Ray Charles Wrote It?!?

Whoop... not that Ray Charles, it turns out...

Fifty Nifty United States then, for your Saturday afternoon listening pleasures (I don't like the syrupy soprano lyrics here -- I remember the presentation more as a classroom of voices more shouting** than singing the states out -- but the melody is on here... )

And surely only a GenXer can appreciate that the man (nee Chuck Ostenberg, a Chicago boy from Hyde Park) who wrote the schoolchild classic also composed the Three's Company theme:

Come and knock on our door... (Come and knock on our door)
We've been waiting for you.... (We've been waiting for you)
Where the kisses* are hers and hers and his,
Three's company too.

Come and dance on on our floor... (Come and dance on on our floor)
Take a step that is new... (Take a step that is new)
We've a loveable space that needs your face,
Three's company too.

You'll see that life is a ball again, laughter is calling for you...
Down at our rendezvous... (Down at our rendezvous)
Three's company too!

* Having Internet access too gives you lyrics access. I must have had bad hearing young, because I always thought the "curtains" were hers and hers and his... (no, it doesn't make sense.  I didn't over think it, they shared an apartment;  thought it was like separate towels in the bathroom or something...)

And rendezvous?  Not a word in my vocab back then.  They lived near the beach;  I thought it was a California thing and sang it as, "...Down Menomenay View"... Three's Company Too!  

At least I heard the states right, I guess.

**  NEW Hampshire, NEW Jersey, NEW Mexico, NEW York... North Carolina, North Dakota... O-hi-O!