I Love Being Old - post a record you have been listening to for over 50 years

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I went on a crazy search for this a few years back because I remembered it from my childhood, turned out this was a record that my mom inherited from my grandfather, and it is SO VIVID when I listen to it, I can see the old living room before the remodel, it is the mid-70's and my sister and I are reading Cricket magazine, playing with kittens, and watching my mom churn butter.

I have vivid memories of listening to my dad’s copies of the Beatles red and blue albums along with Cat Stevens Tea for the Tillerman. Prob 1973 on a small record player in our rec room with lime green shag carpet

This year will be my 50th high school reunion. Man I’m old. My favorite record from 1975 is probably Roxy Music’s Siren.

That's a tough one, in that I really didn't start listening to albums until the middle of high school, which is just past the 50-year cutoff. And when I play albums now, it's pretty much just new acquisitions (I'm more apt to listen to older stuff in the car). Lots of explanations...I would listen to The Who Sell Out and Exile on Main Street (8-track) and Best of the Guess Who (ditto) prior to 1973, and I still love them, even if I don't actively play them.

Also kittens and butter churning are amazing music recollections.

xp well I guess 45s count! surely there are tunes yr parents listened to?

I remember this one too, and have it on LP still

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OK that's from 77 but still

oh duh

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Tom Lehrer - That Was The Year That Was. This made a pleasant change in our household from the otherwise unrestricted diet of Brahms, Lizst and the rest of the long-hair music gang on Radio 3. I still listen to it regularly! Although not the beaten-up old 60s-era vinyl copy we had, no idea what happened to that.

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this is like eating a big proust cookie every time i hear it.....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCUGMMEF2Zk

also played the really rosie soundtrack OUT but that would be exactly 50 years.

before that would be sly & the family stone greatest hits which is still possibly my favorite record. its perfect.

crazy to think that i was playing 78s when i was a little kid. i had this. i loved it. 2 10-inches. it was already over 20 years old when i started playing it in the early 70s.

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I wish we were so erudite. But i was lucky to have a home where music was constantly on via mum's kitchen radio. Tony Blackburn.

13 years old i decided i was embarrassed by all this top 10 radio crap and i was serious.

Deep purple machine head on tape my pocket money. I guess i kinda knew it was a couple of years old cos it was cheap.
And just now: scored fireball at an op shop holy fuck the title track.
Serious music lol

No albums fit this for me, but I remember liking or at least being amused by Labelle's "Lady Marmalade" when it came out, when I was six. And despite over-familiarity I wouldn't change the station or whatever one does now if I heard it today.

Pretty much all of my sister's records, she had great taste. She did buy this in 1973 after all - when she would have been 14!

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That's totally crazy

I think the story is that it was released at a special low price by United Artists to promote the band in the UK - and she didn't have that much money to spend so she probably bought it for that reason. I've seen quite a few copies of that single over the years. A bit like what Virgin did with "The Faust Tapes", but she never had that.

Lots of households in the UK had "The Faust Tapes" and "Camembert Electrique" because Virgin released them for 99p or whatever it was, well a lot more than you might expect.

... a lot more not households that is, not a lot more than 99p LOL

i bought this in 1973. first record i ever bought. early gangster rap. and in tragic gangster rap fashion, jim died that same year. i was sad! r.i.p. MC LL Cool Jim.

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I've mentioned this before, and 100% true: I have taught a kid named Leroy Brown.

My father had copies of Perrey & Kingsley's The In Sounds From Way Out and Kaleidoscopic Vibrations which I still love to death.

He could never remember why he had them; he hadn't bought them.

My brother bought me this for my birthday after I started taking organ lessons when I was a kid. Still think it's great, and I still listen to it regularly. "Do What You Want," "I Want to Thank You," "What About You," "Keep It to Yourself" are all great soul bangers. Great Dylan cover in "She Belongs to Me," too.

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My favorite drop in the 45 stacks that my dad used to play 50 years ago & the first MP3 that I downloaded 25 years ago.

xp well I guess 45s count! surely there are tunes yr parents listened to?

Lots and lots of songs I heard over 50 years ago off the radio that I still love, but--taking the thread idea literally--it's a hard question for me because my experience with physical records kind of had three stages: 1) the pile of albums my parents kept in the basement that I started investigating in the late '60s; 2) first attempt at my own collection soon after, albums I played on a portable and treated poorly and are long gone; 3) the collection I still have, which started in 1975 or 1976. My memory's a bit sketchy on 1) and 2), and a lot of it was junk anyway.

I'm barely in my 50s so most of what I was listening to then and still listen to at least a bit now was my mom's copies of Sgt Peppers and Magical Mystery Tour, Bridge Over Troubled Water, and this stone cold journey:

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Welcome to my Nightmare by Alice Cooper turns 50 this year, and I still have the vinyl LP I bought in '75. And still listen to it regularly, though mostly on CD. I also still have all of the Cooper albums that preceded it, so they would be even older. The cardboard box that Muscle of Love came in has long since fallen apart. And I still love them all (to death) in various formats.

I also still have the cassette of High Voltage by AC DC, but I think that was bought in '76. Can't say I listen much to it, but I sure do still hear a lot of those tracks on the radio.

The oldest LPs still in my collection were either purchased because I heard them on what was then (early 70s) freeform progressive radio, or promo copies I was occasionally given when I visited the station as a star struck wannabe DJ adolescent. A few I remember:

Fleetwood Mac - Bare Trees
Ten Years After - Recorded Live
Siegel-Schwall - s/t
NRBQ - Scraps
Seatrain - all of ‘em
Nitty Gritty Dirt Band - all of ‘em
Commander Cody - Live
David Bromberg - Demon in Disguise
Dan Hicks - Striking It Rich

And prog:
Nektar - Remember the Future
Hatfield and the North - both
Gong - You

I don’t play any of these regularly anymore but still love all of them.

Lots of households in the UK had "The Faust Tapes" and "Camembert Electrique" because Virgin released them for 99p or whatever it was

Both were sold for the price of a single: "The Faust Tapes" for 49p in 1973 and "Camembert Electrique" for 59p in 1974. Inflation was wicked in the 70s.

I still listen to quite a few albums I heard around the house as a child (Beatles, Stones, Dylan, Doors, the Band, Grateful Dead, etc.) but at the time I wouldn't have been allowed to touch the turntable myself, so I don't think those qualify for this thread

Two that do: Autobahn and Silk Degrees

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Also this one:
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I don't remember getting the haunted house record but we had it in the early 70s when we lived in OC so I assume we picked it up on a Disneyland trip. My parents had a few records and the Brahms is the only one I listened to a lot. I didn't start getting my own records until...1978?

The earliest that still play themselves in my head all the time, w/o warning:
Highway 61 Revisited

Beatles VI
(29 minutes and change---c'mon in!)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DTEs44peX2Q

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beatles_VI

The earliest in my existence, that is---later on I kinda caught up with The Who Sings My Generation, The Velvet Underground an Nico, Wilson Pickett's Greatest Hits etc, also still spinning in headbox

There's plenty of FM hits from the early 70s that have been in and out of my ears for 50 years, but the first LP I ever bought was Billy Joel's "The Stranger" when it came out. I don't own it anymore but Mrs. McBB pulls him up from time to time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eUJ_ifjKopM
This song was released the month before I was born.

I have various three/four year old memories around 74/75 listening to a couple of fun Sesame Street tie-in albums, plus Sing ("Sing, sing a song" etc.) and a Popeye thing as well. A couple of other kid ones too, and I kept listening to them all for a few more years after. But the one I that I still have around in my vestigial vinyl collection is this one:

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This itself compiled sides Luther released back in the 1940s, and retrospectively I'm still not sure how I ended up with this one -- this particular compilation appeared in 1960, when my parents were 20 and 16 respectively and I can't imagine either of them having this on their to-listen list at that point. But the various tracks on it have stuck in my brain all this time and I ripped the vinyl some while back just to have it to hand. It's a really interesting bit of history in the end because Frank Luther was absolutely no joke -- he was a midcentury kid's music superstar on the level of, say, Raffi in the 80s/90s or the like, arguably even bigger, but that itself grew out of an established career doing early recorded country, Western swing and pop in the 20s and 30s, and he ended up being a high level exec for Decca in the post WWII years. One of these days I'd love to do a Pop Conference talk about him, because he is simultaneously an absolutely essential part of the broader music industry and barely understood or recognized now.

I don't think I could reach the record player yet at the age of 3.

Maybe my first critical judgement of a record was that the first LP of the Beatles blue album was good, but the second LP was "too grown-up" and "scary"; perhaps due to "Revolution".

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Yes indeed. I might have told this story before but at the bog standard comprehensive I went to the music teachers were fighting a losing battle against rampant disinterest from pupils. One day we traipsed into class and, instead of try and failing to interest us in "Vltava" by Smetana, the long suffering teacher put the first side of "Autobahn" on and that constituted the entire lesson.

Currently this would be age 4, so I can cite a Sesame Street 7” of the Zizzy Zoomers singing about the letter Z, and the Bedknobs & Broomsticks OST. We’re coming up on Beatles blue album.

The Zizzy Zoomers song made me CRAZY

Jan & Dean's "The Little Old Lady From Pasadena", "The Ventures Play Telstar, The Lonely Bull" and "Elvis' Golden Records" have all been in my collection for about 52-53 years , handed down by an aunt (Elvis) or my oldest cousin (Ventures, J&D).

Also, although I've actually only owned it for 49 years and change, I still wanna honourably mention the "American Graffiti" soundtrack, which was later autographed by Wolfman Jack when he made a local charitable appearance in 1979.

The American Graffiti soundtrack is great, cool that you got Wolfman Jack to autograph it

Did the Wolfman offer you a popsicle?

Hahaha

No popsicles, no; but he did offer some life advice on the 8½ × 11 promo photo he was handing out: "To Scott: When you do right, you come out right". And as for the LP, he wrote a different message (and a second signature) atop his photo in the gatefold ("To Scott: Thanks for loving rock 'n' roll!")

i must have had that beatles blue album close to 50 years ago. its such an early indelible memory. i was obsessed with it. it was the first beatles album i had. vee jay introducing the beatles might have been second for me. i remember buying it in some crowded store in nyc. maybe colony records. a weird second beatles album to buy but i didn't know any better. and magical mystery tour might have been third. so my beatles perception was totally informed by those three albums in the 70s. i made my dad take me to a new england beatles convention in the 70s. the band Apple played. it was packed and i was definitely the youngest person there.

I wish I had clearer memories of the order in which I acquired records by particular artists. I can tell you what the first five Bowie records I bought were, but I can't remember if Heroes or Ziggy arrived first. With Miles, did I get Kind of Blue or Sketches of Spain first? I spend way too much time trying to nail down a timeline that really doesn't matter.

my first black sabbath record was the we sold our souls comp and i kinda worshipped it to a ridiculous degree. i had no idea what albums the songs were from. the scary coffin lady scared me a lot in the gatefold. i used to transcribe the lyrics by hand and it would take me forever because i never understood everything that ozzy said. then around 1978 i asked my dad to get me two records: glen miller's greatest hits (I fucking loved "In The Mood" for some reason) and Black Sabbath Vol. 4. And he did. And I became obsessed all over again with the songs but also the pictures of the band in that photo booklet in the gatefold. all this stuff was just majik to me. i had no idea what i was hearing. it was from another world.

but now i am going beyond the scope of the thread with these 46 year old memories...

i got a kiddie record player when i was old enough and started inheriting 45s from my parents - Hound Dog, Heartbreak Hotel, Witch Doctor were hits - and then relatives - Radar Love, Sugar Sugar cereal box cutout, Banana Splits, Funky Worm. still prob have them all in a box somewheres.

the Easter Bunny then brought me the "Elvis" live 1968 lp as prob my first real full album

my first black sabbath record was the we sold our souls comp and i kinda worshipped it to a ridiculous degree.

HIGH FIVE

I came to everything late b/c I was the oldest, so for me that was prob 1980 for the Sabbath comp

then I went straight to Mob Rules I think b/c of the Heavy Metal movie

More intrigued by young Scott being into Glenn Miller

haha, i just loved that one song. i have no idea why. i mean its a good song...

Were you disappointed when you heard the rest of his hits?

Heard a Miller audiodoc---think it was on Indiana Public Radio's Night Lights: Glenn, who was in doc established as having his pick of any muso swept up by the US Army Air Force, in concert on the tarmac with massive orch---albeit tasteful, it is unmistakably the sound of doom---totally goes w Sabs.

"Were you disappointed when you heard the rest of his hits?"

nah, he's cool with me. though i'm more of a tommy dorsey guy these days. i was listening to gene krupa today at work! he's the cat's pajamas with anita o'day and roy eldridge.

Oh, I have that CD… the one that says “Uptown,” on Columbia Masterworks?

(glenn never my fave trombonist. not with tommy d. and jack teagarden hanging around.)

it was a vinyl reissue of his 50s verve album. it sounds so good! it will get you boppin' for sure. it's an awesome band.

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Jack Teagarden also a good drawly bluesy singer on occasion, and has great name for jazzbo (or anybody)
Gotta get that threesome---Anita's also aces in Jazz On A Summer's Day.

as for the LP, he wrote a different message (and a second signature) atop his photo in the gatefold ("To Scott: Thanks for loving rock 'n' roll!")

Sounds like the Wolfman rated your record high

*claps*

My not-very-hip mom listened to Getz/Gilberto when I was in utero and as a newborn. I have a very vivid and visceral connection to that record. I still listen to her copy.