Yes, I had the single as well Mick @Newportnobby . You have inspired me to rack my brains to compile a list of singles that I had (not many) before I started buying LPs.

Tim

Quote from: Moonglum on Today at 05:30:53 PMYes, I had the single as well Mick @Newportnobby . You have inspired me to rack my brains to compile a list of singles that I had (not many) before I started buying LPs.

Tim

I too had few singles but my first two LPs were :

Renaissance (the original band) - self titled album.

Fleetwood Mac - Then Play On.

My first single (1969) was Breakaway by the Beachboys.

Interesting Martin @port perran , that's a nice first LP to have, not familiar with the Fleetwood Mac. Beachboys eh!

Here is my list of singles (fresh off the press):

Tim's Singles list - Circa 1970(13yo) to 1972(15yo)

1.   Amen Corner – If Paradise was Half as Nice?
2.   The Beatles – Eleanor Rigby?
3.   Black Sabbath – Paranoid
4.   Blue Mink – Melting Pot?
5.   The Byrds – Turn, Turn, Turn
6.   CCS – Whole Lotta Love
7.   CCS – Tap Turns on the Water
8.   Creedance Clearwater Revival – Up Around the Bend
9.   Curved Air – Back Street Love
10.   Deep Purple – Black Knight
11.   Deep Purple – Strange Kind of Woman
12.   Deep Purple – Fireball
13.   Family – The Weaver's Answer
14.   Frijid Pink – House of the Rising Sun
15.   Norman Greenbaum – Spirit in the Sky
16.   George Harrison – My Sweet Lord
17.   Hawkwind – Silver Machine
18.   Jethro Tull – The Witches Promise
19.   The Kinks – Lola?
20.   Matthew's Southern Comfort – Woodstock
21.   Mr Bloe – Grooving with Mr Bloe
22.   Simon and Garfunkel – Bridge over Troubled Waters
23.   Three Dog Night – Mama Told me not to Come?
24.   Traffic – 40 Thousand Headmen?
25.   Waldo de Los Rios – Mozart 40

I had a plastic singles "album" which I think contained about 20 singles. My cousin told me I was silly buying singles so by 1972 I was buying LPs with the odd exception. Those marked with an ? I cannot be 100% sure of.

My first single was Frijid Pink - House of the Rising Sun and LP Nicky Thomas "Love of the Common People", I think the second was Simon and Garfunkel's "Sounds of Silence"... Then I discovered Black Sabbath...

Tim

Some good ones there Tim and all of an age.
I really liked most of those especially Mr Bloe (which is still on a couple of my playlists), Norman Greenbaum and Frijid Pink's version of House of the Rising Sun.

Great memories of the Friday evening Youth Club.

Fun! Good idea.

@Moonglum  - I'm a big fan of that list!

I'm just old enough to play along during the first death of vinyl.

Singles: 1980-1985 (6 to 11 years old)

1 - Prince - When Doves Cry
2 - Hall and Oats - Say It Isn't So/Kiss on My List
3 - Kenny and Dolly - Islands in the Stream
4 - Billy Joel - Uptown Girl
5 - Pointer Sisters - I'm So Excited
6 - Alabama - Lovin' Man
7 - Alabama - Mountain Music
8 - Vangelis - Chariots of Fire (Which I have yet to see but it's in my playlist and with me being a huge Track and Field nut)
9 - Stevie Wonder - I Just Called to Say I Love You
10 - Styx - Mr. Roboto
11 - USA for Africa - We Are the World (The biggest thing to happen to us 10 year olds!)
12 - Culture Club - Karma Chameleon
13 - Oak Ridge Boys - Bobbie Sue
14 - Bobby Goldsboro - Watching Scotty Grow (My mom's favorite)
15 - Rogers/Carnes/Ingram - What About Me?
16 - Kenny/Easton - We've Got Tonight
17 - Eddie Murphy - Party All the Time (Really, young Scott?)
18 - Queen - Another One Bites the Dust/Keep Yourself Alive (Proto-Scott's getting a taste for the heavy stuff!)
19 - Hall & Oats - I Can't Go For That
20 - Sheena Easton - Strut ("sigh" Sheena...)

Well done Scott @scottmitchell74 for joining in! The sad thing is I can recall most of your list (and you were just a nipper then) but totally clueless with todays pop music. Coincidently, I watched Ridley Scott's "Bladerunner" last night with Vangelis's evoking soundtrack (Dick Morrisey on sax).

Tim

Likewise. You could watch it again tonight BBC4 22.00
I have over 100 singles so too many to list but I'll look out some faves/oddities

Yes, it is on BBC iPlayer but is it the same version being shown tonight - Ridley Scott's director's cut which dropped Harrison Ford's voice over and changed the ending. At the time, it was way ahead of it's time! I will record tonights version and see.

Fun fact 1: My mother-in-law worked at the Labs at Denham and often spoke to Ridley Scott when he used to make adverts!

Fun fact 2: My late father-in-law worked on Alien (uncredited) and Aliens (also uncredited).

Tim

I feel that I'm missing out as I don't do films. I have no interest in them whatsoever.  Never have.

Mrs PP is a big film fan but I lose interest after about ten minutes.