Song 790: This week the playlist comes around to Young Girl by Gary Puckett & The Union Gap, written by Jerry Fuller, and you can find a YouTube video of it by clicking on the title. Back when spring showed up during my junior HS year in 1968, a quintet who identified themselves as a modern musical version of the northern soldiers from the U.S. Civil War era got a bunch of us teenagers singing along with their anthem about the need to end a romantic exchange. For most of my school years growing up, I enjoyed learning about the history of that 1860s conflict and so the Gap's outfits appealed to me. I also liked joining their initial chorus lines, but back then, I often didn't understand many of a song's additional lyrics, and so I didn't really realize that the singer was in fact admitting, as an adult male, to having unknowingly molested an attractive underage feminine charmer who had kept the secret of her youth from his realization.
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