I'll start mine was "Bodhisattva"
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LOL, Mine was an 8-track tape of Kenny Rogers, The Gambler was the song:
I installed the 8-track player in the glove box myself. To my parents dismay, I didn’t tell them or ask for permission. I was operating under the “better to ask forgiveness…” principle… HEH, they ended up using it quite a bit, so all’s well that ends well.
Edit: forgot to add it was Toyota Corolla, my sisters worked together to total it a few months after I installed the 8-track, one hit a curb the other got rear ended when she short stopped a stop sign,which bent the frame.
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Whatever was playing on the radio. My 1963 1/2 Ford Galaxy 500 XL convertible didn’t have an 8-track or cassette player. That was December 1963. This, with wire wheel covers and fender skirts, 390 cid, 4 barrel carb, automatic. Interior was white vinyl, top was black. That was a crazy 16th birthday present from my dad. 
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It was late at night and i was so knocked out by the sound I had to pull over and listen to the whole of the album before travelling home.
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1981, 19 years old in a Talbot Simca 1100Ti. Bought it with a friend who drove it total-loss three months later after a night shift at his holiday job.
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Late December Jim? Oh, What a night! 
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Got my driver’s license on my 16th birthday, December 10, 1963. Got stopped for speeding on the way home but didn’t get a ticket. My mom talked the NC state trooper out of giving me a ticket. Took my first solo drive that evening. Had my first date (a blind date) with my current (and only) wife 11 days later. Typing this from my 101 year old MIL’s home just now. Life is good.
I don’t even remember if that car had AM or AM/FM, but I think it was AM/FM.
I prefer “Oh What A Night” by the Dells. My band used to play that.
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Great story Jim. You’re a good man. 
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Well I had a Vauxhall Nova with a throbbing 993cc engine and a Blaupunkt stereo when I passed my test.
I’m not 100% sure but it’s highly likely the album I played on my first solo drive was this
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Whatever was on FM radio stations WGTB, Georgetown University and WHFS from Bethesda MD in my '62 VW Beetle.
Good stuff.
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Siouxsie and the Banshees - Once Upon A Time: The Singles
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I don’t know for sure, but I passed my driving test at 19 after having a motorcycle for three years. That makes it October 1983.
Therefore, I’d put money on it being Genesis, recorded on to tape from vinyl.
From my journal …
It was a bright and sunny one Friday morning, October 1983, when I set off on a journey to the farm. I’d not long passed my driving test and bought a Mark II Escort from a friend. This trip would be a test. An adventure. And a rite of passage.
A few days earlier, I called Arthur and Norma Huxtable and booked a room at Lower Chilcott Farm. They were delighted to hear from me, and more so because I was making the journey alone.
Booted with new tyres, washed and polished, and fitted with new seat covers, the car, my mellow yellow locomote, was ready for its first sojourn to the West County.
Probably Top Gear Vol 1 (ie music used in the BBC series of the same name). Or Richard Marx “Rush Street”. The early 90s…What a time. In a 1.0 Austin Metro, It struggled to go uphill without a tail wind. No power steering, no heated mirrors or seats, no air con. But it was my pride and joy until some bstrd stole it.
Probably I concentrated on driving and traffic on my first solo drive on the highway. 
My dad didn’t believe in paying for anything more than AM radio in our family cars, so my memory is a lot more like @Suedkiez’s…
(Wow, I guess that is a sign of my age…)
OK who can beat getting a speeding ticket for “air conducting” Beethoven’s Fifth down the hill outside the police station
My first car was a Ford Anglia , didn’t have a radio so it was a portable cassette machine circa1969 so lots of Zeppelin