"Dan The Dairy Man was the flip side. My mother (from Liverpool) never appeared to be phased by the lyrics, which to her generation, must have been a bit risqué.
I was given that record along with a stack of 78 rpm's accompanied by a Decca portable clockwork gramophone by a great aunt. I still have those 78's and the clockwork gramophone.
For the youngsters, 78 rpm's were mostly eithrer 10 or 12 inch diameter disks made of shellac that would break if you dropped them. They would not play in a CD player, you needed a turntable and needles and things.
Playing records was rather a ritual: You had to wind up the player after every record and you were supposed to change the steel needle also.This was the start of my life long love of music. By the time I was 5, I had become a little more sophisticated and my favourite was the Barcarolle by Offenbach.
How about you, do you recall your very first favourite record?
Nigel²
. I was first inroduced to 'music' a) by my great aunts with their wind-up playing Gilbert & Sullivan and b) my brother-in-law playing early American big-band jazz - much more like it 
If memory serves "Midnight in Moscow" was done by Kenny Ball and his Jazzmen. Acker Bilk was famous for "Stranger On The Shore" Both are British Artists. Kenny Ball reached #2 on the US charts and Acker Bilk was the first British artist on the US Bilboard charts to have a #1 hit. I suppose that makes him the vanguard of the British Invasion.
You're bang on mate. My nan had both records and I remember playing DJ at christmas on her GUS Stereogram 
