[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.
"Just out of Reach"
Rod: This is one of Colin's, and, uh, it w- was it your first real [song]?
Colin: I think it was my second song that I wrote.*
Rod: 'Just out of Reach'.
Colin: Yes.
Rod: Yeah.
Colin: I mean, we had to write for a deadline. We'd been asked to write some music for Otto Preminger's film-
Rod: Oh, Bunny Lake Is Missing.
Colin: Bunny Lake Is Missing, and the way the deal was put together, they wanted three new songs written and recorded in about ten days.** They had to be new songs, and, again, Rod and Chris didn't have a great backlog of songs, and so, uh, you know, I, I'd always been really intrigued and impressed by the way they wrote songs, and these were- this is one of the times when I thought, 'Well, at least I'll have a try', and so I wrote this song really for a deadline. I mean, sometimes people say, 'How do you write a song?' and, and the answer would be: you get the phone call, and, and that's what happened: we got the phone call 'We need three songs written and recorded in ten days', so, um, I had a go, and this is the result of it, and-
Rod: I, I think 'Just out of Reach' is a great snapshot of what sixties singles or records should sound like. It's very sixties, very characteristic, but it was very naturally done. I think it works great, and we often still do it on stage.
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*If I'm not mistaken, the first was "How We Were Before."
**The other two Zombies songs in the film are "Nothing's Changed" and "Remember You," both written by Chris White.
