John Lee Hooker's song "No One Told Me", which apparently inspired Argent to write the lyrics of "She's Not There"...the title phrase alone particularly sticking with Argent.
Aretha Franklin on The Steve Allen Show for Westinghouse stations and national syndication by them (the series that most influenced David Letterman's '80s chat show work), 1964...piano not always mic'd correctly, alas. (Clips-series repeats after first play.)
1. Halloween 00:00:002. The Circle 00:06:48 3. 80 West 00:11:03 4. Armed With An Empty Gun 00:15:07 5. Like Mary 00:19:28 6. Out Of My Head 00:24:50 7. Filter Me Through You 00:28:50 8. Burn 00:32:33 9. Whatever You Please 00:38:12
10. Medicine Show Go 00:42:03
11. How Did I Find Myself Here 00:45:31
12. Forrest For The Trees 00:56:06
13. That’s What You Always Say 01:00:19
14. The Days Of Wine & Roses 01:04:30
15. Interview 01:11:41
16. Glide 01:15:07
17. Boston 01:20:58
Steve Wynn - lead vocals, guitar; Jason Victor - guitar, backing vocals; Mark Walton - bass, backing vocals; Chris Cacavas - keyboards, backing vocals; Dennis Duck - drums
Bôa: Acton Live
1. Ambula - 0:00
2. Bitch - 1:40
3. Disco - 5:08
4. DIY - 9:13
5. Freakshow - 16:51
6. Headstrong - 19:52
7. I Am A Woman - 23:57
8. I Love You - 29:33
9. It Could Be Better - 34:27
10. Love Peace Harmony - 37:27
11. Smooth Water - 41:47
12. Snake - 45:27
13. Welcome - 50:14
14. Who Are You - 56:07
15. You're Wrong - 1:00:55
Ed Herten - Drums; Alex Caird - Bass; Ben Henderson - Sax; Paul Turrell - Keyboards; Steve Rodgers - Guitar, vocals; Jasmine Rodgers - Vocals
You've Really Got a Hold on Me/Bring It On Home to Me
Chasing the Past
Care of Cell 44
This Will Be Our Year
I Want Her She Wants Me
Time of the Season
Hold Your Head Up
She's Not There
God Gave Rock and Roll to You
The Go! Team US tour 2018
1. Flashlight Fight
2. Mayday 4:40
3. Ladyflash 9:34
4. The Answer’s No 13:42
5. Hey! 18:37
6. Semicircle Song 22:27
7. Chainlink Fence 26:26
8. Get It Together 30:29
9. Rolling Blackouts 34:20
10. Everyone's a VIP to Someone 38:35
11. Huddle Information 43:06
12. All the Way Live 47:26
13. Keys to the City 51:53
14. She’s Got Guns 57:01
15. The Power Is On 1:01:07
Danger Man, season 3, episode 3, "Sting in the Tail" (1965): soundtrack features Jeanne Roland singing the French adaptation of "She's Not There", "Te voila", in background and occasionally foreground (since the time cuts are weirdly resistant to being saved--when they don't insert themselves--on Blogspot, at 17:00 is a good point to start the relevant performance; a bit of it used in reprise at end of [a very good] episode):
Bunny Lake is Missing trailer: "Come on Time"
(repurposed "Just Out of Reach")
The Zombies on a pub tv: "Just Out of Reach" and "Nothing's Changed"
Continue
Track Listing:
Tell Her No
Leave Me Be
You Make Me Feel Good
Just Out Of Reach
Indication
Nothing's Changed
Whenever You're Ready
I Love You
Is This a Dream?
How We Were Before
She's Coming Home
Remember You
Don't Go Away
I Want You Back Again
The Zombies (1966; released in Japan and Europe)
Track Listing:
1) The Way I Feel Inside
2) How We Were Before
3) Is This The Dream
4) Whenever You're Ready
5) Woman
6) You Make Me Feel Good
7) Gotta Get A Hold Of Myself
8) Indication
9) Don't Go Away
10) I Love You
11) Leave Me Be
12) She's Not There
The Zombies at the Strand Bookstore, 15 March 2017
Below, compilation of songs from the album Into The After Life, and The Lost Album00:00:00 Never My Love
00:02:39 I Know She Will
00:05:27 Smokey Day
00:07:52 Unhappy Girl
00:10:19 I'll Keep Trying
00:12:47 Conversation Off Floral Street
00:15:25 Walking in the Sun
00:18:10 If It Don't Work Out
00:20:42 Sometimes (Acid)
00:22:13 Telescope (Mr Galileo)
00:24:54 Girl Help Me
00:27:19 I Could Spend the Day
00:29:59 Imagine the Swan
Below, the Varese Sarabande version (with six bonus tracks added: 13-18) of I Love You by the Zombies, an album Decca put together solely for their Japanese and Dutch divisions, made up (as were such similar US-market compilations as the Beatles' Yesterday and Today or Hey Jude or the Rolling Stones' December's Children (And Everybody's)) out of a fairly random mixture of singles (A and B sides) and other recordingsthat hadn'tbeen actually earmarked for inclusion in an album (at least, in many cases, in the US market, where corporate greed meant fewer songs per LP than in the less affluent Britain of the '60s).
Why Decca/Parrot, which had already found greater success with the Zombies in the US (though they did OK enough in the UK and much of the rest of the world), didn't simply follow that example and release this second LP (unless we count their contribution to the soundtrack album for the suspense film Bunny Lake is Missing, which is not a Zombies film quite the way Help! or Catch Us if You Can or Hold On! are films about/featuring the bands in and scoring them, but more along the lines of the Yardbirds' contribution to Blow Up, and missing the all but required exclamation point) in the States as well is unclear...perhaps the Japanese and Dutch releases were meant to be a sort of test-marketing. But after the rather rushed-out first album, Begin Here (1965), chopped and channeled and shortened for US release as The Zombies, the band had been consistently exploring means to not only Make Hits but to play around with song forms, and find different ways to incorporate their jazz, R&B, choral music and other influences within a rock context...much in the manner of such exact contemporaries the Byrds (particularly by the latter's third album, where the jazz influences outweigh the folk-music legacy, and as they also moved on to co-founding country rock), and their fellow Britons in the Yardbirds and the Animals to a great extent; similar music from Fairport Convention and Soft Machine, among others, would soon follow. Release Date 1966
English rock band founded in 1962 in St Albans, Herts, England.
Rod Argent: Keyboards, Vocals
Paul Atkinson: Guitars
Chris White: Bass, Vocals
Colin Blunstone: Lead Vocals
Hugh Grundy: Drums
01 - The Way I Feel Inside (Rod Argent)
02 - How We Were Before (Colin Blunstone) 01:48
03 - Is This The Dream (Rod Argent) 03:52
04 - Whenever You're Ready (Rod Argent) 06:33
05 - Woman (Rod Argent) 09:14
06 - You Make Me Feel Good (Chris White) 11:38
07 - Gotta Get A Hold Of Myself (Angela Riela, Clint Ballard Jr) 14:14
08 - Indication (Rod Argent) 16:42
09 - Don't Go Away (Chris White) 19:40
10 - I Love You (Chris White) 22:13
11 - Leave Me Be (Chris White) 25:32
12 - She's Not There (Rod Argent) 27:40
After this, in 1967, the Zombies and Decca disaffiliated, and the band moved to CBS to see if their fortunes might improve; Columbia's UK division wasn't going to extend them much money, so they recorded even the more complex compositions on their third (or fourth) LP as inexpensively as they could (the band was never as wrapped up in extensive studio/mixing technique as the Beach Boys or the Beatles or the Who, preferring most of their more complex work to still be performed in concert without too much frippery...though, of course, they didn't get much opportunity to play around thus, despite achieving interesting Spectorish walls of sound in some of their recordings, such as "She's Coming Home"). Odessey and Oracle, cute reference to odes implanted in the customized spelling and all, did little business, and the mooted next/last album, to be titled R.I.P. (the first time they would make even a passing reference to their own band name, which apparently meant about as little to them as "the Kinks" did to that band's members), didn't actually come together, as the members went their different ways, keyboardist/composer Rod Argent having already put together his new band Argent, lead singer and infrequent composer Colin Blunstone not quite yet ready to launch his solo career but it would soon follow, bassist/composer Chris White all but retiring from performance but writing songs for both and others. It took two years for "Time of the Season," the last song on O&O, to build to an international hit, and the Zombies declined to reform. which led to multiple fake Zombie bands touring (George Romero could sympathize), and, of course, obligated Argent the band and Blunstone to add it to their concerts.
But while there is excellent material on all the Zombies albums (including Bunny Lake, and surprisingly "She's Not There," though played briefly in the film, is on all cited albums so far except the soundtrack and O&O), this selection is perhaps just a notch better than the other long-players the band saw released during their first career together, featuring such brilliant material as their first hit (and pointedly leaving off their second, "Tell Her No," not a song the band wanted to release as a single and one of the weaker songs in their discography) as well as "Whenever You're Ready" and several others which come close to their mark (I'll admit that the "extra" tracks Varese Sarabande added for this 2004 release make it even sexier, for those who wouldn't want the not quite exhaustive but very inclusive box set Zombie Heaven--"Remember You" and "Just Out of Reach" are also among their very best records, and their cover of "Going Out of My Head" another highlight). "Woman" by me is a near-clunker, but a charmingly energetic one, and compares favorably with the not-quite first-rate covers of the likes of "Road Runner" on Begin Here or the Weillesque but not completely successful attempt at getting across the horrors of war on O&O, "Butcher's Tale (Western Front 1914)"--also, an example of the very young band starting by their last work together in the '60s starting to move lyrically beyond songs of new, lost and spurned love; their early psychedelia recordings, such as "Beechwood Park" and "Smokey Day," would follow, and would illustrate how little even King Crimson or Pink Floyd, much less the Moody Blues (or, sadly, Argent the band), would manage to better what the Zombies were beginning to explore--and still within the confines of the three-minute or shorter song.
Though as callow as their lyrics could be at times (and as witty at other times, and sometimes even simultaneously--something also notable in their similarly young contemporary Gene Clark, the first great songwriter in the Byrds, whose swan song with that band was "Eight Miles High"), few bands have ever combined the beauty and propulsiveness of most of the Zombies' best work (Blunstone's sometimes almost bleating in the early recordings, in an attempt to sound bluesily soulful, usually manages to resolve to something worthwhile, and happily he gave that up rather quickly; another rare feature of early recordings, Argent's excellent harmonica playing, is sadly absent from the later recordings). Even this album is only a limited taste of what they were able to achieve from 1964-67, and Zombie Heaven gives one the meat of all the albums, BBC radio tracks, and some interview and other matter (including the very funny full recording of the reworking of Blunstone's "Just Out of Reach" to promote the film Bunny Lake, "Come on Time"--the web-posted versions of that song are sadly truncated and apparently lifted from a very ragged recording source, indeed). Listening to Argent's often Brubeckianly block-chorded solos play off Hugh Grundy's precise and melodic drumming, and the occasional flashes of virtuosity from good guitarist Paul Atkinson and even better bassist White, mixed with the often tricky vocal arrangements (all but Grundy put their choir practice chops to excellent use), is a very good time indeed, not at all soulless. "Whenever You're Ready"
Incomplete Discography: The Zombies, 1961-1967 version: (Largely courtesy Wikipedia and Discogs)
Top, Paul Atkinson, Rod Argent. Below, Hugh Grundy Chris White, Colin Blunstone
.jpeg)
