Puppy Love (Paul Anka song) Puppy Love (Paul Anka song) "Puppy Love" is a popular song written by Paul Anka in 1960 for Annette Funicello, whom he was dating at the time. Anka's version reached #2 on the "Billboard" Hot 100 behind Percy Faith's "Theme from "A Summer Place"" and #33 on the UK Singles Chart. Twelve years later the song was revived by Donny Osmond. It was released on February 19, 1972, and reached #3 on the Billboard Hot 100 on April 1, 1972. It peaked at #1 in April 1972 on both the Canadian "RPM" singles chart for three weeks and the UK
In Love with a Statue In Love with a Statue In Love with a Statue is an Italian fairy tale collected by Thomas Frederick Crane in "Italian Popular Tales". A king had two sons. The younger one fell in love with a statue. His older brother set out to see if he could find a woman like it. He bought a dancing mouse and a singing bird on the way, and saw a beautiful girl, exactly like the statue, appeared at a window when a beggar knocked on the door. He posed as a merchant of looking glasses and lured her onto his ship, and