I've always had a soft spot for the Andy Williams easy-listening original but this ska'd up version works pretty nicely too. The Beat (or The English Beat as they were known in the US) were a late 70s/early 80s Birmingham based band who covered this and 'Tears Of A Clown' plus had a string of original singles such as 'Mirror In The Bathroom', 'Too Nice To Talk To' & 'Stand Down Margaret'. After a couple of albums, the band split to form General Public (best known for an instrumental version of one of their tracks playing during the climatic chase scene in 'Ferris Bueller's Day Off') and The Fine Young Cannibals (with Roland Gift). Incidentally, the teenage me would continuously mangle the title of this as 'Can't Get Loosed To Using You'(as Gary Davies also does in this intro!) which I guess would change the context entirely...
Bonus Clip: Here's my favourite non-Guilty Pleasure Beat track. It's apparently about narcissism and not cocaine dontchaknow!
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