First record you vividly remember...- Page 2

[Bobby457]

Posted: 11/11/04 at 10:54am

hehe....Ok Mom, you and I can sit in the corner and talk about the old days!

[redhotinnyc2]

Posted: 11/11/04 at 11:00am

Hey Bobby and Mom - can I join you in the corner???LOL...I was raised on the standards of the 30s and 40s, along with all the original Barbra stuff from the 60s...in my house there never seemed to be much pop stuff from the 50s though...but there was always classical and Porter, Gershwin, Gilbert and Sullivan and Broadways stuff going on. Everyone in my family played a musical instrument and my father taught piano, all horns, violin, guitar - etc; - so it was a house FILLED with music...

[mominator]

Posted: 11/11/04 at 11:02am

You're more than welcome redhot! We geezers have to stick together!

[Bobby457]

Posted: 11/11/04 at 11:11am

OY...My achin back! Of course Red...all is welcome in Geezer Corners!

[mominator]

Posted: 11/11/04 at 11:23am

awww.. hugs for Ms. Beaverhausen. Here have a cookie.

[Mister Matt]

Posted: 11/11/04 at 12:02pm

Susan Sings Songs From Sesame Street

You can hear it in Close Encounters, when the little boy's record player starts up mysteriously on its own.

I still have it. The cover features lots of children crawling all over the Alice in Wonderland statue in Central Park. I had no idea the statue was in New York until my first trip when I was 18. Every time I go to New York I have my picture taken in front of the statue and I have an interesting visual timeline of the last 16 years. I still have the record, too.

[laactress]

Posted: 11/11/04 at 12:38pm

I was brought up on music. I was a grateful dead shows when I was an infant so that had to be my first memory or rock music. As far as other music goes I went to my first musical when I was 20 months old and it was 42nd street and I remember that and classical, I have always liked it.

[DottieD'Luscia]

Posted: 11/11/04 at 2:28pm

I believe it's the Tijuana Brass album with the lady in whipped cream on the cover. My parents still have that one and a collection of the Ray Coniff singers.

[Borstalboy]

Posted: 11/11/04 at 2:32pm

One word: K-Tel.

[DottieD'Luscia]

Posted: 11/11/04 at 2:35pm

Beav, I'm so happy I read your Sound of Music story after I finished eating lunch, because I really would have had a mess on my keyboard!!! I know it's sad, but it's kind of funny, too.

[Mister Matt]

Posted: 11/11/04 at 2:45pm

My parents still have the Whipped Cream album.

[DottieD'Luscia]

Posted: 11/11/04 at 2:56pm

Now I have a song from that album stuck in my head. It kind of reminds me of "The Dating Game" music.

I believe Shauna Hicks did a take off of that album cover with her act, "Shauna Hicks and her 60s chicks".

[iflitifloat]

Posted: 11/11/04 at 3:18pm

Hell, I'd be willing to bet there is one of those Herb Alpert/Tijuana Brass whipped cream albums in almost everyone's past. I know WE had it. And I *liked* it, too.

But the first record I remember owning was a 33 1/3 RPM album of The Chipmunks. It was a translucent read vinyl disc. VERY cool.

[DottieD'Luscia]

Posted: 11/11/04 at 3:25pm

I had all the chipmunk recordings as a child. I vividly remember the one with the purple foil album cover. If I look hard enough in my parents house, I'm sure to find it.

[broadwaybound3]

Posted: 11/11/04 at 3:30pm

a chorus line- definatly

[MusicMan]

Posted: 11/17/04 at 11:16pm

Yes, the very same album, Bobby457 and DaysOfWineAndRoses, with Doris coyly displaying "scissor fingers" on her chin and cheek. She's a caution!

[Mamie]

Posted: 11/18/04 at 12:39am

We used to have lots of family parties and since I'm from a VERY large family, these were huge and usually ended with everyone crowded around the piano in the living room and dining room (and kitchen - there were a WHOLE lot of folks there!) singing songs. Most of the songs were very old and one that we always sang was "In a Shanty in Old Shanty Town". Of course we sang it in the old, traditional (ie straight) style. SO - the record I remember first and formost was one of my Dad's 78's of Johnny Long Orchestra doing a jazzed up version of "Shanty". I loved it then and still do now!

[Marquise]

Posted: 11/18/04 at 10:29am

My mother's old Sonny and Cher Album: "All I Ever Need Is You" which included their god-awful rendition of "More Today Than Yesterday"....*shudders* "Mom! Turn it off!!!"

[Carl Magnum]

Posted: 11/18/04 at 10:34am

My mother raised me on The Beatles and I remember Sgt. Pepper from the time I was 5, I didn't understand it but I loved it. I also remember being obsessed with CATS as a small child.

[bdwaygirl]

Posted: 11/18/04 at 10:40am

I love threads like this. We had the Whipped Cream Album also. I still have it in my collection and it's in pretty darn good shape. Boobs, I have the Meet The Beatles album and the jacket, though the jacket has seen much better days.

I think the first record I vividly remember was a 45 of Petula Clark's Downtown.

[ckeaton]

Posted: 11/18/04 at 10:40am

Michael Jackson's 'Thriller'.
Oh yeah... I did the dance.

[thirdrowcenter]

Posted: 11/18/04 at 10:44am

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[HeartinNYC]

Posted: 11/18/04 at 10:51am

This is a neat stroll down memory lane!

First record I remember -- I remember my mom lifting me up, putting me on the hi-fi (yes, I'm that old), and sort of dancing around in a sitting position to Frank Sinatra's "Come Fly With Me". I was obsessed with that song and still sing it in the shower!