As it turned out, it was the right move. According to an interview with Richard (Dick) and Robert (Bob) Sherman published in the September/October 1996 issue of Performing Songwriter magazine, and available on the magazine's website: Dick: You know, in those days we were just trying to make a dollar. A 2016 book by Nicholas L. Syrett called American Child Bride: A History Of Minors And Marriage In The United States portrays concern with marriage age and age of consent laws as a phenomenon that arose in the mid-to-late 19th century, as part of an overall change in the way understood the way law related to children. Ringo Starr did a popular cover. But at least in this case, the reason behind it is that the Sherman Brothers were trying to write songs for Annette Funicello in the late 1950s/early 1960s when she was still a teenager and was singing pop songs aimed at a teenage audience. 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