The Dean and I
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| Single by 10cc from the album 10cc (album) |
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| Released | August 1974 | ||||
| Genre | Pop | ||||
| Label | Mercury | ||||
| Writer(s) | Kevin Godley Lol Creme |
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The Dean and I is a song by the Art Rock/Pop band 10cc from their 1973 eponymous debut album written by Kevin Godley and Lol Creme. The song was released as as the forth single from the album in August 1974 and peaked at #10 on the British charts. Making it the lowest of the actual charting singles from the album.
The album version of the song is slightly longer than the single version, the majority of time cut for the single release is from the introduction where the amount of times the lyric "Hum drum days and a hum drum ways" is sang is reduced. The single version of the song can be found on the compilation Greatest Hits ... And More (2006)
The song is written from the perspective of an American father telling his children about how he met and fell in love with their mother. In fact the first real line of the song is "Hey kids let me tell you how I met your mom, we were dancing and romancing at the senior prom"
The epic poem Paradise Lost by John Milton is mentioned in the lyrics.
The song is a blatant parody of 1960s commercial Pop music. Most notable is the Beach Boys send up containing the line "And then I kissed her" sang in a similar style to the band's 1967 hit single Then I Kissed Her.
A notable 1974 performance of the song appears on Don Kirshner's Rock Concert.
In an interview some years after the release of the album Godley has been quoted as claiming he disliked the song while ironically Graham Gouldman (who had no part in writing the song) and his band Graham Gouldman and Friends continue to perform the song live.
