2018-07-14 16:33:10流浪阿狗

老歌亂談(851)Bobby's Girl



人生的際遇很奇妙,有時會在毫無預期之下走上另一條人生道路。像是常有聽說陪朋友參加試鏡或是什麼遴選,結果雀屏中選的卻是自己。1944年出生的Marcie Blane高中畢業後,某次應朋友的要求,替朋友寫的歌錄製試唱帶,不意在錄音室時被Seville唱片公司的星探發掘,而與她簽約。之後唱片公司找歌給她錄唱,即是此首《Bobby's Girl》。

此曲於1962發行後,一個月內即衝上排行榜的第3名 ( 前2名實在太強,分別為四季合唱團的《Big Girls Don't Cry》及貓王的《Return to Sender》)。歌曲開始時的口語及背景合音的那句「You're not a kid anymore」,也成為了當時青少年的流行語。

歌曲最有趣的是,問:當成長為少女後,最想成為的是什麼?歌曲的女主角竟然毫不猶豫的回說:想成為「Bobby的女友」。雖然自知希望不大,卻仍毫不掩飾的將少女思春的情懷表露無遺。「Bobby」應該只是個代名詞,而在5、60年代,叫Bobby的偶像歌手就有好幾位,像是Bobby Vee、Bobby Vinton、Bobby Darin等,不知這是否是寫歌者採用此名的原因?歌曲流行後,名為Bobby者當然是暗爽在心 ( 據說當時的確有妹會來主動接近 ),而名為Robert者亦開心不已,因Bobby是由Robert轉化而來 ( ←這對老中來說,實在是難以理解。)。
 








英國女歌手Susan Maughan亦在1962翻唱此曲,在英國單曲排行榜同樣獲得了第3名。隔年,Marcie Blane再推出一首《What Does A Girl Do》,只獲得排行榜第82名,也是她出現在排行榜的唯二歌曲。

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亂談(362) Big Girls Don't Cry





When people ask of me
what would you like to be,
now that you're not a kid any more?
I know just what to say,
I answer right a away.
There's just one thing
I've been wishing for.
I wanna be Bobby's girl,
I wanna be Bobby's girl.
That's the most important thing to me.
And if I was Bobby's girl;
if I was Bobby's girl,
what a faithful, thankful girl I'd be.
Each night I sit at home
hoping that he will phone,
but I know Bobby has someone else.
Still in my heart I pray,
there soon will come a day
when I will have him all to myself.
I wanna be Bobby's girl,
I wanna be Bobby's girl.
That's the most important thing to me.
And if I was Bobby's girl;
if I was Bobby's girl,
what a faithful, thankful girl I'd be.