As teenagers, Neil Sedaka dated Carole King and even wrote "Oh, Carol!" about it. They eventually married others (Neil proposed to his future wife over the phone), but they both became prolific songwriters at the Brill Building in NYC. Today's tune became Neil's first #1 in August 1962. He re-did this with a much slower arrangement in 1975, and joined the Ventures with "Walk, Don't Run" as the only rockers to reach the Top 10 with two totally different versions of their own song. Video is from a "Bandstand"-type show called "Saturday Hop" on the former WLBW-TV in Miami, now WPLG Channel 10.
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