280 The Monotones “The Book of Love” 1957

The sextet “had sung in the same church choir as Dionne Warwick and Cissy Houston before forming their own group…Inspired by a television commercial for toothpaste (‘You’ll wonder where the yellow went when you brush your teeth with Pepsodent’), Patrick, Malone and Davis wrote ‘Book of Love’ to a similar melody” (The Encyclopedia of Popular Music). 

The Monotones “The Book of Love”