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Title: 45 turns 60
Post by: Dave W on June 09, 2009, 03:56:43 PM

http://www.justpressplay.net/music/music-news/5469-45rpm-record-turns-sixty.html

Title: Re: 45 turns 60
Post by: Freuds_Cat on June 10, 2009, 06:31:36 AM

Damn, and I thought this was going to be another Miles vs Kilometers thread  ;D

Title: Re: 45 turns 60
Post by: OldManC on June 10, 2009, 04:24:52 PM

The first records I ever bought with my own money were 45s. Crocodile Rock, The Theme from Happy Days, and Got To Get You Into My Life. I think that would make it '76...

Title: Re: 45 turns 60
Post by: Dave W on June 10, 2009, 10:14:36 PM

I can't remember the first I got or bought, my earliest records were mostly 78s.

Title: Re: 45 turns 60
Post by: eb2 on June 10, 2009, 11:24:19 PM

Yellow Submarine

Title: Re: 45 turns 60
Post by: Freuds_Cat on June 11, 2009, 05:07:05 AM

Suffragette City - David Bowie was my first 45

Title: Re: 45 turns 60
Post by: Pilgrim on June 11, 2009, 09:24:15 AM

I remember searching through racks of old 45's in the early 60's.  I think I still have Hernando's Hideaway from that period.  I know I have the TAMLA release of Fingertips with "Little Stevie Wonder" - parts A and B, two-sided.

Title: Re: 45 turns 60
Post by: Basvarken on June 11, 2009, 11:33:36 AM

The first 45 that I ever bought was Ça Plane Pour Moi by Plastic Bertrand :mrgreen:
I remember seeing him perform on a trampoline at some tv show. Me being a ten year old boy thought that was pretty impressive.
I immediately tried to copy his jumping act on my own bed. With my little portable turntable pickup at max volume. My mum wasn't too happy... ;D

I still kinda like the song.
Here's a cool cover by The BossHoss

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oxEefY65qGQ

Title: Re: 45 turns 60
Post by: Dave W on June 11, 2009, 12:10:20 PM

Hernando's Hideaway? That was a golden oldie by the early 60s.

Title: Re: 45 turns 60
Post by: Pilgrim on June 11, 2009, 12:25:02 PM

Quote from: Dave W on June 11, 2009, 12:10:20 PM

Hernando's Hideaway? That was a golden oldie by the early 60s.

Yup.  I'm sure that's why it was in the secondhand store.

Title: Re: 45 turns 60
Post by: Dave W on June 11, 2009, 12:37:36 PM

So you were buying used old fogey music at a young age.  ;D

Title: Re: 45 turns 60
Post by: Highlander on June 11, 2009, 03:11:59 PM

School's Out  ;)

Title: Re: 45 turns 60
Post by: Pilgrim on June 11, 2009, 03:55:15 PM

Quote from: Dave W on June 11, 2009, 12:37:36 PM

So you were buying used old fogey music at a young age.  ;D

YEAH!!!!

That's my story and I'm stickin' to it!!   :P

Title: Re: 45 turns 60
Post by: bobyoung on June 12, 2009, 03:20:26 PM

First one was Last Kiss by J. Frank Wilson and The Cavaliers.

Oh where oh where did my baby go???

I liked the bass line. Sunshine superman was also another early one.

I just bought a Webcor mono turntable and was playing 45's and LP's today, it also plays 78's which is really why I bought it. I have a good Thorens for LP's and 45's.

Title: Re: 45 turns 60
Post by: uwe on June 13, 2009, 03:49:11 PM

School's out was the first single I would have liked to have bought, but then went for the AC Greatest Hits album (the one where they are all drawn as thirties mobsters, it sttled my career as an album buyer, singles from then on never had an appeal for me. My first single was much later and an odd choice: "Let's go to San Franciso Part I and II" by limey Beach Boys rip-offs The Flowerpotmen. The single was rumored to feature a pre-Deep Purple Jon Lord and Nick Simper, but it later turned out that they did not feature on the song, joining only the touring backing band of The Flowerpotmen. And I only bought that single because the song wasn-t available on album at the time. My second single was Might just take your life of DP because it featured a non Burn album B side. Which goes to show: Even as an adolescent I already had a collector's itch.

Title: Re: 45 turns 60
Post by: SKATE RAT on June 13, 2009, 05:46:17 PM

i love 45's i have about 2000 of 'em.though its a pain in the ass when you move,like i did recently

Title: Re: 45 turns 60
Post by: Highlander on June 14, 2009, 07:22:37 AM

My vinyl collection stopped at 2000 LP's and 5000 45's, which have mostly been sold off... 1st album was the tape of "Billion Dollar Babies" and 1st vinyl LP was "Muscle of Love"... Like Uwe started with LP's, mine was mostly singles; I had dozens of Slade singles, but very few LP's... my love of American music was set by '75