Gerry Goffin and Carole King racked up another chart topper, proving themselves once again as terrific songwriters with the first #1 of 1963. However, they and Steve Lawrence got a lot of blowback for this record. Some felt the song was about an older guy hitting on underage girls. Go figure. They originally wrote it for Bobby Vee, but Lawrence’s producer, Don Kirshner, gave the tune to Steve instead. In ‘71 Donny Osmond also took it to the top - the first time two different artists recorded the same song and both versions reached #1 in the modern Hot 100 era.
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