Your first 7" single

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Maybe something for the older. I was listening to this the other day and it did bring back a lot of nostalgia, and also showed how much those old 7" singles meant at a time before downloading became the fashion.
7" of Joy: The Single at 75
and it got me thinking to the first single I bought. I was about 7 at the time and it was The Monkees Last Train to Clarksville.

Anybody remember what their first purchase was?
 
My music choices back in the early 70’s were a bit eclectic. First album, the Planets suite by Gustav Holst, followed by Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon. First single, Silly Love Songs by McCartney.
 
Don't think I ever actually bought one. The first I owned were stolen from my sister - I Don't Like Mondays and Message In A Bottle.
40 odd years later, I'll occasionally hear them on the radio and can still remember the exact points where they used to stick or jump a groove.
 
My first what??

I had some cassette tapes when I was young. I remember having Oasis - What's the Story Morning Glory and Blur - The Great Escape on cassette. I guess I was a double agent. 😄 Also had Del Amitri - Waking Hours on cassette, which came out in 1989 so I must have got it a few years after that in the mid 90s.

Those were albums though of course. The only single I seem to remember owning (on cassette again) was Soul Asylum - Runaway Train, for some reason!

I didn't buy any of these myself though, I was only about 10 years old. By the time I was old enough to buy albums with my own money, the internet was already a thing so I never would have bought a 'single'. Just CD albums.
 
"Apache" by the Shadows. Showing my age
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Mine was also The Shadows - in this case Shazam! Must have been about 7 years old.
Curiously, I just looked it up and it seems that Shazam was the B-side to Geronimo, but I always thought it was the A-side.
 
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