Sixties and seventies crooner Neil Sedaka made my list last year with his groovy classic Laughter In The Rain, but that was never the song I loved best. Today I present the song he sung with his teenaged daughter that, at the time, to me, was probably the most romantic and sad song I’d ever heard. As I listen to it now for some inspiration on how to describe it, I hear how dated it sounds, but then, as music always does, it transports me back to the start of my defining era when I was desperate to understand what love was, desperate to experience it for myself. This may well be the first time I was captured by the joy of a duet and why the blending of two voices was such a magical listening experience. Neil’s classic alto lullaby against daughter Dara’s lilting sincerity is just sublime. At 2 minutes 6 seconds in, I could die:
From the historical writing archive. Original date: December 16, 2018. Recovered from local source material; editorial review is still in progress.