The Beginning

Trying to remember the earliest additions and beginnings of my vinyl record collection, over fifty years ago ....

• The Bee Gees - Best of The Bee Gees (1969) .... Before their disco days.
• Neil Diamond - Touching You Touching Me (1969)
• Tommy James and The Shondells .... I don't recall the title. It became a victim of being left sitting where the rays of the sun could shine on the black vinyl for an extended period of time. 
• The Association - Greatest Hits (1968)
• Donovan - The Hurdy Gurdy Man (1968) .... Memories circa 1969 of Catholic school, seventh grade, early morning before classes started and the teacher playing Atlantis on the class record player.
• Neil Young - After the Goldrush (1970)
• Rolling Stones - Through the Past Darkly: Big Hits Volume 2 (1969) .... I recall hearing, Ruby Tuesday, and She's a Rainbow and wondering: "There's a volume one?"

There must be one or two others that I'm overlooking. It's only been fifty-two years, so maybe that's to be expected.

After the Goldrush was a transitional point in my collecting ways. Vinyl became increasingly serious after this. I wanted more than the greatest hits. I began to listen to friends' records, frequent local record stores, read Rolling Stone magazine and listen to FM radio and less AM radio and top 40 hits. It was a great time to be starting out in record collecting.