Song 758: This week the playlist puts the spotlight on Can't Buy Me Love by The Beatles, written by Paul McCartney and originally credited to him and John Lennon, and you can find a cool YouTube video of it by clicking on the title. About a month after the Fab Four rocked my world in February of 1964, they had another amazing chart topper getting everyone's attention. It didn't take long to learn the chorus lines and melody of the anthem about the lack of a connection between cash and affection, so I could soon sing along with it when the radio featured it. During those school years, a class I attended would sometimes do a field trip to NYC to visit places there such as the Bronx Zoo, and on those trips, we would get to hear the bus's radio station playing the Top 40. On one of those excursions, which I think happened in the spring of 1965, while riding on a freeway in Manhattan, we riders got to hear this Beatles classic, which at that point had already become a golden oldie. Growing up in a working-class family back then, I would truly have appreciated a romantic partner that valued the kind of things that money just can't buy.
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