I loved Donny and Marie, Sonny and Cher AND Captain and Tennille.
I had Captain and Tennille dolls. They came with 2 cardboard cutout bulldogs.
I still have the first TV that was mine, purchased in 94-95. I had a rebuilt tuner put in about 10 years ago and it works great. My "still works" syndrome is possibly a little overactive. The CD and cassette player portions of my stereo quit working long ago, but I can hook up my iPod... except now my iPod doesn't work. I've just adjusted to listening to music through computer speakers.
I am boggled by the stats breakdown on that Jeopardy site. That's a lot of interest in a game show.
Yeah, someone's obsessed with everything.
The first album I bought with my own money was Captain and Tennille's Greatest Hits.
-t, we had that 8-track.
I'm pretty sure the first record I paid my own money for was "Grease". Or Dolly Parton's greatest hits.
The first album I ever bought myself was a double-cassette: Depeche Mode 101 & 102
ETA: But first single I ever bought was "1999."
Gah - the mosque behind our building is having some kind of party for their school and so there are a TON of screaming kids out on the roof deck. The noise isn't the problem. The problem is that the roof deck is *right* outside my kids' bedroom window, and so I keep thinking I hear D or A crying, when actually it's just the party. SO INCREDIBLY ANNOYING.
The first 45 I bought with my own money was "I Love Rock 'N Roll" by Joan Jett and the Blackhearts. At JC Penney. First album: The Go-Go's.
I guess the first album I bought was Duran Duran, "Seven and the Ragged Tiger." No idea what the first 45 was, but I loved the blue "True Blue" (Madonna) record.