{"id":896,"date":"2009-06-24T17:44:00","date_gmt":"2009-06-24T21:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/keenerpodcast.com\/?p=896"},"modified":"2009-06-24T17:44:00","modified_gmt":"2009-06-24T21:44:00","slug":"first-45-and-favorite-45","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/keener13.org\/?p=896","title":{"rendered":"First 45 and Favorite 45?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Our post about the birthday of the LP elicited some great feedback on Facebook. I asked for the name of the first LP you ever bought. I got a lot of great answers, including one from Mike Smock, who said, “LP’s? how about 45’s? – CCR – Down on the Corner\/Fortunate Son.”<\/p>\n

That spurred me to open one of the many, many boxes of 45s that have sat, untouched, in my garage over the last three moves. What a wave of memories that generated!<\/p>\n

So what was your first 45 purchase ever? And how about your favorite 45 of all time?<\/p>\n

The first 45 I bought was Chubby Checker<\/a>‘s “Limbo Rock”. It wasn’t what I had intended to buy. I knew what the song I wanted sounded like, but didn’t know the title, so, being just seven years old, I picked the 45 that looked like the most likely candidate. Of course I was wrong.<\/p>\n

Favorite 45? There are three that I still cherish as much as the day I bought them.<\/p>\n

Free<\/a> – All Right Now<\/a>: This was a DJ record that came with two mixes, a short and long version. The guitar bridge before the final chorus pans from left to right and back again in a call-and-response that builds to and explosive climax. When my buddy John Schumacher bought the album, I thought I’d get it, too. But I discovered that the album version was a total re-record and had none of the punch of the single. Sadly the album mix<\/a> is all that we hear now days and generations assume it’s the real deal. Look deep at the Free catalog over at Rhapsody and you may find the original single version.<\/p>\n

B.J. Thomas<\/a> – Rock n Roll Lullabye<\/a>: Another DJ record with two versions. The Beach Boy background vocals are dead-on and the stereo mix is head-phone perfect. The long version has a 35 second intro with Fender Rhodes and vibes that is un-paralleled. I actually had two copies and wore out one of em, listening through my David Clarks on the good old Sony stereo in our living room.<\/p>\n

Everything is Everything – Wichi-Tai-To<\/a>: Jim Pepper<\/a>, the Native American sax player who is behind the band Everything is Everything was the inspiration for this one hit peyote laced wonder on the Vanguard label. It’s a mono mix and didn’t do much on the charts, but it inspired a ton of others to record it, including an extended riff on the Brewer and Shipley Weeds LP<\/a>. I did an Internet search a few years back and found eleven different versions, from jazz fusion to the Harpers Bizzare.<\/p>\n

Got a first 45 \/ favorite 45 recollection? Share it with us!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Our post about the birthday of the LP elicited some great feedback on Facebook. I asked for the name of the first LP you ever bought. I got a lot of great answers, including one from Mike Smock, who said, “LP’s? how about 45’s? – CCR – Down on the Corner\/Fortunate Son.” That spurred me to open one of the many, many boxes of 45s that have sat, untouched, in my garage over the last three moves. What a wave of memories that generated! So what was your first 45 purchase ever? And how about your favorite 45 of all…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-keener","wpcat-2-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/keener13.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/896","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/keener13.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/keener13.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keener13.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keener13.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=896"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/keener13.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/896\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":908,"href":"https:\/\/keener13.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/896\/revisions\/908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/keener13.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keener13.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keener13.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}