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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Les Reed’s and Barry Mason’s songbook was substantial. That song form 1968 was one of their very best.
One of the funniest bits of TV humor I have ever seen was from probably 20 years ago on the old TRacy Ullman show...Describing it doesn’t do it justice , but it was just SO good: premise is that Tracey is in her laundry room, her washing machine has broken down, and she URGENTLY needs to get her clothes washed (don’t remember why it was so urgent) and she was probably with her girlfriend Julie Kavner (equally anxious)—Numerous false alarms with the phone ringing and the doorbell, and it’s never him -—at long last she breaks out into “IT MUST BE HIM!!!and throws herself all over the washing machine. I’m gonna see if it’s on youtube, and it better be as good as I remember it.
There are some lyrics in it that you probably won't have heard if you listened to it on the radio back in 1995:
Alanis Morissette: You Oughta Know.
He's a Rebel (1962)
Non, Je Ne Regrette Rien (no, I regret nothing0--Edith Piaf (1961)
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.
I remember it being played by Vincent Gardenia over and over in ‘Moonstruck’. Drove his wife, Olympia Dukakis, nuts.
Love that song and I love Vikki Carr.
A great voice, and easy on the eyes, too.
I don’t think we will ever see talent like that again.
Ah, nostalgia……
Ha ha! I kinda love it.
Betty, cool off.
:)
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