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...Indian named Running Bear (Mercury) who leaps into angry rapids to swim to his Little White Dove. She dives in, too, from the opposite bank of the river, and they drown happily into the hereafter. But nothing in the 1960 morbid-ditty collection can touch Tell Laura I Love Her (RCA Victor), a best-selling ballad set in the flaming wreckage of a stock car. Tommy, the dying driver, has entered the race to win money to buy a wedding ring; he gasps out the hit tune with his dying breath and departs for heaven...
...such a tradition and its emotions, transferred to the Lolita generation, it was also predictable that 1960-5 Tell Laura I Love Her, a collector's item among bad records, would bring a response from Laura. It has come-with the just-released Tell Tommy I Miss Him, whose sales are already climbing toward 50,000 records. Laura lugubriously moans...
Ferry has edited a book, Laura Wordsworth. His latest book, On the Way to the Island (a collection of poetry), will be released soon by the Wesleyan University Press...
What have you done! I casually mentioned on the air the other day that TIME had referred to Ray Peterson's recording of Tell Laura I Love Her as one of the sickest of the current crop of sick songs. Since that moment, I have been swamped with irate letters and postcards, and threatening phone calls. I have been commissioned by the teenagers and the adults of Richmond, Ashland, Highland Springs, and surrounding towns to tell TIME to drop dead...
...Tell Laura I Love Her (Ray Peterson; RCA Victor). The newest and by all odds the sickest of the sick teen-age songs describes a young driver who enters a stock-car race to get money for a wedding ring and. as he is slowly dying in flames, warbles: "Tell Laura I love her/Tell Laura I need her/Tell Laura not to cry/My love for her will never die." With Singer Peterson bleating expressively through his tears, the record looks uncomfortably like a top seller...