This site used to be “Top 40 Hits 1930-1998”! Now it’s coming up 404! In Spanish!
Now what am I going to do when Friend, or Friend Across Town, or Mr. Rilch’s boss, and I, clash about old-school songs, and their lyrics? It was through that site that I proved that “He’s a Rebel” contained both “that’s no reason why I can’t give him all my love” and “that’s no reason why we can’t share a love”, thereby settling a dispute between Friend and Boss! That’s how I proved that “Everlasting Love” and “I Just Want to be Your Everything” are not the same song, to Mr. Rilch’s chagrin!
I was just going to look up and see who wrote “Book of Love”, irony intended, and it’s gone! Friend was challenging me, and I was unsure. I thought “Book of Love” was by the Monotones. He thought it was by the Sillhouettes. There is a song with the catch phrase “silhouettes on the shade”, and it has both a fast and a slow version. I wanted to see if the fast version was by the Monotones, find out just who the Silhouettes were, and then settle the matter of BoL’s authorship.
But I can’t!
Does anyone know of another site for pop music lyrics?
“Silhouettes on the Shade” was written by Frank C Slay Jr. and Bob Crewe in 1957. A version by The Diamonds, released 3 weeks later, hit #10, another version, by Steve Gibson and The Redcaps, managed only # 63 and it went to #5 for Herman’s Hermits in 1965.
The Carpenters recorded a “Book of Love,” Lindsay Buckingham and Richard Dashut had another one with the same name for Fleetwood Mac, but I suspect you’re thinking of the original, by the Monotones (although I think the Moonglows sang a version too). I think it was written by David/Malone/Patrick.
HTH.
And, as to what you’re going to do now the site’s gone? Ask a radio announcer!
Oh, you guys, I am so embarrassed! I thought I had checked the e-mail option on this thread, so I didn’t see your replies until just now, having thought there weren’t any!
MarkF: yes, that link will be helpful. Thank you.
tavalla: So I was right about BoL. And the SotS version I was thinking of was Herman’s Hermits’. (If that makes me uncool, so be it.) Thank you also!
