My Music Journal 2025: June 26, 2025

 

Thursday, June 26, 2025

Song: You Don’t Have to Say You Love Me
Artist: Dusty Springfield
Mode of Consumption: Playing on Sirius radio on way home from Jodi’s mom’s house.

Link to song: https://open.spotify.com/track/0q8nQ0H4ad4KYcZdrTZPux?si=9a35d93ab2784db8

We picked up Jodi’s mom’s Edge after working at the fair tonight because Jodi is going to drop it off for an oil change tomorrow. It’s a nifty little car shuffle we do a few times a year.

We’re cruising on Coleta Road on a balmy summer night. It’s been a week of steamy days and balmy nights. There’s supposed to be a cool front rolling in overnight. Hope that happens.

“Doesn’t someone else do this song?” I ask, as Dusty Springfield belt out the chorus.

“Hmmm, I think this is the version that I know.” Jodi answers.

“I just seem to remember a male voice doing this, maybe even a duet.”

“I don’t know, you can look on my phone.”

I don’t. I wait until I am writing, still sure I remember a male-female duet on some compilation album from my youth.

Looking on Spotify now, I see Cher has a version. Elvis. Brenda Lee. None of these are the versions I remember.

Is this a false memory?

Did I encounter some obscure version and assume it to be the standard?

Maybe one day I’ll know for sure.