First record you remember hearing?

[les_taxi]

When i was a kid we had a state of the art wind-up gramophone

I was a music fan immediately and the record i seem to remember playing/hearing many times was:-

"how much is that doggy in the window" (now it could mean something else altogether)

Also "76 trombones" seemed to hook me

I remember being scared shitless by "sparky and his magic piano" Something about the crazed piano playing those notes wildly frightened me


Just played it sent shivers down my spine

[Englishman2010]

I'm ashamed to admit this, but the first record I can remember as a kid was 'Billy don't be a hero' by Paper Lace back in 1974. Things did get better for me, during the 70's I progressed to Abba, Showaddywaddy and by 77/78 I was a proper 9 year old punk listening to the Clash and the Pistols from my middle class suburban home

[sars_notd_virus]

Great Balls of Fire by Jerry Lee Lewis
me and my father loves it a lot !!!




**those were the 'LP' days****

[aposhark]

The album "Please Please Me" by the Beatles.
It was their first in 1963, I was 7 yrs old.
I was in Liverpool as a boy.
Used to use a tennis racket to play along
"Chains" sticks in my mind.
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They were to come true later in life when I met my dear wife
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Chains, my baby's got me locked up in chains
And they ain't the kind that you can see
Woh, these chains of love got a hold on me yeah..........

[sars_notd_virus]

Oh and what about ?? Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep ( Middle of the road)
I can still remember my Mum sings this for me when i was young,no idea what the song means during that time but the beat is to cool to follow and i love it

[bornatbirth]

i remember being looked after my neighbor and "tie a yellow ribbon" was on the radio as i was playing.... it was released in 1973 and was 3.

[les_taxi]

I used to think she was fit!

preferred this one though

[Terpe]

[QUOTE=lestaxi1;256583]I remember being scared shitless by "sparky and his magic piano" Something about the crazed piano playing those notes wildly frightened meQUOTE]

Whaaa. me too. That does bring memories

[les_taxi]

[QUOTE=Terpe;256598]

I remember being scared shitless by "sparky and his magic piano" Something about the crazed piano playing those notes wildly frightened meQUOTE]

Whaaa. me too. That does bring memories

Great I'm not a wuss

[grahamw48]

Les, that is really weird, because as I was reading the thread title I thought 'How much is that doggy in the window' too.

The song had been out a few years when you heard it though, as it would have been mid 50s when I heard it (before moving overseas) and you're only a youngun.

First proper pop record I remember was 'Rock around the clock'...Bill Haley, which my parents bought when we were in Malaya.

First record I bought was 'All Over Now' by the Rolling Stones.

[joebloggs]

by 77/78 I was a proper 9 year old punk listening to the Clash and the Pistols from my middle class suburban home

The Clash , pistols , Buzzcocks

[Englishman2010]

The Clash , pistols , Buzzcocks

The Pistols were Ok until Glenn Matlock left/was sacked. I remember John Peel playing The Buzzcocks Orgasm Addict and not knowing what it was I asked my dad Good ol' John peel RIP, he introduced me to many great bands. My favorite band from the late 70's punk scene were The Ruts

[raynaputi]

well of course it's always the nursery rhymes that every kid hears for the first time..the first nursery rhyme for me is the Ring Around the Rosie, which my aunt kept on singing to me till it was sickening already! ....as for the songs, it's Tiffany's All This Time and Extreme's More Than Words, which I memorized just for a couple of days and even used it as my audition piece to be in the choir group when I was in grade 3!

[grahamw48]

We sang it at school too.

"Ring a ring o' roses a pocketful of posies - atishoo ! atishoo ! we all fall down."

Originally about the symptoms of the Plague which swept Europe hundreds of years ago, killing millions.

Nice song for kids.

[Alan]

Lonnie Donogan - Puttin' on the Style!

Al.

[tomboo]

i remember the first i bought, abba greatest hits, lol brings back not so good memories

[Steve.r]

I remember 'O-bla-di O-bla-da' and 'Lilly the Pink'

[Pete/London]

I have 2 older brothers so its their records I remember first,
Neil Sedaka..Carolina Moon, I Go ape
Paul Anka
Connie Francis
Frankie Avalon
Lonnie Donigan
Don Lang

We also had an upright piano in the front room that was the centre of entertainment at christmas ,new years eve.My dad was brilliant and could pick up tunes easy, as well as his terrible jazz records he had a few Ruby Murray, Fats Dominoe etc.

[Sim11UK]

I have 2 older brothers so its their records I remember first,
Neil Sedaka..Carolina Moon, I Go ape
Paul Anka
Connie Francis
Frankie Avalon
Lonnie Donigan
Don Lang

Funnily enough I was watching Paul Anka 'You are my Destiny' on Youtube the other day.
I remember it from an Eastern European Film set in the early 60's, but can't remember the Films title.

Great song!

[Sim11UK]

Here we are Joe & Englishman Great stuff! :xxgrinning--



As I've said on here before, Sid Vicious went to our school for a while. (Before I was there) & iRobot who is a member here, knew him as he also went to the same school.

[joebloggs]

sim, 2 of my favs from them




and

[Englishman2010]

Thanks Sim and Joe, I will listen to them now. When I was about 10 or 11 one of my favorite Buzzcocks ditties was 'oh S**t', I learned a whole new vocabulary after hearing that

[Sim11UK]

Nice Joe One of my faves is '16 again'.

[Sim11UK]

Sorry my vid goes funny half way through

[KeithD]

For some reason this song sticks in my head from my kiddy years

[les_taxi]

For some reason this song sticks in my head from my kiddy years

Thats bloody bad luck

[Arthur Little]

When i was a kid we had a state of the art wind-up gramophone

Same here! It was given to my brother and I by an older cousin of ours. My bruv wound it up repeatedly to play Elvis Pressley's 'Jailhouse Rock' ... and, each time, our *mum threatened to smash the record if she "ever had to listen to it just once more!"

She never actually did, though! And, looking back now, I wonder if my younger [by two-and-a-half years] sibling was simply winding *her up.

"how much is that doggy in the window"

... Patti Page, circa 1952 ... an even earlier childhood memory of mine!

[steve monty]

For some reason this song sticks in my head from my kiddy years

When I first looked at the Top of the Pops message, i thought it said "this was actually the best of their sh*te"

its like the BBC are sending out subliminal messages!! Maybe that one bottle of Peroni has gone to my head!

First record i remember was Micheal Jackson- Thriller back in '83.

[Pete/London]

Anyone remember the big reel tape recorders that were around in the 60s (i think it was made by elizebethan) .Some mates had portable record players the size of a hand carry case , that took some lugging around.

[burdock]

the first record player I saw was when older brother came home on leave from the army and remember him playing Can The Can by Suzi Quatro

but could not work out why when he put it on the second time it was a man singing a slower version