Originally Posted By DVC_dad My First Vinyl was a great one... Saturday Night Fever My first VHS was one that I bought from a friend for $5 LOL A little known movie called Blade Runner. I was a little to young to have it but hey, I turned out ok.
Originally Posted By threeundertwo Keep that Blade Runner! The newer one, the director's cut, totally changed the ending.
Originally Posted By officerminnie I think my first vinyl was a 45 rpm record by Three Dog Night called "Eli's Coming" (still love that song). And I think maybe our first VHS was "E.T. the Extra-terrestrial".
Originally Posted By vbdad55 My first vinyl : 45 - Get Off My Cloud - Rolling Stones LP - Revolver - The Beatles First VHS: Casablanca
Originally Posted By Labuda "a few "XTC" discs" gadzuux - can you recommend a good 2nd XTC disc for a person who so far only has Nonsuch and LOVES it and would like to get more?
Originally Posted By trekkeruss I can't tell you either, but I can say what I was playing them on. My dad was a bit of an audiophile waaay back in the 50's and 60's, and his turntable was a Dual. He used Shure cartidges; I remember him buying a new cartridge back in the 70's for like $100, which I thought was an outrageous amount of money (and it was!) When I got into audio, my first turntable was by Luxman... it matched all the other Luxman equipment I had bought. But then I became "serious" about audio, and bought a ceramic platter turntable by Kyocera, with a tonearm and cartridge by Signet. You know this is not a regular turntable when you try to pick it up: it weighs about 45 pounds! My dad's first VCR was by RCA. I remember new blank tapes were like $20. My first VCR was a Sony, which I still have. I like it because it has a flying erase head, which is a very uncommon feature. Last year I bought a Sony Combination VCR/DVD recorder so I can transfer all my tapes over to DVD. The transfers are not the greatest quality when using the built-in VCR though... it's better if I use the old VCR for dubbing onto DVD.
Originally Posted By avromark Sometimes it also helps to have an "image stabilizer" when dubbing. Don't you just love Macrovision? My music was on cassettes, my mom and dad still have a lot of their vinyl. Their sons had the "pleasure" of transfering them to CD, I guess it's too much to ask the only daughter to do some work eh? I honestly can't tell you my first DVD, CD or Cassette, I honestly forget. However I do remember that My Summer Story (It Runs in the Family) was my first LD purchase. I took our Pioneer LD, my parents house has the Panasonic LD. I just realized my DVD purchases are now in the high 5 figures. Heh. That's just averaging the movies to 15 per, anime to 20 per and TV Season sets to 40 per. In Canada I had to pay over a hundred for Star Trek season sets, yet I just purchased for my mom all 10 seasons of Friends at Walmart for 149.70
Originally Posted By trekkeruss Ah, Laser Discs... yeah, I had those too... I still have them, but my Yamaha player bit the dust. I should get one off of eBay one of these days, just so I can watch my Criterion Collection copy of Singing In The Rain. When I worked at the Disney Store in the 90's, the video loops were on LD... I wonder who might have some of those discs? Hmmm...
Originally Posted By gadzuux >> can you recommend a good 2nd XTC disc << "Upsey Daisy Assortment" - it's a 'best of' compilation. XTC has always been a very uneven band - several brilliant tracks but an awful lot of clunkers too. 'Nonesuch' is probably their best one - 'wrapped in grey' is one of my favorite tracks. Their most recent (to my knowledge) has a single peacock feather on the cover - I forget the name - it's terrible.
Originally Posted By wonderingalice *LOL* Thanks Ann! I've got a DVD copy (good quality) that a friend made for me off the VHS. "Help!" was available on DVD briefly overseas a few years ago, but for some reason it's no where to be found now - legitimately. ;-)
Originally Posted By vbdad55 <My god vbdad you are ... wise. < what a kind way to put that.... btw..I still have all my vinyl ( 750+ LP's and approx 1500 45's - and 2 turntables -- my oldest daughters friends are amazed at the whole thing - can't understand how it plays ( yet they do not question CD's - go figure )
Originally Posted By Kar2oonMan I had a bunch of Disneyland Long Playing Records as a kid. I got a couple of Beatles albums for birthday gifts (Abbey Road, Something New, Magical Mystery Tour). But the first album I remember buying for myself was actually in a local grocery store at the time, of all places. It was "Headquarters" by The Monkees. I played it constantly. I've been trying, but I just cannot for the life of me remember the first VHS movie I bought. It was probably a 'previously viewed' one purchased at a video store, because it was quite an investment at the time to buy a brand new VHS movie.
Originally Posted By littleminnie Mine was a single called, "Take a Letter, Maria", or something like that. It think Trini Lopez sang it? Never bought a VHS, but we used to rent the VHS player and tapes from the library! Ha, ha.
Originally Posted By beamerdog First vinyl: Sally Go Round the Roses by the Jaynettes (Big Thunder might remember this one: Sally go 'round the roses. (Sally go 'round the roses.) Sally go 'round the roses. (Sally go 'round the pretty roses.) The roses, they can't hurt you. (No, the roses, they can't hurt you.) The roses, they can't hurt you. (No, the roses, they can't hurt you.) Sally don't cha go, don't cha go downtown. Sally don't cha go, don't cha go downtown. The saddest thing in the whole wide world is To see your baby with another girl. Sally go 'round the roses. (Sally go 'round the roses.) Sally go 'round the roses. (Sally go 'round the pretty roses.) They won't tell your secrets. (They won't tell your secrets.) They won't tell your secrets. (No, the roses won't tell your secrets.) Sally, baby, cry, let your hair hang down. Sally, baby, cry, let your hair hang down. Sit and cry where the roses grow, you can sit and cry, not a soul will know. I still love that sad song with many interesting theories about what it's all about. It cost over $60,000 to produce this single 45 which was enormous for the time. First VHS? Don't remember.
Originally Posted By mawnck Your first vinyl was "Sally Go Round the Roses"???? I'm actually jealous!
Originally Posted By beamerdog Wow, someone out there knows the song!! I still have it and play it from time to time.
Originally Posted By Big Thunder <<"Sally Go Round the Roses by the Jaynettes (Big Thunder might remember this one">> Yes I know that song, quite a catchy tune. Slightly before my time but I love that era of music. Actually whenever I hear that song, or sometimes when I think of mobster show characters, that song pops in my head. Why I remember this trivial tidbit is beyond me, but once on The Sopranos, there was a scene where "Johnny Sac" leaves his upscale Jersey home in his new Maserati, driving in the snow, smoking a cigarette listening to "Sally Go Round the Roses" on the car stereo. So when I hear that song, I think of mob bosses.
Originally Posted By Big Thunder here's' a few vinyl LPs I remember owning in my elementary school years... Iron Butterfly [Ball] The Monkees Lovin Spoonful Beatles [Hey Jude] The Cowsills [w/ the hit song Hair] Simon & Garfunkel [bridge over troubled water] Superfly soundtrack Led Zeppelin III [fascinated w/the cover] 3 Dog Night [Naturally, Golden Biscuits, & Harmony]
