This Magic Moment, by Jay and the Americans.
See, the thing is, I’ve done a ton of Love 94™ songs, but little from the heavy rotation of Magic 102.7, Your Good Time Oldies Station™, which my parents mostly switched over to at some undetermined moment in the mid-1980s, and my Oldies exposure ratcheted way up from the basics — The Beatles, Elvis, Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens — I did have the whole La Bamba movie soundtrack pretty much memorized — to the overplayed-but-classic classics by the Frankies and Smokies and Coasters and Flamingos and, sure, Jay and the Americans, why not? (“Come a little bit closer” is a dated-but-effective story!)
Oh, wait, the Drifters did this first? Crap, which version am I playing? I definitely heard them both, but let’s stick with JatA and call this a #cover-of-a-cover I guess.
This song uses the chord changes you would expect from a song that is indeed originally from the 1950s: C-Am-F-G, and it popped into my head unbidden after I gave Earth Angel a try because, yes, of course, it’s the same chords.
This was the first song recorded with my new office manager resting (lightly snoring, perhaps) in the background.
