S Club 8 Songs - Puppy Love, One Step Closer, Don't Tell Me You're Sorry, Sundown, New Direction, Automatic High, Fool No More, Dreaming (Paperback)

Commentary (music and lyrics not included). Chapters: Puppy Love, One Step Closer, Don't Tell Me You're Sorry, Sundown, New Direction, Automatic High, Fool No More, Dreaming, Puppy Love/sleigh Ride, Say It's Alright. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 32. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: "Puppy Love" is a popular song written by Paul Anka in 1960 for Annette Funicello, whom he was dating at the time. Anka's version reached #2 on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart and #33 on the UK singles chart. Twelve years later it was revived by Donny Osmond, who took it to #3 on the Billboard Hot 100 and #1 on the UK singles chart for five weeks in July 1972. The song has also been covered by British pop group S Club Juniors. On March 15, 1972, D.J. Robert W. Morgan played the Donny Osmond version for 90 minutes straight on KHJ in Los Angeles. LAPD mistakenly raided the station studios after receiving numerous calls from listeners. Confused, the officers left without making any arrests. Long before Anka scored on the Charts with his own version of "Puppy Love" in March 1960, other attempts were made at using the exact same title. With one exception, no songs are included with any more to the title than "Puppy Love." These were all single releases and all vocals, no album cuts or instrumentals. Tracing the title back to at least 1952, a "Puppy Love" song was written by Don Raye and Ben Oakland. It was first recorded in June, 1952, by Lu Ann Simms for Columbia Records (#39841) backed with Percy Faith and his Orchestra. In November 1952, that same song was recorded by Dorothy Collins on the Decca label (#28421). She was backed by her husband, Raymond Scott and his Orchestra. In 1953, another "Puppy Love" was written by Tommy Palm and recorded by the Rogues, released on Old Town Records (#304). Palm may ...http: //booksllc.net/?id=6912513