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TO KNOW HIM IS TO LOVE HIM

It was 1958 and popular that year was   To Know Him Is to Love Him , by the Teddy Bears.  I bring this subject on this Sunday because my freshman college roommate said:  This is all about God. While that option was only a remote possibility to me at that time, I re-thought this potential when I woke up to view on Music Choice this song.  So what are the alternatives? Your father. A pet. God. A dog. Someone you like. So I went to  Wikipedia , and saw that the song was written by Phil Spector... THE infamous Phil Spector   ( left, also bottom left in above photo and playing guitar in the You Tube song ), who I'll delve into a bit later.  He said the words were on his father's tombstone:   To have known him was to have loved him .  Well, I guess that answers the question.  Then again, maybe not.   Spector further said that, for the music, he slowed-down the 1926  When the Red, Red Robin (Comes Bob, Bobbin' Along) , first made popular by Al Jolson.  Written that year by Harry W