Music: Fast Hit

The play on TV's Studio One was about a disk jockey involved in a murder. As he played peekaboo with a psychopathic killer and tangled with the police, turntables all over the place kept spinning a record called Let Me Go, Lover—the murderer's favorite song, of course. On the record, an unknown singer named Joan Weber sang a maudlin waltz in a husky, quivering voice:

Oh, let me go, let me go, let me go,

lover,

Let me be, set me free from your spell. You made me weep, cut me deep,

can't sleep, lover, I...

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