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Your first record album

gidgetgh — Thu, 27 May 2021 22:40:59 GMT

I just started watching the Friends reunion and at the very beginning was part of a song that was so familiar to me, but I hadn't heard it in a very long time. So, off to google land I went.

The song, which I love, but had forgotten, is Embryonic Journey by Jefferson Airplane. From the 1967 album Surrealistic Pillow. It's such a good album. I have more than one song downloaded.

And that album, if maybe or maybe not my first, was very close to first. I was 11.

I just added Embryonic Journey to my iTunes library.

What was your first album?

Re: Your first record album

deepwaterdotter — Thu, 27 May 2021 22:45:00 GMT

"More of the Monkees"

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danirose1 — Thu, 27 May 2021 22:45:54 GMT

Band on the Run by Paul McCartney and Wings. I was 13 years old.

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Shelbelle — Thu, 27 May 2021 22:47:07 GMT

Meet the Beatles, 1964. Age 11

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Witchy Woman — Thu, 27 May 2021 22:46:45 GMT

@Shelbelle

Mine too...still have it and love it.

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Shelbelle — Thu, 27 May 2021 22:48:12 GMT

@Witchy Woman wrote:
@Shelbelle

Mine too...still have it and love it.

Still have mine too. Remember Ed Sullivan Show, then everyone had to have the album.

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Witchy Woman — Thu, 27 May 2021 22:49:27 GMT

@gidgetgh

A beautiful, beautiful song.

Have this album too....Another favorite on that album, "Comin' Back to Me."

I would listen to it just to cry!

Jefferson Airplane - Comin' Back To Me - YouTube

Re: Your first record album

gidgetgh — Thu, 27 May 2021 22:49:40 GMT

@Shelbelle wrote:
Meet the Beatles, 1964. Age 11

@Shelbelle - ok, so maybe Surrealistic Pillow wasn't my first. I had Meet the Beatles, LOL.

Re: Your first record album

threecees — Thu, 27 May 2021 22:53:24 GMT

I didn't have many. I had more cassette tapes from the 80's into 90's.

One album I still have is Bryan Adams. Hate to part with it even though

I can't play it.

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Mj12 — Thu, 27 May 2021 23:35:24 GMT

Rick Springfield - Working Class Dog - was a Christmas gift in 5th grade.

🎶 off to download Jessie's Girl from Amazon Music 🎶

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Goodie2shoes — Thu, 27 May 2021 22:57:18 GMT

Fun question ! I can't remember my first album but it had to be something by the Temptations ! I'm 70 yrs young a teenager of the 60's and the motown era. I still have a boat load of R&B albums. Supremes, Temptations, Stevie Wonder etc

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SloopJohnB — Thu, 27 May 2021 22:57:42 GMT

@gidgetgh The Donny Osmond Album. I was 11 and I still have it.

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dancingwoman — Thu, 27 May 2021 23:02:21 GMT

I still have it! DW

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gidgetgh — Thu, 27 May 2021 23:01:35 GMT

I'm going to add another one. This album my parents owned and I was a child, but I loved it then, Still love it and have every song downloaded.

Sergio Mendes and Brasil '66, Greatest Hits. What a fabulous old album. Love every song on it.

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skatting44 — Thu, 27 May 2021 23:02:15 GMT

It was the 1963 With The Beatles album . We were also given a Beatles album that had the song Babes in Black or Baby in Black

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golding76 — Thu, 27 May 2021 23:04:04 GMT

Although the first records I bought were by Elvis Presley, my first album was a peculiar choice for a very young teen.

As a very young girl, I loved watching popular singer Perry Como's TV show, which often had him showcase religious holiday music for an upcoming holiday. One evening, I heard him sing something that stirred my soul profoundly. It was "Kol Nidre," "a prayer sung in Jewish synagogues at the beginning of the service on the eve of Yom Kippur (Day of Atonement)."

Although I'd never heard it before, I knew I wanted to be able to play it again and again. The song moved me that deeply. Fortunately, our local music/record store had an LP album by Perry called "I Believe," and "Kol Nidre" was included among the selections.

Here it is:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VeIYLGJF0kc

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suzyQ3 — Thu, 27 May 2021 23:12:04 GMT

I can't remember my first album. But I have a vivid memory of standing in my brother's bedroom when he played what must have been one of Elvis's first single recording.

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golding76 — Thu, 27 May 2021 23:16:09 GMT

gidgetgh,

Your parents had fabulous taste! I, too, loved the music of Sergio Mendes and Brasil '66.

Ah yes, that was my time of being young and enjoying the frothiness of youth.

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QVCkitty1 — Thu, 27 May 2021 23:19:49 GMT

West Side Story soundtrack.

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shoesnbags — Thu, 27 May 2021 23:28:34 GMT

Not sure which was my first album, but I know that my first 45 record (just saying that really dates me!) was "Teen Angel." It was a sad ballad, and I played it over and over and over. Must have driven my mom crazy. This would have been when I was about 12 or 13 I think.

I still have all of my vinyl albums, but I'm not sure which was my first.