While I was waiting to go to Broadcasting School, I had many odd jobs. One of them was delivering cars. Before the internet, car dealers would be in contact with each other. If a person wanted a certain type of car in some city, and they didn’t have it, instead of waiting on the manufacture to make a new one, they’d contact another dealer in a different town. That dealer would then sell the car and deliver it. My job was to drive the new car to the town and drive home the “trade in”.
One of those deliveries in 1987 had me going to the Twin Cities. While trying not to get lost, or crash the new car, it seemed every radio station I hit was playing a new song by a new teenage artist. She was called Tiffany, and the song was a remake called “I think we’re alone now”. It was hit for Tommy James and the Shondells in early 1967, and now this young girl was going around the malls in America performing it. It ended up being a top 10 hit for the young lady, and on that day in the Twin Cities I must’ve heard it a dozen times. So much so I got a little tired of it. When I got back to Bismarck, I didn’t plan on putting it on my cassette, but then I saw a picture of Tiffany. Yea, redhead. Always been a weakness for me. Calm down pervs, she’s only 3 years younger than me and, at the time, we were both teenagers.