What a strange song, utterly out of fashion today.
A similarly out-of-fashion sentiment is expressed in Petula Clark's Kiss Me Goodbye.
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.”
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.