Raise All Kinds Of Candy To The Stars

As I’ve said before, the 1959-64 period, quite far from being a deadwood limbo of time-marking, was liminal in nature. Suddenly there were no rules and it did briefly appear as though anything could get into the charts and sell a million. I am not sure that there is any precedent for “The Mountain’s High,” one of the most extraordinary records ever to become a major hit. Dick and Dee Dee were Richard Gosting and Mary Sperling. Classmates at Paul Revere Junior High School in Los Angeles, they did not meet again until Gosting bumped into Sperling, who was working in a See’s Candies store in Los Angeles (Lena assures me that See’s Candies are amongst the most delicious confectionery in existence, and moreover the company is secretly Canadian, since its founder came from Ontario). Gosting was looking for work, but the two soon realised that they both wrote and sang songs and so began a professional partnership (there was never a romantic link between the two). “The Mountain’s