who does not get that line stuck in their head?
Well i'm 68 years old, and it always gives me a thrill to remember, when i hear this song. Thelma from Deerfield, NhWhen i was in my twenties, i had a beau, who said that was our song.Jennifer Harris from Grand Blanc, MiI love this song,too.It was definitely no "Key Largo." Higgins also sang the theme to the sitcom "Bosom Buddies," which was a version of Billy Joel's "My Life." from Barry, TxHiggins followed "Key Largo" with "Casablanca" which I heard once. Next is the multiple shirt changes, and finally someone should have told Bertie that "sailing away" to Key Largo doesn't usually involve driving a 350 HP outboard motor, flat out, on a jet boat! Then there is the really creepy way he puts his hand on the chick while he is singing "You were my leading La-ady". My personal favourite is the way he sucks on the dart at the start. Jack from Robertstown, AustraliaWhat a wild and whacky film clip.
Bill from UsSo who sings the back up? The lady?, I always loved her addition.If I'm not mistaken, I remember Casey Kasem saying the backing female vocals were done by, get this, Cheryl Ladd?!? from Charlie's Angels! And she did have a small Top 40 hit by herself in 1978, so she does sing. Brent from WisconsinBill, I remember when this was out and on American Top 40.AnonymousWho is the female singing with Bertie?.I am reading her bioraphy now maybe she will mention it, RIP Bogie n Bacall Hollywood's all time greatest couple. Brandon from Elsinore, UtI came upon this killer web-site because I was trying to find any kind of comment from Lauren Bacall and what she might have thought of the song.Wm from MaI just found an interview with Bertie Higgins in which he says his backup singer on Key Largo is Cheryl Wilson.It is certainly a blessing that he had no more songs polluting the airwaves. Īnd I guess he was aware of his mistake, so he followed up with another crappy song about Casablanca. That one has seventh grader level lyrics too. I never understood the fascination with Bogart or boring old black and white movies starring dead people.Īnd that annoying back up vocal, it's nearly as awful as that horrific screeching in Paul Anka's felonious sonic assault " You're Having my Baby". It describes the characters of Casablanca, and conflates it with Key Largo. John from MiI hated this song so much, it's just stupid.He had some run-ins with the law, and in 1997 served 80 days in jail for a DUI arrest, but has released a steady stream of albums. Higgins carved out a niche in the "trop rock" genre with island songs in the Jimmy Buffett vein, but never again reached the charts, leaving him a one-hit wonder. In 1983 his song "When You Fall In Love (Like I Fell In Love With You)" from his second album Pirates And Poets reached #34 on the Adult Contemporary chart. Higgins' debut album, Just Another Day In Paradise, was released the next year and included another movie-themed song in "Casablanca." The album's title track provided Higgins' only other Hot 100 hit: it went to #46 about two months after "Key Largo" peaked on the charts. He was living in Atlanta and playing in clubs when he wrote "Key Largo." The song was released as a single in 1981 on Kat Family Records, a CBS imprint that existed for just a short time in the '80s (their biggest act: Major Lance). This was the only hit for the singer/songwriter Higgins, who started his career in the early '60s as the drummer in Tommy Roe's backup band, The Roemans. The couple got married a year after the song was released, but split in 1995. So I wrote the song 'Key Largo.' It was a plea for her return. Finally, I said, 'Well, I've got to reach her somehow.' And the only equipment I had to reach her with was a song.
Bev left me, and I hurt for about two years. We used to watch old movies on the weekends, and to us, the Bogart and Bacall romance was a phenomenal one: because of their age difference - she was 20 and he was 45 - and because the world was clamoring constanly for them to make a relationship work in Hollywood. In the book Behind The Hits, Higgins said: "I lived with a girl a long time in Florida. He based this song on the movie, with a failed romance also serving as inspiration. Bertie Higgins grew up in Tarpon Springs, Florida and spent a lot of time in the Florida keys. Key Largo is an island off the coast of Florida that was the setting for the 1948 movie of the same name starring Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall, who were married in real life and one of the most glamorous couples in Hollywood.
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