The remix of Addicted To Your Love by the Gap Band

It seems like the 7 inch were phased out not too long

afterwards in favor of then cassette singles.

The last new release was Pumps & A Bump by MC Hammer. There's a place where I live that sells used 45s (and 78's too). There is a record store that sells new release 45 singles. But they're all techno and underground stuff.

All My Loving-Beatles. It was for a family friend though I will definitely purchase a second copy for myself if I find it.

I'm chasing down the State of Shock 45.

Do you mean one when it was newly released back in the day or on recent vinyl digs? As for one when it was newly released, hell, I have no idea. Probably, "Pump Up The Volume" by MARRS.

The last 45 I bought when it originally came out was Love Hangover by Diana Ross. Then I briefly--very briefly!--tampered with 8 tracks.

Beck & Bat For Lashes - Let's Get Lost.

Do flexi-discs count? I bought this one last month:

It's a Jesus and Mary Chain cover.

sextonseven said:

Do flexi-discs count? I bought this one last month:

It's a Jesus and Mary Chain cover.

Wow, I remember there used to be a UK music weekly that gave away a 7inch flexi every week, it could have been Record Mirror if I remember correct. They were usually always orange.

The last "new" one I purchased was this:

The last one I bought was a white label promo single for Marvin Gaye's "I Want You."

It looked similar to this:

During a vinyl dig several years ago, probably Full Force's "Unfaithful So Much" or something by the J5...can't really remember.

Prince: Horny Toad

Of course it took me 15 or 16 years 2 find it.......and right after I purchased it, the Hits cd came out which included it.

Graycap23 said:

Prince: Horny Toad

Of course it took me 15 or 16 years 2 find it.......and right after I purchased it, the Hits cd came out which included it.

U sound like me. I bout the "Delirious" 45 in 1999.

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Sharon Jones & The Dap Kings "Genuine"

Today at the VFW thrift store, I found a few rare promo singles.

Jump (For My Love) - Pointer Sisters (White label Promo)

You're Gonna Get Rocked - LaToya Jackson (white label promo)

Diamonds - Herb Alpert (Radio edit on both sides)

A whopping 25 cents each! All 45s look new or hardly played in original slip covers!

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daPrettyman said:

Graycap23 said:

Prince: Horny Toad

Of course it took me 15 or 16 years 2 find it.......and right after I purchased it, the Hits cd came out which included it.

U sound like me. I bout the "Delirious" 45 in 1999.

That really ticked me off when I saw it on the hits cd.

"Build Me Up Buttercup," by the Foundations, back in like '92.

The last 7" record I bought was Postcards From a Young Man, the latest single by the Manic Street Preachers, which came out about five months ago...

I only started buying music in 1992, and there were fewer 7" titles in the stores then there currently is.

May have been 'I Wanna Be Your Lover' back in 1979.

I preferred albums to 7" singles.

I could not say with absolute certainty but I think it was probably Bobby McFerrin's "Don't Worry, Be Happy." I believe the first cassette single I bought was Billy Joel's "We Didn't Start the Fire."

rialb said:

I could not say with absolute certainty but I think it was probably Bobby McFerrin's "Don't Worry, Be Happy." I believe the first cassette single I bought was Billy Joel's "We Didn't Start the Fire."

I never got into cassette singles. I think I only bought them 3 times, one was by Robert Palmer, one by Amy Grant, and the other was LL Cool J. I still have them. I rarely bought pre-recorded cassettes of any kind. I just bought blank cassettes to tape off of the radio.

MickyDolenz said:

rialb said:

I could not say with absolute certainty but I think it was probably Bobby McFerrin's "Don't Worry, Be Happy." I believe the first cassette single I bought was Billy Joel's "We Didn't Start the Fire."

I never got into cassette singles. I think I only bought them 3 times, one was by Robert Palmer, one by Amy Grant, and the other was LL Cool J. I still have them. I rarely bought pre-recorded cassettes of any kind. I just bought blank cassettes to tape off of the radio.

Once I heard that blank tape lasted longer than pre-recorded tapes so I bought albums and put them on tape for my Walkman.

Those tapes only lasted about 20 - 22 years. I've tossed them now because they sound so bad.

Some, like Ava Cherry, I've never found again.

MickyDolenz said:

rialb said:

I could not say with absolute certainty but I think it was probably Bobby McFerrin's "Don't Worry, Be Happy." I believe the first cassette single I bought was Billy Joel's "We Didn't Start the Fire."

I never got into cassette singles. I think I only bought them 3 times, one was by Robert Palmer, one by Amy Grant, and the other was LL Cool J. I still have them. I rarely bought pre-recorded cassettes of any kind. I just bought blank cassettes to tape off of the radio.

I was a cassingle fiend as a kid! Until CD singles became popular, they were the only way to get all the cool remixes and b-sides after 7" singles became scarce. I just transferred the remix of Whitney Houston & Stevie Wonder's "We Didn't Know" to my computer recently. I would pay good money to buy all those all-but-lost single-only tracks from a download site, preferably in lossless form.

Prince - I Wanna Be Your Lover - Zimbabwe pressing

'Under Pressure' by Queen and David Bowie.

Guees that I bought it because I think it's the best song ever to get to number one in the UK (Hmm, could I have opened a can of worms here? )

Plus, the B-side , 'Soul Brother', is ace too. It's was Freddie's best Aretha homage since 'Somebody To Love'. Check it out:

Bought back in '09 while still living in Los Angeles.

L.A. band by the name of Abe Vigoda.

All Night and Day b/w Animal Ghosts