I was dancing with my first love that night and to this song, and even though we’re not together any more, this one song plays in my head each New Year’s Eve. Tandy Warwick (four years ago): I have great memories of this song (from) 12-31-70. We stopped at a diner that evening for a snack, and he played this song over and over on the jukebox. Topaz Dupree (one year ago): My husband and I were married September 30, 1961. The proof is in the scores of comments written on the YouTube pages that feature The Lettermen’s version. …I’m not alone in the powerful emotions the song triggers. 1 in the U.S., I don’t know, probably because The Lettermen were unknown before then. 13 on the Billboard Hot 100 singles in the U.S. I was either a freshman or sophomore in high school. Kern wrote it for the 1936 movie “Swing Time,” starring Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire. The song is imbued with a special magic partly because it was written by the great Jerome Kern (1885-1945), with lyrics by Dorothy Fields (1905-1974). But it’s The Lettermen’s version - syrupy, yes, but irresistible, at least for me - that grabs the heart and squeezes ’til it almost cries.
So, it mostly came down to longing and imagining. …I’ve said before that high school was the loneliest period of my life: I was a good Catholic boy, going to an all-boys prep school in Louisville, feeling the rush of desire for contact with girls but not having much idea where to find them or what to do on the rare occasion I did. If you’re a Baby Boomer, like me, that song could well have special appeal for you: It has a rich history of making many a Boomer swoon for a boy or girl…or ache for lack of one. I listened to it several times, then a YouTube list of songs from the same era diverted my attention to Frank Sinatra’s version of “The Way You Look Tonight.” A YouTube search revealed it to be Peggy Lee, who recorded it in 1964.įantastic song… Listen…I love the opening three lines… Several days ago, something triggered in my head the old song “I’ve Got Your Number.” I couldn’t quite remember who did it - or, more correctly, whose version was going through my head. Such was the way I landed on a great oldie by The Lettermen, “The Way You Look Tonight.”
Sometimes I start with one song in mind and then meander to others, finally settling on one. And being a hopeless romantic (and kid at heart), I tend to home in on some of those great droopy-drawers songs from the early ’60s. On days like this - housebound by heat, just hangin’ around - I often entertain myself by going to YouTube and listening to oldies.
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