We have a thread "Last Album Listened To..." what was your first.
Me -- "Mickey Mouse's Birthday Party" probably around 1955. (I have mentioned elsewhere that I found you could listen to the album with a paper cone and a pin stuck to hold the cone together a la Edison).
First stereo recording I recall hearing as an album was Anna Moffo "Arias from Faust, Gounod.." circa 1963. It was on my uncle's KLH "portable" headphone player. I still have that recording.
Me -- "Mickey Mouse's Birthday Party" probably around 1955. (I have mentioned elsewhere that I found you could listen to the album with a paper cone and a pin stuck to hold the cone together a la Edison).
First stereo recording I recall hearing as an album was Anna Moffo "Arias from Faust, Gounod.." circa 1963. It was on my uncle's KLH "portable" headphone player. I still have that recording.
It might have been something by James Last or Herb Alpert from my dad’s small collection when my family bought a stereo in 1971.
My older sister had a copy of the Beatles, Hard Day's Night. Loved spinning that on our old tube mono console in 1964.
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Gary Lewis and the Playboys Greatest Hits, played on my next door neighbor's kiddie record player, probably in '63, I would have been eight years old, geez...that was sixty years ago!
Woops...just Googled it...it was actually "Gary Lewis and the Playboys Hits again" from 1966...I have a great memory, but sometimes it's a little short.
Woops...just Googled it...it was actually "Gary Lewis and the Playboys Hits again" from 1966...I have a great memory, but sometimes it's a little short.
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My parents played music for me when I was in my crib, Pink Floyd first album, Miles Davis, Theloneus Monk…
My father had a Magnavox mono HiFi console record player in the 50's. He had a few records which like most kids, I did not like, and left the room when he played them. He however had one record that he did not like, but it got my attention because it was "different." It was Dave Brubeck's Time Out. I was not allowed to touch the record player but I got my mother to play it for me when he was at work. It was the first full record that I consciously listened to all of.
He got a stereo console sometime in the 60's and the old Maggie became my guitar amp.
Sometime in the early 60's 45 RPM singles that didn't sell well came attached to Frito Lays chips for free. The first record I owned came on some Fritos and it was Every Day I Have To Cry Some by Steve Alaimo. I would meet Steve 6 to 8 years later when he ran a second rate recording studio called Tone Recording or Tone Records depending on which door you looked at. I did some work in a third rate recording studio called "The Broadcast People." They made cartridges for the advertising commercial players found in most live on the air radio stations of the time. We got some of Steve's hand me downs. He would strike it rich when some local Cuban musicians rode the Disco wave to the top of the charts several times, often with different lyrics laid down over the top of different remixes of the same instrument tracks. They were called KC and the Sunshine Band. If you can remember the mid 70's you heard them. By then Tone Records had become TK recording.
From 1975 to 1984 I was a Mr. Fixit at the Motorola plant about 30 miles north of Miami. Another Mr. Fixit was Joe Alaimo, Steve's brother. He left Motorola during the KC on the radio days.
He got a stereo console sometime in the 60's and the old Maggie became my guitar amp.
Sometime in the early 60's 45 RPM singles that didn't sell well came attached to Frito Lays chips for free. The first record I owned came on some Fritos and it was Every Day I Have To Cry Some by Steve Alaimo. I would meet Steve 6 to 8 years later when he ran a second rate recording studio called Tone Recording or Tone Records depending on which door you looked at. I did some work in a third rate recording studio called "The Broadcast People." They made cartridges for the advertising commercial players found in most live on the air radio stations of the time. We got some of Steve's hand me downs. He would strike it rich when some local Cuban musicians rode the Disco wave to the top of the charts several times, often with different lyrics laid down over the top of different remixes of the same instrument tracks. They were called KC and the Sunshine Band. If you can remember the mid 70's you heard them. By then Tone Records had become TK recording.
From 1975 to 1984 I was a Mr. Fixit at the Motorola plant about 30 miles north of Miami. Another Mr. Fixit was Joe Alaimo, Steve's brother. He left Motorola during the KC on the radio days.
First one i listened by myself was "The Doors".
First one i bought ( on cassette for my Walkman) was Midnight Oil 'Blue Sky Mine'.
First one i bought ( on cassette for my Walkman) was Midnight Oil 'Blue Sky Mine'.
My sister was having two LPs, Dark Side of the Moon, and Brain salad surgery from Emerson Lake and Palmer. The first I tried on her player, while she wasn't home 🙂, I was 7 or 8, was Dark side of the moon.
First i bougth was a German recording from the Beat Brothers (better known as Beatles).
I only remember it because i paid 150,-ÖS (approx. 6USD) for it.
Back then, my salary was 180,- ÖS a month, working 45+ hours a week.
I only remember it because i paid 150,-ÖS (approx. 6USD) for it.
Back then, my salary was 180,- ÖS a month, working 45+ hours a week.
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You’re a clearly a youngster 🙂
I’ll come clean. The first LP I recall listening to was Mary Poppins. 😀