[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.
"Whenever You're Ready"
Rod: 'Whenever You're Ready' was, um- we'd discovered bands like the Impressions, and I wanted something with that sort of feeling. What did, what did we used to do on stage by the Impressions? I can't remember.
Colin: 'I'm- I'm Alright'?
Rod: 'It's Alright'* and also 'People Get Ready'.
Colin: OK.
Rod: Used to do that, didn't we? And it was my attempt to do something slightly in that style.
Colin: There was an ongoing battle with our producer. Lovely guy, very talented bloke, but there was an ongoing battle with him, really for the whole time we were recording till we got to Odessey and Oracle, about the kind of sound he was putting on the records, but he was very, uh, he was very strict.
Rod: Very autocratic, wasn't he?
Colin: Very autocratic. We didn't go to the mix sessions at all. He insisted that he did that without us there, and def- this was one of the songs that we were definitely, uh, unhappy with, not the song, I hasten to add, but the sound of the record.
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*A live recording of 'It's Alright' is included on various collections of BBC sessions the Zombies did, along with a cover of the Impressions' 'You Must Believe Me'.
