24 May 1965
Dickie Rock’s version of ‘Every Step Of The Way’, a minor 1963 US hit for Johnny Mathis, is a wedding-day marriage-lifetime ballad with a key change at the end. In that regard it provides Irish precedent to Westlife’s ’00s songbook of life-sentence domestic commitment. Appalling moral culpability, I know, but I don’t say these things lightly.
Honestly, ‘Every Step Of The Way’ is slow and dreary beyond belief. Cliched too: you can finish each line before Dickie eventually gets around to it. The wedding didn’t feel this long, nor the marriage. Anyone buying this in 1965 amid The Beatles and the Stones was born elderly.
