"I Want Some More" b/w "Pay Me Later"

According to Russo's Collector's Guide, fifty years ago to-day (20 April 1973) Colin Blunstone's "I Want Some More" (edit) b/w "Pay Me Later" (Dut. Epic EPC 1513) was released (I'm assuming the "Dut." abbreviation means it was a Dutch release).  The U.S. and Canada release (Epic 5-10981) was on 23 April.

"Pay Me Later"

I listened to Ennismore earlier this week, and this morning I was thinking about "Pay Me Later."  I realized that the "every" in the first line ("Every time that you get down") is sung with three syllables, which gives a sense of number.  When I listened to that bit of the song in order to verify that, I also discovered that the "down" is sung with a descending melisma (A E, I think), which musically represents that "down."

Ennismore

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I just listened to Colin Blunstone's Ennismore while working on transcribing the lyrics, and - as usual - I noticed some things.

To go along with the conjectured influences I've been writing about lately, "A Sign from Me to You" might have some connection with the Beatles' "From Me to You."  In the phrase "from me to you" if nothing else.  I haven't looked into that very much.  More tenuously, the phrase "oh boy" in "Pay Me Later" might come from Buddy Holly's "Oh Boy!"  Since it's also just a phrase that people say, I'm not that confident in that connection.

There's an interesting progression of verb tenses in "A Sign from Me to You."  The first chorus has the line "I try so hard to prove that I have changed my ways," and the second chorus changes it to "I tried so hard to prove that I have changed my ways."  I haven't really looked into this yet either.

It struck me that many of the songs on the album contain similar sort of themes (if "themes" is the right word to describe it).  Basically, a lot of the songs talk about songs (sometimes breaking the fourth wall, or whatever the sonic equivalent is) and wine.

As far as songs, you have "This is a song written exclusively for me" in "Exclusively for Me," "Funny how the only song I could ever write for you / Is when you said you finally had enough" in "How Wrong Can One Man Be," and "Now that we've written this song / How could we dare to be wrong" in "How Could We Dare to Be Wrong."

And as for wine: "So don't you worry, I'm here for the day / With a bottle of wine on my knee" in "I Want Some More," "Hey, I said, 'Darling, it seems a waste of time / Hey, all we do is sit and drink our Spanish wine'" in "Andorra," and "Take me up, fill my cup with your wine" in "How Could We Dare to Be Wrong."

I think there's also a not insignificant number of references to remembering and summer, which seems a natural extension of Zombies themes, but I'll save that for later.

"Pay Me Later"

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Along with the chords for "Telescope (Mr. Galileo)," I also learned the chords for Colin Blunstone's "Pay Me Later" on Wednesday.  Though, again, I'm not sure if they're actually played in the original recording.

Catching up on posting demos of what I know isn't going so quickly because I keep learning new parts, and I feel that those should take precedence.