So Much In Love
In The Past: Garage Rock Podcast
English - May 03, 2024 21:00 - 2 hours - 84.2 MB - ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsMusic Commentary Music Music History garage garage rock doo wop girl groups oldies 50s 60s music commentary music music analysis Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Did The Tymes come up with their 1963 hit "So Much In Love" by repurposing the official song of the United States Army? That's Erik's theory, and we talk about it as well as the tune as doo-wop's "swan song" -its gentle and elegaic quality serves also as a goodbye to a more innocent era. Later in the 60s, Cleveland's The Munx did a bombing raid on the song, which belongs firmly in the "music for squares" camp. Luckily, in 1971, The Persuasions performed a pretty, and very masculine acappella version which set things right. In 1982, Was/Not Was's Sweet Pea Atkinson went for a wavey walk with the song before he walked the dinosaur later in the decade. Finally, in the 90s, All-4-One did the horniest version of the song, but kept the doo a woppin'! Wee-ooh-wee-ooh!