The first song, "Man In The Raincoat", was a top-20 hit in 1955 for both Marion Marlowe and Priscilla Wright.
In this one the gullible protagonist gets taken for a ride by a con artist who "proposes marriage" to her, but "needs money" to set things up.
After a no-show on his part when she goes downtown to meet up with him the next day she figures out, too late, she's apparently been had.
The second song, "Last Time I Saw Him", a 1974 solo hit for Diana Ross, hits upon the same theme. Except the protagonist in this story is a bit daft as she never catches on that she's been bilked by the guy who said he "had to borrow some money so he could get us both set up"
...and the only thing he "set up", of course, was her.
Even after all that she still refuses to believe the obvious, still sticking with her idealistic expectations and hopes
...even going so far as to eventually purchase a bus ticket to travel to his home town, figuring that if he "hasn't made it back by now something must have gone wrong" and that he "might be in some kind of trouble", so she's "going to him" because he probably "needs her by his side".
In this one the gullible protagonist gets taken for a ride by a con artist who "proposes marriage" to her, but "needs money" to set things up.
After a no-show on his part when she goes downtown to meet up with him the next day she figures out, too late, she's apparently been had.
The second song, "Last Time I Saw Him", a 1974 solo hit for Diana Ross, hits upon the same theme. Except the protagonist in this story is a bit daft as she never catches on that she's been bilked by the guy who said he "had to borrow some money so he could get us both set up"
...and the only thing he "set up", of course, was her.
Even after all that she still refuses to believe the obvious, still sticking with her idealistic expectations and hopes
...even going so far as to eventually purchase a bus ticket to travel to his home town, figuring that if he "hasn't made it back by now something must have gone wrong" and that he "might be in some kind of trouble", so she's "going to him" because he probably "needs her by his side".
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