Ironically enough, one song that sticks in my mind was also an Everly Brothers song, "I Kissed Ya". Remember sitting in my 57 Chevy with my girlfriend "making out".
Another that had a lot of meaning was "Sweet Nothings" by Brenda Lee. We would park in the driveway and when "momma turned on the front porch light" it was time for her to go in.
Some 50 years later I met Brenda in the hotel where I was playing. She was really down about something and had too much to drink and I ended up helping her to her room. THAT'S ALL THAT HAPPENED, Russ!
Another song that I'll never forget is "Blue Suede Shoes". I had been playing bass with a band at college and had only sung in the shower at that time. I was home one weekend in 1964 or 65 and a local guitar player that I knew called and said he needed a bass player for the next night, to play at the Mohawk Lounge in Tulsa. Just me, him and a drummer. Really tough place with lots of drunk Indians (Native Americans). Sure I'd do it.
We got there and the guy had brought his brother to sing. Turned out he couldn't carry a tune at all. He was awful. Guitar player asked if I wold sing any songs and I thought well I couldn't be any worse. I knew the words to several songs from listening on the radio and actually practiced singing a few at home.
Anyway, I said sure let's do Blue Suede Shoes. He asked what key and I said G. He thought I said E. He counted the song off and hit a big E chord and I hit a big G note on the bass and my "One for the money" was somewhere in between. We looked at each other and I said I'm in G and he said he was in E and we BOTH changed keys. It got even worse. The Indians were either laughing or booing or a combination. Finally we stopped the song completely. Got our heads together and got through it. We ended up doing the song three times that night, and the Indians were really drunk by then and were cheering their tails off but I didn't sing again in public for at least another year.