Richard Hawley

Fascinating pictures here about the manufacture of a vinyl record

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/spl/hi/picture_gallery/08/business_the_seven_inch_single/html/1.stm

and long may it live

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sorry if this has come up before but the thread got me reminiscing - what were everyone's first single/album purchases? Mine was Silver Machine by Hawkwind in 1972 and Billion Dollar Babies by Alice Cooper the year after...

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i bought a 78 first from Kennys records,the first album i bought was the Dell Vikings come go with me from Bradleys in Sheffield my dad bought a Little walter double album the same day


I used to have to wait till singles had dropped out of the charts to get them,i used to go to huddarts in firth park and buy their"pop ex"singles with the hole in the middle they were a third of the price

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you are bang on about that, Richard - I used to love searching for old singles with the middle missing - cut out albums as well for a quid...I can remember going thirds each for singles with two of my brothers in 1973, it only cost 12p each! Happy days - and then with the punk explosion, going into Manchester with my spends and my dad's empties money to get my fix of vinyl every week, reading the bloody labels on the bus home...

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First single I bought was Good Vibrations by the Beach Boys. One of my older brothers bought I Can See For Miles by The Who on the same day.

Didn't buy albums until quite a bit later. The first was Bolan Boogie by T Rex.

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1st LP - Dad bought me Chuck Berry 'Motorvatin' when I was about 7

As a kid, I never bought a new 7" single because I always thought the then current music (late '70's - throughout the '80's) was pants. I was into stuff that had been around 15-25 years previous - nothing seemed to match it.

However, with hindsight I should have bought 'Atomic' by Blondie - I kind of liked that one at the time.

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Heh, my first single was 'Egyptian Reggae' (Jonathan Richman) which I remember buying with my pocket money from this little electrical appliance shop which also sold records. I can't remember the year, mid seventies anyway.

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'Somethin' Else' by The Sex Pistols............ a bigger boy was going into town and got it for me - 89p. The b-side was 'Friggin' in the Riggin' which my Dad said I could listen to but could not singalong, I had little idea of what they were singing about my years were so tender.
Ironically going through my Dad's L.P.s I discovered Cochran - and the source - small wonder he dismissed Sid's version........... he were right.

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First singles I bought were

Skweeze Me, Pleeze Me - Slade
Can You Do It - Geordie

on a very damp Saturday in June 1973 from Wigan Market.

If you disregard a handful of el cheapo, Pickwick/mfp TOTP-type compilations (not by original artists, as if you couldn't tell!) then the first albums I bought were

Seconds Out - Genesis
Live and Let Live - 10cc

from WH Smiths in Bolton

I'm annoyed that I don't have the singles any more. Mum had a clearout and I guess I must have thought that I'd moved on from pop singles

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"I can't go back to Salford, the cops 'ave got me marked...."

First single: 'That'll Be The Day' (Buddy Holly of course). 78 rpm. Bought when it was an original hit in 1958. The new price of a single then was around 6s 6d. At the time you could buy four pints of beer for that money!

First Album: 'Elvis' Golden Records' purchased second hand from a stall at our local market in 1961. And a new album (or LP as as it was known) was around £1 10s at the time - equivalent to nearly 20 pints of beer. If you could afford an album then you treasured it!

In general, the 78 rpm, 10" single must have survived in the UK until around 1959/60 (???). My sister was a big Lonnie Donegan fan in the mid-late 50's and I distinctly rememember she had one or two of his singles as 78 rpm 10" records but pressed in vinyl instead of the old shellac material.

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First single with all my own money.......Hot Love - T.Rex

"Well she ain't no witch and I love the way she twitch - a ha ha"

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The first two singles that I bought myself:

Life on Mars - David Bowie
Goin Home - The Osmonds

I can remember there always being singles around in our house belonging to my older brother/sister mostly stuff by Gilbert O'Sullivan, Tony Christie, Sweet, Slade and one 7" I always remember being played was a song called "Sister Jane" but at this moment can't remember the group. I love vinyl.

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That would have been about 1972/73. I remember it well, but can't remember who it is by. It was about a girl who had got pregnant & the chorus was something like "Sister Jane, you've got to change your name, you've got to get out soon before you go insane"

Memories.......................

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