[Obviously, the videos in this Track by Track series were all filmed the same day, but for easier indexing, I'm putting them under the dates they were posted.]
Rod: This is, uh, Rod Argent here from the Zombies.
Colin: It's Colin Blunstone from the Zombies, and this is Track by Track at Gibson, and we're on Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles.
"Leave Me Be"
Colin: Well, 'Leave Me Be' is, uh, an interesting song because it was written by Chris White, and Decca Records were very keen on, uh, a new single every six weeks, so the pressure was on; after 'She's Not There', the pressure was on to have a, a follow-up, and really this was about the only song that had been written at that time; we didn't have a great backlog of songs because Rod and Chris were just finding their way as writers, so when Decca heard this song, they decided it would be the follow up to 'She's Not There', and none of us in the band, including Chris who wrote it, thought that this was a hit single, but in the U.K., it was put out as a follow-up to 'She's Not There', and I'm afraid it, it, it wasn't a hit. You know, it didn't happen. I think it's, it's a good song, but I, you know, I don't think it would ever be a single, and I don't think Chris would mind me saying that; I think he feels the same way.
Rod: We also hated the production on it, which- we, we had a few issues with production on some of our singles, which in the end- I'm going way forward, but in the end, that's why we desperately wanted to produce an album ourselves, which became Odessey and Oracle, but that's in the future, but I think that was the first one where we thought- the very first session we'd done sounded great, all the four tracks we did on it. 'Summertime', 'It's Alright with Me', 'She's Not There' of course, and 'You Make Me Feel Good' all sounded great, but after that, sometimes we had issues with the way- we, we would often demo things, wouldn't we?
Colin: Yeah.
Rod: And-
Colin: And sometimes the demo would sound better than the master.
Rod: At least more whole to our ears, yeah.
Colin: Mm.
