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And My Baby's Gone
In The Past: Garage Rock Podcast
English - August 20, 2023 04:00 - 1 hour - 58.6 MB - ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsMusic Commentary Music Music History garage garage rock doo wop girl groups oldies 50s 60s music commentary music music analysis Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Enough of the big names - Beatles and Dylan have dominated the podcast for too long! This week we're talkin' bout the Moody Blues and their 1965 album track "And My Baby's Gone" (1:10). A little known slice of (squeaky) blue eyed soul an' R&B - it even has a faint "Bayou via Birmingham" feel because of the Allen Toussaint-esque piano rhythm. And it's the first song we've ever done with a guitar "swole-o" - listen and find out! ... In '66 or '67 (no one really knows), the awesomely-named Bedlam Four brought the song to America and the garage (39:34). The electric piano, guitar stings, FUZZ!, and the "my baby"'s in this one will cause ... bedlam! Blue Feeling added wah-wah to the tune in '68, and it's great (1:02:31)! They change the lyrics and seem to make it meaner ... is the song about ... murder??? Before you know, we'll be gone again!!