To Be With You

I heard "To Be With You" by Mr. Big today, and all of a sudden, so many memories of the early 90s came flooding back.

I remember listening to that song religiously in our car every night on the "Top 7 at 7" with "Tarzan Dan". 680 am was a preset on our dial, and I used to love running out to the car each night to check out what would be number one.

Upon reflection, 680 was a pretty good station-- Jesse and Gene in the morning (my favourite segment was "Wreck a Wedding Wednesday" in which they'd call some unsuspecting bride and lie to her about something like her dress being burned in a fire just days before the ceremony... major lols) and then Tarzan Dan at night.

The song "To Be With You" is, to this day, probably one of my favourite one hit wonders. I remember being genuinely confused as to whether the singer was male or female-- and the video didn't help solve the mystery (thank you 80s hair). One of my friends and I argued over that so much-- but neither of us was honestly totally sure.

I don't know why, exactly, that song was so popular to me. It just was mellow, I guess. Hearing it today made me feel a bit mellow too... smiling about a time when things seemed so much simpler, when the highlight of my day would be running out to the car on a warm summer evening to hear the top seven songs of the day counted down by a guy named "Tarzan."

I wish I could go back to that time with the knowledge I have now. I wonder how different things would be.