Album: Brooklyn Bridge (1969)

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• Girl, I heard you're getting married
  Heard you're getting married
  This time you're really sure
  And this is the end (ah, ah, ah)
  They say you really mean it
  This guy's the one that makes you feel
  So safe, so sane and so secure
  And baby if he loves you more than me
  Maybe it's the best thing
  Maybe it's the best thing for you
  But it's the worst that could happen, to me
  
  I'm never gettin' married, never gettin' married
  You know that's not my scene
  But a girl like you (ah, ah, ah)
  Needs to be married
  I've known all along you couldn't live forever in between
  
  And baby, if he loves you more than me
  Maybe it's the best thing
  Maybe it's the best thing for you (maybe it's the best thing)
  But it's the worst that could happen
  Oh-oh, to me
  
  And girl, I don't really blame you
  For having a dream of your own
  Hey girl, I don't really blame you
  A woman like you needs a house and a home, baby
  
  If he really loves you more than me
  Maybe it's the best thing
  Maybe it's the best thing for you
  But it's the worst that could happen
  
  Oh girl, don't wanna get married
  Girl, I'm never, never gonna marry, no, no, no
  It's the worst that could happen, worst that could happen
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Comments: 19

• Mrman from OregonGreat song, spectacular vocal performance, but... pretty macho, self-important, and quite bluntly, INSULTING attitude from the "poor guy" who is singing the song. There are sneaky, passive-aggressive words like "IF" he loves you more than me and "MAYBE" it's the best thing. No, bub, the other guy is making a commitment, and YOU are NOT because "that's not your scene", which is code-speak for "I am selfish and I am not willing to give up my freedom to be your husband". So he DEFINITELY loves her more than you, and it is DEFINITELY the best thing, so go cry in somebody else's beer. Then we have, "And, girl, I don't really blame you". Wow. She chooses her life and wants to be married, and you are so "magnanimous" that you don't blame her for it. It's pretty sickening, really.
• Dirtyrotten from Philippinesthere's a filipino artist named hajii alejandro who sang a song with this music called panakip butas.. youtube link https://youtu.be/_j4ryyJa6TM
  
  song meaning is the same.
• Carl from LancasterAt first hearing, this song is fantastic . . . It's only after paying close attention to the lyrics that it becomes melodramatic. I mean really, you love the girl, but you don't want to marry her? Then belly ache that she actually wants a life!!!! Sorry bud, get real!
• Joe B from Pittsburgh PaDoes anybody know if the Brooklyn Bridge performed at Clarion State College's football Homecoming dance in 1969? The school is located in Clarion PA
• Kenny Price from Henderson NvThe Beatles Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and John Lennon played backup musicians for Johnny on the Ed Sillivan show.
• Barry from Sauquoit, NyOn April 25, 1961, Johnny Maestro performed "What A Surprise" on the ABC-TV weekday-afternoon program 'American Bandstand'...
  At the time "What A Surprise" was in it's first week on Billboard's Hot Top 100 chart, at position #84; seven weeks later it would peak at #33 {for 1 week} and it spent 9 weeks on the Top 100...
  As a solo artist he had two more Top 100 records; "Model Girl" {#20 in 1961} and "Mr. Happiness" with the Coeds {#57 in 1961}...
  As lead singer of the Crests he charted ten times, with "16 Candles" being their biggest hit, it peaked at #2 {for 2 weeks} in 1959...
  In 1969 he made the Top 10 again with the Brooklyn Bridge when "Worst That Could Happen" peaked at #3 {for 2 weeks}...
  Johnny Maestro, born John Mastrangelo, passed away at the age of 70 on March 24th, 2010...
  May he R.I.P.
• Barry from Sauquoit, NyOn December 15 1968, the Brooklyn Bridge performed "Worst that Could Happen" on the CBS-TV program 'The Ed Sullivan Show'...
  {See the next three posts below}.
• Barry from Sauquoit, NyHere's from obscure trivia:
  On May 24th 1883, the Brooklyn Bridge, which connects Manhattan and Brooklyn, opened to traffic...
  And eighty-five years later on December 21st, 1968 the Brooklyn Bridge entered the Top 100 with "Worst That Could Happen"...
  {See next two posts below}.
• Barry from Sauquoit, NyOn January 26th 1969, "Worst That Could Happen" by the Brooklyn Bridge peaked at #3 (for 2 weeks) on Billboard's Hot Top 100 chart...
  The two weeks it was at #3 the records at #1 and #2 remained the same for both those weeks; #1 was "Crimson and Clover" by Tommy James and the Shondells and #2 was "Everyday People" by Sly and the Family Stone.
• Barry from Sauquoit, NyOn December 21st 1968 "Worst That Could Happen" by Johnny Maestro & the Brooklyn Bridge entered Billboard's Hot Top 100 chart; and on January 26th, 1969 it peaked at #3 (for 2 weeks) and spent 12 weeks on the Top 100...
  Lead singer Johnny Maestro is a dual member of the Vocal Group Hall of Fame; first with the Crests in 2004 and with the Brooklyn Bridge in 2005...
  R.I.P. Mr. Maestro, born John Mastrangelo, 1939 - 2010.
• Jordan from Los Angeles, CaThis song is noted for the quoting from Mendelssohn's "Wedding March" from "A Midsummer's Nights Dream", heard at the conclusion of the song. In the 5th Dimension version, The March is heard in the electric organ, while in the Brooklyn Bridge version, the March is quoted by a handful of trumpets.
• Art from Minneapolis, MnAlways one of the best ever,heard it first in Nam '69. What a beautiful song and awesome job by Johnny. Like to think it got me through a lot...RIP Johnny.
• Nick from Grand Prairie,I love this song, but I always thought it was funny that the guy was saying that her marrying someone else was the worst that could happen, well, you know, other than actually marrying you myself!
• Tom from Springfield, OhThis is a song with lyrics that had real life meaning to it. The emotional tug it had on your heart. The easy to remember lyrics gives it a quality and format that is easy to sing over and over again when you want to feel unselfish for the greater good of someone else. A true shame the brooklyn bridge didn't have a longer life span.
• Stormy from Kokomo, InI first saw Brooklyn Bridge when I visited my good friend Danny Fawcett from Kokomo, Indiana in 1969 at Franklin College in Franklin, Indiana. He was his fraternity's president and set me up with a date for the evening. I don't remember anything about the girl, but I do remember the 11 piece band and how great Johnny Maestro sang!
• Camille from Toronto, OhThe Brooklyn Bridge version starts out "Girl, I heard you're getting married" and continues on in that fashion, slightly different than the lyrics listed here. The song rocks, but the true clincher comes towards the end when the horns very dramatically hit the first few notes of the "Wedding March" as the singer passionately laments losing this woman to another. Fabulous.
• Kevin from Syracuse, UtJimmy Webb recorded his own intensely personal version of this fine song. It appears on the CD "Ten Easy Pieces." I much prefer it to the hit version by the Brooklyn Bridge. So does my wife. We were driving through a lonely expanse of Wyoming about a year ago and I put it on the CD player. Now, my wife is not an overly sentimental or emotional person. But I looked over at her partway through the song and saw her wiping away tears. I had never seen her react that way to a song before.
• Howard from St. Louis Park, MnThe original version was recorded by The Fifth Dimension but it wasn't a hit. The song appeared on an album as a medley with Wedding Bell Blues.
• Fred from Summit, NeThe Brooklyn Bridge was the joining of two established groups, the Del-Satins and the Rhythm Heritage. At the time, Maestro was fronting the Del-Satins which included Fred Ferrara and Les Cauchi. There were no recordings issued by the then trio, who had only been performing together as such for a matter of months before the Bridge was built.

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