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Wednesday, April 4, 2007
First Album
OK, the KISS post where we name our first albums has retreated to the "bone orchard" of the "older posts" category. Therefore, I am starting a new one. Any other first album confessions (or triumphs, e.g. in Deb's case!) ?? I think it's funny enough that we are still calling them "albums" (though, yes kids, they actually WERE albums for some of us)...most of us?
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Alright, I'll bite. My first album was called "Out of Their Heads" by some no-name group called The Rolling Stones. My second was by rock-n-roll super group, The Lemon Pipers..."Green Tambourine". ( I still have them).
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And you play them on, what? Let's add what was your first single for those of us who remember that they used to sell 3 for a dollar! My first three were Run Around Sue(Everly Brothers)Itsy, Bitsy, Teeney,Weeny, Yellow Polka- Dot Bikini(?)and an Elvis song that the title escapes me but will certainly surface at 2:30AM tonight. Like I said, my first album was the first Beatles album.
I'm not sure if it was called I Wanna Hold Your Hand. Something tells me it was some boring name like 'Meet the Beatles'. Black and White mop top head shots on the cover as I recall. At what point does our next generation not remember 'albums'. I understand that when Jenni was test driving a Ford Escape that she did not know what the stick on the column was. She'd never been in a car that the gear shift was not on the floor! Let me go take my Geritol!
It was 'Love Me Tender' and 'Run Around Sue' was Dion. Brain pause.
First album was Led Zeppelin I and quickly followed by Zepp II in 6/7th grade. First single was "Another One Bites the Dust" by Queen. This was my soccer team's "theme song" in third grade.
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I just can't really remember. I know I got Men at Work sometime in grade school for my birthday. It was a poor year for us, because it was the only thing I got that year. I must really be a brat - because that is the only birthday present I do remember. I got the John Cougar TAPE in 5th grade, the same year I got a Walkman. Def Leppard and Quiet Riot were also bought in 5th grade.
I beg to differ. I can't believe that you ever only got an album for your birthday! Are you sure that wasn't the year that you got a new bedroom set? No, huh?
It was the same year that Don & Marion got me an ET doll- if that helps at all. I guess it was a rough year for me, if I remember that too.
I cannot stand that memory of yours!! Don't you ever forget anything? Why didn't you get straight A's?
I was thinking, and thinking...and then I remembered! My first 45 was "The Monster Mash". How lame. I was, maybe, eight years old.
Oh, and we do have a turntable, believe it or not. Michael had a radio show in LA and has, about 1700 albums (in their original covers) and 300 45's. Then there are the TAPES, including my bootlegs. I know, I know, you can convert them to digital--but they just aren't the same. They are not, however, catalogued as neatly and cleanly as Pete's or Danny's. We live in the desert, and though I try to fight the dust daily, the wind comes up and steals a little piece of my neurotic "must be perfect and clean" soul every day. The mesa becomes a part of your skin, and your tapes, and everything else it touches. It's a good feeling, though.
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