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| From | "Jake Beamer" <overlookedcreations1@hotmail.com> |
| Subject | Dion. Favorite songs. |
| Date | Fri, 03 Sep 2004 15:06:25 -0400 |
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That IS a really good song.
And I just realized that I MUST OWN the Dion box set. For that one, and a
billion others.
Jake Beamer
Producer, project manager
OverlookedCreations.com
>
>Growing up in England, every now and then I'd hear something on the radio
>that knocked my socks off but turned out to be hard to find on record.
>"Pretty Ballerina" was one of those - so was "Solitary Man", the first song
>I ever heard by Neil Diamond. But the song that eluded me for years - to
>the extent that I was beginning to wonder if I had imagined the whole thing
>- was "My Girl the Month of May" by Dion.
>
>Over time, I asked many many people about this song - radio DJs, people in
>the music business, obsessed fans of 60s music - and nobody knew what I was
>talking about. I couldn't remember too much of it either - just the line
>about the month of May and the way the background vocals came in "ba ba ba
>ba ba baa ba ba baa" (if you know the song you'll know what I'm talking
>about) - which didn't help ...
>
>Then, at the very end of 2000, the Dion box set came out and - finally -
>vindication!! The last track on disc 1 was my personal holy grail of
>music. And, thank goodness, it was just as good as I remembered!
>
>So if I had to pick just one song, that would be it - by virtue of the fact
>that I never forgot it, despite not hearing it for 35 years.
>
>Belated happy birthday to David Bash - see you in Liverpool, oh great
>behatted one!!
>
>Jennie Barnett
>
>
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