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This morning I listened to the second disc of the Zombies' Zombie Heaven (which is the last album I have to listen to before completing Collection Audit this year). I'm pretty sure I'd noticed before that the harpsichord in "Smokey Day" is panned through different channels about halfway through the song (starting at about 1:00), but this morning I realized that that effect is connected to the lyrics. The harpsichord moves from the left channel to the right channel after the line "Soft, serene, she dances," and during the next line "Moving sweetly through my life," it moves back to the left channel. Both of those lines deal with movement, and the harpsichord somewhat literally underscores that movement through that panning.I've been going through Zombie Heaven again for my Collection Audit project, and I noticed something about "Smokey Day."
