ABSTRACT
Before rock’n’roll, that song seemed to sum up what pop music was all about. It was certainly tuneful, but mostly it was sentimental music for adults to feel at home with. Of course there were children’s songs, like ‘Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer’ and ‘How Much Is That Doggie In The Window?’ But if you were a teenager leaving school, earning money for the first time, and wanting to go out and spend it on enjoying yourself, there was no music which you could really call your own. The Top Twenty was full of slow ballads, string orchestras and sing-along novelty songs like ‘Where Will The Dimple Be?’ and ‘I See The Moon’ (‘the moon sees me' was the next line!).
