Post by Dave on Nov 24, 2010 17:21:54 GMT
Oh to be young again, a time when so many things were the first time. That first kiss, that first proper date and that first time it really happened. 
Yes there are so many things we can remember that were our first and I’m sure when it comes to buying that first ever 7” single, most can remember what single they bought.
I guess I was around 12 years when I was given a small record player; it was one of those that was in a small case. 7” singles fitted on it just fine, but those 12” LP records hung over the edges so you had to make sure you took the lid of the record player.
So I had a record player but not one single record to play on and as I did not get a lot of pocket money, buying a new record was out of the question. I walked into town from Buckland and headed for the second-hand shop in Union Street. Its not the one there now called the Attic, this one has long since been gone and was on the other side of the road.
In the door I went and there was a cardboard box with many 7” singles in it and most must have been taken out of a jukebox, as they had no middles to them. That was not going to be a problem as my little record player had an adaptor to play such records.
A few weeks before my mother had brought home from Newton Abbot Market, four black and white photos 6”x 4” in cheap plastic frames of the Beatles and so I was hoping in this box I would find one of their records.
No luck I’m afraid, but there was one record that had written on it that it had been written my Lennon and McCartney and so I bought that one not knowing who the group were or knowing the song.
The group were the Fourmost and the song was called “Hello little girl”
The Fourmost were a Merseybeat band, they started off in 1957 as a two man band called the Two Jays, in 1957 two more members joined the band and so they changed their to the Four Jays
They made their debut at the Cavern Club on 1 March 1961, nearly three weeks before The Beatles. In 1962 they changed their name again this time to the Fourmost and a year later the group signed a management contract with Brian Epstein. This led to their being auditioned by George Martin and signed to EMI's Parlophone record label.
With Epstein as their manager, The Fourmost (like Cilla Black, Billy J. Kramer and The Dakotas, Peter and Gordon, and Tommy Quickly) had access to early Lennon/McCartney compositions felt to be unsuitable for The Beatles to record.
Their biggest UK hit single was a song called "A Little Loving" in 1964.
When I got home and played “Hello Little Girl” I just loved it and maybe it was no surprise as it clearly has a very Beatle sound to it.
So what was the first record you ever bought and what did you play it on?
Yes there are so many things we can remember that were our first and I’m sure when it comes to buying that first ever 7” single, most can remember what single they bought.
I guess I was around 12 years when I was given a small record player; it was one of those that was in a small case. 7” singles fitted on it just fine, but those 12” LP records hung over the edges so you had to make sure you took the lid of the record player.
So I had a record player but not one single record to play on and as I did not get a lot of pocket money, buying a new record was out of the question. I walked into town from Buckland and headed for the second-hand shop in Union Street. Its not the one there now called the Attic, this one has long since been gone and was on the other side of the road.
In the door I went and there was a cardboard box with many 7” singles in it and most must have been taken out of a jukebox, as they had no middles to them. That was not going to be a problem as my little record player had an adaptor to play such records.
A few weeks before my mother had brought home from Newton Abbot Market, four black and white photos 6”x 4” in cheap plastic frames of the Beatles and so I was hoping in this box I would find one of their records.
No luck I’m afraid, but there was one record that had written on it that it had been written my Lennon and McCartney and so I bought that one not knowing who the group were or knowing the song.
The group were the Fourmost and the song was called “Hello little girl”
The Fourmost were a Merseybeat band, they started off in 1957 as a two man band called the Two Jays, in 1957 two more members joined the band and so they changed their to the Four Jays
They made their debut at the Cavern Club on 1 March 1961, nearly three weeks before The Beatles. In 1962 they changed their name again this time to the Fourmost and a year later the group signed a management contract with Brian Epstein. This led to their being auditioned by George Martin and signed to EMI's Parlophone record label.
With Epstein as their manager, The Fourmost (like Cilla Black, Billy J. Kramer and The Dakotas, Peter and Gordon, and Tommy Quickly) had access to early Lennon/McCartney compositions felt to be unsuitable for The Beatles to record.
Their biggest UK hit single was a song called "A Little Loving" in 1964.
When I got home and played “Hello Little Girl” I just loved it and maybe it was no surprise as it clearly has a very Beatle sound to it.
So what was the first record you ever bought and what did you play it on?
