Daily Comic Journal: January 11, 2016: “The Man Who Fell To Earth – Just Left It.”
I couldn’t pass up the opportunity to show, right here, a scan of the actual ’45 single cover from that first record I ever bought.
Now this is a reissue of “Space Oddity”. The original US single was released in 1969 with the “B” Side being “Wild Eyed Boy from Freecloud”. I was 8 years old in 1969 and wasn’t buying records, but three years later when they reissued the single (with the much better, IMO, “B” Side , “The Man Who Sold the World”) I was old enough to start buying my own music.
If you look closely at this image, you’ll especially get a kick out of the price tag which points out that I bought this record at K-Mart and paid 66¢!
Oh, and for all the sticklers out there. Yes, I cheated on the lyrics. The actual lyrics for that part of the song goes:
This is Ground Control to Major Tom
You’ve really made the grade
And the papers want to know whose shirts you wear
Now it’s time to leave the capsule if you dare
Yes, I skipped over that third line. Because I didn’t have enough room to place all four lines and I thought it ended better if I ended with the “capsule” line.
The first record I bought was from Murphy’s in downtown Irwin.
Takin’ care of business. BTO….
We already had a bunch of 45s from my Aunt Julie; some Chuck Berry, Fats Domino, and Herb Alpert. (She wouldn’t gI’ve up her Elvis records…. but BTO was the first one that I bought with paper route money.