I was unfamiliar with that until the other day, when it turned up on the Facebook page of Records drummer Will Birch, who co-wrote the song with the late and much missed John Wicks.
Longtime readers will, of course, recall that another take on it appears on The Floor Models' (recorded in 1982) live album.
As you may be able to tell, our version was quite blatantly cribbed not so much from the Records original but rather from The Searchers' cover (on their self-titled 1979 comeback album). I should add that "Hearts..." was the very first non-original song that the Flo Mos ever worked up, and that we performed it I would guess at just about every gig we played in our entire career. Hell, we did it so often everybody in Greenwich Village thought we wrote it.
In any case, Ms. Carpenter's version does it full justice, I think. Birch thinks so too.
Hmm...I seem to recall I had an 80s Carpenter CD with an original of hers that I listened to a lot at the time. Let me do the research on that and get back to you.
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