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’.
I remember it being played by Vincent Gardenia over and over in ‘Moonstruck’. Drove his wife, Olympia Dukakis, nuts.