What is the first album you purchased, and do you still have it?


My record collection is my passion.  I started buying albums when I was in 9th grade.  I was hooked.  I don;t think I missed a weekend visit to the local record shop in the mall from the time I was 16 until I graduated college.  I still own those albums that I took so much care to choose..Just wondering if anyone else holds such memories dear and are sentimentally holding on to their old albums.  I still play them and enjoy them every bit as much as I did back in the day.
And my first album was Elton John...Goodbye Yellow Brick Road.  Sometimes I look at the covers and think, I have listened to these so much, I am jaded.  But I put them on and enjoy them as much as I ever did.
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Hooker and Heat, yes I still have it and play it at least once a year. Had been buying just 45s prior, getting the radio hits as they came out and once I bought that album there was no looking back. By the way, I bought it as it was being released.
Sounds like one I might need to add to my collection! Glad to hear you are like me, still enjoying it after all these years.

I joined the Columbia Record Club when I was twelve. I had been buying 7" 45 RPM singles, but LP's were now of interest. You got a free LP when you joined the Club (the 1st one's free, kid ;-), and I picked Johnny Horton's Greatest Hits, which included "North To Alaska". I don't have the copy I received at the time, but an exact replacement.

After that it was The Ventures and other Surf bands (big with teenagers at the time), The Beach Boys, and Paul Revere & The Raiders. Everything changed with the English Invasion.