Ahh, the classic romantic songs. Before you click on this, make sure you note (a) how the meaning of certain words have changed, (b) that you MUST make sure you watch it beyond the first minute until this song REALLY gets started and (c) how band leader Spike Jones (before TMV’s time) used irony in comedy before irony was even popular.
Joe Gandelman is a former fulltime journalist who freelanced in India, Spain, Bangladesh and Cypress writing for publications such as the Christian Science Monitor and Newsweek. He also did radio reports from Madrid for NPR’s All Things Considered. He has worked on two U.S. newspapers and quit the news biz in 1990 to go into entertainment. He also has written for The Week and several online publications, did a column for Cagle Cartoons Syndicate and has appeared on CNN.