The 1999 Radio Hit Song: Everybody's Free To Wear Sunscreen.

     I had just arrived in Montgomery from Birmingham in 1999, and probably had not adjusted to the city's radio stations and their formats.

   
      Those factors may explain how I managed to all but miss a song that became so popular it is now the subject of an hour-long documentary on the BBC.
   
      It was an unusual song, but it made it to the top of the charts: Here are some of the "lyrics", though all of them were spoken, not sung. See if you remember them:

Understand that friends come and go, but for the precious few you should hold on.

Work hard to bridge the gaps in geography and lifestyle because the
older you get, the more you need the people you knew when you were
young.

Live in New York City once, but leave before it makes you hard;

Live in Northern California once, but leave before it makes you soft.

      It was called The Sunscreen Song, for the first line. Here's a link to the BBC documentary. And here is the "song":