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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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By the Kinks was the first record (those under 30 google it) that I ever purchased. It was 1970 and it cost 6/- 8d Or 80p in today’s doe.
I bought it from Woolworths and saved up the money from a paper round for which I was paid 25 shillings a week.
I fell in love with music from then on.........what was your first foray in to the wonderful world of choones ! |
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By *emini ManMan
over a year ago
There and to the left a bit |
My cringe moment as the first two I can remember buying as a 7 or 8 year old were:
Long Haired Lover From Liverpool - Little Jimmy Osmond
Nice One Cyril - The Cockerel Chorus
First "proper" single as a teen was Slap & Tickle by Squeeze though so I made up for it |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"By the Kinks was the first record (those under 30 google it) that I ever purchased. It was 1970 and it cost 6/- 8d Or 80p in today’s doe.
I bought it from Woolworths and saved up the money from a paper round for which I was paid 25 shillings a week.
I fell in love with music from then on.........what was your first foray in to the wonderful world of choones !"
Good old days going into whsmith and listening to them in the little booth before you bought it.
My first gf then had a deep voice and my older brother used to shout out when she called round...its lola for you  |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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"By the Kinks was the first record (those under 30 google it) that I ever purchased. It was 1970 and it cost 6/- 8d Or 80p in today’s doe.
I bought it from Woolworths and saved up the money from a paper round for which I was paid 25 shillings a week.
I fell in love with music from then on.........what was your first foray in to the wonderful world of choones !
Good old days going into whsmith and listening to them in the little booth before you bought it.
My first gf then had a deep voice and my older brother used to shout out when she called round...its lola for you "
Did you meet her in a club in soho ? |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"By the Kinks was the first record (those under 30 google it) that I ever purchased. It was 1970 and it cost 6/- 8d Or 80p in today’s doe.
I bought it from Woolworths and saved up the money from a paper round for which I was paid 25 shillings a week.
I fell in love with music from then on.........what was your first foray in to the wonderful world of choones !
Good old days going into whsmith and listening to them in the little booth before you bought it.
My first gf then had a deep voice and my older brother used to shout out when she called round...its lola for you
Did you meet her in a club in soho ?"
Nah at school I was too young for a bar in soho ffs |
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By *emini ManMan
over a year ago
There and to the left a bit |
"By the Kinks was the first record (those under 30 google it) that I ever purchased. It was 1970 and it cost 6/- 8d Or 80p in today’s doe.
I bought it from Woolworths and saved up the money from a paper round for which I was paid 25 shillings a week.
I fell in love with music from then on.........what was your first foray in to the wonderful world of choones !
Good old days going into whsmith and listening to them in the little booth before you bought it.
My first gf then had a deep voice and my older brother used to shout out when she called round...its lola for you
Did you meet her in a club in soho ?
Nah at school I was too young for a bar in soho ffs "
Is this Fab reunion night? Everyone seems to be crawling out of the woodwork...or perhaps that should be put of the record booth |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"By the Kinks was the first record (those under 30 google it) that I ever purchased. It was 1970 and it cost 6/- 8d Or 80p in today’s doe.
I bought it from Woolworths and saved up the money from a paper round for which I was paid 25 shillings a week.
I fell in love with music from then on.........what was your first foray in to the wonderful world of choones !
Good old days going into whsmith and listening to them in the little booth before you bought it.
My first gf then had a deep voice and my older brother used to shout out when she called round...its lola for you
Did you meet her in a club in soho ?
Nah at school I was too young for a bar in soho ffs
Is this Fab reunion night? Everyone seems to be crawling out of the woodwork...or perhaps that should be put of the record booth "
Who else has popped up?
Dont say soxy is back ffs |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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"By the Kinks was the first record (those under 30 google it) that I ever purchased. It was 1970 and it cost 6/- 8d Or 80p in today’s doe.
I bought it from Woolworths and saved up the money from a paper round for which I was paid 25 shillings a week.
I fell in love with music from then on.........what was your first foray in to the wonderful world of choones !
Good old days going into whsmith and listening to them in the little booth before you bought it.
My first gf then had a deep voice and my older brother used to shout out when she called round...its lola for you
Did you meet her in a club in soho ?
Nah at school I was too young for a bar in soho ffs "
Maybe South Shields then ! |
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By *emini ManMan
over a year ago
There and to the left a bit |
"By the Kinks was the first record (those under 30 google it) that I ever purchased. It was 1970 and it cost 6/- 8d Or 80p in today’s doe.
I bought it from Woolworths and saved up the money from a paper round for which I was paid 25 shillings a week.
I fell in love with music from then on.........what was your first foray in to the wonderful world of choones !
Good old days going into whsmith and listening to them in the little booth before you bought it.
My first gf then had a deep voice and my older brother used to shout out when she called round...its lola for you
Did you meet her in a club in soho ?
Nah at school I was too young for a bar in soho ffs
Is this Fab reunion night? Everyone seems to be crawling out of the woodwork...or perhaps that should be put of the record booth
Who else has popped up?
Dont say soxy is back ffs"
Ah bless...you love her really
Diamond Smiles re-appeared earlier |
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By *emini ManMan
over a year ago
There and to the left a bit |
"By the Kinks was the first record (those under 30 google it) that I ever purchased. It was 1970 and it cost 6/- 8d Or 80p in today’s doe.
I bought it from Woolworths and saved up the money from a paper round for which I was paid 25 shillings a week.
I fell in love with music from then on.........what was your first foray in to the wonderful world of choones !
Good old days going into whsmith and listening to them in the little booth before you bought it.
My first gf then had a deep voice and my older brother used to shout out when she called round...its lola for you
Did you meet her in a club in soho ?
Nah at school I was too young for a bar in soho ffs
Maybe South Shields then !"
Definitely drank cherry cola |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"By the Kinks was the first record (those under 30 google it) that I ever purchased. It was 1970 and it cost 6/- 8d Or 80p in today’s doe.
I bought it from Woolworths and saved up the money from a paper round for which I was paid 25 shillings a week.
I fell in love with music from then on.........what was your first foray in to the wonderful world of choones !
Good old days going into whsmith and listening to them in the little booth before you bought it.
My first gf then had a deep voice and my older brother used to shout out when she called round...its lola for you
Did you meet her in a club in soho ?
Nah at school I was too young for a bar in soho ffs
Is this Fab reunion night? Everyone seems to be crawling out of the woodwork...or perhaps that should be put of the record booth
Who else has popped up?
Dont say soxy is back ffs
Ah bless...you love her really
Diamond Smiles re-appeared earlier "
Ah I had a strange message earlier today from a newish member...wasn't too sure if he'd been here before.
Too late now though...I blocked the bugger |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"I bought it from smiths with a 50p record voucher ( they where 49p) and i think it was called rock on david essex"
You sure it was decimal...and not half a sheet? |
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By *emini ManMan
over a year ago
There and to the left a bit |
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First "proper" single as a teen was Slap & Tickle by Squeeze though so I made up for it
Wasn't that the b-side? A-side was Up The Junction,on purple vinyl of course!"
No Slap & Tickle was the follow up to Up The Junction but didn't fare quite so well..got to no. 24 |
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First "proper" single as a teen was Slap & Tickle by Squeeze though so I made up for it
Wasn't that the b-side? A-side was Up The Junction,on purple vinyl of course!
No Slap & Tickle was the follow up to Up The Junction but didn't fare quite so well..got to no. 24"
Yes I was getting confused with It's So Dirty  |
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By (user no longer on site)
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Slade..come make some noise....and I ve never stopped making noise lol...also I ve seen the yellow lights go down on mississippi....was listening to them the other day  |
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By *rAitchMan
over a year ago
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"I never bought singles, but ma first album was Queen II, on its release date 8th March 1974, with some birthday money which was 3 days before   "
One of my all-time favourite albums. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Showing my age here lol,Puppy love, Donny Osmond
Is that music?
Fair but firm?
Oh yeah fair for sure
Same for the Slade post!"
One mans medicine is another mans poison |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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"Showing my age here lol,Puppy love, Donny Osmond
Is that music?
Fair but firm?
Oh yeah fair for sure
Same for the Slade post!
One mans medicine is another mans poison "
Some my say |
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By *harpDressed ManMan
over a year ago
Here occasionally, but mostly somewhere else |
since when was 6s 8d 80p?
If there were 20 shillings in a pound, and 12 pennies in a shilling, surely the decimal equivalent was 37p?
Was OP one of those for whom the metric system was too complex? |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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"since when was 6s 8d 80p?
If there were 20 shillings in a pound, and 12 pennies in a shilling, surely the decimal equivalent was 37p?
Was OP one of those for whom the metric system was too complex? "
Really sorry it was 80d
As in 80 denari as in one third of an old pound.
The D and P was confused as are most DPs on this site! |
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"I never bought singles, but ma first album was Queen II, on its release date 8th March 1974, with some birthday money which was 3 days before "
What was your record player?
Mine was a very old Dansette in like a small luggage case |
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"I never bought singles, but ma first album was Queen II, on its release date 8th March 1974, with some birthday money which was 3 days before
What was your record player?
Mine was a very old Dansette in like a small luggage case "
We had one like that, you could stack the records so when one finished the next one dropped. It played 45’s 33’s and 78’s |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"I never bought singles, but ma first album was Queen II, on its release date 8th March 1974, with some birthday money which was 3 days before
What was your record player?
Mine was a very old Dansette in like a small luggage case
We had one like that, you could stack the records so when one finished the next one dropped. It played 45’s 33’s and 78’s"
Ah I'm old enough to remember playing at 78's to make them sound like pinky and perky |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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"I was a weird one!, but the first ever album I bought read Yes, Close to the Edge, second hand from our local vinyl shop
Loved the album covers as much as the music  "
Close to the edge down by a river.....
.seasons that pass me by...
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"By the Kinks was the first record (those under 30 google it) that I ever purchased. It was 1970 and it cost 6/- 8d Or 80p in today’s doe.
I bought it from Woolworths and saved up the money from a paper round for which I was paid 25 shillings a week.
I fell in love with music from then on.........what was your first foray in to the wonderful world of choones !"
Kudos to you...
Mine was. Mungo Jerry in the summertime... Also from woolworths. |
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I had been lucky, my older sister collected all the 1970s records and played them as loud as possible to the annoyance of my mom. Later I got most of her collection when she moved out.
I have recorded a lot of the music when I was young from Radio Luxembourg on cassette.
The first records I actually bought were Queen's "Jazz" and Eric Clapton's "Just one Night", I have expanded my collection since then
As I was trying to learn the trumpet at that time, I also listened to a lot of recordings of Louis Armstrong (my dad's records) and Maurice Andre's Baroque trumpet (My mum's music). I am neither but still enjoy the music |
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