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  • EveshamAddick
    EveshamAddick Posts: 7,030

  • usetobunkin
    usetobunkin Posts: 2,198
    edited November 2021
    addick1956 said:
    Davo55 said:
    The Boxer - Simon & Garfunkel
    I like that song
     The Boxer, is my song. I had a really troubled childhood and teenage years, including sleeping rough for a while, this song  brings me too tears.
  • CafcWest
    CafcWest Posts: 6,187
    The Monkees "Alternate Title"... was just so different.  think it must have been 1967ish.
  • RedJohn
    RedJohn Posts: 597
    masicat said:
    Here Comes the Night
    Them
    Love that song, lead singer Van Morrison, brilliant.
  • TimAddick
    TimAddick Posts: 216
    Picture of You, Joe Brown and the Bruvvers.
  • Stig
    Stig Posts: 29,111
    Sweet - Hell Raiser 
  • MrOneLung
    MrOneLung Posts: 26,914
    edited November 2021
    Used to buy albums rather than singles but the first single I bought was West End Girls - Pet Shop Boys 
  • CoveredEndAndy
    CoveredEndAndy Posts: 104
    Slade.
    skweeze Me Pleeze Me 

  • LawrieAbrahams
    LawrieAbrahams Posts: 3,780
    Seaside Shuffle by Terry Dactyl and the Dinosaurs. 
  • Fanny Fanackapan
    Fanny Fanackapan Posts: 18,762
    Diana by Paul Anka.

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  • limeygent
    limeygent Posts: 3,219
    Theme From "A Summer Place", Percy Faith Orchestra.
  • Carter
    Carter Posts: 14,272
    I wasn't a believer in buying singles for a long time as I'd just tape them off the radio. Not to mention it was only when Oasis rang my bell and they would mean the £3.99 gave a bit more value for money as they had B sides as good if not better than the album tracks, still have all the singles from definitely maybe, morning glory and Be Here Now. Normally a single would have B sides that were truly awful or worse, remixes of the A side 

    That said the first single I bought with my own money was either a cassette of Bitty McLean it keeps raining or Shaggy Oh Carolina
  • SoleBayAddick
    SoleBayAddick Posts: 155
    Lullaby of Birdland by the Ted Heath Band.  Bought it just before I went into the Navy, so must have been around 1951/52.  Still my favourite tune, I also like George Shearing's version.
  • CharltonKerry
    CharltonKerry Posts: 2,966
    limeygent said:
    Theme From "A Summer Place", Percy Faith Orchestra.
    Coincidentally that came on my Spotify selection on my phone yesterday. 
  • PragueAddick
    PragueAddick Posts: 22,182
    Would love to claim it was the Who's "Can't Explain" . I certainly did  buy it, but I fear there were a couple of mis-steps before this first step on the right path....
  • Karim_myBagheri
    Karim_myBagheri Posts: 12,849
    PragueAddick said:
    Would love to claim it was the Who's "Can't Explain" . I certainly did  buy it, but I fear there were a couple of mis-steps before this first step on the right path....
    my favourite Who track (what a loser)
  • Covered End
    Covered End Posts: 52,069
    You're doing well boys Gary Glitter & Rolf Harris.
    Just waiting for Jonathan King.
  • thai malaysia addick
    thai malaysia addick Posts: 18,400
    With great embarrassment, I can reveal it was Frank Ifield’s I Remember You. The Beatles’ I Feel Fine was next.
  • Bilko
    Bilko Posts: 769
    Fire by Arthur Brown.
  • thickandthin63
    thickandthin63 Posts: 2,968
    Not sure about this,think it was Gene Vincent be bop a lula,great track with the wonderful Cliff Gallup on guitar.Lucky enough to see him perform at Woolwich Odean.

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  • Chippycafc
    Chippycafc Posts: 14,168
    Lily the pink by Scaffold.
  • Chippycafc
    Chippycafc Posts: 14,168
    LawrieAbrahams said:
    Seaside Shuffle by Terry Dactyl and the Dinosaurs. 
    Just found out recently that Jona Lewie was in that band.
  • Lordflashheart
    Lordflashheart Posts: 5,627
    ‘68 Guns’ - The Alarm
  • Lazy_eye_metaphor
    Lazy_eye_metaphor Posts: 1,960

    Honaloochie Boogie

    Mott the Hoople
  • Plumstead_Micky
    Plumstead_Micky Posts: 932
    Was either Eye of Tiger or Fame by Irene Cara. From the Woolworths that was on Plumstead High Street.
  • Derek1952
    Derek1952 Posts: 779
    Swinging Shepherd Blues.by Ted Heath.on a 78. in 1958 played on a Dansette. And still have it but cannot play it.
  • jonseventyfive
    jonseventyfive Posts: 3,366
    Not sure I can remember what I bought (some rubbish probably) ,but a female friend got me White wedding by Billy Idol, shortly after I made my apologies and exited stage left, all ended well when she found a nice boy unlike this sleaze. 
  • Saga Lout
    Saga Lout Posts: 6,845
    My first single, bought at a very young age, was It's Not Unusual by Tom Jones. He probably wasn't very cool at that point in his career but, as I said, I was very young. 

    I love the 45 rpm single format and have now got approx 4,500. There are definitely several bands and solo artists who've only ever released 3 minutes that's worth listening to - I won't name names it would only cause a ruckus!
  • usetobunkin
    usetobunkin Posts: 2,198
    In the Summer Time    Mungo Jerry
  • LawrieAbrahams
    LawrieAbrahams Posts: 3,780
    Chippycafc said:
    LawrieAbrahams said:
    Seaside Shuffle by Terry Dactyl and the Dinosaurs. 
    Just found out recently that Jona Lewie was in that band.
    So did I. 

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