Song 797: This week the playlist recognizes Cherish by The Association, written by Terry Kirkman, and you can find a YouTube video of it by clicking on the title. I probably sang along with this expression of appreciation when it climbed the charts near the end of the summer before my sophomore HS year, but around a year later, it absorbed me even more when someone gave me a copy of the sheet music for the tune. I had begun writing my own songs in early 1965, about a year after the Fab Four rocked my world, as I imitated the moving sounds that had grabbed my ears, but the Cherish sheet music gave me a much clearer view of how others followed the songwriting process as I spent time learning and practicing the song riffs on my family's upright piano. I knew my folks didn't like hearing the devil's music but they generally did allow me to have time with the keyboard when I chose to do so. The fundamentalist church that my family attended included a family that had a daughter a year older than me and I became good friends with her and her brothers. During its Top-40 phase, I found out that she liked Cherish as much as I did, and for a few times we sang the song together - I did the melody and she added a very nice harmony. I felt quite attracted to her and I wished that I could hold her but I also assumed that a senior HS female would not consider the possibility of a romance with a junior HS male.
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