And let me just tell you. It just does something for me. The words. Peter Cetera's voice. Oh Baby! It makes me want to sing along as loud as I can...makes my heart beat a little faster...takes me back in time to when I was almost ten years old.
Can anyone say The Karate Kid II...Mr. Miyagi...Kumiko...Daniel LaRusso...Ralph Macchio?
And even though I definitely wasn't of dating age when this song was rocking the number fourteen spot on Casey Kasem's American Top 40, believe me when I say, this song and the dream of a love like Daniel's and Kumiko's was definitely playing over and over in my mind.
I love me some Peter Cetera, too! This song always takes me back!
ReplyDeleteFunny story about it, though. My parents listened to Chicago a lot, back in the day that Peter Cetera sang lead vocals for them. So when my aunt took me & my brothers to see Karate Kid II in the theatre, when the credits were rolling and this song was playing, we were walking out and I was so excited that I just KNEW this song was by Chicago! I mean, I told everyone that would listen that I KNEW who sang that song. Not much later, I learned that it wasn't Chicago that sang it...in fact, it was "just" Peter Cetera, and I felt absolutely awful that I had lied to everyone at the theatre. Even if it was an accidental mistake, I beat myself up over that "lie" for weeks.
Ha! Funny what you remember, isn't it?
Oh that's just too funny! Bless your heart, though. :( I'm sure they figured it out eventually. :)
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