‘Just This One Time’ by Jimmy Webb

Here is “Just This One Time”. Robert Francis first showed me this song, but the more cleaned up yet equally brilliant Glenn Campbell version. This version’s messiness hits me harder. I love schmaltz when it's a little ugly. When the saccharine is honest and the corners aren’t smoothed and the cracks show. Ringo’s reverb drenched drums explode their way through the song like meteors hitting Jimmy Webb’s raw plea. This is the kind of song that’s soaring over-the-topness speaks to the romantic side of me.

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