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Save the Last Dance For Me, 1962
Written by Burt Bacharach and Bob Hilliard
This is the ultimate in "don't go" songs. The narrator says he'll plead on his knees, call out her name in the night, weeping, if maybe it would cause her to change her mind. It's high drama. It's raw emotion out there for everyone to see, the heart laid bare. In fact it gets pretty melodramatic: "You took me away from the rest of the world / When you taught me to love you like this / Now I hang by a thread in the canyon of doom / But I still can be saved by your kiss." It's a powerhouse performance by singer Rudy Lewis, but you can't help but wonder what heights Ben E. King would have taken it to.
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