[ExI] love do

[Damien Broderick]

At 04:31 PM 12/22/2007 -0800, spike wrote:


> > At 02:06 PM 12/22/2007 -0600, Natasha wrote:
> >
> > >Yes, sure, love do?
> >
> > Love do like a pendulum swings.
> >
> > (You probably had to be there.)
> >
> > (England, late sixties.)
>
>
>Early sixties.  June 1962, clearly before Lennon and McCartney learned that
>good music is actually poetry as well as a catchy tune:
>
>Love, love me do
>You know I love you
>I'll always be true
>so please, love me do
>oh, love me do

Nope. 1965-6:

ENGLAND SWINGS

words and music by Roger Miller

England swings like a pendulum do
Bobbies on bicycles, two by two
Westminster Abbey, the tower of Big Ben
The rosy red cheeks of the little children

Now, if you huff and puff and you fin'lly save enough
Money up to take your family on a trip across the sea
Take a tip before you take your trip
Let me tell you where to go
Go to England, oh
[etc]

"Top 10 in the American pop charts in November 1965 and the British 
Top 20 by late January 1966."

Damien Broderick