What was the first record you ever spent your pocket money on ?
What was the very first record you spent your pocket money on ? Do you remember ? Back in those far off distant days a 7” vinyl record cost six shillings and nine pence, 6/9d. Don’t ask me what that is in today’s silly plastic money ! Anyway, there I was with six shillings and nine pence in my pocket, metaphorically clutched in my hand as I headed with my Mum on the number 29 ‘bus into Birmingham City Centre there to part with my pocket money cash to buy my very first record. But what was I going to buy ? My mind kept jumping from HATS OFF TO LARRY by Del Shannon and RUBBER BALL by Bobby Vee. I could not make my mind up. There is a bit in Rubber Ball which goes: And like a rubber ball, I come bouncin' back to you Rubber ball, I come bouncin' back to you Bouncy, bouncy, bouncy, bouncy Bouncy, bouncy, bouncy, bouncy Hats and rubber balls were bouncing all over my ten year old brain as I tried to decide which record to buy. Walking into the record department in Bi