Your First Vinyl Album.

Mine was the double live 'Around The World With Three Dog Night' that my grandmother couldn't resist buying me on a shopping outing when I was 11 . Still remains my favorite of the group and the sleeve is perhaps one of the most nicely packaged in my collection. Never get tired of this one. The live performances of these tracks totally blow away the studio versions - great stuff.

"That'll Be The Day"

Buddy Holly's third (and last) studio album on Coral Records.

Still sounds terrific.

It was "Meet the Beatles" (in Mono) and I was 9 years old!
I played that album on the family's webcor stereo until the grooves were worn out.

The Rolling Stones - Exiles on Main Street

It's interesting that after 52 posts in this thread, and probably upwards of 100 performers mentioned, by my count there are exactly 0 female groups and 2 female soloists mentioned (Connie Francis, Joni James), and exactly 1 mixed group that had prominent female members (Fleetwood Mac). And there are 0 classical recordings.

I don't know what all of that signifies, if anything, but the statistics certainly seem striking.

Regards,
-- Al