"Little Deuce Coupe"

A couple days ago, I listened to the two-albums-on-one-CD re-issue of Little Deuce Coupe and All Summer Long, and later I realized that there's a somewhat significant contrast in "Little Deuce Coupe," specifically in the line "But she'll walk a Thunderbird like it's standin' still."  The narrator's affection towards his car is such that he's anthropomorphized it to some degree, using a feminine pronoun to refer to it throughout the song ("She's my little deuce coupe," "She'll do a hundred and forty...," "She's got a competition clutch...," and so on), but a competitor's Thunderbird is still just an object and is referred to with the neuter "it."

"When I Grow Up (To Be a Man)"

I was thinking about "When I Grow Up (To Be a Man)" a couple days ago, specifically about the recurring harpsichord phrase in the verses, which is something like:

The rhythm here seemed familiar to me, and eventually, I realized that it's the same as the rhythm of the guitar part in the first "verse" of "Shut Down, Part II," which is something like this:

While the melodies are different, the rhythm is the same, but I don't know whether this was an intentional re-use or just a coincidence.

"Let's Put Our Hearts Together"

In the line "Take your time; don't worry how you feel because you know we've got forever" in "Let's Put Our Hearts Together," "forever" is sung with a melisma (F# A# C# B A#) and lasts for nearly a full measure.  Both of these features lend a sense of duration.

"A Casual Look"

Yester-day, I listened to the two-albums-on-one-CD re-issue of 15 Big Ones and Love You.  I noticed that, perhaps just coincidentally, some lines in "A Casual Look" are identical to some lines in "I'm So Young" (from Today!).  Here's the second verse of "A Casual Look":

A soldier boy when he proposed

She said no; his face just froze

You know she loved him

But was so young

Can't marry no one

Can't marry no one

And here's the first verse of "I'm So Young":

I have a girlfriend; she says I'm her only one

We wanna get married, but we're so young

So young

Can't marry no one

Both end with "So young / Can't marry no one."  Furthermore, as I've noted before, in both, "young" is sung with a melisma, providing a sense of degree (for "so").

According to the liner notes of the respective albums, "A Casual Look" was written by Ed Wells, and "I'm So Young" by William Tyus.