'The crazy thing about this song', recalls
Maurice ( Bugs ) Bower, 'is that we had a song, but we needed a title. We called
it 'Caterina', and it turned out to be perfect because the title doesn't have to
translate overseas . . . and we had this song, with the original title,
in the
Top Ten in almost every country in the world.' 'Caterina' added another hit to
the list of Earl Shuman, who wrote such favourites as 'Seven Lonely Days', 'Hey
There Lonely Boy', and 'Left Right Out of Your Heart'. Says Bower of Perry's
recording, 'I think the record was popular with little kids because of all those
'ha-ha-ha's' and 'ho-ho-ho's' in it. Kid's think he's Santa Claus!'
