2:46
single, 1963
Written by Phil Spector, Ellie Greenwich, and Tony Powers
This is one of the sweetest love songs in the R&B catalog. The narrator is hit by love — not unlike the narrator of Nat King Cole's "Orange-Colored Sky" — with no real rhyme or reason. As in the Cole track, here we don't hear what the boy's looks or mannerisms are that strike the singer so, but sometimes you can't explain attraction. "The boy whose life and dreams and love I wanna share / For on my hand a band of gold appeared before me." Starry-eyed bagatelles, of course, but what are we without them? Brutalists, probably. As a side note, I never knew the lines "I just stood there whistling / 'There goes the bride' as she walked out the door," from They Might Be Giants' "Lucky Ball and Chain" was inspired by this song's lines, "He smiled at me and then the music started playing / 'Here comes the bride' when he walked through the door."