The Number Seven song in The OzHitztory Blog’s Top 20 Best Hit Songs Of 1956 is…
“Tonight You Belong To Me” by Patience And Prudence!
Between this, and our No.8 hit (Frankie Lymon & The Teenagers), we can deduce that 1956 was an excellent year to be a kid, with plenty of role models singing songs they clearly didn’t understand. At least hopefully they didn’t understand it, since “Tonight You Belong To Me” is clearly about seducing an ex-boyfriend, who is going out with another. So either it’s all as sweet and innocent as it sounds, or else it’s the most delightfully subliminal attempt at making cheating sound cute ever recorded (which could, come to think of it, go along way to explaining the high rates of divorce amongst the Baby Boomer generation).
If it was just two little girls singing a song about having sex with an ex- that would be disturbing enough, but what gets Patience & Prudence so high on this list, is that it not only bet the previous candidate for Cutest Song Of All Time – which would have been Gayla Preevy’s 1953 hit “I Want A Hippopotamus For Christmas” – but leaves it in its cloudy little puffs of dust!
To put it another way, it made Teresa Brewer and Doris Day sound butch.
It is also possible that the entire cannon of twee indie pop would not exist without this song. Although, to be honest, it probably would.
This is kind of thing that can happen to you if you are the spoilt brat kids of Frank Sinatra’s pianist.
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