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  • WhenIwasLittleBoy
    WhenIwasLittleBoy Posts: 5,430
    Bow wow wow Wild in the Country
  • eastterrace6168
    eastterrace6168 Posts: 22,868
    edited November 2021

    ..In My Chair..."The number one Rock 'n' Roll Band in the land"...Status Quo... B)
  • bobmunro
    bobmunro Posts: 20,903
    edited November 2021
    Davo55 said:
    The Boxer - Simon & Garfunkel

    Brilliant song, brilliant album - Paul Simon, one of the greatest ever songwriters.
  • Karim_myBagheri
    Karim_myBagheri Posts: 12,849
    edited November 2021
    it was probably the happy hardcore song "Like a shooting star" by Bang in 1997. bought a year or so after its release. which means there is a possibility that i bought "Sweet like Chocolate" by Shanks and Bigfoot at roughly the same time. 

    Though I did have "Do the Bartman" before any of that but it might of been a gift. 
  • SoundAsa£
    SoundAsa£ Posts: 22,506
    Davo55 said:
    iaitch said:
    Jimmy Ruffin - What becomes of the broken hearted.
    Great record
    Remember the school yard version.

    What becomes of the broken hearted.
    Paid a penny and only farted.
  • ShootersHillGuru
    ShootersHillGuru Posts: 50,658
    Down The Dustpipe - Status Quo - March 1970
  • hermann
    hermann Posts: 488
    Mine was a double purchase - Three Lions and Wonderwall, both on tape.
  • Tutt-Tutt
    Tutt-Tutt Posts: 3,281
    edited November 2021
    Little Willy - The Sweet. Lol. Local record shop next to the Brockley Jack in Crofton Park. May have been 50p.

    i can remember going into the Decca Shop in Lewisham High Street with my Mum when I was small, when she bought a 45. It was on the corner opposite the main entrance to the Riverdale Centre, before it existed. Sold electronics as well as records. I have a vague memory of EPs with 3 different artists on it.
  • Pedro45
    Pedro45 Posts: 5,845
    She Loves You - The Beatles
  • Draizetrain
    Draizetrain Posts: 801
    B.A. Robertson - 'Knocked It Off'...can't remember where, 1979

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  • Lincsaddick
    Lincsaddick Posts: 32,385
    Sherry .. 4 Seasons .. always thought it was Louie, Louie by The Kingsmen .. checking the release dates, Sherry was much earlier .. money earned (I was 12/13) from paper round and working as a kitchen porter
  • RedJohn
    RedJohn Posts: 597
    Starman by Bowie, with Suffagette City on the B side. 
  • CharltonKerry
    CharltonKerry Posts: 2,965
    Seemed to remember it was called ‘ splish splash I was having a bath’” by Charlie Drake. A funny little story re this, we were being taken around Abbey Road studios by Giles Martin (someone we know is a friend of his) he pointed out a photo in amongst all the famous groups was a photo, he asked who could name the singer, yes you were right to his amazement I got it straight away, it was Charlie Drake, Apparently I’m one of the only people to get it right. The reason his photo is there is that it’s was George Martin’s first artists big hit (might his first number one) that he produced.
  • Bridgeboy
    Bridgeboy Posts: 125
    Ride a White Swan by TRex
  • Baldybonce
    Baldybonce Posts: 9,678
    RedJohn said:
    Starman by Bowie, with Suffagette City on the B side. 
    I always thought Suffragette city was the better side.
  • rananegra
    rananegra Posts: 3,696
    Very first was Brass in Pocket by the Pretenders, which was 25p in the reduced records box in Nuxley Road Post Office, Belvedere. They only sold remainders and ex jukebox stuff.
    My first full price one was Planet Earth by Duran Duran from TW Erith. 89p. Both 1981

  • McBobbin
    McBobbin Posts: 12,059
    Think it was Kokomo by the beach boys or stupid questions by new model army
  • mistrollingin62
    mistrollingin62 Posts: 387
    No Particular Place To Go - Chuck Berry
  • Lincsaddick
    Lincsaddick Posts: 32,385
    as with the albums, superb and diverse range of music  :)
  • BassAddick
    BassAddick Posts: 75
    Bought a £15 record player from the electrical shop in Lee, Nicholls, and 4 singles, It's My Life, (The Animals), Get Off My Cloud (Rolling Stones), I Got You Babe (Sonny & Cher) and Evil Hearted you (The Yardbirds). £1.6s.8d!

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  • Ian Nightingale
    Ian Nightingale Posts: 392
    Rise - Public Image Ltd
  • RedJohn
    RedJohn Posts: 597
    Baldybonce said:
    RedJohn said:
    Starman by Bowie, with Suffagette City on the B side. 
    I always thought Suffragette city was the better side.
    I still cant make up my mind which is the better.
  • 2121
    2121 Posts: 1,205
    Coolio gangstas paradise most probably comes to mind or something by oasis. 
  • LennyLowrent
    LennyLowrent Posts: 2,708
    Didn't buy singles untill arriving in England (1984) and even then, very few... 'Jericho ' by simply red comes to mind (the 12 inch version )
  • soapy_jones
    soapy_jones Posts: 21,400
    One of the Pinky and Perky Christmas albums...
  • Shrew
    Shrew Posts: 5,751
    What’s so funny bout peace love and understanding - Nick Lowe
  • fadgadget
    fadgadget Posts: 1,397
    Queen Of Hearts - Dave Edmunds
  • masicat
    masicat Posts: 5,012
    Here Comes the Night
    Them
  • AddicksAddict
    AddicksAddict Posts: 15,841
    I can’t remember the track but the band was White Plains.
  • Uboat
    Uboat Posts: 12,206
    Things can only get better, by Howard Jones. Choice of seven covers but Tonbridge Woolworths only had hot pink. 

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