The song was a simple pop ditty about a woman telling her lover that their relationship is over.
It can be a pop ditty, a jazz exploration and an Afro-Brazilian celebration; it's almost always dance music.
Or they are candy-coated pop ditties glorifying the exploits of surfers.
Eric, the oldest of three boys, has a Moog synthesizer in his bedroom and has begun composing electronic pop ditties.
Verbally, he was just as agile, whether condensing the story of Hamlet into a three-minute pop ditty or making up a song about chemical engineering on the spot.
PopWreckoning.com said the cover was "a strange twist to this pop ditty.
By 1961, even the most insipid pop ditties were usually driven by a semblance of rock-and-roll rhythm.
He even began singing some pop ditty, but broke off on a particularly sour note and jovially laughed at himself.
Its first single, "Hey Ya," a rollicking, hip-shimmying pop ditty, could easily have appeared on an early Beatles album.