2:15
By Request, 1955
Written by Julie De John, Dux De John, and Leo J. De John
He's not around. He's long gone. He doesn't write, he doesn't phone. "My baby don't buy me pearls / He's busy with other girls." A sad lament, you might think. But backed by buoyant, screeching horns and a jovial male backing vocal, the McGuire Sisters sing it as a swinging romp and sound positively radiant. It's not entirely anomalous: you can almost hear the flirty smile in their voices when they proclaim in a coy harmony, "But somehow / I'll find me a baby new / And maybe I'll pick on you." Maybe they'll come knocking at your door! In the heady days of American post-war optimism, the prospect must have been delightfully enticing.
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