Posted by Roy
on 5/28/2009, 9:55 am
Message modified by board administrator 5/28/2009, 10:03 am
The other day my wife and I were eating dinner at Chubby's and I heard We Gotta Get Out Of This Place, the Animals 1965 hit. I've been meaning to post on this for a while, and at times like this I really wish W.B. was still around.
What bothered me about the song was that I hear it periodically and can tell a number of differences between the version we heard at Chubby's and the one that actually got a lot of airplay on our rock station. Chiefly Eric Burdon's recitation between verses at the end of the song. On the version I used to hear, he would sing "And you know it too." But the one that seems to get all the airplay these days, Burdon just speaks the words.
Similarly I can tell the commonly played version of Creeque Alley by The Mamas And The Papas is not the same as the one I used to hear back in 1967. What happened to the horn bit preceding the flute break? I know I didn't imagine that because a few years back they did this version on Ed Sullivan and it was there.
There are a few more that come to mind, but I'm thinking specifically of Neil Diamond's Solitary Man and Gordon Lightfoot's If You Could Read My Mind. I'm sure that when I first heard these songs, the artists did not overdub their voice anywhere in the song. But in the versions I hear anymore of either tune, their voices are overdubbed.
I'm sure there are a lot of alternate takes of popular songs that get played these days rather than the originals. I'm just wondering if anyone else has picked up on this, and if they can cite other examples.
-Roy
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