A friend said something on a post yesterday about the lovely sounds of those familiar skips and scratches that only…
A friend said something on a post yesterday about the lovely sounds of those familiar skips and scratches that only our most beloved vinyl can produce. I’ve said and felt the same on many occasion….and then I happened upon this photo I snapped a couple years back while cleaning out my archives. This was my very FIRST record album that I would play. I’d lay on the green sculptured carpet of my Grannie’s living room with my ear next to the speaker box of her couch sized console stereo, and play it over and over and over.
It belonged to my Uncle, who was away during the Vietnam conflict…but today, it belongs to me. I wouldn’t trade this old scratchy vinyl for anything. I still play it, and I’m 5 years old again, safe and secure at my Grannie’s house.
Do you remember your first love affair with vinyl? Do you still have it?
#Priceless #Vinyl
I agree, 100% Robert Rice . 🙂
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Julia Denett … ❤
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Having a sister who’s 17 years older than me I’m not sure what the first vinyl record I played was. I remember “At the Hop” by Danny & the Juniors and “Ring of Fire” by Johnny Cash. We also had an LP of Disney songs (everything from Snow White to Mary Poppins). The first LP I bought myself was Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band and I still have that.
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🙂 A Beatles Classic Terence Towles Canote My other ‘first’ were my Grannie’s records…Elvis’ Crying in the Chapel, and George Beverly Shea…
and, as a matter of fact, I still have those too.
The first two I got for Christmas were Donny Osmond and The Partridge Family.
LOL
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BobbieZen I wish I still had the Johnny Cash record, but my sister apparently took it with her when she moved out. I have no idea where it is now– the only part of her vinyl collection that survived were the ones my brother and I
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It’s just how we listened to music, so I don’t remember really thinking about it in any comparative sense. I remember being in trouble for playing the record “Help!” when I was close to 3. It’s my earliest memory, I think, from living in a house I remember nothing else about because we moved that year. My grandma bought me a portable record player and a box of records when I was 7, and then I started collecting them. But most of my records were stolen about 15 years later. Then we had a flood about 15 years ago, so I’m on my third collection with just a few originals remaining from the past.
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I have my step sister’s Monkees albums, Terence Towles Canote . We are good salvagers. 😀
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I think some of the first records I listened to as a kid were not vinyl, but acetate – 78 RPM, and classical music. After that were my sisters’ massive 45 collections. LPs didn’t happen much for me until college – except for the comedy albums my parents had. They were partial to Alan Sherman.
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It’s funny the strong memories that are attached to music, Lily Alice . ..it has the same effect on me.
Re-collecting those favorites has to have been a chore!
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Acetate? Well, I’ve learned something new again today, Philip Setnik 🙂 I have some old 78’s that were passed down, as well.
Another oldie I have, since you mentioned comedy, were some of Bill Cosby…my favorite being the one about Junior Barnes and the Slushball.
Sadly, those memories are forever tainted due to recent Cosby news.
#ChildhoodRuined
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Yes. One I would love to have again on vinyl is 24 Groovy Greats, because it was a favorite with me and my brothers, given to us by our cousin.
Most of my best memories have soundtracks, and there are many single moments, as well. Like watching my brothers play the record they cut off an Alphabits box, on the back patio.
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🙂 I had totally forgotten about those cereal box records! Lily Alice
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There you go. $13.30 on eBay 🙂 Lily Alice
http://www.ebay.com/itm/like/310783381044?ul_noapp=true&chn=ps&lpid=82
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BobbieZen Lily Alice I remember those Post cereal box records. I think when CBS was rerunning The Monkees on Saturday mornings they came out with some of The Monkees’ songs on cereal boxes.
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I thought it was the Jackson Five they were playing, but now I think it must have been The Archies. http://www.mrbreakfast.com/list.asp?id=5
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I remember The Archies records on cereal boxes, even though we never got those. I didn’t even know they had Jackson Five records on cereal boxes.
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One would think that it would be easy to distinguish the quintessentially lily (sorry) white Archies from the Jackson Five – but no, those of us who grew up in that era understand the confusion exactly.
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ABC, easy as 123….do re mi….abc…
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Hah! True Philip Setnik. It’s mostly a time issue for me. I was 4 when the Archies hit the cereal business, and that was at the house where the patio was. But I am guessing they also played Jackson Five’s record the same day. 🙂 And then later, they were in Alpha-Bits commercials and on their own paper record.
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It is odd what we remember and what we don’t. I don’t remember the Jackson Five cereal box records, but I know I like them when I was a little kid. I watched their Saturday morning cartoon. Now The Archies it really depended on the song. I liked “Bang-Shang-A-Lang”, but not “Sugar Sugar”. For some odd reason I do remember The Archies cereal box records though!
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It might be because those came around 3-4 years later when you were either over that cereal (or your mom was,) or over the concept.
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this was the first album I ever owned, a present for my 13th birthday: http://www.allmusic.com/album/ecology-mw0000202984
it included the hit single “Born to Wander” which I was insufferably insane about
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such a fantastic song…I remember that one, John MacLeod , and I’m listening via youtube right now.
🙂
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BobbieZen boo-yah! ♥
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Get Ready cued up next! 😀
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Now that we had by Rare Earth, but also by the Temptations, and also “War” by Edwin Starr for which the B side was “He Who Picks a Rose,” which Rare Earth also did, and when I was a child, I thought they were just all conspiring to confuse me.
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I played my Rare Earth albums to death, I musta driven my family nuts….
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I lost all my original vinyl in a flood. But my first album was Samuel Barber’s Adagio for strings. Second? Moody Blues, Days of Future Passsed. I have gradually started buying albums again..and rebuilding slowly
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Yes! My first that I remember is Shhboom by the Crewcuts. Considered early Rock n Roll! I have it on an oldies album (CD) now & can still sing along with it. I went on to Elvis & Pat Boone!!! Those were all 45’s & I can’t forget to mention Bill Haley & the Comets Rock Around the Clock! My mom also loved that one!! Great memories BobbieZen
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Lady Deidre HurlsWaterballoonsLikeAPro I never actually owned any Moodies of my own till I bought the remaster CDs a few years ago, but I heard my big brother playing his Moodies vinyl a lot!
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lol, my 88 year old Dad still has his white “Pat Boone” shoes, Donna McClure . Good old rock and roll.
LOVE love love the Moody’s Lady Deidre HurlsWaterballoonsLikeAPro , but I’ve only really come to appreciate them in the past decade.
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You were my inspiration, Julia Denett ! MUAHZZZ!
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John MacLeod I heard it from my folks and loved it immediately!
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I’ve got a couple of boxes of vinyl but no way to play them. One of these days I’ll buy or rent a turntable and rip them all to .wav files. Got some stuff you probably can’t even find anymore.
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Beach Boys Greatest Hits… 409 is still one of my all time fave songs.
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George Cohn a turntable is only about 300 bux. Get an old tube amp for another few hundred…Worth every penny. Analog just sounds warmer.
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George Cohn , I scored one of those turntables I can plug into the computer, and voila….instant MP4. Scratches, crackles, and all. 🙂 Love It.
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Giddy Up Giddy Up! Mycroft Holmes 😀
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BobbieZen I love that your dad still has those shoes! 🙂
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I’ll have to ask him to model them for the crowd on my next visit down to see him, Donna McClure 🙂
They’re hilarious.
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Mycroft Holmes I’d have to sequester myself from the cats, they get into anything that moves and there’s nothing to be done about it.
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My first was a Cheap Trick album that I sorta borrowed (permanently) from my father. Then came Pink Floyd. Then The Eagles. I still sigh when I hear any of them. Such wonderful memories.
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Yes and yes. Although I’m having trouble recalling the title, and it’s in a box somewhere. Probably best that I don’t date myself, anyway. 😉
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My first vinyl was this https://youtu.be/EGxy8CDqIzs, but I don’t have it anymore.
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Love the old vinyl. One great thing about this new-fangled digital stuff is being able to go back and listen to the old stuff as if it’s new again. Mycroft Holmes mentioned 409 — I have a lot of Beach Boys and Jan and Dean albums in my Google Play Music library. Put the top down on the Camaro, stream it to the radio via Bluetooth, and cruise ! Lady Deidre HurlsWaterballoonsLikeAPro mentioned the Moody Blues — I used to like them, but the last time I tried playing one of their albums I was bored to tears. Here’s a story from yesterday: I was looking up something about Lawrence Ferlinghetti. When I got to “Ferlin”, Google suggested Ferlin Husky. I remembered the name but not much else, so I followed a couple of links, then off to my Google Play Music All Access account to check him out. Pretty good, even though that’s not my type of music. For Philip Setnik — those old 78s had a unique sound. I like the big band sound that people used to listen to on those.
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I’m sure the first I heard was made by ktel since that’s what my older sister would have had. Not very memorable. The first that I remember, also hers, was Bad Habit by The Monks.
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you can really press the buttons, BobbieZen ! I’m a few years ahead of you and the first records (LP’s) I heard as a child were what my parents owned – for some reason I remember a Sarah Vaughn album.
But the XXXtra special one was a red vinyl christmas album with handbells and an organ. Needless to say it only got played at Christmas time and woe to the child who scratched that record…
Through the miracle of technology, it turns out I’m not the only one who heard it. After a very short google search for red vinyl records christmas bells, I found this on YouTube (music starts at 5:08, tears of childhood joy at 5:08:05) https://youtu.be/36iO377cBi0
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I used to have my first vinyl . . .
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Dawn H Jackson, I saw Cheap Trick a few times in high school…man, I wish I still had those concert tees!
Floyd Rules, and the Eagles Hotel California album cuts always remind me of being at my Daddy’s apartment back in the day.
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Come on William Parmley…you’re amongst
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