In 1957 I would change a shilling piece (a bib bit) into 4 threepenny bits, go to an arcade near Cleethorpes Station and always play;Ready Teddy by Buddy Holly, Tutti Frutti by Little Richard, Come Go With Me by the Del Vikings and I'm Not A Juvenile DElinquent by Frankie Lymon and the Teenagers. In the spring of 1960 the girl next door and her friends (headscarves, white macs and stilettos) asked me if I wanted to go to "Tin Pan", a small grubby corner of a larger arcade "on the prom",with a bench round and a Jukebox. Red River Rock was out by Johnny and the Hurricanes, which I liked, but the real treats were two singles on the London Label by Chuck berry; Little Queenie and Let It Rock. I'd never really heard Berry before but he became a quest as his records weren't that common in England.
Later I got a holiday job as change boy and mechanic in the"Humber" arcade. This place was quite long with a jukebox at either end, Helen Shapiro's Please Don't Treat me Like A Child was played incessantly and as I was stuck there from 9am till 9pm I got to dread the bloody thing. I once actually got on my knees and begged a family of trippers not to play it. They did, naturally.Happy days.