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First record I ever bought...recommended by my old man who's just bought his first sax and was driving the family crazy.

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Barchullona said:
Remember Bo Diddley had Brian Jones and a couple of other Stones backing him on Saturday Club on a Saturday morning in the days when there were restrictions on how many musicians could come over here to back singers. The Stones were just starting to breakthrough and were overawed to be asked.
Bo Diddley said afterwards how amazed he was that a long haired white boy from,England could pick up what he was doing better, and more quickly, than anyone else he had worked with.

Anyway, it is 1956, on the radio there is Perry Como, Frankie Vaughan, Jimmy Young, Eve Boswell, Vera Lynn, Max Bygrave and Ronnie Hllton
soporifically playing away in the background when this appears like something from a different world-

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Dr.Stanley O'Google said:
There's a thread in there, tc. My first 45 was the Everlys' 'Dream'. Was 'Diana' on a Columbia 78?
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Deffo a 78. Can't recall the label. It'll be still in my sister's attic (I hope).
Once I started collecting records, most of them came from the US as a mate of mine's father was in the Merch and used to bring 'em back from New York for us. That's how Buddy Holly became my favourite singer - and still is.
 
tigerscanada said:
Deffo a 78. Can't recall the label. It'll be still in my sister's attic (I hope).
Once I started collecting records, most of them came from the US as a mate of mine's father was in the Merch and used to bring 'em back from New York for us. That's how Buddy Holly became my favourite singer - and still is.
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First LP I bought was 'Chirpin' Crickets'.
 
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First record I ever bought...recommended by my old man who's just bought his first sax and was driving the family crazy.

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Love the sax. Great on soul music classics from Stax and Atlantic.

One of my favourite bit of sax playing on this classic. I remember Clive James refering to this song when he ended the article he was writing about the early days of rock 'n' roll by saying he could remember rock 'n' roll was new. He could remember when it was exciting. Above all he could remember when it was witty...

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And, talking of saxophones-

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Barchullona said:
Love the sax. Great on soul music classics from Stax and Atlantic.

One of my favourite bit of sax playing on this classic. I remember Clive James refering to this song when he ended the article he was writing about the early days of rock 'n' roll by saying he could remember rock 'n' roll was new. He could remember when it was exciting. Above all he could remember when it was witty...

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And, talking of saxophones-

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It didn't take me too long to appreciate the sax too..dad soon got the hang of it. It was ma who hated it...he played clarinet too, and harmonica, which she always said were more tolerable. The neighbours weren't too happy with either as mother made him practice on his sax in the garden shed.
Sax has played an interesting role in rock music as you say. Springsteen et al come to mind. Loved this piece too:

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Barchullona said:
That fantastic hour of brilliant songs is on BBC4 at 10pm tonight.
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Ps: Watching the Orbison show as we speak. Seen it before on the Beeb, but never tire of The Big O.
 
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