This was the very first record I bought with my own money. ( and I do mean record it was a 45″ vinyl ) in June 1963. I was about 10yrs old and I had saved up for months. I think, no I am sure it was 6 shillings and 9pennies in old money which is circa 34pence in today’s money .
The shop I bought it from was an old corner shop halfway between my home and my school…… well it was if you took a slight detour! I went in every day to see if he had the record in for a fortnight and then when it was in I went in three days running to make sure he was saving me a copy because I could not buy it until I had that week’s pocket money. He must of got really fed up with me.
Anyway when I did finally g0t my hands on my copy of Come On I rushed home to play it on our old Dansette record player ( well my sister’s and brother’s had been using it to death before me). I played it and played it on repeat until Mum and Dad asked me to STOP!
So here it is my first ever record purchase Come On by The Rolling Stone’s , written by Chuck Berry.
“Come On” (originally by Chuck Berry)
Everything is wrong since me and my baby parted
All day long I’m walkin’ ’cause I couldn’t get my car started
Laid off from my job and I can’t afford to check it
I wish somebody’d come along and run into it and wreck itCome on, since me and my baby parted
Come on, I can’t get started
Come on, I can’t afford to check
I wish somebody’d come along and run into it and wreck it
Everything is wrong since I’ve been without you
Ev’ry night I lay awake thinkin’ about you
Ev’ry time the phone rings it sounds like thunder
Some stupid guy try’n’ to reach another number
Come on, since I’ve been without you
Come on, always thinkin’ about you
Come on, phone sounds like thunder
Some stupid guy try’n’ to reach another number
Everything is wrong since I last saw you, baby
I really wanna see you and I don’t mean maybe
I’m doin’ ev’rything try’n’ to make you see
That I belong to you, hon, and you belong to me
Come on, I wanna see you, baby
Come on, I don’t mean maybe
Come on, I’m try’n’ to make you see
That I belong to you and you belong to me
Come on, I gotta see you, baby
Come on, I don’t mean maybe
Come on, I’ve gotta make you see
That I belong to you and you belong to me
Female, wife, full time mother and Grandmother. I am not as happy go lucky as I used to be but I am still bubbling along on simmer! I have three handsome sons all grown and flown.The youngest married with a beautiful wife and two sons of his own. Eleven years ago I was working, running a home, driving and socializing then bang in a split second all that was gone. I had an accident at home. I broke my back, not for the first time, I had broken it 10 years previously as well. Unfortunately this time I had broken it really badly and it was truly messed up so I had to have two operations. I was told before each operation that the outcome could mean I spend the rest of my life in a wheelchair. Still as some guy once wrote "I am still standing " yes "better than I ever was " not quite but with the help of a walking stick and as long as I do not stand or sit in one position for too long, I am still standing! Update I no longer use the walking stick . I had lots of friends before the accident but when things like this happen, you loose most of them. Their lives move on and mine stood still and so they left me behind ...I know that is just the way life is but it hurt and always will. Then I looked around and saw those who were still there for me, these friends are the roses in my garden they need to be tended well. They are the diamonds in the dust, I will of been married 50yrs plus this year . Pain and boredom are my enemies now, I have to find different ways to approach life, use my pain befriend it almost...yer right , well that is what they tell me at the pain clinic ROFLMAO ...... if only I could! I have found an outlet for my fears, frustrations and night terrors . I have started writing poetry if that name can be applied to my writing. I hope I do not come over as a moaning winger. I hope I am past all that. I also hope that you might see how the poetry is moving from very dark through the grey and
hopefully in to light ??
I need to update this a little here. I have worked very hard over the years since my accident, I go to the gym regularly, I have a Pilates class and a core class once a week . The guys at the gym and my Pilates teacher cajoled, teased, bullied and encouraged me to abandon my walking stick! :) My back is no longer straight it is C shaped because of the injury and I have lost two and a half inches in height but my Pilates and Core teachers have helped me to stand up as straight and as strongly as possible. Pain and depression are still hanging on my arm but I have weapons to use against them and if I say so myself I cope well.
I have made lots of new friends, real diamonds. I am also very grateful for all the support and help I have encountered here on Wordpress. Hugs and welcome to everyone who visits.
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Those were different times! I grew up in the eighties for the most part but even then things were so different. Now the kids can just download songs. No waiting. These kind of memories are so special. Thanks for sharing, Willow.
I’ve never been a huge Rolling Stones fan… (Runs and hides from all the people booing) But I listened and it was fun and catchy. I can see why you waited and saved. 🙂
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Love it. Happy Sunday.
Me too!!
Those were different times! I grew up in the eighties for the most part but even then things were so different. Now the kids can just download songs. No waiting. These kind of memories are so special. Thanks for sharing, Willow.
I’ve never been a huge Rolling Stones fan… (Runs and hides from all the people booing) But I listened and it was fun and catchy. I can see why you waited and saved. 🙂
I loved the Stones and the Yardbirds, I always saved for all my records and I appreciated them all and still do those that I still have !! 🙂