Bo Diddley & Chuck Berry, now you are really talking my music!! There are specialist guides of what our vinyl is worth but the crunch is actually getting it! I have a huge Jerry Lee Lewis collection and some of it is being quoted at very high prices but I would never part with any of them.
Leonard Cohen’s first album. Loved him then and love him now. Saw him in Tours a couple of years ago and he is still the greatest!
I have some, but blues. One is a master disc by ? that I was offered £50 around 1980 so what is it worth now? My first Miles Davis is also a 78. I bought it accidentally when it was among blues records. I thought I didn't like jazz until then, but have a fair bit now. I also have some Bo Diddley and Chuck Berry sounding far more bluesy than rocking somewhere in the rack. I really went for blues and soul for years and have more to digitise than I can perhaps cope with. Thing is, although I have the equipment to digitise the lot and shall but whatever the value might be for some of these things, sentimentality prevents me letting them go.
Elvis Presley, the Christmas Album. Still got it, bit scratched but must be digitised before long. 1957 according to the sleeve. The laugh is that by the early 60s I could not stand Presley!
That was my second purchase!
Must be of a similar era Doreen!
Carol King: Tapestry
First single 2 Minutes to midnight : Iron Maiden
First Album Tears for Fears Mad World
Good god! I was only 9 so don't judge me (and technically yes, it was not actually paid for by me - maybe there's the get-out clause) but it was a Lena Zavaroni album! First single, however, bought out of my own pocket money was 'When will I see you again?' by The Three Degree (A bit more street cred I think... marginally!)
Tony,these might help you "dig jazz, man"
http://illminatus.hubpages.com/hub/How-to-listen-to-jazz-music--A-beginners-guide-to-the-jazz-genre
http://sabotagetimes.com/music/a-beginners-guide-to-jazz-10-tracks-you-need-to-hear/
Definitely Jerry Lee Lewis and High School Confidential, although I never tire of listening to Little Richard´s Lucille. Definitely the fifties guys for me as it was Bill Haley who commercially kicked the whole thing off with Rock Around the Clock.
I can honestly say that I've never bought an Album. As a teenager in the late 50's/60's my parents were too poor to afford a record player so I had to make do with a wind up gramophone & some wicked Bill Haley & Chuck Berry 78's. Later on in my life when I could afford most things the urge to buy music just wasn't there & I preferred to try to make it myself. Wish I still had those 78's though. Worth a fortune now :-)
Steppenwolf "The Second" after seeing Easy Rider for the first time. The first Steppenwolf album was a train wreck with just one good track (Born to be Wild). The second was an experimental masterpiece, but the production values still weren't good compared to British studios. And yes, I did paint white stars on the petrol tank of my Panther after seeing the film - sad but true.
My first was "the Jungle book" I wanna be like you hoo hoo :-)
Voulez-Vous by ABBA, was my first LP cassette. I didn't have a record player at that time as I was only 11. I still love'em today
Never Say Die, Black Sabbath....the album they did "for the money.."
Mine was the Big 16 by The Impressions. Bought in 1964 still owned and played
I couldn't afford LP's! 45's were the thing and as I have no shame I can reveal it was Tommy Steele covering Rock around the Clock! I had some nice 78s of Victor Sylvester too as I was forced to undertake dancing lessons before my social career was launched. Later on I discovered jazz, especially Blue Note LPs.
Mine was Kylie...still love Kylie :)
Me to. I'm just concentrating on Stayin Alive!
The Montgomery Brothers in Canada in 1961 (still got it) although I had plenty of 78s before that including Stan Kenton's Peanut Vendor.