February 23: Our Day Will Come

“Our Day Will Come,” sung by Ruby and the Romantics, entered the Billboard chart of hit songs on this date in 1963, where it would climb to #1. The song was co-written by Bob Hilliard (Goldsmith) and Mort Garson. Hilliard was a Tin Pan Alley lyricist who also worked with Burt Bacharach, Carl Sigman, Jule Styne, and many others; he was posthumously inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1983 (Hilliard died at 53). Garson, Canadian-born, was one of the first composers to use the Moog synthesizer in his music, which spanned “from easy listening to occult-influenced space-age electronic pop,” according to AllMusic. “Our Day Will Come” was recorded first with mid-tempo arrangement and then in a bossa nova style with a Hammond organ; it was the second version that was released, which you can hear below. Amy Winehouse covered the song for her debut album in 2002 -- look further down to hear that.

“No one can tell me that I’m too young to know/I love you so/And you love me.” —“Our Day Will Come”