So the Big Band channel for some reason decides to play Don Cornell's "I'm Yours," one of the sappy, string-backed ballads from the 50s when popular music was descending into madness. Anyway, one of the lines is, "I stand here before you/My heart in my hand..."
Anyone who's ever heard "The Masochism Tango" would have to have a heart of stone to hear that line without bursting into laughter.
To salvage this post, I'll point out that the next song was, "I'll Walk Alone." Mark Steyn delights in showing the universality of 1940s popular culture with the story that some wag had written on a ruined German tank, "I'll Walk Cologne."
UPDATE: According to the always-suspect Wikipedia entry, there were three versions of "I'm Yours" on the chart at the same time in the Spring of 1952. *Sigh* As Hugh likes to say, "That which is rewarded gets repeated."
Comments
It's not apropos of your actual point, but since I see the name so infrequently I have to point out that I played Don Cornell for 5 months. Even worse, my wife had to do his wife's nails for 5 months. Ugh.
Posted by: RichieD | May 22, 2008 2:01 PM