Semi Detached Suburban Mr James - Manfred Mann and Green Green Grass of Home - Tom Jones.
First records I purchased with my own pocket money, both bought at the same time, I recall it was with Xmas money so my guess is Xmas 66 or early in 1967.
First LP was Tighten Up Volume 2, cost 14s 6d from Woolworth's record department, I couldn't afford the Three quid plus for full price LPs. Although I'm glad that I couldn't afford the higher price records as it hooked me onto reggae, a music form I love to this day.
That was in the days when reggae/blue beat/ska were almost exclusively bought by white working class kids, with the obvious exception of course of West Indian (not Carribean then) community. This was long before reggae became fashionable for the middle classes (and the John Peel set). Which was probably brought about by Bob Marley circa 1974/5. Nothing wrong with the music of Bob Marley - king brilliant in fact - it's just that he had been around for years before being 'discovered' and seen as a respectable form of reggae by the middle classes, including many middle class musicians like Clapton, who found another song writer and genre to pillage for his own purposes.