The first recordings I purchased for myself...all the albums were cut-outs when not discount items initially (Pickwick). I had only so many $2/3 allotments in the early/mid 1970s.
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...So, what were your first purchased records? 45s, LPs, 78s perhaps (they did last through the 1950s into the '60s), cassettes, CDs? I can only guess that more readers now first purchased a download (the rare one that couldn't be had easily for free) than have ever bought an open-reel tape or 16rpm vinyl disc...
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| The flipside of this sole 45 was a cover of "Barefootin'"... |
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| 1958. Emus was apparently more a d/b/a pseudonym than division of the shady Roulette Records (see any account of payola). |
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| I'm not sure where I first saw Steinberg, but I was happy to find this for only a few bucks in a Grant's or Woolco or perhaps K-Mart... |
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| Oddly enough, w/o credit anywhere, the LP appended several short orchestral works by Mussorgsky and Ravel. |
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| I though of Pickwick at the time as the "paperback" record company. Certainly their discs were thinner and more easily bent than anyone else's... |
...So, what were your first purchased records? 45s, LPs, 78s perhaps (they did last through the 1950s into the '60s), cassettes, CDs? I can only guess that more readers now first purchased a download (the rare one that couldn't be had easily for free) than have ever bought an open-reel tape or 16rpm vinyl disc...