I spent significant amounts of time with my grandparents who retired to Chetek, Wisconsin. This song transports me to a summer I spent with them, pining over a boy upon whom I had a crush while eying a couple of other guys in a bar.
I’ve had some fun finding versions of this song online, although the version I remember was Bobby Vinton, I cannot find him just singing this song (in 1972 or whenever he recorded it). Although there is a video of a depressingly old Vinton singing it along with other songs. Like a medley. Of old love songs.
I did however find a cover by Brian Hyland from 1966.
Interested parties may also want to check out this song covered by Sam Hui, Agnethe, Gary Lewis and the Playboys, Jordan McCoy, Bird, a cute little girl, a guy on a cruise and some random woman.
Then there were the homemade music videos.
And it was even a movie!
It’s the Brian Hyland version I remember. I was 12 and crazy about that evil heartbreaker Diane.
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I love this song. True [embarrassing] confessions: I had a cover of it on a Paper Lace album. I was really young, OK?
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Indigo Click here
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CW: Cool! I hadn’t heard that in almot 30 years!
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I meant almost, of course.
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