"Never Get over You"

I listened to Still Got That Hunger to-day (because it was released to-day in 2015), and I noticed a small feature in "Never Get over You."  In the line "Not after all this time," the phrase "all this time" is sung to notes of all different pitches (C D F), giving a sense of that entirety.

I referenced Colin Blunstone's solo version ("Now I Know I'll Never Get over You" on The Ghost of You and Me) and discovered that this feature is there, too, but because that version is in a different key, the specific pitches are different (E F# A).

"Never Get over You"

In "Never Get over You," "so" in the line "I still love you so" is sung with a melisma (C A), musically giving a sense of degree.  I also referenced the earlier version from Colin Blunstone's The Ghost of You and Me album ("Now I Know I'll Never Get over You"), but it doesn't have this feature.

"Never Get over You"

On the record sleeve itself, the title is "Now I Know I'll Never Get over You," which is the same title it had on Colin Blunstone's The Ghost of You and Me, but the digital download from the Pledge Music campaign has the title "Never Get over You."  On this blog, I'm going to use "Never Get over You" as the title for the Still Got That Hunger version just because it makes it easier to distinguish between the two recordings.

Like "I Want You Back Again," because "Never Get over You" is a new version of an existing song (this time from Colin Blunstone's solo career rather than the old Zombies catalogue), I've already written about it.  A little over two years ago, I found some phrases in the lyrics that are reminiscent of lyrics in Zombies songs.  "Seasons come and go" might be a slight nod to "Time of the Season," and "It's alright if the words won't come" is very similar to "I love you / Yes I do, but the words won't come" and "My words should explain / But my words won't come" in "I Love You."  I'd also previously noted "We can work it out," which might be a reference to the Beatles' song.

Within this new context of Still Got That Hunger, though, that "We can work it out" line becomes more interesting.  The song that precedes "Never Get over You" is "Maybe Tomorrow," which contains the same line: "Baby, we can work it out."

I haven't really figured out any parts yet, so I can't be completely certain of this, but I think the song doesn't resolve.  I'm pretty sure it's in Bb major, but the last chord is an F major.  The lack of resolution musically complements the recurring sentiment: "I'll never get over you."  The listener is left waiting for the resolution in the same way that the speaker/singer, knowing that he'll "never get over you," is waiting for his love to return.

"Some Kind of Wonderful"

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Collection Audit:

I'm listening to a compilation album of the Drifters.  I figured I'd better transcribe their "Some Kind of Wonderful" because I noticed something about it last time I did this Collection Audit project, and in doing so, I noticed something else. 

In the bridge, there are the lines "There's so much I wanna say / But the right words don't come my way."  It reminded me of "I love you / Yes I do, but the words won't come" and "My words should explain / But my words won't come" in the Zombies' "I Love You" (written by Chris White, their bass player).  I'll cite the same source I cited two years ago:  in the Zombie Heaven liner notes, Paul Atkinson (their guitarist) says, "We hung out in Ben E King and the Drifters' dressing room, and we'd play poker and sing and play guitar."  "Some Kind of Wonderful" is from 1961; that Atkinson quote refers to 1964; and "I Love You" is from 1965, so the chronology would allow for that influence. 

This also calls into question something I noticed a few years ago.  There's a similar line in "Now I Know I'll Never Get over You" from Colin Blunstone's The Ghost of You and Me album.  It's "It's alright if the words won't come."  Since Blunstone is the leader singer for the Zombies and wrote "Now I Know I'll Never Get over You," I thought that it was likely that he took that line from "I Love You," even if just subconsciously.  But now that I found a similar line in a Drifters' song, I'm not so sure.  Two years ago, I postulated that this same Drifters' song influenced Blunstone's "Wonderful" from his Journey album. 

I feel it worth noting that the Zombies recorded a version of Blunstone's "Now I Know I'll Never Get over You" (titled just "Never Get over You") on their new album Still Got That Hunger, so that Drifters' influence - if it's viable - has caught up with them again.