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Post by blashey on Feb 4, 2009 13:02:24 GMT 1
what was your first 7" you bought mine was the stranglers no more heroes in 1977  |
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Post by borneoman on Feb 4, 2009 13:14:38 GMT 1
mine was Material Girl by Madonna  still have it around the house!!! Good taste since day 1 you see  |
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Post by Box Of Horrors on Feb 4, 2009 13:18:33 GMT 1
Jive Bunny - That's What I Like  |
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Post by o on Feb 4, 2009 13:46:59 GMT 1
Pink Floyd - Another brick in the wall |
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Post by eightiespopkid on Feb 4, 2009 14:15:47 GMT 1
Shakin' Stevens' "Green Door"! |
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blashey
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Post by blashey on Feb 4, 2009 14:17:58 GMT 1
wonders if chris's is something from 1950s lol |
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Post by vastar iner on Feb 4, 2009 15:43:00 GMT 1
I Could Be Happy - Altered Images (I got my first record player for Christmas in 1981. Well, more accurately, just after it in the sales, it was worth the wait as I had no records anyway. Woo!)
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Post by Mart!n on Feb 4, 2009 16:20:58 GMT 1
The Police - Message In A Bottle
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Post by Crazy Don on Feb 4, 2009 16:44:16 GMT 1
The Fireballs' "Bottle of Wine" in 1968.
However, I got the Beatles' "She Loves You" for my seventh birthday in 1964, which was the first 45 I got for myself, but didn't pay for it.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 4, 2009 20:21:48 GMT 1
I bought 3 (1987)
Five Star - Stay Out Of My Life
A-ha - Manhattan Skyline
Samantha Fox - I'm All You Need
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Post by blashey on Feb 5, 2009 0:38:03 GMT 1
crazy don oldest vinyl so far
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Post by Robbie on Feb 5, 2009 13:50:32 GMT 1
First 7" I bought was Jealous Mind by Alvin Stardust! A few days I earlier I was bought Tiger Feet by Mud and Devil Gate Drive by Suzi Quatro. They were the second, third and fourth singles I ever owned. The first was Sunderland All The Way, which was their 1973 Cup Final song and a relative bought it for me, in a vain and hopeless attempt to turn me into a Sunderland supporter! Not a chance and the song was awful.
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Post by Mart!n on Feb 5, 2009 13:53:23 GMT 1
With my 7 inch purchase of The Police Message In A Bottle, I got a free copy of the top 40 singles chart for that week, that's how I got into the charts
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Post by Robbie on Feb 5, 2009 13:57:25 GMT 1
The last vinyl single I bought was Vogue by Madonna. That was the 12" version (I still have it). Last 7" I bought was bought the day before I bought Vogue - that was Jane Child's Don't Wanna Fall In Love, 50p from a chart return shop. It took another month to chart so the hyping must have been stepped up even further in the meantime.
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Post by vastar iner on Feb 5, 2009 13:58:05 GMT 1
First 7" I bought was Jealous Mind by Alvin Stardust! Tune. |
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Post by Robbie on Feb 5, 2009 14:01:17 GMT 1
With my 7 inch purchase of The Police Message In A Bottle, I got a free copy of the top 40 singles chart for that week, that's how I got into the charts I can remember a leaflet used to be given out around 1978/9 but I just remember it having the top 20 plus a list of new releases. They must have started doing the full top 40 sometime after July 1979 as I stopped picking up the leaflet around then (I used to buy Record Mirror every week so I had the full top 75 charts anyway). |
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Post by Robbie on Feb 5, 2009 14:04:28 GMT 1
First 7" I bought was Jealous Mind by Alvin Stardust! Tune. I still quite like it, though I haven't heard it in a long time. I think I may have also bought Red Dress (the follow up) too. Yet I can't remember ever being an Alvin Stardust fan and I tended to only buy songs by acts that I really liked in my early singles buying days. He was a bit scary to be honest, dressed in black with that pointy finger thing he used to do! |
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Post by vastar iner on Feb 5, 2009 21:13:23 GMT 1
There was a story told by the DLTs of this world that there had been a huge build-up for this new star Alvin Stardust. There was a whole aura of mystery around him with the song released and building momentum and they were all eager to see his first performance at a Radio 1 roadshow. He came dashing out of a helicopter, surrounded by minders so no-one could interview him beforehand, and when he appeared on stage the reaction from the DJs was "f**k me, it's Shane Fenton." "Jealous Mind" was a "My Coo-Ca-Choo" soundalike, but despite being less famous these days it was more successful chartwise. I assume MCCC sold more though? |
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Post by Robbie on Feb 5, 2009 22:01:40 GMT 1
My Coo-Ca-Choo is his biggest seller with sales of about 775,000. It peaked at #2 but spent 8 weeks in the top 5 over the biggest sales period of the year. 5 of those weeks were consecutive weeks at #5.
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Post by cosman on Feb 5, 2009 22:32:41 GMT 1
My Coo-Ca-Choo was the second single I bought - Golden Earring Radar Love was the first
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still have it around the house!!!
