Sunday, February 24, 2019

Drop-In 1966

A little over a week ago, I was thinking about the pictures in the back of the I Love You liner notes booklet.  A year or two ago, bigger versions of a handful of these were posted either directly on the Zombies' Facebook page in the Zombies Fan Club.  I don't remember which, and I can't seem to find that post again, but it doesn't really matter because I tracked down the originals on DigitaltMuseum:

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The caption for each of these reads:  "Den brittiska popgruppen The Zombies uppträder på TV-programmet Drop-In 1966."  Translated from Swedish, this reads:  "The British pop group The Zombies act on the television program Drop-In 1966."  According to the Zombie Heaven liner notes, the Zombies' 1966 Scandinavian tour started on 5 November and ended on 20 November.  (The same page contains five pictures from this performance [including the seventh and eighth above] with the caption "Live on stage in Sweden, November 1966.")

My search on the DigitaltMuseum site resulted in only these eight pictures, but the I Love You liner notes booklet has at least twenty-five.  Presumably, the others exist somewhere, along with - perhaps - film footage of the performance.

In looking at these pictures again, I discovered that the cover of I Love You was almost certainly shot at the same time.  In the background of the sixth picture, one can make out a bit of netting and the white lines of the red-and-white-striped goal posts the group is standing within on the cover:


Paul, Chris, and Colin all seem to be wearing the same clothes as in the above pictures.

Saturday, February 16, 2019

"Be Glad"

I recently listened to In Deep, and this evening I figured out the lead vocal melody for the middle section of "Be Glad" (from ~4:01 to ~4:38).  I noticed a subtle feature about it.

I still don't know for sure what key "Be Glad" is in, so I left my notation in C major, resulting in a slew of accidentals:


The lyrics here are:
Long was the summer
Torn from the spring
Deep were the days of your longing
Now you are risen
Free as the wind
Watch as your woman is dancing
The melody for the "Now you are risen..." section is essentially the same as the melody for the "Long was the summer..." section.  The significant difference is that it's raised a half step, so between the two, there's a musical sense of having "risen."