though he later said, “It’s just a look back at the period in every boy’s life where he has pinups.” Daltrey sang the song with what he called “complete innocence,” and the band promoted it with a series of risqué postcards, causing a mild controversy that helped assure its To...
In an emotional Donna Reed scene from an October 1962 episode, Petersen sang the song while his TV father Carl Betz proudly looked on. “Carl and I could hardly contain ourselves,” Petersen remembers. “The song is magic. We knew it then and we know it today. To this day I get some...