Beautiful song, beautiful voice, beautiful boy… Ricky Nelson was only 17 when he sang this back in 1958.

I was only a baby myself and probably didn’t hear it ’til Tarantino put it in Pulp Fiction 36 years later, when it’s playing as Uma Thurman’s Mia and Samuel L Jackson’s Vincent chat in the diner, Jack Rabbit Slim’s.

Rick Nelson was still “Ricky” when he recorded it, changing his name to the more grown-up “Rick” on his 21st birthday four years later – though he was still Ricky to the legion of fans who grew up watching him in

Lonesome Town, along with several other Nelson hits, was composed by a songwriter called Baker Knight, who also penned the Elvis favourite The Wonder Of You (written for Perry Como but recorded instead by Ray Peterson).

Nelson came from a showbiz family and made his name – and his debut, at the age of only ten – on his parents’ popular radio comedy show Ozzie And Harriet.

By the early 1950s it had moved to TV and little Ricky grew up in public, becoming one of the first teen idols.