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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...
Family had given me records as gifts but the first 3 records I ever bought myself were "Downtown" by Petula Clark, "Love Potion #9" by The Searchers, and "Eight Days a Week" by you know who.
ReplyDeleteWell, inasmuch as my parents had a recording of "Eight Days a Week" by Enoch Light and the Light Brigade but by no one else, some confusion might arise! Good trio, though, Charlie. My parental purchases included such items as the first SESAME STREET soundtrack album, AESOP'S FABLES THE SMOTHERS BROTHERS WAY, and a few folk-music records aimed at children.
ReplyDeleteMy taste was not very well developed when I bought my first single with my own money (though I owned lots of records that my mom had passed on to me): Heart's "Barracuda."
ReplyDeleteThere are so many worse choices you could've made, Kelly...and I certainly enjoyed going through my parents' records as well as my own and those I picked up at the library and dubbed onto cassette...
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