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"My Prayer" was a song by the Platters.

History[]

On the night of August 5, 1956, a disc jockey at KPJK in New Mexico played "My Prayer," heard by a mechanic in town, a waitress at Pop's Diner, and Sarah Novack, who had just come home from a date. A woodsman wandered into the station and seized the DJ by the skull, knocking the stylus off the record and interrupting the song, before commandeering the station's signal to recite a poem.[1]

Behind the scenes[]

"My Prayer" is a 1939 song, popularized in a hit single released by the Platters in 1956. The Platters' rendition features as a radio broadcast in "Part 8" and, non-diegetically, during Dale Cooper and Diane Evans' sex scene in "Part 18." It appears as track 10 on Twin Peaks (Music From The Limited Event Series).

One of the original members of the Platters was coincidentally named David Lynch.

Lyrics[]

When the twilight is gone and no songbirds are singing
When the twilight is gone you come into my heart
And here in my heart you will stay while I pray

My prayer is to linger with you
At the end of the day in a dream that's divine
My prayer is a rapture in blue
With the world far away and your lips close to mine

Tonight while our hearts are aglow
Oh tell me the words that I'm longing to know

My prayer and the answer you give
May they still be the same for as long as we live
That you'll always be there at the end of my prayer

Credits[]

Written by Georges Boulanger and Jimmy Kennedy
Performed by The Platters
Published by Skidmore Music Co.
Courtesy of The Island Def Jam Music Group
Under license from Universal Music Enterprises

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