'I
Love the little wiggle in your walk'
Sweet
And Innocent
1971
Donny
Osmond
We had our own 'Justin Bieber' back in the 70's...and his name was Donny Osmond.
He crooned his way onto the scene in 1971 with 'Sweet and Innocent'', which came out in Spring of '71, and reached #7 on the Billboard Hot 100 in June of '71.
What a lot of people...and probably all of Donny Osmond's fans...didn't realize...was that Sweet and Innocent wasn't written for Donny Osmond (In fact all of his hits were covers) but was written one year after he was borne, in 1958, by Rick Hall and Billy Sherrill, and recorded by Roy Orbison...his version didn't chart.
Donny Osmond's version was immensely popular though...I was in 8th grade at the time, and I well remember a couple of the young ladies of Southampton Jr High School singing this in the morning before home room. At their lockers. In the North Wing. (Yes, one of them may or may not be on my Facebook Friends List...lol)
So enjoy! Sweet and Innocent by Donny Osmond.
And as a bonus another Donny Osmond tune...Too Young...sung on The Lucy Show, starring the incomparable Lucille Ball, in 1972. This will be one of the few times I use a different tune than the main post for the bonus, and I included this because it's another case of Teen Idol Meeting Teen Idol. See if you can spot the member of the cast of a certain sitcom classic in this clip!
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