What was the first record you ever owned?

When I was a little boy, my father came home with a little portable record player - the kind that folded closed and that you could carry around like a suitcase - the kind where you had to put a penny or maybe two on the tone arm to stop the record from skipping. That day, my father also brought me a 78 to play on that record player. It was Ernest Tubb's I'm walking the floor over you, recorded in 1942. I played it over and over and over and over. In retrospect, it was odd that my dad would have brought home a country record for me. He was a jazz hound from way back, and he used to play sax and clarinet in dance bands.