Diane ray biography

Please Don't Talk to the Lifeguard

Songwriters Sylvia Dee and George Goehring, she of "Too Young" (Nat Cole) notoriety and he of "Lipstick on Your Collar" (Connie Francis) fame, collaborated on a 1961 ditty about a typical American girl crushin' on her local beachfront lifeguard, a heartthrob according to the media image of the early-'60s (the barber-shop-mustachioed, full-suited silent-movie-esque protector of swimmers from decades long past had been replaced by younger hunks wearing tighter trunks).

In the original 1961 version of Sylvia and George's "Please Don't Talk to the Lifeguard" on Epic Records, statuesque brunette Andrea Carroll obsessed about just such a guy on a sand-supported pedestal: 'how...can...I get to show him...that...I am so much in love with him?,' her vocal delivery purposely stilted, creating a heightened level of nervous anticipation.

The disc did little to advance the singer's popularity, but two years later a quicker-paced