Last night I suffered a bit of 80s nostalgia and found myself on iTunes, downloading some songs I'd long forgotten about...but used to really love. Until recently it was impossible to find the single "65 Love Affair" by Paul Davis (look at that hair!) anywhere digitally, unless it was the Karaoke version..
"65 Love Affair" came out when I was ten and I have vivid memories of it always seeming to be on the car radio whenever I was riding with my family. It was different than "I Go Crazy" and some of his other well-known songs...it had more of a Hall and Oates wanna-be feel to it and it milked "wasn't it great when we were younger?" for all it was worth. (I love that he tries to rhyme "dum dum" with "pom pom.")
Wikipedia mentions that David originally wanted to call it "55 Love Affair," but was talked out of naming it that since he would have been 7 at the time and most of the target audience listening in the early 80s would relate much better to being young and in love in the 60s!:)
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