When I was seventeen
It was a very good year
It was a very good year for small
Town girls and soft summer nights
We’d hide from the lights
On the village green
When I was seventeen
Well, this is one of those songs that you hear now and then,
You don’t know just where and you don’t know just when.
It’s one of those songs that are over and then,
It’s one of those songs that start playin’ again.
The Way of Love was originally written by Jack Diéval with French lyrics by Michel Rivgauche. It was performed on Belgium’s BRT radio station. In June 1965 the English rendering entitled “The Way of Love” was issued in the UK as a single by Kathy Kirby. It became a regional hit in the United States reaching #88 nationally.
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Johnny One Note is a 1937 show tune from the 1937 Rodgers and Hart musical Babes in Arms. Judy Garland sang it in the Rodgers & Hart musical biography, Words and Music (1948).
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The Near Future is a song written by Irving Berlin in 1919. It is better known for the small part of its lyric that took on a life of its own: How Dry I Am.
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“You Are Old, Father William” is a poem by Lewis Carroll that appears in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. It is recited by Alice in Chapter 5, “Advice from a Caterpillar”. Alice informs the Caterpillar that she has previously tried to repeat “How Doth the Little Busy Bee” and has had it all come wrong as “How Doth the Little Crocodile“. The Caterpillar asks her to repeat “You Are Old, Father William”, and she recites:
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You’re Gonna Hear From Me was written by André Previn and Dory Previn written for the 1965 movie Inside Daisy Clover. It’s been recorded by Andy Williams and Frank Sinatra, among many others.
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Down in old Tijuana town
There’s this happy honkin’ sound,
Something you just can’t put down
It’s the world renown Tijuana Taxi cab.
So, you’re not impressed you say
With a beat up Chevrolet
But that driver man Jose
Knows his way around Tijuana town.
Stand Navy out to sea, fight our battle cry!
We’ll never change our course so vicious foes steer shy-y-y-y!
Roll out the TNT, anchors aweigh!
Sail on to victory, and sink their bones to Davy Jones, hooray!