Two questions.

1.what was the first record or records that you heard
(either on radio or played by somebody you lived with)
that really got your attention?

a record or records that made you a music lover (freak) 4 life!

question 2:
what was the first record or records that you bought yourself? (or had a relative get for you!)

my answers:(i was a shorty when i heard these!)

the first 3 records i remember hearing that made me fall
in love with music were played by my father and were his:
1.Hallelujah i love her so: ray charles
2.beechwood 45789: the marvelettes (loved the drumming
and found out years later it was marvin gaye on the skins!)
3. broken hearted melody:sarah vaughn

and the first 2 records i purchased myself were :
1.stevie's "songs in the key of life
2.earth,wind and fire's: (man...i 4 got the name...
its the one with 'SATUrday Night & getaway on it...i don't
play the vinyl anymore! )

youngca

1st record I eva heard was Billie Holiday's version of "I Love You, Porgy" or maybe its her version but Nina Simone cover it? Doesn't matta! I used to hear that song every-night when I used to live with my grandmother. I also used to hear Sarah Vaughan's "Black Coffee"(My fave) and "Summertime".

1st records I eva bought:

Bad-MJ
Whitney's debut LP
Chaka's debut LP
Janet's debut LP(Thinking it was "Control" )

I was only 10 when I bought those records, they were too much since I was too young 2 be affording records.

The first record I can remember my family playing was Valentine Love by Michael Henderson. I have loved that song since the first time I ever heard it. I was seven when it came out. The first music I ever had someone buy for me was DeBarge's second album in 83 for a graduation present. Please don't laugh.

stymie said:

Man, my older sistah loves that record!

first record: i honestly don't remember...

fell in love with: my mom's copy of michael jackson's got to be there album--when i wuz about 6 i used to listen to this album all the time while i wuz playin dress-up and whatever. i just found and bought a copy of the album at a record show i went to last saturday, so it's on heavy rotation in my house now.

Vision of Love made me a music fan and since then have been a fan of "extraordinary" vocalists
ie Mariah, Minnie , Bjork, ect
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If I can think back that far, I believe the first record that I heard was my oldest sister playing Stevie Wonder's "Power Flower." I was probably 3 or 4 at the time.

The first record (it was really a cassette) that I had my cousin buy for me was Prince's "Parade." I was about 6.

Abba, The Beatles, Elvis and, er...Cliff Richard.

All thanks to my folks.

Handclapsfingasnapz said:

The GTBT album is the shit!! I love people who still bump MJ's old stuff in heavy rotation...just like me. Just finished bumpin the "Skywriter" album.

#1- KISS, Heart, Cheap Trick (my mother's sister and brother are 10 and 12 years younger than her- so they were teenagers when I was a tot) Still love the KISS makeup!

#2- 1st record (actually tape) bought with my own money "Purple Rain" My mom bought MJs "Thriller" for my brother and I to share, but "Purple Rain" was MY tape

Also at the time I bought "Purple Rain" I tried to hang a poster of Prince (the 1999 LP pic of him painting in bed with half his ass showing) and my mom flipped! I guess 5th graders are too young for posters of naked men?

1.The first record or records that I ever heard that got my attention is kind of hard, hmmm. However, I got a pretty sharp memory especially when it comes to musical stuff. So I'm gonna say as it relates to the first song that I heard on radio that grabed me...the song was Spinners "Could It Be I'm Falling In Love". I remember I was only a litlle boy and the power had went out during a snow storm in Atlanta in 1972...and I was in my parents room and they had their radio on{running off of batteries of course} and this song came on...and I remember liking it...

The first songs I remember liking that my parents played around the crib growing up was two stone cold classics that came out in 1973...

Stevie Wonder- Living For The City
Sly And The Family Stone- If You Want Me To Stay

Those songs really jumped out at me even though I was a child. They touched me in a profound way...


2. First album I ever received as a gift was an album that changed my life and really jumped off my love for music. It was

Stevie Wonder- Songs In The Key Of Life...I was given that album as a gift for getting good grades in elementary school during the winter semester of school in 1976-1977.

The first record that I ever bought that I liked {as stated in the 70's thread was}...


Barkays- Let's Have Some Fun

I'll never forget this.

I was about 3 years old and I had a babysitter named Randy. Randy was a partier (like my parents) and he had my dad's reel to reel playing Sanatana's Black Magic Woman on 10. My dad still has that reel to reel (unfuckinbelievable).

From that time on I've been buying records, cds, tapes. Led Zeppelin's bootleg stuff made me go off the deep end (6th grade).

I remember ABC from Jackson 5 making a BIG impression. Yellow Submarine, Got to Get You In My Life, Lucy in the Sky w/ Diamonds, and Good Day Sunshine by The Beatles & Band on the Run from McCartney also immediatley remind me of my childhood, so they obviously made an impression too.

1st album I ever bought on my own was Pink Floyd's The Wall. However my dad used to buy me Jackson 5 & K-tel records all the time when I was growing up.


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BRO915 said:

all of the ones you brought up are near and dear to my heart,man! so you and i both got stevie's key of life!"
nice gift you got!

stymie said:

stymie...i won't laugh at ya. Back then DEbarge was kinda
popular. at least you didn't have somebody get you the
"defranco family!' (smile)

i was a big fan of mike--yes, mj--for a couple of years from the early 90's.

i collected a lot of his work; 'dangerous' was the first album i owned.

but since i've been listening to d'angelo, the roots, common and other okayplayer artists, i've come to "study" the music more than "just" listening to it.

youngca said:

Yep, The first album I ever owned was "Songs In The Key Of Life" back in 1977. My parents bought this album for me after bugging her on several trips to the record store. When I first saw the album cover I remember saying..." I got to have this album. I remember going into a store called the RECORD BAR. Anybody remember this music store chain in the 70's??? Anyway, they had the promo poster of "Songs In The Key Of Life" hanging up in the store. It was hung right besides a poster of Louis And George Johnson(I have a sharp memory--sorry to be so detailed). Anyway, I would pick up the album and just look at the front cover. Stevie was in the zone then. You couldn't get away from his songs being played all on the radio(pop/R&B and rock station played songs off this album--96rock WQKI-AM would play "Contusion" regularly) from one of the most anticipated album EVER!!! I remember one time my mom told me that she wasn't going to buy the album for me. I went out to the car and started shedding tears...I wanted that album that bad!!! Well just as fate would have it. My grades came out for the school semester and I had pretty good grades. My parents were very happy for me. Well we went out to Richway(a Walmart type of store chain in the 70's) later that week and FINALLY my mom told me to go the record department and put the Stevie Wonder album in my bascart as a reward for my good grades. People you should have seen how happy I was. My whole trip home was so joyous!!! I took the wrapping off the album and started reading the lyrics from the lyric booklet. I was so ecstatic!!!

When I got home, I immediately put the album on and listen to it. My mom was in the kitchen cooking a meal. She just closed the kitchen door to the entertainment room...so that I wouldn't have any outside distraction. LADIES AND GENTLEMEN...this is the day I fell in love truly with music. Up to that point, I've heard all those great 70's songs on my medium-sized AM/FM radio, but I never had an album to just listen to besides listening to my parents stuff. When I first heard "Love's In Need Of Love Today"(this song came to mind immediately after the Sept. 11th tragedy) I cried...I can't even front about that. "Village Ghetto Land" blew me away too. "Contusion" was so awesome.

Also I remember my parents letting me stay up to watch Stevie rack up at the grammies {winning 4 grammies including Album Of The Year...of course}.

Gosh, I don't know, but I think one of the first records I knew the lyrics to was Ike & Tina's "Proud Mary." I have early memories of hearing Tom Jones' "What's New Pussy Cat."

Can you say, "old?"

UptownDeb said:

ah don't feel bad deb...my memories pre-date yours by a
few years!!!
when i heard the marvelettes's beechwood 45789 it was new!
(1962 i think!)

the ray charles on and sarah's "melody" i heard several
years after they came out!

here's how i'm gonna make you feel young...(smile)

when i was real young i lived in the projects here in chicago and one of the funniest events that happened back then was-when a new record was bought by somebody they'd
proceed to blast that sucker for the whole building...
(i think they were sayin' look what new cut i got,y'all!)

the adults back then tripped me out...anyway here's 3
songs that i remember being BLASTED out of the row houses
over and over again:

bobby lewis:tossin' and turnin' (i couldn't sleep at all last night...man i can still hear these lyrics in my damn
head!)

gary us bonds:quarter to 3 (this one was a dance classic...
the brothas used to get down to this one!)

and the first song i ever had the nerve to dance to...out
in public (in class at a party)
the contours:do you love me?

i must have been out of my mind to do the twist in front of
my Boys! (well it was a great cut...and i was young and
foolish,right?)

so see u-deb the ones i just threw out pre-date the tom
jones's pussycat by a few years!

charles
btw proud mary is a good tina tune.

BRO915 said:

nice story man! mine was different. i grew up listening to
my dad and mom's records and my older sisters's mOTown
45's (i got into rock on my own) but never bought records
until i became an adult and moved to NY the summer of 76.

me and a buddy were trying to make it as artists and i had
a little money then and finally went to this wrecka stow that no longer exists (i think its gone)
CRAZY EDDIE's and got stevie's key of life and the earth,wind,and fire album 'spirit".

not too bad albums to begin with.

man since then...i don't even wanna count how many tapes,
vinyl,cds,i have!

after this i got a mccartney one: speed of sound,and a slew
of isley brothers's albums! or was it minnie's adventures
in paradise? i think minnie was the 4th album i got.

youngca said:[quote]Two questions.

1.what was the first record or records that you heard
(either on radio or played by somebody you lived with)
that really got your attention?

Maasen - Who The Funk (2001) (opened up a whole new world of music to me. From that came...)
Tori Fixx - The Mochasutra (2000) (one of my favorite albums of all time)
Meshell Ndegeocello - Bitter (1999) (I was going through a period of discovery and reflection and it helped me tremendously. It lamented with me and shared my pain. I needed that. I came across this album haphazardly. Plus, it introduced me to the art of Meshell.)
Aaliyah - One In A Million (1997) (when I first heard it on the radio it was a sound I never heard before)
Janet - The Velvet Rope (1997) (made me a bonafide Janet fan for life)
Joan Armatrading - Secret Secrets (1985) (beautiful)
Alana Davis - Fortune Cookies (2001) (my winter album, it sounds so good in cold weather -- strange I know)
Kelis - Kaleidoscope (1999) (nothing sounded like it back in 1999, back then the Neptunes were virtual unknowns. It was so raw, fresh and new. I still get goosebumps when I think about the first time I heard it.)

question 2:
what was the first record or records that you bought yourself? (or had a relative get for you!)

my answers:(i was a shorty when i heard these!)

The first album I ever purchased was "Mousercise" on vinyl back in the mid/late 80s.

The first CD I ever purchased was "The Simpsons Sing The Blues" in 1990 with "Do The Bartman" and "Deep Deep Trouble."

I was a kid then.

1. Black Sabbath
2. Quiet Riot

Kiss turned me on to music

Thompson Twins "Hold Me Now" was one of the first records I ever bought myself. (My cousin gave me all his Kiss albums, so I didnt have to buy them, lol)

i can't be 100% positive, but the first album i ever heard was probably a beatles record...my mom was a huge fan!

the first album that got me hooked on music was Michael Jackson's Thriller. and corny as it sounds, i'll always be thankful to michael for starting my love of music!

Cloudbuster said:

you betta put down that glass dick...crack kills, baby!

That was a warm and fuzzy post, youngca! Thanks for making me feel...not so old!

UptownDeb said:

you're welcome uPTown Deb!
age ain't nothin' but a number!

(i'm glad i was around when great records like the ones
i mentioned were around. or old enough to have been there
with prince from day one!)
btw...tom's jones best record was before "pussycat"
"its not unusual."
(carlton from fresh prince's fave tune!)