“I admit I like the Carpenters! So there! Also “Love Is Blue” brings right back to 6th grade and hand held AM radios.”
Love is Blue came out the week before I went to Boot Camp at Parris Island.
We were going through Dental and I was tasked with handing out the cotton wads to stuff in your cheeks. I got to stand there, listening to the radio the dental corpsmen were playing, while my whole platoon went through dental exams.
One song played was “Love is Blue” and it reminded me that there was still Life and Goodness and Love in the world, in spite of the constant fear that my DIs could not only kill me and get away with it, but also erase any evidence that I had EVER existed!
Every time I hear “Love is Blue”, I remember that dental exam.