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On 30/07/2013, Donald Clarke wrote: > There's no way to know now, but I would dispute that kids were buying > e.g. Belafonte's big hit albums. 1956 was the year I was 16 and went > to work in a record shop, and kids didn't have enough money for albums > then. But grownups were buying albums, not singles, and that's > increasingly where the money was for the record companies, long before > popcrock pushed evertyhing else off the Billboard chart. > I started buying albums when I first got a Summer job as a student. That would be the Summer before going away to College. I think my first purchase was Krips conducting Beethoven's Eighth, and then Beecham doing the Enigma Variations. An album of "Chicago Style Jazz" with a cover by Ben Shahn and a best of Billie Holiday. Chris Barber. Later on, "Songs for Swinging Lovers", "Such Sweet Thunder", and a few Mercury LPs. This is all around 1960-1. Regards -- Don Cox [log in to unmask]