Walt disneys jungle book LP. And Slade alive. And alice coopers Schools Out. - fold out desk with paper knickers!!! And the first python Lp with the classical music scratched out in crayon. Happy days!
Great pick, Bob. My earliest conscious recollection of hearing "Mr. Sandman" was in Back to the Future (1985) , although I'm sure I'd heard it before then since it's such a classic song. Nowadays I associate it more closely with John Carpenter's Halloween II since it's one of my favorite horror movies (and it's featured on the soundtrack by Varese Sarabande).
P.S. I edited the thread subject title to "vinyl records" instead of "vinyl albums" to be more inclusive.
This is the LP Record that I most vividly remember as a child, probably 7 or 8 years of age. And I loved it and played it a million times and I remember how good the record player smelled.
I'm sure I still have it to this day and so it has to be 50+ years old. I was born in 1957 the year it was originally released, so my parents may have bought it that year for my sister who was 5 in 57.
Battle for the Planet of the Apes (and BENEATH and ESCAPE; never did get POTA)
G.I. Joe- The Secret Mission to Spy Island
G.I. Joe- Rescue at Adventure Team Headquarters
G.I. Joe- The Search for the Stolen Idol
G.I. Joe- Secret of the Mummy's Tomb
There were four of these and I had them all. These pre-date Indiana Jones and his idol search by eight years, I think. I was also of the age where I had both the end of the large Joes and the start (first set or group) of the smaller-sized action figures of early 1982.
Star Trek
Initially I only had the 45 RPM of To Starve a Fleaver. After TMP was released, they combined it with three other stories, making it the first thing I ever re-bought, since To Starve a Fleaver was once again included on this 33 LP.
It's terrifying at how much of this dialogue is etched into my brain.
I also had the "G.I. Joe" Adventure Records, Phelps.
How can I go without mentioning "The Story of 'Star Wars'" LP?
I also wore out a copy of Disney Records "Sounds of the Haunted House" album. Loved it. Although, I never understood what some of the selections included had to do with a "haunted house": Chinese Water Torture? A bird attack? Carnivorous Martians? Whatever....
These things will obviously vary according to age and nationality.
These are some of my childhood LPs that I remember:
I think I annoyed the hell out of my mom with the constant playing of the above album!
I also remember this Winnie the Pooh album:
...and these LPs by Norwegian children's author Thorbjørn Egner:
None of you Americans will have any relationship to these (whatever your age is), but if there are any Norwegians here my age, they probably will. All of these were fairly common in households from the late 70s to the mid 80s.
My father used to stop by Tower Records and pick up some old-time radio serial shows for me. "The Whistler" was a great one. Many hours of fun with those.
This was one of the first LP records I bought in my early teens. I ordered it from an ad in Sea Classics magazine. I was probably 13 or 14 years old at the time. A Canadian Broadcasting Corporation program that came out in 1973 on a Vantage LP that interviewed many of the then still living Titanic survivors. It was a nice fold out presentation with Ken Marschall's paintings front and back, some photos inside and liner notes.
I bought it a few years after it came out. My friends and I had an early interest in old WWII battleships and the Titanic disaster. As they were then too cheap to take the plunge (no pun) I bought the record and let my friends borrow it from time to time. I had it memorized. I was (and still am) a mimic and have done impressions since I was a kid and I'd often imitate those folks on the album including the narrator much to the delight (or dismay) of friends and family.
There weren't any VINYL records in my early childhood!!!
Only cylinders and 78s.
manderley im sure the ots will allow you 78s.
My 78s were Winifred atwells Piano tuners boogie - to this day the most incredible piano playing ive heard!! And some comedy ones with jerry lee lewis and dean martin cracking gags.
Hey, that horse you sold me is blind. He run smack dab into a brick wall. Hes not blind - he just doesnt care!!
Check this out!! Wini atwell. If link dont work check out on youtube
These things will obviously vary according to age and nationality.
These are some of my childhood LPs that I remember:
Very cool, Thor. It's always interesting to me to see the things that were popular in other countries before the world became more homogenized as well as learning which characters crossed national and cultural borders (such as The Smurfs and Winnie the Pooh).
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