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When I listened to
All Together Now this morning, I thought "Keep on Rollin'" sounded like it was doing the same sort of major/major 6th thing that's fairly common in 1950s rock and roll songs (Chuck Berry's "Johnny B. Goode" is the only one I can name off the top of my head that does this). I just tried that out, and I was right, but I also discovered that the
All Together Now version is in a different key compared to the version on
Odessey and Oracle {Revisited}. Provided the first chord (which is all I've figured out so far) is the tonic, the
All Together Now version is in C# major and the
O&O {Revisited} version is in D major.
In some recent interviews, Argent and Blunstone have mentioned that they still perform the songs in the original keys, so that key change in "Keep on Rollin'" is interesting because 1) there's a key change at all, and 2) it's a key change to a
higher key, and in those interviews, it's been a question about lowering the keys because of old age voice changes.
