Looking Forward to Looking Back: 10 Albums Celebrating Anniversaries in 2012
by Josh KurpPage 3 of 10
“Puppy Love” by Donny Osmond
The Anniversary: 40th, Release in 1972
Paul Anka wrote “Puppy Love” in 1960 for his girlfriend at the time, former-Mouseketeer Annette Funicello. The song reached #2 on the Billboard charts. Twelve years later, current-Mormon Donny Osmond covered the song, and his version peaked at #3. (It finished the year at #56, in-between the Main Ingredient’s “Everybody Plays the Fool” and Mouth & MacNeal’s “How Do You Do?”) On March 15, 1972, Los Angeles-based DJ Robert W. Morgan played “Puppy” for 90 minutes straight on KHJ. According to this-day-in-musical-history website Triple A Radio, this lead the “LAPD to mistakenly raid the station studios after receiving numerous calls from listeners. The perplexed officers left without making any arrests.” I say some Clear Channel DJ should do this again, though their stations are so repetitious these days, I bet no one would even notice.
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