Dion & The Belmonts - A Teenager in Love
The ne plus ultra of doo-wop ditties, written in 1959 by Brill Building maestros Doc Pomus and Mort Shuman; by 1960, three different versions of the song were in the UK top 10. Its plain depiction of the perennial vagaries of teen love – “One day I feel so happy/ Next day I feel so sad” – masked a less innocent picture. Dion DiMucci, a heroin addict since his mid-teens, checked into rehab not long after the single was released, and his pleading lead vocal lends the song extra edge.
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