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Saturday, 9 March 2024
Bill Haley, Rock Around The Clock 1956
This was the first record I ever bought. It was a 78, and it came from Woolworth's in East Grinstead. I can even still remember actually buying it. I must have been 10 years old.
It was the first "trendy" record I ever had. I'd managed to persuade my mother to buy it for me when she took me clothes shopping for my school uniform. I was never allowed to play it in my parent's hearing!
What a great song i have always loved it. Perfect for jiving to, though I can't do that anymore, sadly! The first record I bought was Cathy's Clown, also from Woolies ( Leicester)
First record I had was Apache by the Shadows.We had a beautiful large radiogram and for my birthday my Dad bought a Garrard deck and had it fitted into it, instead of the deck that was in it, which only played 78's. The new deck played 45's as well. I had a few 45's for my birthday. I was 13yrs old.
There was a craze in the mid-'70s for melting 78s over a flowerpot in a low oven to make decorative flowerpot covers. I found two in a charity shop around 1990 and picked one up to see how much.... it was a copy of this! Aaaaagh... even though the record was probably scratched to blazes. So I picked the other up and it was a Buddy Holly recording... "That'll be the Day".... I was too horrified to even think of buying them!!
It must have been the deep, meaningful lyrics that attracted you to this good time number. Bill Haley was only 55 when he died with severe alcoholism and mental health issues.
Our Dad bought Rock Around the Clock ...... it was a 78 rpm and I have it in the loft somewhere ! The first record I bought was Please Please Me .... The Beatles. I'm just a few years younger than you so Bill Hayley was just before my time but, it was always played in our house so I know it well. XXXX
I can remember the first 45 I bought, Down in the Boondocks by Billy Joe Royal. Strange what you remember. I can remember pedalling down on my bike to the record shop. And I probably annoyed my mother playing it over and over again
Still going around when I was in junior school..my record buying started with the Rolling Stones "Get off my Cloud" , Grandma liked it, mother didn't approve!!
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I don't think it happens these days, but this record was the one to get everyone on the dance floor when it began.
What a great start to Saturday, Sunshine in Suffolk, large coffee and Rock around the Clock. Thanks Cro. Valx
It was the first "trendy" record I ever had. I'd managed to persuade my mother to buy it for me when she took me clothes shopping for my school uniform. I was never allowed to play it in my parent's hearing!
What a great song i have always loved it. Perfect for jiving to, though I can't do that anymore, sadly! The first record I bought was Cathy's Clown, also from Woolies ( Leicester)
First record I had was Apache by the Shadows.We had a beautiful large radiogram and for my birthday my Dad bought a Garrard deck and had it fitted into it, instead of the deck that was in it, which only played 78's. The new deck played 45's as well. I had a few 45's for my birthday. I was 13yrs old.
There was a craze in the mid-'70s for melting 78s over a flowerpot in a low oven to make decorative flowerpot covers.
I found two in a charity shop around 1990 and picked one up to see how much.... it was a copy of this! Aaaaagh... even though the record was probably scratched to blazes.
So I picked the other up and it was a Buddy Holly recording... "That'll be the Day".... I was too horrified to even think of buying them!!
I played my version almost until it wore through!
A bit miserable here. Light rain and no coffee as yet. However, I shall play the video a few times.
I think I had a few before this, but they had always been bought for me by uncles etc. This one was all my own choice.
Wasn't Woolies a great shop! There was talk of bringing it back, but I've heard no more.
It was The Shadows who taught me how to play air guitar. I was quite good at it too.
I was in a school band that played Buddy Holly, Gene Vincent, and others of that era. I played bass.
It must have been the deep, meaningful lyrics that attracted you to this good time number. Bill Haley was only 55 when he died with severe alcoholism and mental health issues.
A typical hard-living rock-n-roller.
Our Dad bought Rock Around the Clock ...... it was a 78 rpm and I have it in the loft somewhere ! The first record I bought was Please Please Me .... The Beatles. I'm just a few years younger than you so Bill Hayley was just before my time but, it was always played in our house so I know it well. XXXX
For me it always seemed like the first real rock-n-roll record, probably because it contained the word 'rock'.
'Buddy can you spare a dime?' by someone at the Woolies in Reigate was my first.
Was that by Sinatra, or maybe Crosby? It was more of a 'crooner' song.
I can remember the first 45 I bought, Down in the Boondocks by Billy Joe Royal. Strange what you remember. I can remember pedalling down on my bike to the record shop. And I probably annoyed my mother playing it over and over again
Still going around when I was in junior school..my record buying started with the Rolling Stones "Get off my Cloud" , Grandma liked it, mother didn't approve!!
Loved this! I remember it from when I was young, about six or seven I think. We heard it on radio, didn't have a record player back then.
Such records were designed to annoy our parents.
I went to their free concert in Hyde Park. They'd hired some Hells Angels to be in charge of 'security'; they were a bit over enthusiastic.
I only had a wind-up player that someone had given me.
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