kid I was So Cool man !!!….. teehee,,,haha

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"in a broken dream-python lee jackson.(rod stewart)"

Absolute classic

Mine was "We won`t get fooled again" The Who.

And guess what?..... We have

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

mine was tempted by squeeze.my first and still my favourite.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"mine was tempted by squeeze.my first and still my favourite.

Ahhhhh, they do say you never forget your first.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Two little boys by Rolf Harris.LOL I can't remember what age I was but know mum took me to buy it.

Then it was Prince Charming by Adam and the ants. That was when I got into teen music and saved my paper round money for it. It was 75p from Woolies.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"First album i bought was "The Magnificant Moodies" by The Moody Blues, It has their "Go Now" track on it and i could only get it in Mono. My first single (I think) was Jeff Becks "Love is Blue" followed by "HI ho silver lining" on the origional label, and still got them."

the moody blues were a great band and still touring to this day.go now remanes there only chart topper (1964) in spite of recording classics like nights in white satin and question

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Message in a bottle by the police

I had good taste even then! But my second record was the Smurfs

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

1st record I ever owned was Stand and Deliver by Adam Ant. (I was 5 years old at the time and my dad bought it me, the 7" single on the CBS label.) 1st single I ever bought myself was I wanna sexx you up by Color me Badd...lolol summer of 1991, cost £1.69 from Woolies

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Vienna by Ultravox, on 7"

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

aladdin sane - bowie

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By *lackboaWoman
over a year ago

greenock

Tune and Air for Trumpet and Orchestra........Henry Purcell......i was such a swot !!!!!

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By *iewMan
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over a year ago

Angus & Findhorn

Starman ...... Bowie

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

mine was adam and the ants - prince charming LP cost me £3.99 from revolver records lol

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By *r cassie4Couple
over a year ago

highlands

little willie by the sweet some people still say its right lol

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Elvis Costello and the attractions, "Olivers Army", still a great song lol

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By *ixson-BallsMan
over a year ago

Blackpool

Tiger Feet by Mud...and yes...i did the dance as i played the record

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By *mcouple1Couple
over a year ago

nr warrington

Ace of spades by motorhead was mine cost 35p and still hear it on the radio and video games to this day

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"now this is going to be embarassing Musical Youth,pass the dutchie £1.13 on 7""

I love this single, I have it on one of my jukeboxes, No.1 in 1982 lol

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By *mumaWoman
over a year ago

Livingston

Stand and Deliver - Adam & the Ants

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By *iamondsmiles.Woman
over a year ago

little house on the praire

Id been given records as presents but one year my sister and i reiceved a 50p record voucher each. I bought stardust david essex and she bought January by pilot. They where 49p

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Sister sledge frankie dou you remember me lol

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By *iamondsmiles.Woman
over a year ago

little house on the praire

I feel so damn old, i remember what i was doing when some of these records where out lol

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Frankie was August 1985 Shaz

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By *ucker4AGusherMan
over a year ago

sunshine coast

Blondie parellel lines, debbie harry was the ultimate fantasy!!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I think the first record I ever bought with my own saved up pocket money would be Heart of Glass, Blondie

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By *ashful BazMan
over a year ago

poole dorset

Barry White, You see the trouble with me.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Status Quo...Hello album

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By *omcoupleCouple
over a year ago

Bristol

How long by ACE and still sung by Paul Carrack to this day ..super song

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

First record anyone bought me was by Benny Hill - Ernie (The fastest milkman in the west)

An album of Pinky and Perky's Hit Parade

And the 1st single I ever bought was My Coo Ca Choo - by Alvin Stardust - 45p

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By *amschwingerzCouple
over a year ago

West

Why cant we live together...Timmy Thomas

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By *amschwingerzCouple
over a year ago

West

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By *lack_BoltMan
over a year ago

oxford

Metal Guru - T.Rex

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