Strabo Posted March 26, 2004 Share Posted March 26, 2004 I picked up a Beethoven Violin Concerto today for $1 that has a copy write of 1981, made in Japan for EMI. I think this has to be the oldest CD in my collection. What is your oldest CD? Does anyone know what was the first CD created for resale, or a link to that info? That would be interesting. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Strabo Posted March 26, 2004 Author Share Posted March 26, 2004 Ok, that got me digging some more. Found a Fleetwood Mac Rumours WEA Target dated 1977 in my collection. And a DSOTM EMI Japaneese black triangle disc that I borrowed from a friend that is dated 1973. Man I feel old. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LarryC Posted March 26, 2004 Share Posted March 26, 2004 edit Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LarryC Posted March 26, 2004 Share Posted March 26, 2004 Oops, I think I misunderstood. The recordings are late '50s, the CDs made later. Sorry Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Parrot Posted March 26, 2004 Share Posted March 26, 2004 The copyright just refers to the date of the recording. CD players didn't come out until 1983. (1982 for Japan and parts of Europe.) There were 10 CDs in the first wave of releases, if I remember correctly, and I may not. They were available only at high-end audio dealers who carried the first CD player, a Sony, which retailed for $1500? $2500? Whatever price it was, it was too high. I bought a CD player in 1984, when prices had dropped considerably. By then there was already a record store that catered to CD buyers, just 70 miles away. They'd get every title that came out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
garymd Posted March 26, 2004 Share Posted March 26, 2004 I have a Mozart "Great Performances" CD from 1982. The actual performance was in 1962. It's a German CD from CBS Records and says "CBS Inc. (Not for U.S.)." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Strabo Posted March 26, 2004 Author Share Posted March 26, 2004 ---------------- On 3/26/2004 8:41:30 PM paulparrot wrote: The copyright just refers to the date of the recording. CD players didn't come out until 1983. (1982 for Japan and parts of Europe.) ---------------- That makes sense. And raises the question of when they started puting a new copy write on each version of a release. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GRB Posted March 26, 2004 Share Posted March 26, 2004 Strabo, better call your friend and tell him you just remembered you borrowed his CD and you will return it to him over the weekend! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lynnm Posted March 26, 2004 Share Posted March 26, 2004 My earliest is Avalon by Roxy Music (ca. 1982) which I bought at the same time as I purchased my first CD player which was a Sony CDP-1 ( Still have the little beggar and use it for my porch system during the few days per year/falling on a weekend here in Sunny Alberta suitable for outdoor listening). This province is known as Sunny Alberta because we can rightly lay claim in the southern portion to more hours of sunlight annually than most places in the world. That said a sunny -30 noonhour in mid-January will still freeze the balls off of a brass monkey espescially if there is a breeze. Thanks for the wakeup - I'm going to give Avalon a spin tonight. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
3dzapper Posted March 26, 2004 Share Posted March 26, 2004 The first CD I ever bought was the Rolling Stones "Sticky Fingers" I don't remember what year it was and the only date on the CD is the original copyright year, 1971. It was sometime in the early eighties that I bought it. It has been played so few times it's almost a virgin. No wait it is a Virgin label. Rick Edit: Lynn LMAO!!!!!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tubeglow Posted March 26, 2004 Share Posted March 26, 2004 Graceland by Paul Simon...used it to show people that vinyl rules and CD's are for fools...(just kidding, please no flames)...CDs have come a long ways, as have CD players...In 1982, CDs were, if I remember correctly, about $40 a pop, players were about $1000 a pop and didn't sound all that great,IMO. Mark Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daddy Dee Posted March 26, 2004 Share Posted March 26, 2004 Pachebel - Canon in D Purchased with my first CD player in 1984. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jdm56 Posted March 26, 2004 Share Posted March 26, 2004 $40 CD's??? The first ones I bought were in '84, the same day I bought my first player. (A $450 Sony, w/o remote, that today could be eclipsed in performance and features by a sub $100 machine.) I bought ten discs, and remember paying $22.99 for most titles. Among which was, um, let's see: "Hotel California" by the Eagles, and "Romeo & Juliet", "The Nutcracker" and "1812 Overture", all on Telarc. Beyond that, memory gets a bit fuzzy. I'd have to look through my collection to make sure, but I think Billy Joels "52nd Street", "Born In The USA", by Springsteen, and Fleetwood Mac's "Rumours" may have been in that first batch, too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ray Garrison Posted March 26, 2004 Share Posted March 26, 2004 In early 1984 I bought a Hitachi DA1000 CD player from Tech HiFi in Fairfield, CT. This was one of those first generation players that loaded the disc vertially, sort of like a cassette cartridge in a boom box. I bought a Denon demo CD with recordings of jet airliners, synthesized strings (ranging up to the length of the Golden Gate Bridge), babbling brooks and similar stuff. I still have it around here somewhere, don't know the exact name. I think it was stamped in 1983. Player lasted about 6 hours before it broke. Took it back and got it exchanged for a Hitachi DA600. That was actually a pretty nice player. Friend of mine still uses it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
prodj101 Posted March 27, 2004 Share Posted March 27, 2004 a friend of mine has the very first sony cd player made, he still uses it in one of his systems. very interesting looking Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IndyKlipschFan Posted March 27, 2004 Share Posted March 27, 2004 James beat me to it.. First USA CD release was Billy Joels "52nd Street" I have 2 copies...one still in the plastic too.. Funny thing about a LOT of these first few releases was they were recordings off of the records. (Not of the tapes themselves..LOL.) You even heard the needle drop in some cases..LOL. By this, I also mean if it had a pop on the LP it also popped on the CD. Something quite funny to "re-hear" today on a CD. Most unfortunantly, when they first started tweeking with them, really sounded harsh and terrible too!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tubeglow Posted March 27, 2004 Share Posted March 27, 2004 Doug, In 1982, I was working and living in Europe, so the price of the Cd invasion may have been a little steep over there. Prices didn't really come down much until about 1986. Mark. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
krustyoldsarge Posted March 27, 2004 Share Posted March 27, 2004 Virgil Fox: the Digital Fox copyright 1983. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Strabo Posted March 27, 2004 Author Share Posted March 27, 2004 ---------------- On 3/26/2004 11:14:16 PM Ray Garrison wrote: I bought a Denon demo CD with recordings of jet airliners, synthesized strings (ranging up to the length of the Golden Gate Bridge), babbling brooks and similar stuff. I still have it around here somewhere, don't know the exact name. I think it was stamped in 1983. ---------------- Interesting, I picked up a couple of old Denon CD's at the sale yesterday but didn't buy them since the music didn't interest me that much. Maybe I should have brought them home. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DRBILL Posted March 27, 2004 Share Posted March 27, 2004 DIE GROSSE SILBERMANNORGEL DES DOMES ZU FREIBURG, Hans Otto, organist. DENON C37-7004, 1982. It is a Japanese issue. Notes in Japanese and German. Price: ¥3,800. DR BILL Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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