"Dance with Life"

The other thing I noticed when I listened to Colin Blunstone's The Ghost of You and Me recently is that in the line "I will make ev'ry day count" in "Dance with Life," "day" is sung with a melisma (D A), musically giving a sense of number for that "ev'ry."

"The Ghost of You and Me"

A few days ago, the Zombies posted the track listing of the new album.  The title "The Sun Will Rise Again" seemed familiar to me, and I suspect that this is a re-recording of a song from Colin Blunstone's solo album The Ghost of You and Me (the Zombies also re-did "Any Other Way" from the same album for Breathe Out, Breathe In).  It had been years since I last listened to the album, and when I listened to it a couple days ago, I found some small features to note.

In the lines "What am I supposed to do with all these blues / Haunting me ev'rywhere no matter what I do" in "The Ghost of You and Me," "ev'rywhere" is sung with a melisma (F# B B C B A G), musically giving a sense of that breadth.

"How Could We Dare to Be Wrong" b/w "Time's Running Out"

According to Russo's Collector's Guide, fifty years ago to-day (19 January 1973), Colin Blunstone's "How Could We Dare to Be Wrong" b/w "Time's Running Out" (Epic S EPC 1197) was released in the U.K.

"Andorra" b/w "How Could We Dare to Be Wrong"

According to Russo's Collector's Guide, fifty years ago to-day (12 January 1973), Colin Blunstone's "Andorra" b/w "How Could We Dare to Be Wrong" (Dut. Epic EPC 1183) was released in the U.K.

"Walking in the Sun" and "I Don't Want to Know"

Before I wrote a post about "Walking in the Sun" a couple days ago, I read the older posts I'd written about the song, in order to make sure that I hadn't already written about the significance of that conjunct phrase.

In this post from December 2018, I wrote out the guitar part and noted that a short phrase in between a C major and an A minor (first at ~0:50) is the same (albeit an octave lower) as a short phrase in between a C major and an A major (at ~1:43) in "I Don't Want to Know" (I wrote out that guitar part in September 2016).  The two phrases have the same rhythm and fall in the same place in the measure:

Yester-day, I was thinking about this similarity again, and I realized that these two songs were recorded at the same session, on 25 November 1964.  This similarity is still a rather trivial point, but now I know that the songs are closely connected chronologically.

"Walking in the Sun"

Last night, I figured out the violin in the choruses of the orchestral version of "Walking in the Sun" (although, provided I've figured out the parts correctly, the violin arpeggiates different chords compared to what the guitar plays).

In any case, while figuring out the part, I realized something about the melody to which the title phrase ("We'll be walking in the sun") is sung.  Here's the notation from an old post (it's actually the French horn part from the orchestral version, but that just doubles the vocal part):

This is a conjunct phrase (it moves step-wise through the scale), so musically, there's a sense of that "walking."