[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.
"I Love You"
Rod: 'I Love You' is a, is a track that we still do on stage now, and I, I think it's, uh- Colin always had a little bit of troub- um, a problem with- when he first heard the lyrics, you know, 'I love you. I love you. I love you,' um, but I think it's a terrifically constructed song. This is one of Chris's early songs that I really, really like 'cause it's so dramatic, and you've got that really high bit where the band stops and Colin sings, 'I don't know what to do.' We opened the set for ages, in this incarnation, so often with this, with this track, and it's a great little concise example of what the Zombies are in a way, and that's why I love it as an opener. We've opened for so long with it that we don't open with it now, but we may, may go back to doing it at some point, uh, because it's got, um, three-part harmony. It's got Colin singing really at the top of his register, which he still does on stage; we do everything in the original keys. It's got a short but quite jazzy electric piano solo in the middle. It, it's a sort of concise way of looking [at] what the Zombies had distinctively at that time, and, uh, I'm really fond of it.
Colin: I, I was always a little concerned that we opened with that number 'cause it's got a top B and, um, it's easier to do it in the middle of the set, but it is, it is a good opening tune, but, you know, I've gotta be ready to get that note.
