The opening reworks The Crystals’ “Da Doo Ron Ron” (1963), where she meets him on a Monday and somebody tells her his name is Bill.
Nonsense syllables, the way doo-wop sings them — the genre is named after a refrain like it — and The Crystals’ “da doo ron-ron” began as just such a dummy line.
, she caught my eye
On a starry night beneath the April sky
Each day I saw her, magic seemed to grow
The kind of love that only dreamers know
Da doo ron-de ron, we danced till dawn
Till the stars had fled and the night was gone
Now every Monday, I smile at the past
For love like ours, it’s built to last
Da doo ron-de ron, with a heart so true
In a world of gray, she’s my sky of blue.
Spoken in a low voice, the way the bass talked a chorus through in nearly every song by The Ink Spots — in effect, a nod to them.