You hear this song as "our song" at wedding receptions all the time. Chevrolet uses it in a commercial about how happy you're going to be, together with your Chevy Bonfire or whatever.
The song is "Happy Together," a #1 hit (their only #1) by The Turtles, from 1967, in the middle of the greatest era in pop music. It's peppy and catchy and it would be the perfect "our song" but for one thing...
It's not about a couple that's together.
It's about a guy hoping and wishing and yearning that he and his imaginary inamorata are merrily borne on the wings of sweet amour.
The first words of the song tell you everything:
"Imagine me and you. I do. I think about you day and night."
It never does get any closer to together, but it sounds nice, so...how is the weather?
2 comments:
Destined to go down in history as the "bridge too far" of forced rhyme!
If you want to start criticizing lyrics from Turtles songs, the list begins and ends with Eleanore.
They set out to write the worst song of all time, but a hot producer turned it into a smash
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