Friday, June 15, 2018

"I Got My Mojo Working"

Yester-day I listened to all six of the Zombies albums (I'd planned to do this a few days in advance, but the day before I did it, I realized that I'd pickt an appropriate day because it was Rod Argent's birthday).  While listening to Begin Here, I noticed a small thing about "I Got My Mojo Working."  In the line "I got a whole lotta dreams here right under my eyes," "dreams" is sung with a melisma (B G Bb C Eb, I think).  Because it's sung to a number of different pitches, there's a musical sense of that "whole lotta."