{"id":963,"date":"2026-08-24T16:43:52","date_gmt":"2026-08-24T16:43:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/civatar.com\/suziqsthoughts\/?p=963"},"modified":"2026-08-24T16:45:02","modified_gmt":"2026-08-24T16:45:02","slug":"mm-1960-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/civatar.com\/suziqsthoughts\/2026\/08\/24\/mm-1960-3\/","title":{"rendered":"MM = 1960"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-white-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-7e4ac651328708ea719ac0894fa30934\">.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/civatar.com\/suziqsthoughts\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2026\/08\/image-5-1024x683.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-964\" srcset=\"https:\/\/civatar.com\/suziqsthoughts\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2026\/08\/image-5-1024x683.png 1024w, https:\/\/civatar.com\/suziqsthoughts\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2026\/08\/image-5-300x200.png 300w, https:\/\/civatar.com\/suziqsthoughts\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2026\/08\/image-5-768x512.png 768w, https:\/\/civatar.com\/suziqsthoughts\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2026\/08\/image-5-1536x1024.png 1536w, https:\/\/civatar.com\/suziqsthoughts\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2026\/08\/image-5-2000x1333.png 2000w, https:\/\/civatar.com\/suziqsthoughts\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2026\/08\/image-5.png 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-white-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-7e4ac651328708ea719ac0894fa30934\">.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Tell Laura I Love Her by Ray Peterson (LYRICS)\" width=\"1140\" height=\"641\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zrwt0y2YY6E?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-white-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-7e4ac651328708ea719ac0894fa30934\">.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>&#8220;Tell Laura I Love Her&#8221; is a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Teenage_tragedy_song\">teenage tragedy song<\/a>&nbsp;written by&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jeff_Barry\">Jeff Barry<\/a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ben_Raleigh\">Ben Raleigh<\/a>. It was a US&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Record_chart\">top ten<\/a>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Popular_music\">popular music<\/a>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hit_song\">hit<\/a>&nbsp;for singer&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ray_Peterson\">Ray Peterson<\/a>&nbsp;in 1960 on&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/RCA_Victor_Records\">RCA Victor Records<\/a>, reaching No. 7 on the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Billboard_Hot_100\"><em>Billboard<\/em>&nbsp;Hot 100 chart<\/a>.<sup><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tell_Laura_I_Love_Her#cite_note-1\">&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/a><\/sup>Later that same year, it was recorded and released<sup><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tell_Laura_I_Love_Her#cite_note-2\">&nbsp;<\/a><\/sup>by&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ricky_Valance\">Ricky Valance<\/a>&nbsp;in the United Kingdom, where it went to the No. 1 spot on the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/UK_singles_chart\">UK singles chart<\/a>.<sup><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tell_Laura_I_Love_Her#cite_note-OCC-3\">&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/a><\/sup>The song has been a hit in 14 countries, and has sold over seven million copies.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>The song tells the tragic story from a witness&#8217; perspective of a young man named Tommy who is in love with Laura and wants to marry her, so he enters a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Stock_car_racing\">stock car race<\/a>, despite being the youngest and most inexperienced driver, hoping to win and use the prize money to buy Laura a wedding ring. The second verse tells how his car overturns and bursts into flames, although nobody knows what had happened. Tommy is fatally injured and his last words are &#8220;Tell Laura I love her&#8230; My love for her will never die&#8221;. In the final verse, Laura prays inside the chapel, where a church organ is heard, and where she can still hear Tommy&#8217;s voice intoning the title one more time, before it fades out.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>. . . &#8220;Tell Laura I Love Her&#8221; is a&nbsp;teenage tragedy song&nbsp;written by&nbsp;Jeff Barry&nbsp;and&nbsp;Ben Raleigh. It was a US&nbsp;top ten&nbsp;popular music&nbsp;hit&nbsp;for singer&nbsp;Ray Peterson&nbsp;in 1960 on&nbsp;RCA Victor Records, reaching No. 7 on the&nbsp;Billboard&nbsp;Hot 100 chart.&nbsp;&nbsp;Later that same year, it was recorded and released&nbsp;by&nbsp;Ricky Valance&nbsp;in the United Kingdom, where it went to the No. 1 spot on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":92,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wds_primary_category":1,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/civatar.com\/suziqsthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/963","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/civatar.com\/suziqsthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/civatar.com\/suziqsthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/civatar.com\/suziqsthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/92"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/civatar.com\/suziqsthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=963"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/civatar.com\/suziqsthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/963\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/civatar.com\/suziqsthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/civatar.com\/suziqsthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/civatar.com\/suziqsthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}