Friday, October 26, 2018

"She's Coming Home" (Track by Track at Gibson)


[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.

"She's Coming Home"


Rod:  'She's Coming Home' was a single.  In America, it was a, a small hit, but I always thought this could have been a big hit record, and we were very disappointed with the actual- the balls, if you like on, on, on the record.  We, we, we thought it was a little bit tame in its recording.  I think that the producer was looking too much for a particular - in inverted commas - 'gimmicky' sound rather than just being honest about the essence of the song.  It was actually covered, I think, by Brenda Holloway, at, at one point.  I know she certainly did it live on a big TV show, and I thought it was great, um, to hear her do that, but I was never quite happy with that [the production on the Zombies' version], and I think if it had sounded exactly, just simple and honest, I think it could have been a really big hit, so we were a bit disappointed, but I still love the song.  Um, I can say that, can't I?  It's one of mine, but, um, we still do it on stage sometimes, and I like- I prefer the way we do it on stage now and the actual sound to the original record.  'She's Coming Home.'