Posted on 11/13/2021 3:45:38 PM PST by simpson96
"It Must Be Him" is a popular song with music written by Gilbert Bécaud, originally with French lyrics by Maurice Vidalin. New English lyrics (and a new English title) were written by Mack David. The song was published in 1967. The best-selling version of the song was recorded that year by Vikki Carr, which reached number three on the U.S. pop chart and spent three weeks at number one on the easy listening chart. Carr went on to record it in Spanish and Italian, as well.
Vikki Carr - "It Must Be Him" (1967, video)
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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
SHe would look much better in color...but it was old days of black & white.
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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Here she is in color...looks great!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4YxAnTEiWs
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...
Françoise really looks good in this one
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FqVLT8vgZYw
I remember seeing her on Carol Burnett!
Along with Flip Wilson and Soupy Sales.
Back when Americans loved America.
I, too, remember that!
true, radio stations nowadays just don’t have that diversity in their formats.
And some stations, which advertise as being oldies stations, such as playing 70s 80s 90s, have very small Playlists. If you listen to a station for a few days, you will hear the same songs over and over.
I read that some such stations have playlists of about 600 songs. But if you look at old record charts, you will see that thousands of songs made the charts in those years. For whatever reason, programmers ignore the vast majority of popular songs, including some which were huge #1 hits.
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.
Funny how I got to thinking when was the last time I heard the name “Vicki Carr”, and then I remembered, she was referenced at the end of the classic SNL “The Sinatra Group”, as Steve Lawrence and Billy Idol are fighting, and Frank ends by saying....”Next week, the Grammy Awards. Where the hell is Vicki Carr’s album? Bye bye....... Keep the hands up, Steve.”
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