I remember my father was driving my sister and I to the roller-rink on NATO's air force base at Ramstein and this song came on. My father angrily flicked the radio off, commenting whomever that guy was he had no right to pretend he could sing. Given that Sonny Bono was having hit after hit, with no voice at all to speak of, it seemed to me that Herb Albert had a right to try his hand at a song ...
And, yeah, Herb does not have much of a voice, but you know - I liked this song back then and I still do. Just the concept that one day, THIS guy, could one day feel - much less know love - if even for just a moment in time ... It was unimaginable to that seventh grader - to feel - what would that be like? To know love, how is that different than feeling? Unanswerable questions.
And as if in a fairytale, one day - in the eventuality of time, in the twinkling of an eye, it did happen. God did something so astonishing, literally a miracle, the first in a string of many, He gave feeling to someone so dead their DNA had to be changed just to know emotion. And then one day, this guy is to be very blessed.
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