I saw her singing this on TV and tears were streaming down her cheeks. When the song was finished the MC (was it Ed Sullivan?) went over to her and asked if she was all right.
I remember going to see her in concert with my parents several years ago.
This French singer is easy on the eyes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q6omsDyFNlk
Florencia Bisenta de Casillas-Martinez Cardona, known by her stage name Vikki Carr, is an American vocalist. She has a singing career that spans more than four decades. Born in El Paso, Texas to parents of Mexican ancestry, she has performed in a variety of musical genres, including pop, jazz and country, while her greatest success has come from singing in Spanish. She established the Vikki Carr Scholarship Foundation in 1971. Vikki Carr has won three Grammys and was honored with a Lifetime Achievement Award at the Latin Grammys in 2008 at the 9th Annual Latin Grammy Awards.
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Amazing voice.
Back when the charts were diverse only because there was great music of diverse types at the time. Brit Invasion, Garage/Psych, Motown, Pop, Bubblegum, even Country crossed over often.
We were so lucky to be young and having all that great music coming from our radio speakers...
Great song
Thanks for the memories
What a strange song, utterly out of fashion today.
A similarly out-of-fashion sentiment is expressed in Petula Clark's Kiss Me Goodbye.
My folks used to play an album of hers...I remember Cuando Calienta El Sol. Powerful pipes, she had.
He's a Rebel (1962)
Funny to see people writing things like ‘this long forgotten song’ because I play it a lot. Reminds me of my father who loved it.
That part in Moonstruck, when Vince Gardinia is playing it because it makes him feel he’s young again and the girls sentiments are a girls love for him like in his youth, has a great love for him. Needs him desperately. That is exactly how my father felt when he heard that song. What he found so beautiful about it. It evidently speaks to men, in a romantic way. I find that so beautiful about that song. I guess you could say it’s a torch song.
These days that is supposedly not the way a girl should feel about a man but believe me that will never go out of fashion. That is what happens naturally. Sometimes you lose your head over some guy, to put it modernly and well, you wait by the phone and go crazy when it rings, hoping, hoping.
Moonstruck picked up on that. ‘Moonstruck’.
When Vicki Carr went to the White House in the 70’s she asked President Ford what was his favorite Mexican dish. He answered, “you are “. Betty Ford was not amused. True story.
Love that song and I love Vikki Carr.