**OH, BABY
L – Looking there there’s none
O – Over here not seen
V – Very hard to find
E – Oh what’s this thing called love?
It’s really what I want as mine
They say love is looking deep into each other’s eyes
Love is just walking along side by side
Oh, love is me
Oh, love is you
**OH, BABY
L – Looking there there’s none
O – Over here not seen
V – Very hard to find
E – Oh what’s this thing called love?
It’s really what I want as mine
Will you help me, please?
Want to love once, can’t you see?
IN LOVE, when I’m that, then I’ll start to sing L.O.V.E.
**OH, BABY
L – Looking there there’s none
O – Over here not seen
V – Very hard to find
E – Oh what’s this thing called love?
It’s really what I want as mine
Love will bring out happiness whenever we meet
Always thinking of each other when we cannot greet
Oh, wanna see you
oh, missing you
**OH, BABY
L – Looking there there’s none
O – Over here not seen
V – Very hard to find
E – Oh, what’s this thing called love?
It’s really what I want as mine
(Unofficial translation from a Thai song L O V E - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZdEmeyU9N8Y)
L – Looking there there’s none
O – Over here not seen
V – Very hard to find
E – Oh what’s this thing called love?
It’s really what I want as mine
They say love is looking deep into each other’s eyes
Love is just walking along side by side
Oh, love is me
Oh, love is you
**OH, BABY
L – Looking there there’s none
O – Over here not seen
V – Very hard to find
E – Oh what’s this thing called love?
It’s really what I want as mine
Will you help me, please?
Want to love once, can’t you see?
IN LOVE, when I’m that, then I’ll start to sing L.O.V.E.
**OH, BABY
L – Looking there there’s none
O – Over here not seen
V – Very hard to find
E – Oh what’s this thing called love?
It’s really what I want as mine
Love will bring out happiness whenever we meet
Always thinking of each other when we cannot greet
Oh, wanna see you
oh, missing you
**OH, BABY
L – Looking there there’s none
O – Over here not seen
V – Very hard to find
E – Oh, what’s this thing called love?
It’s really what I want as mine
(Unofficial translation from a Thai song L O V E - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZdEmeyU9N8Y)
The sound of this once very popular Thai song recently revived as a soundtrack for a Thai television comedy makes me realize how much music has been part of my life.
Ever since I was young, I was surrounded by both Thai and foreign songs. The first foreign song I remember and love is one my father used to sing to my mother, my sister and me whenever we were out riding at the back of a chauffeur-driven limousine, me with my head on my father’s shoulder while he smoked a cigar, blowing smoke rings out through the car window. It’s a song called “On a Bicycle Built for Two” by Nat King Cole, and some of you may know it:
Ever since I was young, I was surrounded by both Thai and foreign songs. The first foreign song I remember and love is one my father used to sing to my mother, my sister and me whenever we were out riding at the back of a chauffeur-driven limousine, me with my head on my father’s shoulder while he smoked a cigar, blowing smoke rings out through the car window. It’s a song called “On a Bicycle Built for Two” by Nat King Cole, and some of you may know it:
Daisy, Daisy
Give me your answer do
I'm half crazy
All for the love of you
It won't be a stylish marriage
I can't afford a carriage
But you'll look sweet
Upon the seat
Of a bicycle built for two
Daisy, Daisy
Give me your answer do
I'm half crazy
All for the love of you
We’ll spend all our lives together
Regardless of the weather
And you’ll look sweet
Upon the seat
Of a bicycle built for two
Daisy, Daisy
Give me your answer do
I'm half crazy
All for the love of you
We’ll leave when the ball is over
Get married in the clover
And you’ll look sweet
Upon the seat
Of a bicycle built for two
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=78MKBHR3NbU)
Give me your answer do
I'm half crazy
All for the love of you
It won't be a stylish marriage
I can't afford a carriage
But you'll look sweet
Upon the seat
Of a bicycle built for two
Daisy, Daisy
Give me your answer do
I'm half crazy
All for the love of you
We’ll spend all our lives together
Regardless of the weather
And you’ll look sweet
Upon the seat
Of a bicycle built for two
Daisy, Daisy
Give me your answer do
I'm half crazy
All for the love of you
We’ll leave when the ball is over
Get married in the clover
And you’ll look sweet
Upon the seat
Of a bicycle built for two
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=78MKBHR3NbU)
Throughout my early teenage years I heard and learned to love foreign songs and I think that singing along with popular songs by Elvis, Cliff and The Beatles might be how I became attached to and became quite adept in the English language. My father was posted to a diplomatic service in Australia when I was just 11 and my sister was 12½ years old. After two years in a boarding school in Goulburn, I returned to Canberra to be with the rest of my family, and started a round of movie-watching with my dear sister. As money flowed freely during those days, our Friday nights were spent at the movies, usually watching musical movies such as Get Yourself a College Girl, Seven Brides for the Seven Brothers, Pollyanna and EVERY Elvis Presley movies. In fact, I can recall our first Elvis Presley movie which we were not really thinking of watching but were trying to buy movie tickets for, I think, Pollyanna. There was a long line of teenagers in front of the ticket booths and my sister and I were saying how strange that was, because Pollyanna was supposed to be on its way out of the movie house. It was only after we got in and found Elvis singing “Frankfurt Special” to his G.I. friends on a train on its way to Frankfurt that we became excitedly aware that we were one of the first people to be watching the first Elvis movie, G.I. Blues. How lucky we were! I can’t remember now, but I am sure that if we did not unknowingly buy the movie tickets for G.I. Blues that first day, then we would have had to wait many more weeks before getting to see it.
Talking about musical movies and songs, I can feel my enthusiasm rising. As I said above, throughout my teenage years I lived with songs featuring pop singers such as Elvis Presley, Cliff Richards, Ricky Nelson, Bobby Rydell and Chubby Checker. Then came the advent of The Beatles and Beatlemania and my heart was lost to the little boy lost look of George Harrison and The Beatles music.
Now that we are all grown up and back in Thailand, I find that my love for songs and musical films is still growing strong. Music as the cure for all ailments is my belief and I should like to share with you some interesting backgrounds of singers of bygone days together with their songs.
So, till my next post
Cheerio!
Talking about musical movies and songs, I can feel my enthusiasm rising. As I said above, throughout my teenage years I lived with songs featuring pop singers such as Elvis Presley, Cliff Richards, Ricky Nelson, Bobby Rydell and Chubby Checker. Then came the advent of The Beatles and Beatlemania and my heart was lost to the little boy lost look of George Harrison and The Beatles music.
Now that we are all grown up and back in Thailand, I find that my love for songs and musical films is still growing strong. Music as the cure for all ailments is my belief and I should like to share with you some interesting backgrounds of singers of bygone days together with their songs.
So, till my next post
Cheerio!
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