Music Monday

This is a FABULOUS dance song.  It's a little bit disco, but without the super-heavy disco beat, a perfect song for lots of twirling and in-and-out moves.  Probably the only people I would ever have danced to this song with would have been my brother and maybe that guy from New York whose name I can't remember.  No one else (not my high school boyfriend or my husband) would have had the moves or the moxie to hit the dance floor when this song was playing.

The summer between my sophomore and junior year in college The O'Jays' Use Ta Be My Girl* was #1 for five weeks on Billboard's Hot Soul Singles chart and peaked at #4 on their Hot 100 chart. 

The Limelight didn't check IDs, so in the summer of 1978 my brother and some of our friends (and that guy from New York, maybe his name started with a B?) would hangout, drink, and dance until it was time to race home before curfew.

Good times.  : )

* There's a little difference of opinion if the title of the song is Use Ta Be My Girl or Use To Be My Girl or Used to Be My Girl.  I go with "Use Ta" because I feel like that's what the O'Jays are actually singing.  Still, I think we can all agree that it's a solid gold classic, no matter what you call it.