We are not a personal advice, health, or mental health sub. Please only respond directly to posts if you were born on or before 1980. If you are younger, please restrict your activity to asking questions and responding to existing comments.
Sort by:
Best
Open comment sort options
Best
Top
New
Controversial
Old
Q&A
Please do not comment directly to this post unless you are Gen X or older (born 1980 or before). See this post, the rules, and the sidebar for details.
I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. Please contact the moderators of this subreddit if you have any questions or concerns.
Bobby Sherman’s “Easy Come, Easy Go” that was cut from the back of a cereal box.
Oh daaamn, if we’re counting cereal box records, mine was “Sugar Sugar” by the Archies.
While we’re in the subject of cardboard records: Alfred E Newman burping along with some organ music
It’s a gas!!!
I had four siblings when these records were released. I remember us eating five boxes of Honey Combs, five boxes of Sugar Smacks, etc so that each of us could have our own record.
Weren’t those the best days? That something so simple gave us great joy?!
Oh man, I can’t believe my dad let me play those things on his turntable. I’m sure the needle was never the same.
Hah! Now that you mention it, I'm pretty sure this is why I had my own crappy turntable--so my dad didn't have to share his vast collection of LPs with my cereal-box singles! I do remember having to put a nickel or penny on the arm to weigh down the needle enough so it wouldn't skip.
Yeah, they were always kind of warped - the coin on the arm was always necessary.
Mine was a 45 of his “Julie Do You Love Me?”
ok i don't feel so bad for my tommy roe
Dizzy
My head is spinning!
You remember his song, Hey Little Woman.
A 45 of American Pie which is so long you had to flip it over to hear the second half of the song. This was a long, long time ago...
This was a long, long time ago
I see what you did there... ;)
I can still remember, how that music used to make me smile
And I knew if I had my chance, that I could make those people dance, and maybe they’d be happy for a while…
Why is it that I can’t remember what I had for dinner last night, but I know every word of 70s songs?
In a Galaxy far away…. Naboo was under an attack…
Terrapin Station by Greatful Dead, on 8-track tape.
I still can't listen to "Sampson and Delilah" without hearing it fade out and going "CHUNK!" in the middle of the song, and then resuming. If only in my head.
The chipmunks Christmas on vinyl. My poor parents listened to that record over and over and over for about two years.
First one I picked out was Paula Abdul Forever your Girl on tape, followed quickly by Young MC and Guns n Roses
Meet the Beatles on vinyl. Got it as a 10th birthday present from my parents in 1964.
I bought that record when it came out in early 1964, right before The Beatles appeared on Ed Sullivan. I was a young teenager and I had never heard anything so incredible, so wonderful. I already had Introducing the Beatles on the Vee Jay record label, which had come out about a month earlier. Those records changed my life.
My elementary school, and then my junior high, were obsessed with the Beatles - both girls and boys. Kids in my class got mop top Beatles’ wigs. It was a wild fun time.
An 8 track of Johnny Cash.
People Are Strange - The Doors. On a tape recorder in 1967.
Had a bunch of Disney theme songs on 45 size records that played on 78 rpm. Don't remember if it was Daniel Boone or Davey Crocket I played over and over.
My brother played Davy Crockett and The Legend of Sleepy Hollow so many times that we knew them word for word!
I had some Disney Christmas 45s. They disappeared long ago, but I found a couple in the 80s at a thrift shop in their paper sleeves and use them as holiday decorations.
You answered my inner question of why I remember a 45 that seemed to play 78 and contained several songs on each side. Is that possible?
My dad was a DJ so I had ALL the vinyl.
What radio station was your dad on?
He was at a station in New Mexico in a small town. He also did parties. He would lug around those giant crates of records lol. Got him an iPod in 2001 and it blew his mind.
The 45 of "I Will Follow Him," by Little Peggy March.
Surfin' USA by the Beach Boys on a 45 RPM record. My older brother gave me his copy.
For me it was the Beach Boys album "Endless Summer."
We had the 8-track.
The Beatles album, Hey Jude
They were an English band, right?
45 rpm - Cecilia - Simon and Garfunkel
It was some compilation from K-Tel records.
Four cassette tapes that I got at the same time, as a 13th birthday gift, along with a Walkman: The Joan Baez Songbook, Peter Paul and Mary Greatest Hits, Don McLean Greatest Hits, and Simon and Garfunkel Greatest Hits.
(I used to think I was born 20 years late.)
Beatles album Twist and Shout (released only in Canada, 1964 - very similar, but not identical to, the album Please Please Me).
Neil Diamond "You Got to Me" on a 45.
Tina Turner - Private Dancer and Def Leppard - Hysteria both on cassette. I remember buying my mom cassette tapes of her favorite albums for her as birthday/mother's day gifts when we were little kids.
Fingertips Pt 2 Stevie Wonder. My first 45. Bought it at the 5 & 10.
The record album "Gentle On My Mind" by Glen Campbell was the first music that was mine. That was right around the time that records started coming out in the stereo. Probably around 1968, I'd guess.
John Hartford wrote "Gentle On My Mind" in 1966. Glen Campbell recorded it in 1967. Each time I hear it I recall the opening of The Glen Campbell show when John would stand up in the audience playing banjo.
Beatles 45 Penny Lane and Strawberry Fields Forever.
I still have the first album I ever bought with my own money... Paul Simon's Still Crazy After All These Years. And after 30 years in the music business. I own over 2,000 LPs and 4,000 CDs.
Jethro Tull - Aqualung on cassette
Led Zeppelin 1 on cassette.
Rocky soundtrack 1976
Vinyl 45, ABC by the Jackson 5
I had that one
A 45 rpm record of Lulu singing "To Sir with Love"! 1967
My mum handed down her copy of Queen's A Night At The Opera to a 7 or 8 year old me; which I still have 35 years later. It's unplayable, so I bought another copy about 15 years ago, but it's one of those things I'll likely still have in my last days...
My mother loved that album and we listened to it all the time. I was 11 or 12 and I knew every word to every song.
As do I. Coincidentally, was listening (and singing along) to it just last night with my best mate while we had a few beers and reminisced. I'm still as excited by that record as I was back then.
Bad by Michael Jackson on cassette tape. Wore it out!!
It’s a Gas by Mad Magazine
Meet the Beatles and The Animals Animalism on vinyl. I was maybe 5 years old. I got them for Christmas
Either ABBA or KC and the Sunshine Band.
A 45, John Stewart, "Gold".
With Stevie Nicks joining John Stewart on the vocals... great record!
The 45 of, The Bee Gees, How Can You Mend A Broken Heart.
Disney Magic Mirror Storyteller album of Bambi and 8-Track of its a small world, the whole ride with narration. It’s still my favorite ride and song.
Hans Christian Anderson, record of Danny Kaye singing all the songs from the movie. I had been given my own little record player for Christmas.
A 45 of Blondie “Call Me”
"last song" 45 in 1973
A group based out of Toronto called Edward Bear...
Beatles VI
I loved that album. And Beatles '65, too.
The first one I bought with my own money was the vinyl 45 of “Oh What a Night (Late December 1963)” by The Four Seasons. I was 11 and rode my bike to Woolworth’s to buy it.
A 45 single of “Kodachrome” by Paul Simon.
There are certain songs that just sounded great on the AM radio back in the 70s... and "Kodachrome" was one of them!
I got 2 45’s for Christmas around age 8, The Eagles-One of These Nights Linda Ronstadt-It’s So Easy
Casette tape mix of songs I recorded on the radio. Man, that brought back memories.
Peanuts Christmas vinyl album.
Le Freak by Chic. Vinyl. It was a birthday gift. Listened to it hundreds of times!
Rocky Horror Picture Show.
It was a record from K-Tel that taught you how to Breakdance .
Living in Oz - Rick Springfield
Vinyl 45 of Chetish by The Association.
The first tape I ever bought with my own money was Nirvana Nevermind. I remember them being in that weird plastic thing that the cashier had to remove
I had cassettes of MJ Thriller, Madonna Like a Virgin, and Cyndi Lauper She’s So Unusual. I’m not sure which came first.
I was 4. Aside from the 45's that came with my See n Say, I got the Beatles Help!
It was a 45 single of The three little pigs singing The Pushbike song.
I have no idea who it really was because apparently pigs can’t sing.
And, even though it was a single and played on a record player it was floppy, red and see through.