"I Love You"

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To-day in 1965, the Zombies recorded "Don't Cry for Me," "How We Were Before," "I Know She Will," "I Love You," and "If It Don't Work Out."  Except for "I Love You," my recordings of what I know of these are up-to-date, so here's my updated version of "I Love You."  When I listened to the I Love You album last month, I discovered that some of the vocal lines are doubled on organ, which is one of the two major differences between this and my earlier recordings.

Some of the mixes on I Love You are stereo mixes, but they're different stereo mixes from those on The Decca Stereo Anthology.  Or at least, the mixes of "I Love You" are different.  In the mix on I Love You, the drums and bass are panned left, and the guitar and keyboards are panned right (the bass is audible in the right channel too).  In the mix on The Decca Stereo Anthology, it's almost reversed:  the drums, bass, and electric piano are panned right, and the guitar and organ are panned left.  (The I Love You mix is also a lot louder.)  In this case, the mixes aren't that different, but sometimes having different mixes makes it easier to pick out a part.  It might be more isolated in one mix where in an-other, it's obscured by other parts.

The second major difference is that I learned the rest of the bass part.  I'd been stuck on the part during the solo, which - in the typical Zombie fashion - is more involved than it is during the verses.  I'm a bit unsure of some of those notes though (and some of the electric piano notes too).