Well, my kids love The Outfield's ubiquitous, "Your Love," but they also like and appreciate the lesser-known summer-of-86 hit, "All The Love."

Back in that summer of '86, I took Economics at Honolulu's Punahou school. After class, I liked hanging out with the friends I had just met. Although we couldn't escape Peter Cetera's "Glory Of Love" and Peter Gabriel's "Sledgehammer," we liked sharing music via cassettes in our Walkmen. We'd slowly walk south to King Street. Sometimes we'd go to Zippy's. Sometimes we'd grab shave ice from Waiola. But once, six of us ended up at Washington Saimin. One girl had The Outfield's Play Deep, an album I loved. When she swayed to "All The Love," time stood still.

Why couldn't the girls back at home in San Francisco be half as pretty, half as friendly, half as cool?

Anyway, we'd hear Honolulu's radio stations play "All The Love" quite a few times. And when I returned to S.F. for the 86-87 school year, I did not hear Bay Area radio stations play it.

A year later, when the 87-88 school year started, I met and befriended hordes of cute, smart, energetic, and friendly freshmen girls. One of them chucked her Play Deep cassette, snagged my CD [yep, the one pictured above], and rocked out. Shoulder to shoulder, she and I bounced along to "All The Love."

That girl would go on to high honors, the Shield & Scroll society (the school's elite), and to Cal (UC Berkeley).

"Damn Lummy," writes my audiophile friend, "How come when I listen to this, high-quality girls don't come my way?"

-Lummy The Loch Monster

• All The Love