Close To Cathy
I'm so close to Cathy
I know just what she's dreaming of
She always calls me up to tell me
Every time she falls in love
Oh, I'm so close to Cathy
I know her every tender sigh
She loves to cry upon my shoulder
Always for some other guy
Oh, why can't she see
The one true, lasting love in her life should be me?
I'm so close to Cathy
As close as anyone can be
And I'll stay close to Cathy
Hoping someday she'll feel close to me
I'm so close to Cathy
As close as anyone can be
And I'll stay close to Cathy
Hoping someday she'll feel close to me
S E E D E D C O N T E N T
If you can remember this song you are old.
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@carlosremis2576
5 years ago
I fell in love with Kathy at age 13, in 1962 when I first met her and this song was popular. Unfortunately she and I were best friends and talked on the phone for hours, especially about her boyfriend. To this date, 58 years later, I still love her. She passed away three and a half years ago, and my love is as great as ever. This song has been my favorite since the first time I heard it in 1962. Perhaps we'll meet again in heaven.
@shortroundify
11 years ago
I had a mad crush on a girl named Kathy when this song was popular. Each time I hear it, I see her face.
@DJDONbucs
14 years ago
I've been telling people about this song for almost 50 years. I was beginning to think I was the only person still alive who remembered it. I'm happy to know so many more people appreciate this hauntingly beautiful song and that Mike Clifford is still around to appreciate these comments.
@donaldmorrow3096
5 years ago
The power in this performance is that it is completely true to itself. It doesn't aim for Sinatra or Darin or even Anka. Mike Clifford just stands there and tells you his predicament so simply and hopefully that even the orchestra leader had sense enough to hold back. And for the three minutes of the song you are all in. Teen idol pop in its purest form.
@kainnosgoth7336
11 years ago
As a heavy metal and punk rock kind of guy (being the 80's was my heyday) I'm also a musician and appreciate good music, and this was a very heartfelt song.
All of us guys knew a Kathy and wanted to be hers, but all she saw you as was a listening post and someone she could unload on. And then you had to sit and helplessly watch as she went to another guy,hoping that it would be you, and it never was.
Then graduation day came and aside form signing your yearbook and telling you what a nice guy you were, that's the last you ever saw of her. Decades later, an older man is looking at her picture in that yearbook, that timeless picture. And as you read the last words she wrote to you in your yearbook, you realize it's been decades later.
And you begin pining for her all over again..........
@jimmypage2138
10 years ago
Wow, how much music has changed in the last 50 years..
@Cissy2cute
11 years ago
A real classic; beautiful. It captures a moment frozen in time.
@muffs55mercury61
3 years ago
Yep I was in love with a Kathy in 8th grade (1969-70) but she liked the athletic type guys which I was not. We did stay as friends and I sent her a card and sympathy flowers after her mom died unexpectedly in 1978. Kathy really appreciated that.
@jamescity1160
11 months ago
This brings me back to my Aunt Betty's sister, Cathy. I had this song going through my head the day I met her. RIP Aunt Betty.
@nvsssnake
10 years ago
When I hear this I think of the Cathy I was in love with. She did just like Mike saying in the song, tell me about boyfriends,
we go out and have fun, but I was just a friend. What could have been.
@jcrobso
14 years ago
In 1962 I met a girl named Kathy, we have been married for 45 years so far!
@2004mojo
13 years ago
When I was a kid this was one of the few 45's we had. I think my fathers' sister bought it because my mother only bought albums. They lived with us one summer. I fell in love with the song because I thought it was so sad yet beautiful & romantic.
@philseida5238
7 years ago
What a Beautiful Song which has Heartfelt Meaning To Me as I’m totally in Love With A Beautiful Librarian Named Catherine(Cathy shortened). Unrequited Love Hurts more then any Physical Pain surely. Bless her Beautiful Heart and Thank You Mike Clifford for a Beautiful Song from a forgotten Era. To all the Cathy’s out there. That’s for you.
@dconley194756
13 years ago
Pardon my language but that has to be the prettiest fucking song ever recorded!
@markkilmer8606
8 years ago
heard this song in an elevator once over a year ago, and it's still very captivating.
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@546mh
13 years ago
It's hard to believe this was the number one song during the Cuban Missile Crisis in October 1962.
@virginiaschaefer2705
4 years ago
I remember this song, last time I heard it was in the mid sixties.
@Grundig305
2 years ago
Every guy had a Kathy.
@lindaeasley4336
6 years ago
This has such a haunting sound to it
@marccharboneau4463
5 years ago (edited)
I had real crush on girl named Kathy Sartler back in my hometown of Milwaukee.She was my next-door neighbour.I came across her later on sitting next to her on public transit. Miss her to this day........
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@shoopdj
6 years ago
This was a fav song back in the 60's when I was dating Cathy. She's gone now, but I wish her well wherever she is.
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@sibjoan
15 years ago
wow, thanks for posting this. I heard this song playing while I was walking around Walgreens and it was the first time I heard it since I was a little girl of only 10. I liked it then, and it was surreal to hear it again. Anyway, I looked on Youtube to see if somebody may have it posted, and I found it! Thanks for the trip back in time!
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@2004mojo
12 years ago
I still have a 45 record of this song. I keep it because it reminds my of my youth. I was 9 when it came out. I think my 2 teenaged aunts bought it. It's a beautiful song.
@mechohaulic
11 years ago
Cathy (Barnes) Dimarco, where ever You are; THANK YOU for being a teenager's best friend in the '60s.
I MISS YOU STILL TODAY.
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I dont think anything else can invoke sentimentality the way music does. The You Tube commenters remember this somewhat obscure song and connect it to their own lost or unrequited love from many decades ago.
Close To Cathy - Mike Clifford - 1962
Mike Clifford is 81 years old and still making recordings and performing.