2:03
single, 1959
Written by Sam Cooke
Luckily, this is not one of the innumerable songs of the era about a sweet young thing not a minute over seventeen, as Chuck put it. It's about an age-appropriate puppy love that — of course — didn't last. "Why did I give my heart so fast? / It never will happen again," the song's narrator asks. Then comes the perfect punchline, delivered deadpan: "But I was a mere lad of sixteen / I've aged a year since then." Now he knows better! Cooke's warm and feather-light croon, augmented by a quiet male backing chorus, gives what might be a musical trifle a quiet dignity.
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