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Look At That Girl by Guy Mitchell

After so much Frankie Laine, this is wholly refreshing.  It’s chilled out, laid back, swiftly delivered pop, driven mostly by a brushed snare drum and Guy Mitchell’s voice – it’s sugar, honey, golden syrup.  And there’s no unsettling connotations: he’s just saying that there’s a girl and he fancies her, a bit, and he might have a kiss and a cuddle.  It’s innocent and poppy, and the song does exactly what you’d suspect.

This is the first song on this list that I can think of in the terms that we apply to much modern pop music: simple verse, strong melody, driving rhythm, instrumental middle eight, final verse that has a twist on that which has been before (in this case, a dual-layered vocal harmony line and backing singers).  It’s a great, great song. I’ll say it again: Great.