Hey, it's Alan, and I just wanted to let you know that you can now listen to the ongoing

history of new music early and ad-free on Amazon music, included with Prime.

There is a first time for everything. We know who the first man on the moon was. Edmund

Hillary was the first to the top of Mount Everest. The first movie with talking in it was the

jazz singer and so on.

I started thinking about first the other day for some reason, so I started looking things up.

The first McDonald's was in San Bernardino, California. The first guy to literally walk around

the world on foot was a dude named Dave Koonist. It took him four years to walk 14,452 miles. The first person

to be killed in an automobile accident was Bridget Driscoll of Surrey, England. In 1896, she was hit

by a car that was traveling at four miles per hour. And the first porn film, glad you asked,

bedtime for the bride, 1895.

Now, we can get weirder. The first thing ever sold on eBay was a broken laser pointer for $14.

The first video on YouTube is actually still up there. It's called Me at the Zoo.

The first person with a Facebook account outside of the company who

wasn't a friend of Mark Zuckerberg was a guy from India named Sashin Kumar. The more I looked

at famous firsts, the more I started wondering about firsts in music. Who was the first person

to perform on a guitar run through an amplifier? What was the first song downloaded from iTunes?

Who was the first to drop an intentional F-bomb on record? And what was the first song to fade out instead of having a definite

ending? You see where I'm going with this, right? So I started compiling a list of firsts in music,

and then I set out to find some answers, which I did.

Prepare yourself.

This could be the first time you hear about this stuff.

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