And Then He Kissed Me/The Crystals
Bobby’s Girl/Marcy Blaine
Popsicles and Icicles/The Murmaids
All of the songs were about love except for Jan and Dean with their car songs and the Beach Boys with their car and surfboard songs.
I fell for the “wall of sound” stuff from Phil Spector. It’s fantastic to listen to; one of my favorites, other than Be My Baby, is And Then He Kissed Me by the Crystals.
Bobby’s Girl was a “one-hit wonder.” It came at the same time that I was embroiled in major crush on–yes, a boy named Bobby.
Popsicles and Icicles is considered the best girl group song before the British Invasion. It’s simple, really. A list of the things that a boy and girl in love have in common, things they like to do that make up their world.
I get a tender feeling around my heart when I occasionally hear this song. It reminds me of a boy of whom I was extremely, intensely fond because we had stuff we loved to do, and we had a world of our own also.
I’m trying to write about the Music I Love before the Beach Boys and the Beatles but I can’t put it off forever. I’m just scared–the music was so BIG, so overwhelming. Where to start? It’s like compiling a musical score for your own life. But I will start here. A friend of mine, Rita Shore, asked me during the summer of 1963 if I had heard this song on the radio called “I Want To Hold Your Hand” by a brand new group called the Beatles. And the world was never the same, was it?
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