I grew up watching Saturday afternoon matinee horror B-movies at the town theater for $.25. It was always inevitable that this song was played before each movie. I’ll forever relate the song to cheesy black and white, and low quality color horror movies.
I liked that song, although I sometimes had it in mind that the girl in the song was a bit mentally deficient.
I ran into a girl just like that one time. In college, buzzing through the park on my little motorcycle, a girl comes running out, barefoot, from a traveling commune VW microbus, flower print minidress, the whole thing, waving at me to give her a bike ride. I did. Good memory.
Meanwhile, on song/movie connections. In my youth, I heard Jackie DeShannon sing "Put A Little Love in Your Heart" about a zillion times, and now it's forever sullied by Bill Murray leading it in
Scrooged (although I did like the movie).