[xoxox]

I happen to think (as of this writing and for the last several years) that Wedding Bell Blues is one of the best written pop songs ever, if not the best. The way the melody carries the lyric is astounding to me.

I also amuse myself wondering if someone dare Laura Nyro [RIP] to write a song about someone named “Bill,” and she went at it head-on.

When a perfect pop song finds the perfect arrangement, and the perfect singer in Marilyn McCoo, it can still give a listener shivers and fascinations decades on.

Oh, I wanted to mention “Mother and Child Reunion.” The other best song evah. Absolutely astounding sentiment delivered in the most unique and gripping fashion.

[Steely Tom]

Oh I love that song! Marilyn McCoo is so cute and sincere in it, and Hal Blaine on drums just seems to be having so much fun.

I can never listen to it once. I always re-play it four or five times.

[mel]

I like those also

[Steely Tom]

I also amuse myself wondering if someone dare Laura Nyro [RIP] to write a song about someone named “Bill,” and she went at it head-on.

Paul Simon wrote So Long, Frank Lloyd Wright on a challenge from Art Garfunkel. He (who majored in architecture at Columbia before quitting for music) asked Simon "why don't you write a song about an architect?"