ndiamone
600 Club - QQ All-Star
We now have every What Was Your First Every Possible Musical Genre on the Planet LP threads.
How about for us that were just little kids with just some leftover pop-bottle pocket change - scrounging beat up old records from people who didn't want `em no more - when you guys were already teenagers with your own money - what was the first non-childrens' 45's (or in the case of Canada and Europe etc late 50's/early 60's 78's) - you got or bought?
I remember two early 60's Leslie Bricusse back-to-back hits on 45 I wore out. Bobby Rydell's take on Leslie Bricusse's The Joker from Broadway's Roar of the Greasepaint http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEqaLUsb8SA with a remake of Volare on the back
And still with Leslie Bricusse - a back-to-back-hit Sammy Davis record:
Gonna Build a Mountain on one side
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fH2PCByRU74
and Candyman on the other side
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3cgKcEHRdY
A Bobby Vee back-to-back hit was in the same bag:
He Don't Love You - like I Love You
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FijH5zgeE4k
backed with The Night Has A Thousand Eyes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ssCLB6Y8zjA
Which I constantly had to retrieve out of my big sister's room - especially when one of her then-boyfriends would get to talkin' trash to her or on her.
But her player couldn't play 78's - and she didn't want to risk breaking `em anyway - so she'd just wait for me to put em on in my room in the basement.
Other records in the same bag - but on Canadian or British 78:
Hushabye - Mystics
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KdHuUtXCO6A
Born Too Late - Poni-Tails
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GzPiLkErmTg
Everybody's Somebody's Fool - Connie Francis
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dRo_j_dxtvQ
Mister Sandman - Chordettes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xDXT7wC9jrc
Shakin' the Blues Away - Doris Day
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W5lWaGqz8s4
Back-to-back hit British 78 with Sam the Old Accordion Man
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c93j_6oExoE
Earth Angel - Penguins
Love is Strange - Mickey and Sylvia (Dirty Dancing)
I Only have Eyes For You - Flamingos
And on and on and on and on.
Growing up split between Houlton Maine a half-hour ride to Fredericton, New Brunswick and Port Huron, Michigan across the river from Sarnia Ontario was great that way, because our same U.S. dollar could buy as many as ten 78's in Canada - sometimes even unplayed leftover store stock - where 45's in the US were 69c, sometimes 49c on special and we'd only get two.
Plus - Canada loved putting back-to-back hits by the original artists on their various budget-line record labels, whereas in the States, that practice was limited to - usually very poor performances - by ``soundalike'' artists that rarely did in our opinion.
So we could sometimes quadruple our music buying in Canada for the same money. I wonder if I'd have grown up in Australia if I'd have had an appreciation for Hong Kong and Chinese/Taiwanese music for the same reason.
How about for us that were just little kids with just some leftover pop-bottle pocket change - scrounging beat up old records from people who didn't want `em no more - when you guys were already teenagers with your own money - what was the first non-childrens' 45's (or in the case of Canada and Europe etc late 50's/early 60's 78's) - you got or bought?
I remember two early 60's Leslie Bricusse back-to-back hits on 45 I wore out. Bobby Rydell's take on Leslie Bricusse's The Joker from Broadway's Roar of the Greasepaint http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEqaLUsb8SA with a remake of Volare on the back
And still with Leslie Bricusse - a back-to-back-hit Sammy Davis record:
Gonna Build a Mountain on one side
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fH2PCByRU74
and Candyman on the other side
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3cgKcEHRdY
A Bobby Vee back-to-back hit was in the same bag:
He Don't Love You - like I Love You
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FijH5zgeE4k
backed with The Night Has A Thousand Eyes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ssCLB6Y8zjA
Which I constantly had to retrieve out of my big sister's room - especially when one of her then-boyfriends would get to talkin' trash to her or on her.
But her player couldn't play 78's - and she didn't want to risk breaking `em anyway - so she'd just wait for me to put em on in my room in the basement.
Other records in the same bag - but on Canadian or British 78:
Hushabye - Mystics
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KdHuUtXCO6A
Born Too Late - Poni-Tails
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GzPiLkErmTg
Everybody's Somebody's Fool - Connie Francis
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dRo_j_dxtvQ
Mister Sandman - Chordettes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xDXT7wC9jrc
Shakin' the Blues Away - Doris Day
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W5lWaGqz8s4
Back-to-back hit British 78 with Sam the Old Accordion Man
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c93j_6oExoE
Earth Angel - Penguins
Love is Strange - Mickey and Sylvia (Dirty Dancing)
I Only have Eyes For You - Flamingos
And on and on and on and on.
Growing up split between Houlton Maine a half-hour ride to Fredericton, New Brunswick and Port Huron, Michigan across the river from Sarnia Ontario was great that way, because our same U.S. dollar could buy as many as ten 78's in Canada - sometimes even unplayed leftover store stock - where 45's in the US were 69c, sometimes 49c on special and we'd only get two.
Plus - Canada loved putting back-to-back hits by the original artists on their various budget-line record labels, whereas in the States, that practice was limited to - usually very poor performances - by ``soundalike'' artists that rarely did in our opinion.
So we could sometimes quadruple our music buying in Canada for the same money. I wonder if I'd have grown up in Australia if I'd have had an appreciation for Hong Kong and Chinese/Taiwanese music for the same reason.
