tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4497209460362406306.post5428076802018322680..comments2024-03-23T18:29:54.952-07:00Comments on ON THE FLIP-SIDE: Song of the Week: "Summertime", The ZombiesOn The Flip-Sidehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07319364292191851993noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4497209460362406306.post-82036761296774379732010-12-31T15:38:57.579-08:002010-12-31T15:38:57.579-08:00I also find the Zombies story to have a tragic edg...I also find the Zombies story to have a tragic edge to it. Much as we talked about on your excellent site with The Merry Go Round, or as I touched on elsewhere in these pages with Arthur Lee and Love.<br /><br />What's more tragic with the Zombies is how, inexplicably, they were ignored in the UK after their first two singles. Dropped from labels and left to play a high school in Michigan one night, and a corner bar in Wisconsin the next night. If ever a band deserved more, it was The Zombies. Thank goodness fellow musicians like Al Kooper stepped forward to insist that Odessey and Oracle made it to print. <br /><br />The Zombies were, in my opinion, one of the most consistently high quality bands of any band in the last 50 years.On The Flip-Sidehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07319364292191851993noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4497209460362406306.post-25180732441927524432010-12-30T12:07:28.042-08:002010-12-30T12:07:28.042-08:00Morgan, I find the Zombies story to be tragic; so ...Morgan, I find the Zombies story to be tragic; so many great singles that, very oddly, did almost nothing on the charts, other than "She's Not There" and "Time of the Season", the latter almost shelved. It was released after the band broke up, discouraged. And wouldn't any act be discouraged after the seriously fine run of singles, and one classic album in Oddesey & Oracle, and not being admitted into the upper echelon? Grrr! They were one of the best bands of the '60s.<br /><br />Thanks for the post!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4497209460362406306.post-38620749791987656872009-07-24T08:33:53.952-07:002009-07-24T08:33:53.952-07:00Blunstone's voice was made for this song.Blunstone's voice was made for this song.On The Flip-Sidehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07319364292191851993noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4497209460362406306.post-21874502520835460112009-07-23T17:58:51.081-07:002009-07-23T17:58:51.081-07:00Really glad you started with the Zombies' vers...Really glad you started with the Zombies' version. I think i was only vaguely aware of the song before i heard this version as a teenager. Pretty funny that a group of pasty English public schoolers would introduce me to a song about Southern slavery, but then again Gershwin wasn't exactly a cotton picker himself. I do love this version, and when i think of the song i still hear Colin Blunstone's voice in my head.MikeMazzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05468951661272793528noreply@blogger.com