GeePawHillDon McLean, "And I Love You So".
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This is a remarkable piece of work, even if you're not like me, and don't care for sappy romantic songs.
The verses use a fairly unusual A-B-B-A rhyme structure.
Then the strange C-C-C-D-D-C of the, idunno, I don't think it's a chorus, it's just a bridge.
To modern ears, the violin and woodwind parts feel . . . technical term here . . . "icky".
But that's how it is with music that's from another era, nearly always. I say nearly: there *are* timeless arrangements out there. But they're an astonishing rarity, and usually involve refusing to polish, leaving the diamond set as simply as it can be.
Aside: Don McLean is really a three-hit wonder. That is a very rare category.
("American Pie", and "Vincent" aka "Starry Starry Night" were his other two.)
hsfear (he/him/his)@GeePawHill I don't believe that I have ever heard that song before. Are you sure it was a hit?
@hsfear I am not sure of all that much in life, but it got a lot of airplay when I was a young teen.
Tho, of course, nothing like "American Pie" or "Vincent".
@GeePawHill Billboard didn't list it (because I am, of course, the kind of person that would look it up). But then Billboard suggests that his cover of Crying - which I also don't recall - was a bigger song for him than Vincent.
Seems to be on hist regular set list though so I must have heard it hen we saw him a few years ago.
@hsfear Do you like it? I love the oddness of the ABBA and the CCCDDC rhythm, which is so not-pop, when I sing it myself I have to keep correcting myself from ABAB.