by jon » Fri Jul 03, 2009 5:00 pm
Maybe they just dragged it out of the vault for another summer re-run, but I remember this being fresh to me in the summer of 1962 (or maybe it was 1963). And thinking the same thing that Russ did: "How lame", or words that would have been current at that time to this 9-10 year old.
Part of the problem, of course, was that the song was 2-3 years old then.
A half century later, it sounds really lame more for the way it is put together. Original song lyrics for nearly the entire song, then generic "any station" lyrics, then the CFUN sing at the very end. Either fresh sung, or produced to sound like it was all sung together, yet nothing until the very end.
Not to mention that it doesn't make any sense. Today we have shower radios, but back then, there weren't even any wearable radios.