At the time of release in 1968 I could not afford to buy this record at the time, by the time I had the money to buy it it had been deleted, I had hoped that a copy would turn up at one of the second hand record shops in the Arcade in Kingston (alas long gone), but I never found a copy, in 1969 there was a series of Pop Proms at the Royal Albert Hall starting June 29th, the first concert featured Liverpool Scene, Blodwyn Pig & Led Zeppelin, I had just started as an apprentice a few weeks before and had little money but I brought a ticket for the afternoon performance, they did not do Son Son, while there I was offered a ticket for the evening session, if I had brought it I would have had to walk home about 13 miles, and I didn't fancy that, after the concert I caught the Green Line Bus home, how many people remember Green Line Buses, the record remained in my memory for years. I was an early user of eBay I started my account to buy a fishing reel, but soon started buying records, I found one dealer who had acquired the vinal 45's from a number of American Radio Stations, I was getting the pick of the records as the type of records I was collecting, I was the only one buying them, this record had not surfaced at any of the Boot Sales so I put it on my wants list on eBay, a few months later a copy was listed, I put on my watch list and waited to put my bid in, on checking with couple of days to go on the auction it was well over what I was prepared to pay, the record went for just shy of £100, I didn't think I would ever own a copy at that price, a second copy came along in due course this sold in the £60 bracket, each successive copy made less, then one day a copy was listed with a start price of £3 with a No PayPal declaration, I thought that's the one to go for, I won the action for the start price.
There was a link from 45Cat to my recording of this record but was lost when the original blog was closed.
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