Conference rdvax::grateful

    
    	I really can't remember which was the first,.. but it was one
    of:
    
    	The Eagles Hotel California
    	The Beatles Abbey Road
    	Steve Millr, Fly Like an Eagle
    
    							/
    

    re .0
    
	>anyways, on one of the tapes they introduce an old friend
	>who is going to come out and sing with them - Felix Cavelieri(sp?)
	>comes out and sings "Good Lovin'" ... FLASHBACK!
    
    Hey, I was at this show!  My only BGP show, the Crack-Down concert on
    Halloween in NYC (very scary).  The show was a calvalcade of stars --
    C, S, & N (1st show after C got out of jail), Santana, Baba Olatunji,
    and many more I've forgotten.  And, the special opening act:
    
    
    
    Run DMC!!!  I tried to be open minded about them, but they had the bass
    so thunderingly loud that we had to retreat to a stairway.
    
    My first pop album was some K-Tel thing, then I got into Kiss for a
    while (wish I'd saved a few of the albums, Kiss is very collectible).
    
    Jamie

Debess I love it when you do this!!!  Just yesterday I was thinking of my first
"rock" album that I bought for myself.  In that I mean not things that were
given to me, like the Alice In Wonderland box set, or Mary Poppins, or Lena
Zavoroni and not all my brothers' various Doors, or Stones or Elton John
albums that I used to listen to all the time either.  When I bought my first
album I got this terrific sense of freedom .... it was like ... OK, now this is
MY music not something someone gave to me or something I am listening to that
doesn't belong to me ... and I considered it Real, Hard, Rock and Roll.  Well I
wasn't *that* far off the mark ... it was Cheap Trick, Live at Budokan. 

A good start, unfortunately (if I recall) the second was Saturday Night Fever.

;^/

    Well the first album i bought with my own "saved allowance" was the 
    Mad Twist Rock'n Roll album, I was only about 9 or 10 at the time
    then the second album I bought was Herb Albert "WCAOD" the third
    was "High Tide and Green Waters"...the fourth was "The Doors"...the
    reason I remember it so clearly was that these are all albums I still
    have and have seperated them for the nostalgia effect.
    
    rich

    "Inna Gadda Da Vida" (I'm not kidding) was the first album I bought.
    However I had been collecting 45's for 2 years before that. After a
    friend and I got turned onto albums, we shot all of our 45's one day 
    with a .22 caliber rifle. 

Hmmmmmm...

...I'm not really sure. My earliest memory of buying an album
with my own $$$, is Zepplin's The Song Remains The Same. 
I had borrowed alot of albums from my Brother-in-law, such as
Cream's Disreal (sp?) Gears; The Doors; Steppenwolf, The Best of;
The Guess Who, The Best of; and various Beatles albums.

Shawn

    The first album I got wasn't an album, it was an 8 track.  I didn't buy
    it, it was a gift.  It was Aerosmith "Toy's in the Attic".
    
    The first I bought was either, yes, you guessed it, Kiss "Alive!" or
    (hopefully!) Led Zepplin IV.  
    
    dave

re:   <<< Note 217.8 by SPOCK::IRONS "Setting the Standard for Deadcellence" >>>

   > The first album I got wasn't an album, it was an 8 track.  I didn't buy
   > it, it was a gift.  It was Aerosmith "Toy's in the Attic".
    
    If gift's count, then my first was "Duane Eddy and His Twangy Guitar"
    ca. 1959-60. :-) I also have some old mono's of the Stones, Animals,
    etc from the early 60's. But the first album I plunked down my hard
    earned paperboy money was for Iron Butterfly. I had >200 45's but
    they don't count.

      The Doors - LA Woman
    
           with my first paycheck from my first job!
    
                                                 

Speaking of Kiss, I read elsewhere that Eric Carr, the drummer that replaced 
Peter Criss, died of cancer recently.
    
My first album - well the first albums I bought were from one of those 8 for a 
penny deals from some record club.  Among them I think were Kiss "Destroyer", 
The Kinks "One From the Road", Styz "Pieces of Eight", Led Zeppelin (the 
untitled album), Eagles "Hotel California", The Doobies "Minute by Minute", 
Foreigner "Double Vision" and probobly one or two more.  I used to play my 
dad's Beatles, Moody Blues, Chubby Checker, and John Denver (which one doesn't 
fit ;^) albums before that.

Scott

    Abbey Road, when it first came out, and still one of my favorites,
    closely followed by the White Album.
    
    First Dead album was Europe '72, paid $3 for it ($1 per platter), from
    a "fell off the (Sam Goody) truck" sale in college.
    
    BTW, I think that Cream album was called Disraeli Gears.  Nice tunes.
    
    tim
    

    
    Well here's a shocker...
    
    My first gift album (also my first album at all) was from my parents
    the Christmas I was 9 years old.  They consulted my older brother on
    what type of music I would like...  The album: Kiss, Rock'n Roll Over!
    
    My first purchased album (not more than one month later) Kiss, Alive.
    
    I distinctly remember bringing in two handfuls of change (to the
    Ridgefield Music Store where I took drum lessons) and dumping it on the
    glass counter for the guy to count.  My first album (a double album)
    was $8 and change back in 1975 or 76.  Some of my favorites: Detroit
    Rock City, God of Thunder, Cold Gin, Beth, etc...  
    
    Treemon

    My first album (other than kiddie albums) was "Age of Aquarius" by the
    5th Dimension. My mother joined a record club and let me pick one for
    myself. I still have it. Not much after than my mother gave me "Meet
    the Beatles" for my birthday, the first in lots of Beatles gift albums.
    
    The first album I remember buying with my own money was a Dick Clark 20
    years of Rock & Roll album, with classics like "Candles in the Rain",
    "Hang On Sloopy", "Crimson and Clover".
    
    The first 45 I bought was "You're so Vain" by Carly Simon, around '71
    or '72.
    
    Scott (who never owned and Kiss or Peter Frampton albums)
    

Hmmm...this is tough.  I think my first album was either The Last Waltz
or the soundtrack to Hair.  I think I had a bunch of 45's too.  I'll have
to dig around my room when I'm back in Boston to see whatever happened to
all of them 8-).

peace,
t!ng

I too bought lots and lots of 45s way before buying any full-sized albums.  We
used to vacation in Chatham, MA when I was grwoing up.  We could easily walk 
to the record store and buy a 45 for less than $1.00.  

My first album was most likely a WHO Album ... can't say which one though.

    	lets see......I got no idea what LP was the rill 1st one but I
    guess I'll start where I 1st notice MUSIC not just the noise.....
    
    		On The Border - The Eagles
    My brother Dave gave this to me.....for X-mas when it 1st came out '73
    
    	at that time I was just learning to read music so I must have
    noticed something different in the sounds or something....but I got
    know idea what Im talking about anymore :')
    
    anyway....
    
    		a week after getting ONB, I bought the 1st LP by the Eagles
    then their 2nd one Desperado....not long after that I discovered bands
    from the south, Marshall Tucker, Charile Daniels, the Allman Brothers,
    the Outlaws, Lynard Skynyrd then another west coast band called the..... 
    
    
    			Grateful Dead.
    
    
    
    	but before all that happened there was a band that was like part of
    the family....the Beatles....at that time I thought everyone loved them
    so I never looked at them in any other way (I guess I still do)...
    
    
    Chris

    After trying to knock some of the dust offa them old brain cells, the
    first non-kiddie (hmmmm... is Peter & the Wolf a kiddie album?) album
    I received was a monaural copy of "A Hard Day's Night."  Must have been
    about 5 at the time.  I'd still have it, too, except all my Beatle
    albums turned up missing after a party :-(.
    
    First album I remember buying myself was "Jazz Impressions of A Boy
    Named Charlie Brown" by Vince Guaraldi.  Lotta the stuff on that one
    has recently been re-released on a CD with some other name.
    
    I'm afraid to think of how many albums I've picked up since then,
    though...

Good topic, had to think about this one for a while and got it down to one of
two, it was either Equinox by Styx (Suite Madame Blue is still one of my faves);
or a solo effort by Grace Slick. I forget the name of the album but remember the 
cover she was standing in a gown with holding some hoops doing a some sort 
of magic trick, it's been a while and the brain's dusty.

:-Chuck

Ya know,  this is hard to remember so I could be wrong -

My 1st album was the Godfather himself! :) James Brown's, I think, POPCORN 
or (do the popcorn)

My 2nd one was Neil's "After the Goldrush".

bob

    OK, I'll put in a reply that has something to do with the topic for a
    change...

    My first two LP purchases, both at the same time, were made at the J.C.
    Penney's in Brattleboro, VT.  They were on sale for $4.98 each.

	Boston (the debut)
            I bought it 'cause a friend of mine said it was the first album
            he could stand to listen to straight through without a break. 
            It was about the most intelligent thing this guy ever managed
	    to say.

	Queen, A Night at the Opera
	    What do I need to say?  A genuine classic.  RIP Freddie.

    Don

     The first album I ever bought for myself was Boston's first album
    
    My first gift album(that I can recall) was:
    
       The Partridge Family Album...the one with "I think I love You" on it
    
            :-)  DaveB.

    
    	MY first album was the Beachboys Christmas Album. I got it as a
    mono album, I think it cost $1.99, and it wasn't a cutout.
    
    	My first 45 was "I Wanna Hold Your Hand" by the Beatles.
    
    	And for the record, my first concert, was at the Boston Garden,
    it was Grand Funk Railroad, with Bloodrock opening up for them.
    
    	My first Slipknot show was at the Lake Quinsigimund Athletic Club.
    
    	Enough silliness....
    
    

    
    Grate topic.. wish I could remember. ;-/  My first album was probably
    Partridge Family.  First rock album was probably Led Zeppelin.  Or
    maybe Elton John.  I had a bunch of 45s before I started buying albums
    too..
    
    

    If memory serves correct, Beatles'65, How about first, and last
    8 track tapes?

    
    
    Thank goodness my two older brothers (7 & 8 years older than me) had
    good taste so I heard ALL the Beatles, Doors, Allman Bros., Doobies,
    CS&N (then CSN&Y) and, yes, the Dead.
    
    My own first 45 was something by the Turtles, my first album (I think)
    was Meatloaf "Bat Out Of Hell."
    
         (My brothers were VERY shocked at their sweet little sis!)
    
    

    
    my first gift album was actually two albums...  one was an assorted
    hits type of thing and the other was the monkees!  :^)  i still 
    like some of those old monkees tunes...
    
    my first album that i bought with my own money was Jesus Christ
    Superstar (original broadway cast-not the brown one that was more
    complete)...  i also bought Tommy, but when my parents heard it they
    made me bring it back...  somehow they didn't think songs like "uncle
    ernie" "the acid queen" and so forth were suitable for thier
    impressionable young son! :^)
    
    and if it counts for anything, last night i was listening to Wilson
    Phillips at home...  and diggin' it too!  ;^)
    
    					da ve

re:  <<< Note 217.28 by ROULET::DWEST "Dont Overlook Something Extraordinary" >>>
   
    >i also bought Tommy, but when my parents heard it they
    >made me bring it back...  somehow they didn't think songs like "uncle
    >ernie" "the acid queen" and so forth were suitable for thier
    >impressionable young son! :^)
    
    Somehow methinks Ma & Pa West were a tad too late when insisting
    that young_and_impressionable da ve take that album back. ;-)
    

    Walk Don't Run by The Ventures.  When it originally came out in 1960.
    
    Yes I am indeed an old fart.

    That Grace Slick album was called "Dreams", came out around 1980.
    
    My really first record that I remember picking out myself was a Walt
    Disney 29 cent 6-inch 78 (boy do I feel old) of a Winnie the Pooh song.
    Still have it too. Another one was a cardboard record of the Chipmunks
    that I got when I was 4 for sending in a bunch of things from Soaky
    bubble bath. Anyone remember Soaky? It came in bottles of cartoon
    figures. I used to have all the Chipmunks, Batman and Robin, Superman,
    and some Loony Tunes characters. More stuff that my mother threw away
    that would be worth a fortune to a collector now (like my Mighty Mouse
    3D comic book that goes for $100 now). Still have the Chipmunks record
    too, its even still playable.
    
    45s were about 69 cents when I started buying them 20 years ago.
    Actually I didn't buy them myself (my 50-cent allowance went to better
    things like candy and baseball cards and models from Louie's Variety),
    I'd get my father to let me buy one every time we made a trip to Rich's
    in Nashua.
    
    Scott
    

The day I got my first stereo, I bought my first 11 albums.  I think
they were...

1. American Beauty
2. Workingman's Dead
3. Tumbleweed Connection - Elton John
4. Gasoline Alley - Rod Stewart
5. Every Picture Tells a Story - Rod Stewart
6. Aqualung(?) - Jethro Tull
7. OomaGooma(?) - Pink Floyd
8. Five Bridges - Nice (or was it Emerson Lake & Palmer?)
9. Tapestry - Carole King
10.Cry of Love - Jimi Hendrix
11.We're All Bozos On This Bus - Firesign Theater

The ones that changed my life are probably #'s 1 and 11!

					--djc--

Great Topic - especially for a slow Wednesday before Turkey Day

The first album I bougth with my own money was All Summer Long by the Beach Boys
My best guess is that I purchased this about 1962 or so. I gonly paid $2.29 for 
this disk which I still have somewher.I was big into the 
beach boys back then. They were also the first big name group I ever saw 
perform live. My Mom & Dad took me to the Rhode Island Auditorium (no longer
in existance as an auditorium; its now indoor tennis courts I think) back in
1963 to see the show. They left me and my younger sister off and came back to 
pick us up later. I remember enjoying the show and that they all wore those
large balck and white striped shirts. 

As an aside, the Dead played R.I. Auditorium back in 1971. R.I. Auditorium was a
hocket arena, the home of the R.I. Reds, a minor league hockey club associated
with the Detroit Red Wings. Two things I remember about the old R.I. Auditorium;
First the roofed leaked so bad that there were seats which were "rained-out" on
days when the weather was so inclined. Way before they built places like the 
Centrum and Prov Civic Center, the celtics used to play a game or two each year 
at R.I. Auditorium. I remember seeing someone on a breakaway slip on a wet spot
on the floor without another player anywhere near him, loose the ball out of 
bounds and thus resulting in a turnover. I suspect this is in part why the R.I.
Auditorium is no more. The second thing I remember is going to hockey games 
there. In those days, there was no glass surronding the ice only chicken wire.
In addiotion fans (of drinking age) could drink beer [Narragansett] in the 
stands. There were some interesting times when a player would be checked in the
boards and a fan would dose the player with his/her beer.

    
    the first album I bought (without counting the partridge family
    "up to date") was Aerosmith-Get Your Wings.  I still love that
    album.  Its one of favorites that I have yet to replace on CD.
    I simply must do that soon.
    
    Donna
    

    Re: .-1
>11.We're All Bozos On This Bus - Firesign Theater
>
>The ones that changed my life are probably #'s 1 and 11!

    Hahahahahaha....
    
    Grate album - got it myself.  BTW, I think the PF album was Ummagumma,
    and a fine one at that.  Wasn't that the one with a 'tune' called
    something like "a small collection of small furry animals gathered
    together and grooving with a pict"?  
    
    Apologies for the flashback. ;-)
    
    tim
    

>  <<< Note 217.28 by ROULET::DWEST "Dont Overlook Something Extraordinary" >>>
    >
>    my first album that i bought with my own money was Jesus Christ
>    Superstar (original broadway cast-not the brown one that was more
    
    
    What a great show that was!!  I saw it for the first time when it came
    to Providence a year or so ago. It was the best musical I've ever
    seen!!  And I'm not really into musicals. I'd see it again in an
    instant.
    
    dave

    
    Ah yes...
    
    Several Different Species of Small Furry Animals Gathered Together in a
    Cave!
    
    "Grooving with a Pict" is a different song all together
    
    (Doesn't even fit on one line)
    
    But I don't think that's on UmmaGumma, it's on Works (though it may be
    on both?)
    
    I played this song, (SDSOSFAGTIAC) at my house off campus while in
    college, and the dog went crazy barking and growling at the speakers!!!
    
    It was quite hilarious, but I guess you had to be there...
    
    Treemon
    
    

The first record/album I ever bought could be one of the following:

. Rare Earth single containing "I Just Want To Celebrate [another day of 
  living" on it

. Ringo Starr or Beatles single containing "Get Back"

. The Partridge Family ;-) [probably my first ever album]


Ken

    RE: Random previous notes
    
    Both the "... Small Furry Animals..." and "... Grooving with a Pict"
    are on UmmaGumma.  I could never remember if they were two different
    songs, or the same song, but there are songs with titles like that on
    UmmaGumma.
    
    Pink Floyd did an album called Works?  I've forgotten about that one,
    or was it one of those collection albums? I know Emerson, Lake and
    Palmer had a Works, Vol I and Works Vol II...
    
    Speaking of ELP, Five Bridges wasn't an ELP album, as far as I know, so
    I assume it's a Nice album...  Hmmm... Maybe it's the double album set
    of a show with many cuts by the Nice, plus some other bands as well?
    

re:                   <<< Note 217.34 by 24690::D_WEISMAN >>>

>   album.  Its one of favorites that I have yet to replace on CD.
>   I simply must do that soon.

All you folks out there that do replace your vinyl with CD, lemme know,
cause I could be interested in liberating you from that awful, scratchy,
temperamental, licorice pizza.  Believe it or not, I've got a new toy in the
form of a turntable.  :-)

Don

My first albums (bought at the same time - I think Alexander's in Rego Park,
Queens, NYC) were "Band on the Run" by Paul McCartney and Wings and the Hues
Corporation album with "Rock the Boat".  This was in the 74-75 time frame.  I
also remember getting a K-tel type record called "Disco Party".  This was
around the same time.  It had, suprisingly, "Lady" by Styx and "You Ain't Seen
Nothin Yet" by BTO.  It also had, among others, "the Hustle" and "Everlasting
Love".  I don't think I have Disco Party anymore, but I still have the other
two albums, although I lost the poster that came with Band on the Run.

As far as record clubs go, I joined Columbia House around 1980 and got:

Double Vision, Foreigner
Pieces of Eight, Styx
Live at Budokan, Cheap Trick
Rumours, Fleetwood Mac
Voulez Vous, Abba (my parents turned me onto it!)
Get the Knack, The Knack (already had it on record)
Glass Houses, Billy Joel

can't remember any others but there were 1 or 2 others.  I also bought Chipmunk
Punk (still have it) around '80 or so.

one of the first records I ever owned, pre-dating anything I picked out myself,
was a Banana Splits record.  I loved it!  I think my grandparents gave it to
me, along with an *old* Motorola record player.  I lost it when I moved.  If
anyone has any Banana Splits records they'd sell to me or let me borrow, let me
know.

adam

    I started early only buying albums, never bought 45's.
    started with the Monkees, then the Beatles, Doors, Airplane, Dead,
    Quicksilver, Big Brother, Floyd, Genesis, CSN&Y, CSN, Eagles, Led
    Zeppelin, then a little jazz and Classical.
    
    
    sean.
    
    

    	The first Album I bought was included in a Columbia House order of
    8-tracks. I don't remember what everything was but I know it included
    several of Aerosmith's first albums. I remember I had eventually had
    every Aerosmith Album through Draw the LIne, all on 8-track. I ended up 
    giving them to someone who had an 8-track deck as I no longer had
    any thing to play them in. That collection is pretty well covered in
    the new Aerosmith box set release so I'll probably have to pick that up
    one of these days. 
    	The first vinal that I owned was given to me, Queen's "Shear Heart
    Atack". That and A Night at the Opera are two really good albums. They
    were some pretty unique tallent. I wasn't happy about Freddie, but he 
    did leave some pretty amazing productions. 
    	Pink Floyd was in there somewhere. I've had "Wish You Were Here" on
    almost every different recording medium including the only one of my
    CDs that wont play. I know that tape was one of those first 8-tracks
    I've had a production cassette, recorded cassette, I stil have the
    vinal and I want to put the CD in the SEM. The disk has a huge gouge in
    it and you can see where the data becomes untrackable. This is a
    perfect SEM sample because it's dead anyway and might need to be
    coated.
    
    	I should check out a cassette tape some time,
    that's even conductive.
    	Geoff

    While still at home:  Otis Redding Live in Europe
    
    
    and with my own money: American Beauty & Astral Weeks (on the same
    day!)
    
    -Dermot

      Re: .33 by AKORNY::CUTLER "In the Strangest of Places..."
    
        >> As an aside, the Dead played R.I. Auditorium back in 1971.
    
        My first show! I'd forgotten that one, thanks for mentioning it!
                                            --djc--

re; Crowley

I have that RI auditorium show on tape (4-21-71) if you're interested.



re: Works


"Works" (by Pink Floyd) is a greatest hits type album.

Re:   <<< Note 217.28 by ROULET::DWEST "Dont Overlook Something Extraordinary" >>>
>              -< i still have never bought any Grateful Dead :^) >-

    
>    complete)...  i also bought Tommy, but when my parents heard it they
>    made me bring it back...  somehow they didn't think songs like "uncle
>    ernie" "the acid queen" and so forth were suitable for thier
>    impressionable young son! :^)
 
	That's very astute of your parents!  It's a good thing (for
	Worcester County in general :-) that they didn't allow any
	less than ideal outside influences impress you ... omigawd,
	I am frightening myself just *thinking* of the possibilities!

		:-) :-) ;^) :-) :-) ;^) :-) :-)
   

    I won raffles (or was it my spell-binding moves...) at two consecutive
    dance classes (gack) and got record-store certificates, which I used for
    Beatles singles "Eight Days a Week/I Don't Want to Spoil the Party" and
    "Help!/I'm Down".  I have no idea why I latched onto those, maybe other
    <pause for math> 10-year-olds were asking if I'd heard the Beatles.

    Anyway, those prompted me to latch onto "Hard Day's Night" and "Meet the
    Beatles" as fast as I could manipulate my parents into it.  Heard
    everything, from "children's records" to my parents' folk & jazz
    records, differently after that...

    [I don't think I really began listening *closely* to the Dead until '74
    or so, though I liked Aoxomoxoa at its release (old mix and all).]  - Jay

    My first album wasn't an album, it was 45...  and it was
    the Monkees, Day Dream Believer on side one and Goin' Down on Side
    2....
    
    First real album was the Banana Splits (from TV, anyone else remember
    these guys !!)  (One banana, two Banana, three Banana....etc..)
    
    As I got older, I remember going to an auction with my Dad and buying a 
    whole box of albums for like $5.  In it was Led Zepplin II, Jethro Tull
    Thick as a Brick, Jeff Beck Group (first album and it became my Fav.),
    Jimi Hendrix, Crash Landing, Traffic, Low Spark of HHB.  
    
    I also remeber in about 10th grade buying my Brother his first album,
    Ted Nuggent (sp?) Free For All !!  
    
    Others that stand out:  Styx, Boston's 1st...
    
    I didn't buy a Dead album until my Junior year in college in '81.
    
    Randy...
    

    THE BANANA SPLITS!!!!!!!  yes!!!!!  grate saturday morning stuff!!! 
    
    :^) :^) :^) :^) :^) :^)  i always wanted a banana buggy too...
    they just looked like too much fun... :^)
    
    				da ve_who_is_signing_off_before_he_starts
    				_a_digression_about_HR_Puffenstuff_and_his
    				_other_fav_saturday_morning_childhood_
    				drivel! :^)

The first album I owned was The Association album with "Windy" onnit, don't 
remeber the title, i think it was "The Association". Wierd stuff, it had folk, 
classical and acid all wrapped up on the same _side_. Deep. rember the cut: 
"Requiem for the masses"?

The first album I purchased for myself was the Beatles "Revolver" when it first 
came out. That was the one with "Eleanor Rigby", if I remember correctly, and I 
bought the album just for that song. I was a lonely people, even at age 10.


Fog

This topic is interesting reading - everyone in here seem to have some similar 
musical "roots" as well as some very different influences.  Guess that's one 
reason why we are all so much alike and so very different at the same time!!

Scott

    I was in the Banana Splits club!  My girlfriend was also in it and
    she got two 45 ep's of Banana Splits songs.  I didn't get that stuff.
    However I found the two ep's many years later in a 2nd hand store.
    Who was looking for Banana Splits songs?
    Looking at the obscure credits it looks like Al Kooper was associated
    with them.
    
    Scott
    

My brother and I were nuts about the Partridge Family, and had our mom buy
us all the albums ... 8^}

The first record I bought for myself was a 45, "Telephone Lines" by ELO.  I
played that thing 'til it rilly wore out.  The first LP I bought for myself
was "The Best of George Harrison."  Hmm, let's see ... the first cassette I
bought was "Hot Rocks," the Rolling Stones best-of album.

- Dave

I loved HR Puffenstuff .... even though Phyllis Diller scared the crap
out of me!  :-)  No Banannana split records for me though ... but I did
have a couple of Josie and the Pussycats 45's!!  :^)

re:< Note 217.55 by BCSE::ABBOT >

>    Who was looking for Banana Splits songs?

Me!  I already sent Randy mail asking about his record. :-)  If he can't help,
expect mail soon. ;-)

>    Looking at the obscure credits it looks like Al Kooper was associated
>    with them.

Makes sense.  I always considered that record "pretty decent rock music". 
Seriously.

adam

    Scott,
    	    I don't have the records anymore...  They probably became 
    BB targets when I got older, or maybe frisbee's.... who knows..
    either way though, I would really like to get a copy of the
    albums you do have !!  I will send you mail....
    
    
    RE: Partrige Family.....  One of my best friends from college and
    who now lives in Nashua (and his wife is expecting any second)
    his younger brother was the youngest Partridge, I forget his
    name though, both in reality and on the show since I was not
    a real big fan....  he is still an actor doing mostly commercials.
    He gets absolutly NO money from reruns of the show.... he told me that
    when he signed up, kids were barely paid for TV spots and he had
    no future rights to reruns.... what a rip-off huh? 
    
    
    Little digression but I couldn't help myself...
    
    RS>
    
    

     For me this note is like true confessions...my very first album was that
classic piece of R&R vinyl...


     Herman's Hermits "On Tour" 
     
     	No, it wasn't live, but it had a great cover of Silhouettes, and of
course, Henry the Eighth :-)

Things picked up after that - the next 3 albums were The Early Beatles, Fresh
Cream, and Absolutely Free from the Mothers of Invention, all of which changed
my idea of what was musically possible forever, or at least until the first time
I saw the Dead from the perspective of a different planet...


Bruce

    1st album - Meet the Beatles - I begged Mom to buy it for me after their
    appearance on Ed Sullivan!
    
    2nd album - The Monkees!!!!!!!!!
    
    
    Fredda
    

    
    1st album - The Jackson 5 Greatest Hits.....I think I got it in 1972,
    and I never wore out a record like I did that one.....
    
    Dave

    On the way to work this morning, they were playing cuts from 1967 (my
    car stereo isn't always sure what year it is...), and came up with a
    group I had forgotten about.
    
    Didn't anyone get a Cowsills album as their first recording?
    

    no

    The Cowsills, they were pretty much a real-life Partrige Family.  A
    bunch of brothers and sisters, and their mother was the guiding force.
    Wasn't their first song "The Rain, The Park, and Other Things"
    (something about a flower girl)?  Their version of "Hair" was a big
    hit.
    
    Scott
    (I wish I could get a job writing about music from the 60's)
    

    Speaking of radios not knowing what year it is: my soon to be
    ex-neighbor next door to us has a radio that he plays every weekend
    while doing yard work and such.  It only plays '50s pop music, and I
    have never even heard of a local radio station that plays '50s stuff.
    It's definitely a radio station - not a tape or anything.
    
    Time warp, I guess.
    
    tim
    

re Rod Serling in the tune box

There's an oldies station (WODS?) that I listen to sometimes, on the way to/from
work, that plays quite a bit of '50s pop ... I think they even call their
program on Friday "Fifties Friday."  I've sometimes listened to this station
for a couple of hours at a time, and never heard anything post-Ozzie and
Harriet.

- Dave "Whamalam ding dong" Clark