Ending the week on a favourite note.
My musical awakening seemed to happen in 1971. Rachel lived next door and was six or seven years older than me and wild. I heard this record first in her bedroom which was full of exciting things. I still love this record, especially that groan. Not sure I realised quite what the record was about when I bought it with precious pocket money. My first album was called Hot Hits 4 and had a woman on the front in a shocking state of undress. It included songs such as “Is this the way to Amarillo (every night I hug my pillow)” and “My Sweet Lord”. How I loved that record too.
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February 5, 2008 at 12:12 am
Stavros
The Beatles/Rubber Soul. It was the first album I ever bought at age 13. The best single on it was Norwegian wood. I still have that album and still play it on a turntable I bought recently so I could still play my old albums which I was unable to part with. My sons treat it like a museum piece.
February 11, 2008 at 11:21 am
Ronald Parks
The 1965 album – The Newbeats: Run Baby Run. My favorite song on that album and the reason I bought it was for “Oh, Pretty Woman.” I forget how much the album cost back then but it couldn’t have been much because I didn’t get much of an allowance at 10 years old.
Thanks for the T-Rex video. It is great. While working down Ocean City as a teenager, we use to go hang out at the Himalayan Ride all the time because the guy running it would keep playing the Electric Warrior album over the loud speakers.
February 11, 2008 at 1:01 pm
adifferentvoice
I presume “Oh, Pretty Woman”, as in Roy Orbison’s? Anyway, found this funny Top of the Pops clip of Roy Orbison singing. His humour comes through in every clip (there are many). http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PNin42f_EeQ&feature=related