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• Lee Barker from OrThank you Sam of Sherman Oaks for parsing the changes. Something else, and I need a little help here. The Casinos version has, to me, a distinct 6/8 feel which blends with the lyric so sweetly. Some of the solo-singer versions I've listened to seem to be trying to shoehorn the song into 2/4 or 4/4 and it never settles. Just my $.02.
• BobPoignant
• Maryhelen from Illinoisthe original recording or this song was by don cherry in 1962 and there are 5 other covers before the casinos.
• John From Bel Air from Maryland67 was when we started dating and two years later we married, but we still used this song at our wedding. We're still together 52 years later.
• Marilyn from FloridaFirst record I ever bought I sing it to one of my senior cat's as his time is running out.
• Sam from Sherman Oaksit's actually interesting what the Casino's did to their version of the song compared to the original by Don Cherry. the original was a super typical I minor VI Minor II Major V so when they did their version of the song, they substituted the Major V with the diminished II (they also added a 7th onto it). they also added a cool intro with a Diminished I chord resolving to the Diminished II chord that wasn't in the original.
• Ricky from Ohsweken, Ontario CanadaListen CAREFULLY and you can hear talking in the middle of this song.
• Barry from Sauquoit, NyOn January 8th, 1967, "Then You Can Tell Me Goodbye" by the Casinos entered Billboard's Hot Top 100 chart; and on March 5th it peaked at #6 {for 1 week} and spent 13 weeks on the Top 100...
  It was composed by John D. Loudermilk, who also wrote Paul Revere & the Raiders #1 hit, "Indian Reservation"...
  Three covered versions have charted on the Top 100; Eddy Arnold {#84 in 1968}, Glen Campbell {#27 in 1976}, and Toby Beau {#57 in 1979}...
  And on October 13th, 1968 Eddy Arnold's version reached #1 {for 2 weeks} on Billboard's Hot Country Singles chart.
• Robert from Hagerstown, MdThis was one of the greatest songs of all time. I was stationed at Ft. Bragg, NC in basic when I first heard it.
• Camille from Toronto, OhWow. The words say it all. Everything else is a bonus. What a classic.
• Stacie from Farmerville, LaPhil Langley of Lake Charles, Louisiana actually co-wrote this song when he was 15. Story was he had just broken up with a girlfriend. He ended up selling the song for about $1,500.00. Phil was, and still is a wonderful Saxophone player who now plays for the Lord in his church orchestra.
• Darren from Clarkston, WaDobie Gray also did a soulful rendition of this song too!
• Donovan from Sacramento, CaWhat is very surprising is that this song cracked the Billboard Top 10 in 1967 when psychedelic music was in full swing and when slow doo-wop ballads were from a bygone era. It is a very beautiful song though.
• Chip from Tiltonsville, OhNeil McCoy also did a great version of this song a few years ago.

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