I loved that song!!!
....Will last forever..Forever til the end of time RIP
@libertybeleOne of the most romantic songs ever recorded. I loved this version, growing up in a time when popular music was still sweet and redolent of life's possibilities.
I also loved the version by Ben E. King and the Drifters, which I include below.
Music is such a deeply personal thing, and it touches us each in ways that we ourselves can only understand.
For me, this song takes me back to my first kiss. It happened at a high school party. It was autumn, and I was a senior. I can still feel the chill in the air and the thrill of the night, the darkness now setting in so early and yet alive with promises I dared not even dream of, because there at the party, to my heart's desire, was a girl. The Girl. The one in my class that I had spent so many long hours thinking of and longing for and imagining in my arms.
A number of us had walked out behind the house and ambled through the woods to the edge of a clearing, talking and laughing, though I recall not what about because my mind was set on only one thing. A week or so before, I had gathered my courage, and walking home from school I told her that I really liked her, and did so with my heart virtually beating a hole through my chest and I remember all these years later only that she was non-committal, but that she smiled and that was all I needed at that moment.
And then, sitting on a tree stump on that cool October night, with a plastic cup of something in my hand, and the music wafting into the woods from the house just beyond... suddenly, she appeared before me. I am certain that I said "Hi" or "Hello", but I cannot recall because the only thing I do remember is that I felt her hands on my knees and just as suddenly, her face was near mine and I could smell her perfume and she kissed me.
And this song, like no other, brings me back to that moment.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bacBKKgc4Uo