Welcome back to Music Mondays, where I share a song that I like at the start of the week. This week is “’65 Love Affair” by Paul Davis. I’m sure I heard this on the radio, but I primarily became familiar with it with the “80s Flashback” CD from Target’s Pure Gold Hits line of compilation albums.
It’s a song about lost love, but the tune is so happy you’d never know unless you paid attention to the lyrics.
I was a car hop
You were into be-bop
You sang “do wop diddy wop diddy wop doo”
All of them changes you put me through
If I could go back again
Well I know I’d never let you go
Back with some of my friends
To that wonderful
’65 Love Affair
We wasn’t gettin’ nowhere
But we didn’t care
It was a crazy
’65 Love Affair
Rock ‘n’ roll was simple and clear
Oh, I still can hear
I can hear it baby
Yeah!
Well I acted like a dumb-dumb
You were bad with your pom-poms
You said “ooh wah go team ooh wah go”
Ooh-ee baby I want you to know
If I could go back in time
Well, I know somehow you’d still be mine
I wouldn’t be so blind
To that wonderful
’65 Love Affair
When rock ‘n’ roll was simple and clear
Oh, I still can hear
I can hear it baby
Well, I tried to make you give in
One night at the drive-in
You said “oh no baby, oh no woo”
All of them changes you put me through
If I could go back in time
Well, I know somehow you’d still be mine
I wouldn’t be so blind
To that wonderful
’65 Love Affair
We weren’t going nowhere
But we didn’t care
It was a crazy
’65 Love Affair
Rock ‘n’ roll was simple and clear
Oh, I still can hear
I can hear it baby
We sang
“doo wop diddy wop diddy wop doo
doo wop diddy wop diddy wop doo
(Oh yeah)
doo wop diddy wop diddy wop doo
doo wop diddy wop diddy wop doo
doo wop diddy wop diddy wop doo
doo wop diddy wop diddy wop doo
doo wop diddy wop diddy wop doo
(Go, go, go team go!)
doo wop diddy wop diddy wop doo
(Go, go, go team go!)”
If I could go back again
Well I know our love would never end
Back with all my friends
To that wonderful
’65 Love Affair
Rock ‘n’ roll was simple and clear
Oh, I still can hear
I can hear it baby
’65 Love Affair
We wasn’t going nowhere
But we didn’t care
In that crazy
’65 Love Affair
Rock ‘n’ roll was simple and clear
Oh, I still can hear
I can hear it baby
’65 Love Affair
(fade out)