One Less Bell to Answer

Perpetrator: The Fifth Dimension
Highest Chart Position: #2, 1970
Sap Elements: Sadness, self-pity, arrangement

Toss this one immediately into the "I can't live without love," Bacharach-music bin. The overriding metaphor of lover as fried egg does not speak well for the emotional state of the vocalist. The closing "one less egg to fry" vamping is a high point of hilarious sap kitsch.

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