Sunday, June 13, 2021
"She Does Everything for Me"
An-other thing I noticed when I listened to I Love You yester-day is that "all" in the line "I don't care at all" in "She Does Everything for Me" is sung with a melisma (I'm unsure of the exact notes, but most - if not all - of them are C#s). This articulation gives a sense of degree.
"Gotta Get a Hold of Myself"
I listened to I Love You yester-day because it was the fifty-seventh anniversary of the Zombies' first proper recording session. I hadn't noticed this before, but it sounds like Rod Argent is using a volume pedal with his Vox Continental at the beginning of "Gotta Get a Hold of Myself." I did some research, and I actually found a picture of him in the studio with the Continental and a volume pedal:
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I'm pretty sure this picture is from 10 December 1964. It was during this session that the Zombies received an award from Cash Box for the chart success of "She's Not There," so there was a bit of press coverage and a series of photographs. Of course, "Gotta Get a Hold of Myself" wasn't recorded until 1966 (4 May, according to the liner notes of The Decca Stereo Anthology), but this picture proves that Argent had a volume pedal for his Continental.
I made an Instagram post about this to try to demonstrate it:
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