50+ Music<p>"To Know Him Is to Love Him" is a song written by <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/PhilSpector" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PhilSpector</span></a>, inspired by the words on his father's <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/gravestone" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>gravestone</span></a>, "To Know Him Was to Love Him". It was first recorded by the only vocal group of which he was a member, <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/TheTeddyBears" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TheTeddyBears</span></a>. The single spent three weeks at No. 1 on the <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Billboard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Billboard</span></a> Hot 100 <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/chart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>chart</span></a> in 1958, while reaching No. 2 on the UK's <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/NewMusicalExpress" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NewMusicalExpress</span></a> chart. <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/PeterAndGordon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PeterAndGordon</span></a>. <br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrwf-sIcr0M" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">youtube.com/watch?v=vrwf-sIcr0M</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>