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What was the first album or cassette you ever bought?
mary c07-Apr-21
I so enjoyed Emma Kate's recent discussion on favourite songs for her playlist and then started thinking about the first cassette tape i ever bought- which was in the 80s. It was Human League.
I was a student at a Technical Institute and was living away from home for the first time and in a Halls of residence. Having my music cassette player going was great and i remember friends making those mix tapes with some many great songs on them.
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  • I don't remember the first album or cassette tape. I do remember the first CD i bought which was Jimmy Barnes album Two Fires. I still enjoy it today.
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    • Elvis Presley and I left it in my Father's car and it bent. I can't remember what he used, something hot I think, and was able to save it bar one track that had a big burn mark on it. I still have the album. Loved Elvis.
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      • Too long ago to remember exactly = perhaps Peer, Paul and Mary or My Fair Lady
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        • Cool
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          • ONJ Greatest Hits Vol.3 for first album, cassette and CD
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            • ONJ? ohhhh Olivia!
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          • Baba girl the song i buy
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            • Pretty sure it was a Carpenters album. Oh those smooth vocals ....
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              • There was many from heavy metal to country, ONJ, Sherbert, John Farnham
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                • Don't recall the album name, but it was of Pat Boon
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                  • David lee Roth - Yankee Ross Steve Vai guitar riffs Rockin
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                    • The Cure
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                      • Hanson’s single of “mmm bop”
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                        • My Dad bought me a 78 record, all I can remember is it was the Everly Bros....I think another was a song called If I had a Blackbird.....many years ago...
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                          • Back in my day i bought a Cat Stevens album.
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                            • Pass.Next question. I am 87 so my long time memory is not focused on music
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                              • I cannot remember that far back.
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                                • After a pretty big spat I got a 78 shellac recording of Smiley Dawson, I reckon it would have been in 1954 or 1955 and had a version of 'Wild Colonial Boy' on the A' side, I remember having to get an adult to play it on the radiogram because I WASN'T allowed to change the needle or to put the needle on the record because 'you''ll scratch the record'
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                                  • Meatloaf Bat out of hell
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                                    • Donny osmonds too young
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                                      • The Beatles - Please Please Me
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                                        • Fur Elise
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                                          • A Record of Big Brother and the Holding Company with Janis Joplin called Cheap Trick.
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                                            • Abbey Road
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                                              • classic!
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                                            • Lionel Ritchie, it was a birthday gift from my Aunt...a very very long time ago...
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                                              • First album was Abba Arrival
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                                                • dark side of the moon
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                                                  • oh i bet you played and played it- what an album.
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                                                • Who remembers?
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                                                  • Meatloaf
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                                                    • Tiffany
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                                                      • Goodbye Yellow Brick Road after seeing Elton John for the first time and only 17
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                                                        • I can't remember whether I had any cassette tapes but I listened to the radio a lot.
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                                                          • Van Halen,self titled...
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                                                            • Rolling Stones; Get your ya ya's out
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                                                              • elvis blue hawai
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                                                                • ACDC back in black. Album
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                                                                  • i bet that was played and played!
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                                                                • The Seekers
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                                                                  • alice cooper
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                                                                    • Ripper 74
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                                                                      • I remember the cover to this one, my brothers didn't want Mum and Dad to see it, so they hid the record in my room. Girl's backside wearing ripped short short, short pants or something, lolol
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                                                                      • mary cPhyrephly
                                                                        rolling stone?
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                                                                      • Phyrephlymary c
                                                                        Ripper 75 album or something
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                                                                    • New?...Led Zepplin 3 ...IN STEREO...(you used to be able to buy them in Mono or Stereo then) with the original rotating cover...that would be worth a fortune now...oh well....and the sad thing is most of us never learn and just keep things do we?
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                                                                      • QUEEN
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                                                                        • Peter Paul and Mary.
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                                                                          • Bad Company
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                                                                            • either Black Sabbath or Jethro Tull too long ago to remember which came first
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                                                                              • Meatloaf Bat out of hell
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                                                                                • Holy moly can’t remember
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                                                                                  • Mark Wynter. Had pictures of him everywhere in my bedroom.
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                                                                                    • My first cassette was KISS ! Do not need to get any other cassettes
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                                                                                      • Either Blink 182 - Enema Of The State or RHCP - Californication in 98/99
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                                                                                        • My first record I bought myself was Moody Blues, Nights in White Satin....I still have it!!
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                                                                                          • a classic.
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                                                                                        • my first lp was cosmos factory ccr paid $5.50 and paid 50 cents a week in bendigo
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                                                                                          • I remember buying a Blue LP of Elvis BLUE MOON very rare I had him pasted all over my bedroom walls
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                                                                                            • I bought a single of Col Joye and still got it. Album was probably a 60’s maybe Buddy Holly,Big O or Gene Pitney not sure but still got them. In January 1980 I was in Nashville and got a 3 record set of Elvis. 1 had a full color photo on it as part of the make up. Still got it but no player so may have to find a place to convert to CD
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                                                                                              • Tea for the Tillerman by Cat Stevens if I recall correctly!
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                                                                                                • Pet shop boys-west end girls.
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                                                                                                  • i loved them...such great memories of that time- in the 80.s
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                                                                                                  • second was Jimmy Barnes-working class man
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                                                                                                • Frankie Laine, Cool Water on a 45, no cassettes then!
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                                                                                                  • JIMI HENDRIX AXIS BOLD AS LOVE
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                                                                                                    • go Jimi!
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                                                                                                  • Elvis - Blue Hawaii
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                                                                                                    • don't remember but it would have been country
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                                                                                                      • The Beatles "With The Beatles"
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                                                                                                        • So long ago I can’t remember
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                                                                                                          • First record was Fats Domino - "When my dreamboat comes home". Not sure of first album.
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                                                                                                            • Anka
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                                                                                                              • Paul Ankara
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                                                                                                                • I can't remember
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                                                                                                                  • Buddy Holly
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                                                                                                                    • Yes! Buddy Holly and Crash Craddock! Now I like Josh Groban
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                                                                                                                      • My parents had bought me the first cassette tape from the spice girls in 1996.
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                                                                                                                        • the complete Buddy Holly
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                                                                                                                          • I had an ACDC tape it was my brother s I listen end to it on my red radio
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                                                                                                                            • Peter Andre
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                                                                                                                              • Mine was and Elton John LP, just cant remember the title.
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                                                                                                                                • I can't remember it has been so long ago I grew up with the old rock and roll. Will have to look at my LP's and singles I still have them from all those years ago.
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                                                                                                                                  • I was too busy dealing with survival issues (and childhood physical abuse issues) in the early stages of my life - I just can not remember!
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                                                                                                                                    • Tara's Theme from Gone with the wind- soundtrack. Most haunting music and has stayed a favourite. Wonderful film -a must see.
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                                                                                                                                      • I cannot actually remember exactly as it was back in the early 1960's. Probably the Beatles I would think. I had a lot of albums which I gave to my son a couple of years back.
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                                                                                                                                        • Gary Puckett and the Union Gap - Young Girl Album, To Sir with Love - Single
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                                                                                                                                          • A cassette tape of the Beatles double record 1962-1966.
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                                                                                                                                            • patsy cline I liked
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                                                                                                                                              • Cat Stevens 'Tea for the Tillerman', and still have this in mint condition along with lots of other vinyl's....!!!
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                                                                                                                                                • its a lovely album cover too isn't it.
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                                                                                                                                              • I bought my first album in Grade 5, from my sister's friend and it was Skyhooks-Living in the '70s and bought Ego is not a dirty word from her a few weeks later. They defected to The Bay City Rollers. BLAH
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                                                                                                                                                • I bought my first album Sadie by John Farnham in 1968. He was my idol.
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