My mum had a Glen Miller album. I loved it as well as her Inkspots album.
My Dad liked both too - I used to take the mick out of him but now realise what wonderful music it was and how at the time must have been a real piece of sunshine in some horribly dark times. RIP dad and sorry lol!
The first album I bought with my own money was the Kinks album "Something Else by the Kinks". This was in early 1968 a few months after it's release. Cost me 36/6d from, I think, the record department downstairs in Boots in Hare Street Woolwich
These posts about the prices are interesting. Using the Bank of England calculator, that comes out at the equiv of about £32 today. That would deter a lot of 14 year olds today. But in those days we all had way less money than our modern equivalents…
Me too. I can clearly remember, aged about 13, going up to the counter of the record shop just off Welling Corner, trying to be cool, but very self consciously asking for the LP.
I think that shop was called Ajax.
Bought my first album there in 1971; “Muswell Hillbillies” The Kinks.
A likely story. I bet it was Nursery Cryme by Genesis
Slayed - Slade. 1972. I was 12-y-o. There was a local record shop next to the Brockley Jack in Crofton Park. Magical place. The smell of the record shop and the Album covers in the window, stays with me.
I also remember getting those LPs which had top 10 songs by session musicians rather than the original artists,. Top of the Pops, Hot Hits, Million Seller Hits. Elton John was one of the cover artists before he was famous.
I'd love to say something a lot cooler but I'm sure the first album I purchased with my own money was a pet shop boys album. One with an orange case with circular bobbles on it that would need some encouragement to fit in the space in the CD rack. At the same time I bought a Billy Connoly recording that still makes me laugh to this day. A side was Wreck on Tour and the B side was Atlantic Bridge, his finest work captured forever and is possibly the reason my day to day vocabulary is still packed with vulgarity and general bad language
My brother went for Promises and Lies by UB40 which was a very decent album
I'd love to say something a lot cooler but I'm sure the first album I purchased with my own money was a pet shop boys album. One with an orange case with circular bobbles on it that would need some encouragement to fit in the space in the CD rack. At the same time I bought a Billy Connoly recording that still makes me laugh to this day. A side was Wreck on Tour and the B side was Atlantic Bridge, his finest work captured forever and is possibly the reason my day to day vocabulary is still packed with vulgarity and general bad language
My brother went for Promises and Lies by UB40 which was a very decent album
Some of the first stuff I bought was Jasper carrot and smith & jones comedy tapes from Woolworths in eltham high street
I'd love to say something a lot cooler but I'm sure the first album I purchased with my own money was a pet shop boys album. One with an orange case with circular bobbles on it that would need some encouragement to fit in the space in the CD rack. At the same time I bought a Billy Connoly recording that still makes me laugh to this day. A side was Wreck on Tour and the B side was Atlantic Bridge, his finest work captured forever and is possibly the reason my day to day vocabulary is still packed with vulgarity and general bad language
My brother went for Promises and Lies by UB40 which was a very decent album
Some of the first stuff I bought was Jasper carrot and smith & jones comedy tapes from Woolworths in eltham high street
Yes I also dipped into the world of Jasper Carrot. They were value for money, got some stand up that used to really make me laugh as well as him doing some songs like funky moped
Also a Kevin Bloody Wilson tape which were hard to come by at the time which featured classics such as 'Santa Clause, ya c*nt' 'That Fucken cats back', 'Mick, the master farter' 'can't say c*nt in Canada' and 'An absolute c*nt of a day' and 'loving next door to Abbos' which he has now changed to loving next door to Bondy when he plays live
I received more than one clout round the ear for singing those very catchy numbers as a kid and got told by an RE teacher she had never heard the C bomb used in a classroom before. Which astounded me as she wasn't a young woman and was teaching in a school in the white road estate area of Chatham
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Bought it from TW Records in Plumstead.
Still got it.
Had bought a lot of 45’s though prior to that.
or was it overground ?
I loved it.
In fact there was some quality tunes on it 😎
Yes, but can you remember who was fighting in the car park as you left?
I also remember getting those LPs which had top 10 songs by session musicians rather than the original artists,. Top of the Pops, Hot Hits, Million Seller Hits. Elton John was one of the cover artists before he was famous.
Great album from a great band - big claim though as the greatest live album ever! There's a bit of competition!
1979 - WH Smith in Orpington High Street
My brother went for Promises and Lies by UB40 which was a very decent album
Also a Kevin Bloody Wilson tape which were hard to come by at the time which featured classics such as 'Santa Clause, ya c*nt' 'That Fucken cats back', 'Mick, the master farter' 'can't say c*nt in Canada' and 'An absolute c*nt of a day' and 'loving next door to Abbos' which he has now changed to loving next door to Bondy when he plays live
I received more than one clout round the ear for singing those very catchy numbers as a kid and got told by an RE teacher she had never heard the C bomb used in a classroom before. Which astounded me as she wasn't a young woman and was teaching in a school in the white road estate area of Chatham