Tonight's ADWH Soundtrack

Ah... take me back to those halcyon days of 1963 when I was a senior in high school and blissfully oblivious to the slings and arrows of the Real World... here's the lovely Doris Troy, singin' about how it took just one look to make her fall so hard...

Just one look and I fell so hard
In love with you, oh-oh, oh-oh
I found out how good it feels
To have your love, oh-oh, oh-oh
Say you will, will be mine
Forever and always, oh-oh, oh-oh
Just one look and I knew
That you were my only one
Oh oh-oh oh!

Ah, this conjures up visions of the Lovely Roxanne, the queen o' my teen-aged dreams and my first experience with rejection.  I fell for Roxanne with that proverbial "one look" and we had a whirlwind love affair that was never really consummated in the truest and most literal sense, but certainly NOT for a lack of effort on my part.  Many's the afternoon Roxanne and I rolled around in my bedroom with Doris croonin' in the background... me tryin' my damnedest and she just as determined that I would NOT get what I was after.  I don't think I ever encountered such firm and unyielding resistance during the rest of my life, or perhaps I got to the point where I could take "no" for an answer and moved on to more... ummm... productive endeavors.  Whatevah.

Still and even, we remained boyfriend and girlfriend for most of my senior year in high school and into the following summer.  The affair came to an abrupt end when I decided to enlist in the Air Force in that summer of '63 and left Roxanne to her own devices, which were many and varied.  That sad fact was brought home to me about six weeks later when I was the unhappy recipient of my first "Dear John" letter.  That hurt but I managed to get over it in short order, typical of the resilience of your average 18 year old.  We should be so resilient in our old age, Gentle Reader.

So... here's to ya, Roxanne.  I hope you're alive, well, and happy... and that you're givin' it up on a regular basis.

Added, somewhat later:  Linda does a damned good cover of this tune, as well.  Ronstadt released her version the year TSMP and I got married, or perhaps it was the summer before.  History DOES repeat itself.