Do You Remember Your First Disco Purchase?

[Bernie]

On 2001-10-27 09:55, delboy wrote:

Just prior to that,I bought Hit me with your rhythm stick by Ian Dury and The Blockheads on 12" but I gave it away because it had a song with a swear word in it on the B side and I thought I might get a telling of from my mum!

Gone are the days when your mom or dad could beat the shit out of you and get away with it.

[kelvy]

On 2001-10-27 12:55, Bernie wrote:

Gone are the days when your mom or dad could beat the shit out of you and get away with it.

i second that! as the years turn, we understand why and appreciate that our parents did this for us out of love (kind of the "it's going to hurt me more that it will hurt you" paradigm)".



with regards,

kelvy

[a54t]

My 1st Disco purchase was:
Album - Donna Summer, "Four Seasons of Love"
with "bonus" poster-calendar included.(which
I still have)
And 1st 12" - Thelma Houston, "Don't Leave Me This Way" (for $2.49, price tag still on it)

[SandraDee]

My first 12" single was T-Connection's 'Do What You Wanna Do'.

What Graham wrote is exactly how I feel about disco. There's no other music that is so fun, glamorous & able to transport you! I dont think that's cheesy at all, its fact!

[markydefad]

Hmmmm...I'm looking at this topic that I guess I started a long time ago and it seems that the first page or two of intro and responses is missing. It starts with Mr. BMarco, who was there originally--but there was a lot more before him. I thought something seemed odd.

How did that happen? :???:

I feel like I've been "sampled"!!!! :lol:

[Nano]

I just discovered this topic now, Marky. My family bought me a cassette player for my 14th birthday: it was one of those small, videocassette like-size (just a bit larger) with hard buttons, a built-in mono speaker and a "manija" (don't remember the English word for that) to carry it wherever you went (I kept mine at home). At the beginning, I went to the house of my older brother's then girlfriend (they had a turntable) to tape prog rock albums and some disco tracks right from their stereo speaker! ("Don't make noise!" He-he ) Hey, it was 1979!
My first label-released cassettes were also presents: a compilation called Hit Sounds Vol. 2 (it had "You're the one that I want", "At the Copa", "Let's all chant", "Shadow dancing", "Boogie oogie oogie"...), Supertramp's "Crime of the century" (my favorite highschool band since then) and Gino Soccio's "Outline". Soon after I bought "Lady night" by Patrick Juvet, I remember myself thinking that lady in the limo with Patrick had glamour...
For years I longed for my own turntable but at the time that meant having your hi-fi system (like that one Don Cheadle tries to sell at the beginning of the "Boogie nights" movie) and it was always too much dough... So I made tapes in my friend's systems, recording by line, of course (by now I had graduated to a stereo radio-cassette player) and also from radio. I remember I got from somewhere a cassette recorded from WKTU, it sounded cool! I thought it was just another American radio station by then.
In those years I bought some mid-price vinyls for my future turntable, like Chic's "Risqué" and the "Thank God it's Friday" soundtrack. A few months ago I found them in my brother's house, in a box with lots of old cassettes and lists of songs I made at the time. Sadly, the box had been pissed by my brother's cats (he has lots of them) and most of the material ended in the trash can because of the odor (I did some "ventilating" and kept some tapes).
By the time I could buy myself a decent stereo system, CD had arrived and it seemed the best option. My first CD ever was "Chunga's revenge" by Frank Zappa but shortly after that I began my black music collection with "Spirit" (E,W&F), Kool & The Gang and KC compilations and all Stevie Wonder's Seventies albums.
It's almost ten years since then, and right now I'm about to start buying vinyl again, to make copies in the computer and also to use the covers as decoration.

[DanceMan]

My first disco record purchases were not my first records purchases or gifts....

oddly enough (I must digress)....the first record bought for me was Jody
Miller's "Queen of the House," on Capitol Records...I kid you not....! The folks were way ahead of me....

my first DISCO records were as far as I remember were numerous...I remember buying "The Love I Lost," in college and then when I came to New York City I was in a record store and heard "Main Line," (does anyone remember that one) by Ashford and Simpson. I bought that along with GG's "Honey Bee," and "Good Things Don't Last Forever," by Ecstasy, Passion & Pain....
all HUGE hits in (the still standing) TY's jukebox....what was I doing listening to disco record's there....hmmmmm

[markydefad]

On 2002-09-29 17:10, DanceMan wrote:

oddly enough (I must digress)....the first record bought for me was Jody
Miller's "Queen of the House," on Capitol Records...I kid you not....! The folks were way ahead of me....

I'm crackin' up over the record your parents decided to give you to start your record collection!!!!!!

For the KIDZ-- "Queen Of The House" was the female answer to Roger Miller's country/pop smash "King Of The Road"; Sort of an ode to the housewife--"Up every day at six, bacon and eggs to fix.."

Get the picture?

Say, "Yes, we see".

Danceman, I don't think I would have taken too kindly to MY parents gifting me with THAT record!!!. Gosh, I can't really remmber my first record--"The Chipmunk Song" by David Seville & The Chipmunks???? I had quite the collection of kiddie records--I know they bought me "Return To Sender" by Elvis Presley; "Volare" by Dean Martin and others that I don't recall right now. I think these song's were favorites of my parents--NOT mine.

The first LP I bought, IF I remember correctly was "Where Did Our Love Go" by The Supremes; followed by "Andy Williams' Greatest Hits"--I HAD to have "Can't Get Used To Losing You". This was circa 1964.

[nrgbeat]

So Danceman, it sounds like your parents had you pegged even at such a young age.

[jazz_pilgrim]

I remember my first purchase very clearly. It was Celi Bee and The Buzzy Bunch and One Love. I bought it in Stoke where I was staying with my brother at the time and it cost me 99p.

How about that for a clear memory! Maybe I'm not getting so old (as my son constantly reminds me) after all!! :grin: :grin:

[sammyperez]

Just like most kids, my record collection started with buying 45's. Mostly top 40 '70's AM. However, in 1975 I bought my first LP and my life changed forever. It was:

Save me - The Silver Convention (which featured 'Fly, Robin, Fly')

I love this LP so much I bought another copy years later at a record convention. Over 10,000 records later it is still one of my favorites. By the way Bernie, that is an awesome story of how you found 'Let's get it together'. I could never be so lucky. :grin:

Easy,

Sam "ALL JAM"

[QUINNY]

Difficult to say what was my first Disco single; whenever you think Disco started it would have been around then. Take your pick.
My first 12" was Ten Percent on Salsoul.
My first records were bought for me on my 4th or 5th birthday along with a wind up 78 record player (complete with large horn and metal stylii) that came with them. One of the 78s was by the Singing Dogs (Jingle Bells and/or How Much Is That Doggie In The Window?, and the other one was The Duke Ellington Orchestra Jump For Joy b/w Flamingo.
What a memory!!

[SandraDee]

[quote]
On 2002-09-30 03:03, jazz_pilgrim wrote:
It was Celi Bee and The Buzzy Bunch and One Love. I bought it in Stoke where I was staying with my brother at the time and it cost me 99p.

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May I ask why you were in Stoke Jazz? That is Stoke in Staffordshire I take it? I'm only curious because that is where I'm from originally before I moved to the bright lights of Manchester (don't titter!). Isn't it a dreary place? I s'pose it is surrounded by lovely countryside though.

[jazz_pilgrim]

I was in Stoke becuase my brother had a house in Tunstall, and I was up staying with him. He now lives in Romilley in Manchester.
Stoke was alright, from what I remember, but, as you say, the country-side was superb...




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[discohunter]

I don't remember exactly my first disco records, but amonng the first were the KC & The Sunshine Band albums, along with various disco compilations albums that were released by K-Tel ...Discomotion (1976), Funky Disco (1977), Disco Fever (1978), Disco Dazzler (1978), Disco Nights (1979) and Disco Superstars (also released in 1979).

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