"Where or When" is a show tune from the 1937 Rodgers and Hart musical Babes in Arms. It was first performed by Ray Heatherton and Mitzi Green. That same year, Hal Kemp recorded a popular version. It also appeared in the film version of Babes in Arms two years later.
Dion and the Belmonts released a successful cover of the song, which reached number 3 on the Billboard Hot 100 in January 1960. In 1963, The Lettermen released their version as a single, which peaked at number 98 on the Hot 100.
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DION
ReplyDeleteYou’ve constructed yourself on the examples of others, but that doesn't mean those examples were constructive.
The powerful effect of the early-sixties girl groups on the teenage baby boomers who listened to them is a well-known fact. But less well known is the powerful effect of certain young male artists, typified by your Birth star, on that generation’s psycho sexual development. Indeed, the Marvelettes, Shelly Fabares, and the Shangri-Las may have taught America’s girls how to fall for the wrong kind of guy, but Dion DiMucci was the one who introduced them to that guy in the first place. First with the Belmonts and later on his own, Dion embodied and promulgated a male ideal that made songs like It's My Party and leader Of The Pack possible. Tough on the outside but squishy-soft on the inside, quick to betray in romance but quicker to wallow in self-pity at the first hint of being betrayed, the young men your Birth star portrayed in songs like The Wanderer and Runaround Sue may or may not have borne much resemblance to the heroin-addicted and future folk-singing Dion himself, but they did capture the imagination of a generation that would later sleep around and divorce at unprecedented rates. Perhaps true narcissistic personality types are born and not made, but more than a few popstrological Dions have made themselves in the image of those types, or have found themselves drawn to those who do.