This song was written by and sung by the only group that Phil Spector , himself performed in. The title "To Know Him Was To Love Him" was taken from his fathers tombstone. His father had committed suicide. I believe the song, written when he was 17 years old, spend 3 weeks at Number 1. This sounds like a love song, but listen to the words and think of a young child with his father.
1 was 13 years old when this lovely song came out .. now im a 74 years old female who is still in love with this classic ....thats a lot of years ,,until eternity i say lol xx
To know, know, know him is to love, love, love him
Just to see him smile, makes my life worthwhile
To know, know, know him is to love, love, love him
And I do
I'll be good to him, I'll bring love to him
Everyone says there'll come a day when I'll walk alongside of him
Yes, just to know him is to love, love, love him
And I do
Why can't he see, how blind can he be
Someday he'll see that he was meant for me
To know, know, know him is to love, love, love him
Just to see him smile, makes my life worthwhile
To know, know, know him is to love, love, love him
And I do
Why can't he see, how blind can he be
Someday he'll see that he was meant for me
To know, know, know him is to love, love, love him
Just to see him smile, makes my life worthwhile
To know, know, know him is to love, love, love him
And I do
To know, know, know him is to love, love, love him
Just to see him smile, makes my life worthwhile
To know, know, know him is to love, love, love him
And I do
Try playing this fairly loud with the lights out to simulate how it sounded to us on the car radio parked on a dark night in the fall of 1958 and from then on. If you don't get goosebumps, you are a corpse.
I was a Catholic fifth grader and a Boy Scout, and took my fifth grade girl friend to my very first dance where I gave her mine and her very first corsage, and we danced to this song in all innocence. We just knew we liked each other and thought we were being very grown up going to this Boy Scout prom thing in Imperial Beach, California. I have never forgotten her, through my wives. Because, well, she was my first love, after all. Thanks to the music. Always.
I was a young teen when this came out! We didn't have cell phones, we had transistor radios! I rode a thousand miles on my bicycle with that radio on the handle bars! I always was singing! I was raised on music!
