2001-01-25 - 23:59:31

And the winner is...

In an earlier entry I mentioned that Lily and I were looking for a song to dub "our song" and I had made an audition tape so she could pick one. I really wasn't hopeful that she'd like anything on the tape. I'd been striking out on all my previous suggestions, and I knew that Lily didn’t much care for most of the music I liked.

Therefore I was doubly astonished when not only did she pick a song on the tape, but she picked the OLDEST song on the tape. I like a lot of music that was made before Lily was born, but this particular song topped the charts nearly ten years before I was born.

Actually, I shouldn’t have been so surprised - I used to hear a lot of Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons playing on her MP3 list.

The version of this song that I like the best was by the vocal group the Duprees and was a hit in 1962. It is also a sort of anachronism - it was a top-ten hit by a doo-wop group when doo-wop was way past its prime.

You Belong To Me

(Pee Wee King/Redd Stewart/Chilton Price)

See the pyramids along the Nile,
Watch the sunrise from a tropic isle,
But remember darling all the while,
You belong to me.

See the market place in old Algiers,
Send me photographs and souvenirs,
But remember when a dream appears,
You belong to me.

I'll be so alone without you,
Maybe you'll be lonely too, and blue.

Fly the ocean in a silver plane,
Watch the jungle when it's wet with rain,
But remember 'til you're home again,
You belong to me.