A fine slow-dancer. The nuns hated this one . . .
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One of my favorites. Good thing I went to public school!
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Unchained Melody is more than just a good “slow dancer” to me, Moe. I first heard it in July, 1955 when I was a fresh-caught plebe at Annapolis. It came wafting across the hall that first night over a transistor radio someone had. I was away from home for the first time ever in a permanent and strange way. The next day we were required to send away not only the radios but our civilian clothes and all traces of our former civilian existences. The next time we were to hear any popular music would be on Christmas vacation, 5 months later. Now, more than 50 years later, Unchained Melody still brings back that memory, sharp, poignant and evocative of that first lonely night.
Even after all these years I wasn’t aware of the song’s actual history. I just looked it up and it has a Wikipedia page (doesn’t everything?), which says (emphasis mine),
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Wow Jim – the version I remember from my own days with the nuns must have been an earlier one, not this recording. You had the Navy, I had the nuns. They were somewhat similar, yes?
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Ha! Based on what Mollie tells me, just so. Adamantine in doctrine, unyielding in precept, vigilant 24/7 and zealous to a fault.
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Well they tried anyway! And tell Mollie she’s a smart cookie!
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