Last week, the Decca-era song I lookt into was "I Don't Want to Worry." The Zombies recorded it only as a demo in 1966. I know most of the chords, but I don't think what I'd been playing for the introduction (which is more involved than just chords, anyway) is accurate, so when I wrote out the bass part, I didn't include the chords at all.
As always, there's the disclaimer that I might have something wrong:
In the recording, it sounds like there's a slight flub during the second instance of the triplets (the fifth bar of the fifth line). I smoothed that out in my notation because I think it's supposed to be the same as the bar that starts that line.
According to the Zombie Heaven liner notes, sometime fifty years ago (in 1966), the Zombies recorded demo versions of "One Day I'll Say Goodbye" and "I Don't Want to Worry." Because neither features Hugh Grundy's drumming, it's possible that they were recorded at the same session.
"1966" is as specific as the liner notes get, so I've been looking through the chronology trying to find probable times they recorded those demos, but there's so much of 1966 that's unaccounted for (there's only two pages on it) that it's difficult even to guess. I don't think it was near the end of the year because those demos were recorded at Chris White's father's place and the Zombies were touring Europe during late October and November.
I think I figured out the rest of the guitar part for "I Don't Want to Worry." It might still be a little rough though. I should have waited to post a version yester-day because it was only a few hours after I posted just the bass part that I figured out the phrases and the two chords I was missing (B minor and D major 7th, for the record).
Near the end in the original recording, there's a weird rhythmic change in the guitar part. I don't know whether it's supposed to be like that or if Paul Atkinson forgot that the progression at the end is repeated. In any case, I didn't include that.
"I Don't Want to Worry" also exhibits the whole start-a-diatonic-descent-in-the-bass-via-a-7th-chord that I've talkedabout before. I'm not sure about "Celebration" or "Christmas for the Free" because Argent and White were sharing the writing credits by then, but the other songs I've found this in are Rod Argent songs - "She's Coming Home" and (to some degree) "I Want Her She Wants Me." "I Don't Want to Worry" is a Chris White song though, which makes the occurrence of that feature even more interesting.
It occurs during the second half of the verses (or maybe it's the beginning of the choruses). Whatever it's called, it's the part with "It seems to me / We used to be / So happy now." Interestingly, that diatonic line is broken off when the lyrics get to "It worries me." Instead of continuing the D C# B phrase to an A, it goes to an E.
Last night/this morning, I tried figuring out some things. The bass part to "I Don't Want to Worry" was the third thing I tried, but the first thing that I got. The second thing I tried was the chords to "I Don't Want to Worry," and while I'm still not sure how to play them (they're not just simple strums), I'm missing only one or two.
(The first thing I tried was the guitar part to "Out of the Day," and while I refreshed the small part I know [the introductory guitar phrase], I didn't make any progress.)
