To think I'm 'too cool for school..' [grin]

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Basically because the first music single I ever bought was
'Silver Lady' by David Soul. If one looked into other records I had at the time my collection would include:
'Under the Moon of Love' - Showaddywaddy
'Combine Harvester' - Wurzels
'Minuetto Allegretto' - Wombles!!

Why don't we get that diversity of acts and songs these days?

Ooooh I loved David Soul, “don’t give up on us baby” what a tune that was!
And what about the Wurzels? “I am a cider drinker I drinks all me troubles away” yes I can relate to that one

My first album was the Wombles... I used to dance round round the room to the sound of Uncle Bulgaria.

Haha - back then seems like a different world.

Back in the war.......

My first single was big fun 'can't shake the feeling'. Happy days.

I had ABBA singles bought for me, but the first one I bought myself was Belfast by Boney M.

I’m guessing you’re about the same age as me, OP (52). I had all these too. Along with Baccara’s Yes Sir I Can Boogie and ABBA’s I’m A Marionette.

I think I had Brown Girl in the Ring and Rivers of Babylon by Boney M

AgentProvocateur - not far off I'm 47!!

My first single was a cassette tape as a birthday present. Timmy mallets 'itsy bitsy, teeny weeny, yellow polka dot bikini'.

If I remember right, the first cassette I bought with my own money was Peter Andres 'mysterious girl'.

I had Bye Bye Baby by the Bay City Rollers as my first purchase. I didn't even have to go to the shops for it because our next door neighbour owned a record shop.
I also had Abba stationery that my dad got for me while on a business trip to Sweden.
I was so cool I was freezing.

Oooh I bought that too (well, my parents did). I think the first record I asked for was My CooCaChoo by Alvin Stardust.

David Soul has just been a question on Pop Master!

We were in the most incredibly lucky position that my Mum's job entailed emptying the money from fruit machines in pubs. But she also changed the records in the juke boxes in those pubs too.

Every Friday night she would come home from the depot with the latest hit records. We had to insert a plastic middle so that it would fit on our radiogram spindle as juke boxes needed the wide hole. We would stack up 6 records at a time, plug in our tape recorder which had a cable that plugged into the record player and we would record them.

It was a step up from recording off the radio and trying to pause before the DJ spoke.

When the records were removed from the juke boxes to make way for the new ones we could buy them at a really discounted price. That was how we started our shared record collection at home. Ah, the 80s. Good times.

Right Fit - Fantasy Island was mine!

Tight fit

iklboo - ah I forgot its the all day quiz today!!