This one's an odd one because it's not one I liked until recently.
When this came out just before my 12th birthday, I can remember hating it because I thought he'd ruined Paul Anka's original (which I had).
On top of that, I hated that girls thought I looked like him. You have to remember I was only young and hadn't discovered the delights of girls properly yet, so didn't realise I could have taken advantage of it. I used to get so annoyed when I was told I looked like him. (Shame I don't look like him now. He's worn decidedly better than I have)
Fast forward to 1993. I'm doing a show on Hospital Radio in Weymouth. It was a hot summer's day and I'm in the studio. In between records, I'm looking through the record racks (no playlists back then, just pick and play.). As I'm flicking through the singles, I see this.
I hadn't heard it in 15-20 years and wondered whether I thought it sounded any better, so I put the record on the deck, cued it up and prepared to play it.
I started to talk about how I hated it when it was new and that I hadn't heard it in years, so thought I'd see how I felt about it today.
I think I lasted around 30 seconds before I stopped it, apologised for playing as I still thought it was awful, took the record off the deck and frisbeed it straight out of the open studio window whilst telling listeners that they'd never have to hear it again during their stay!
The funny thing is as the years have moved on, this little event has caused me to warm to the single. When I hear it, it never fails to make me laugh, and for that reason alone, it deserves to be part of the music of my life!
Lol. Never knew hospitals had live DJ radio anywhere. I'd like that as a job...
ReplyDeleteGlad you took it off, were probably killing patients by the second!