My last name is Youngman. Just like making the arms into letters in the chorus, it has been impossible to hear that song without people pointing to me.
Bold choice not including the circa 2004 Piggly Wiggly grocery store commerical for Valentine's Day discounts in the Bonus Beats. I'm sure that's the first thing everybody thinks of when they hear this song.
The Talking Heads got no justice on the charts. This Must Be The Place (Naive Melody) peaking at 62, Life During Wartime at 80, Once in a Lifetime at freaking 91. When it comes to the Talking heads, the charts stop making sense.
This is basically the 70's equivalent of when Peter and Gordon hit #1 with "World Without Love." It helps to be related to the most popular musicians on the planet.
The line of the day is clearly "The song works as a sort of cocaine reverie — a piece of music that might play in your head while you’re strutting through the foyer of a seedy European casino, giving finger-guns greetings to people you don’t know." A metaphor that I do not even understood, but I perfectly know what he means.
Pretty sure I read somewhere that Wither's stretch near the end of the song is the longest sustained note in a top 40 hit ever. Just another reason to love "Lovely Day"
I know Tom has mentioned in at least The Rolling Stones’ “Brown Sugar,” Barry Manilow’s “I Write the Songs,” KC & The Sunshine Band’s “That’s The Way (I Like It),” Three Dog Night’s “Black & White,” Gilbert O’Sullivan’s “Alone Again (Naturally),” The Four Seasons’ “December, 1963 (Oh, What A Night),” and today. He's been right every time.
I don't know what it is about the song, but I am just enamored with the world building in "Year of the Cat." I think I've listened to it at least once every day this month.
I was shocked to learn that a song I had never heard of was somehow the best-selling single of all time by a female group, and one of the best selling songs generally.
10 weeks is an onslaught, especially in an era where there was really only one source of music. For this to be Number One for 1/5 of the year must have been suffocating.
Bonus Beats: Here's the emotional highpoint of the TV show Raising Hope, which was a good show that nobody watched and no one talks about https://youtu.be/FEwpiV8iU8U?t=42
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