Richard Hawley

Sister Jane was by New World wasn't it? I think there were three of them in the band, had a handful of hits..."sister jane , you better change your name.." or something...

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OK but I'll need some beer.

That's the group, thanks. I just found a copy of the single which I have not played in years, also I did not realise that Chinn - Chapman wrote the song, they had hits with everyone in the early 70's.

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It's a chorus that is hard to get out of your head, must check to see if it is on Youtube.

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Richard Hawley Rocks

I paid a kid at school 10p for The Beatles - Twist and Shout e.p., he wanted to give it me for nowt but I felt guilty knowing it was so good. Used to get given loads of Beatles stuff "How, Beatle, ye want this?" "Aye" - lads giving away their mams records as they knew I was obsessed. At one stage I had 4 copies of I Feel Fine - perhaps my favrit Beatles single through this great enterprise.

Still sift through singles in charity shops though went in one today that smelled like someone had shit theirselves so made a hasty exit.

Think the first 45 I actually asked for - being too young to be allowed out to the shops - was Skywriter by the Jackson Five Totally confused my Mum...''You want a what? A record?'' First purchase proper wasn't till years later as a teenager. Can't remember what exactly, but it probably would have been the Beatles from the second hand shelf in the shop up the road. But I'd already adopted my Dad's Shadows LP by then & nothing in the charts could match that.

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The heartbeat doesn't change, only the faces surrounding it.

Yeah..know the feeling.........all my singles/albums....ended up in eastern Germany following a burnt out dalliance........

I also bought Skywriter by The Jackson Five sometime in 1973 and I also bought the album of the same name not long after. One of my favourite singles is Doctor My Eyes also by The Jackson Five which I bought second hand not long after that.

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I think mine was The Wombles..I recall buying 'Greased Lightning' by John Travolta...good grief. Though I have admit, I still like that song.

Though it was one of those funny records that John Peel used to play in late 1978 that won the day. The Lurkers in this case...and then was it. Sold John Travolta to my sister.

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"Come back tomorrow night and try it again"

the Lurkers single"pills"was an early buy for me too.......i think i was about 13 at the time still have it boss tune i got into it cos it was a Bo Diddley song

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now,then!

...king embarressing my first buy was from Woolworths (I had a closeted upbringing) and it was Wham....oooo er...it was the Eighties, I had problem parents.... then I grew...

and became a Tog.............

My first two singles were 'You really got me' by the Kinks and 'Go now' by the Moody Blues. Don't think I had enough money to buy an album until I started work and think my first one was Greatest Hits - Bob Dylan.

There was a stall in the market in Halifax which bought and sold records - I remember buying Atlantic and Stax ones - but also sold some which I wish I'd held on to - when the money ran before the end of the month!

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And I listen to you call, I hardly hear you at all
I walk the quiet night, watch the river rolling by

Yeah...thanks for that...

The first single I bought for myself was T-Rex -Solid Gold Easy Action. It was not their best song, but that was the latest release.

The first singles I owned were a present - Silence is Golden by The Tremeloes and Okay by Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky Mick & Titch. As far as I know I have kept hold of all my singles, not sure where they are though.

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Love is so hard to find
And even harder to define