[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.
"If It Don't Work Out"
Rod: 'If It Don't Work Out' was a song that I wrote when we were on tour with Dusty Springfield, and Dusty really liked us on, on tour, and she came up to me one evening towards the end of one week and said, 'Will you write me a song?' and I said, 'Oh, G--, I'd be honoured to', you know, 'cause we loved her voice. I went away that weekend, and I came up with a, a Motown-ish sort of feeling song. At the beginning of the following week, I played it through to her, and she loved it, and she said, 'I'm gonna record this', and she wanted it to be a single. She wanted me to play on it, but I was going away that week. The tour was just finishing. I couldn't play piano on it, and she had to get someone else to do it. Um, but Madeline Bell sing[s] on it. Madeline Bell loved it. So it didn't in the end turn out to be a single, but it was the opening track on [the B-side of] Ev'rything's Coming Up Dusty, that album, and, um, I loved her singing on it. It was just brilliant. We recorded a version, didn't we?
Colin: Yeah, absolutely.
Rod: Yeah.
Colin: We recorded a version, too, and I, um, I mean, I'm not comparing our version with her version. Her version is great, you know, but I thought we did a pretty good job
Rod: Mm.
Colin: as well.
Rod: Mm.
Colin: I think that could have been a single. I don't know why it wasn't, but I think it's a really strong track, but it never was [a single].
