Song 803: This week the playlist puts the spotlight on Love Potion Number Nine by The Searchers, written by Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller, and you can find a YouTube video of it by clicking on the title. The first version of this numerical gem arrived in the summer before my ninth birthday, and I might possibly have heard it then. Whether I did or did not actually catch it during that stretch, this British Invader variant definitely grabbed my attention around the end of the year where the Fab Four had rocked my world eleven months earlier. Back then, I was a flop with chicks, but I feel certain that if I had encountered a liquid that smelled like turpentine and looked like Indian ink, I would not have wanted to take a taste of it, especially since, when growing up, I felt very fussy about my nutritional intake. Even if someone tried to convince me at the time that having the liquid would make it easy for me to start kissin' everything in sight, they still might not have persuaded me to have a sip of an affectionate drink.
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