[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.
"The Way I Feel Inside"
Rod: OK, 'The Way I Feel Inside'. This is one of the quickest songs I ever wrote. We were on tour with the Isley Brothers, Dionne Warwick, and what used to happen: the tour bus used to stop at a service station for a coffee break, and I suddenly had a gli- glimmering of an idea for a song, and so I went into the, the loo, into the toilet, and I had a piece of manuscript paper with me. I sat on the loo, and I wrote this song. Most of the lyrics - not all of the lyrics - [and] the whole melody of it just came to me, and I wrote it down on a piece of manuscript paper, nowhere near a keyboard or anything, and strangely enough, it was called 'The Way I Feel Inside', but that wasn't a commentary on, on the situation. It really wasn't. It was a very romantic song, but I- sorry to spoil people's illusions, you know, if they think of that as a lovely roman- romantic song.
Colin: I'll, I'll, I'll always remember this. The bus was ready to leave,
Rod: Yeah.
Colin: and we couldn't find Rod, and everyone went to look for him, and I found him in the loo with this manu- writing with this manuscript. I thought, 'What on earth are you doing?' and he was writing this song. It's a, it's a beautiful song, and we, we play this, don't we?
Rod: We do play this, yeah.
Colin: Yeah.
Rod: We often do it as a, an unexpected encore. We, we might end up the, the set with the, uh, the Argent hit 'God Gave Rock and Roll to You' and then completely bring it down and just do an- just a very quiet piano and Colin singing 'The Way I Feel Inside'.
