[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.
"Tell Her No"
Colin: Well, 'Tell Her No', we were, we were touring ex- extensively, and again we were recording very late in, in the evening, and, and they'd recorded about four or five backing tracks, and they just, you know, there would be four of them in the studio; they would just do the backing track, and I was in the control room, and I fell asleep. Uh, we'd been working very hard, but I'm- I've always found it very easy to sleep anyway, but, uh, they woke me up to go and do the lead vocal on 'Tell Her No' and I- this is what I always remember about it is that I mumbled through the second chorus, but I kept going, and I thought, 'Well, we can put that right'. You know, we'll- I'll just drop in on it.
Rod: [mumbles in imitation of record]
Colin: [also mumbles in imitation of record] and put the-
Rod: People have been trying to work out what those words are, for years.
Colin: And the producer said, 'Oh, don't worry about that; that's fine'.
Rod: That was recording in those days.
Colin: Yeah, so, 'Tell Her No' went on to sell nearly a million copies; it was a top five single in the States; and it has a, a mumbled second chorus, but I-
Rod: I do remember also that we had a phone call halfway through that session from America; that was a big deal in those days. Our American publisher Al Gallico was on the, on the line. He said, 'I just want you guys to know that "She's Not There"s number one in Cashbox'. We thought, 'Wow', you know.
Colin: It was fantastic.
Rod: Here we were eighteen years old, you know, and we had the number one in this hallowed land of America. It was fantastic.
