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Now a timeless recording so sloppy it's perfect, from the drifting tempo to the half-baked sax solo. Sometimes I think the guitar is slightly off as well. I can't imagine they did more than one take. But it's inimitable and exactly as it must be--if it had been polished up, we'd probably have forgotten it like so many other pop songs from 1960.
Rosie Hamlin was an undercover Mexican-American teenager (real name: Rosalie Méndez Hamlin) at Mission Bay High School here in San Diego when she recorded this classic on a two-track tape machine. She also wrote it.
I would love to have heard and seen her reaction when John Lennon referred to it as one of his favorite songs and recorded it in the '70s.
Rosie Hamlin was an undercover Mexican-American teenager (real name: Rosalie Méndez Hamlin) at Mission Bay High School here in San Diego when she recorded this classic on a two-track tape machine. She also wrote it.
I would love to have heard and seen her reaction when John Lennon referred to it as one of his favorite songs and recorded it in the '70s.
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