Looking back now, it was the perfect pre-pubescent single: sexy but not too threatening, funky but not too black; it had nursery-rhyme lyrics that lodged in your head and a singalong coda nicked off Hey Jude.
He and Payne have sometimes hooked up two keyboards to the same computer, though they usually trade off: " 'Hey, you take a crack at this scene while I answer some e-mail.' And then we read it and edit".
Now they just hide their motors [used to do the mining], because there's infiltration - that's to say, someone doing the intervention tips them off: 'Hey, we're going to intervene.
The CD's low point might be the "Whoo!" she delivers in "Last Name," after explaining, "It started off, 'Hey, Cutie, where you from?'/And then it turned into, 'Oh, no, what have I done?'/And I don't even know his last name".
Apart from enjoying the sex scenes, some cool clothes and moments of crisp repartee between Samantha and her big (and not so tall) dates, I can't see people, even in other cities, sustaining interest in characters and a plot line whose novelty had already begun to wear off (hey, this is New York) when Darren Star, the producer, turned it into a television series.
"Leo — the head lion — I mean, they were all named fucking Leo Leoeo calls out to me just before he takes off, 'Hey, Tiger, you gotta come with,' " Williams says, sporting a bushy salt-and-pepper beard and tatty gray schmatte, whose drabness signals his caged decline.
The former Neighbours star, who has sold almost 70 million records, is to appear in the one-off Hey Diddle Dee, part of Playhouse Presents… series on Sky Arts.
The site has had little national coverage because its creators, Simon Forrester and Andrew Craven, are not self-promoters, but we swap excited tip-offs (hey, race you to this one!) on email all the time.
("I can bring it up/ I can make it hop/ I can take it off… Hey? Where'd the beat go?") In its wicked doubleness, it foreshadowed a lot of the songs Lowell would go on to write, music that's sunny and summery on the surface and pure winter drizzle beneath.
The rings are tighter now, and it may take more than a little soapy water to slip them off so hey can be slipped back on.
"It starts off as, 'Hey, how about this?' And then they try and explain things".
