Cheap Date (1980)

Obscure funk pop Valentine's Day single by Teddy Money and The Pocket Watchers. Teddy wrote this single in 1979 to vent his frustrations with the high cost of going on a Valentine's Day date after living through a short recession with an inflation rate three times higher than the previous two decades. Teddy and The Pocket Watchers had mainstream success for a brief time in the early eighties before the band finally broke up in 1986 after lead singer and band leader Teddy retired from music to work as a writer for Hallmark.