Colin was wary, I'm sure, at the beginning, I know, but I always, always really, really liked it. Summertime (Zombies) 03. "Top 100 Songs | Billboard Hot 100 Chart", "The Official Charts Company – She's Not There", "Item Display - RPM - Library and Archives Canada", The Irish Charts – Search Results – She's Not There", "Cash Box Top 100 Singles, December 10, 1977", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=She%27s_Not_There&oldid=981979607, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 5 October 2020, at 14:26. On 19 July 2013, it was announced that the band would be appearing on the second annual Moody Blues Cruise,[31] 2–7 April 2014 on the cruise ship MSC Ship Divina. In a scheme organized by Delta Promotions, an agency that also created fake touring versions of The Animals and The Archies, two fake Zombie line-ups were touring simultaneously in 1969, one hailing from Texas, the other from Michigan. Among their early US gigs were Murray the K's Christmas shows at the Brooklyn Fox Theatre, where the band played seven performances a day. [8], Three members of the band, Rod Argent, Paul Atkinson and Hugh Grundy, first came together to jam in 1961 in St Albans, Hertfordshire, England. [19] He died later that year on 1 April 2004, in Santa Monica, California, from liver and kidney disease. "[13], Arnold lost interest in the band and chose to leave to become a physician; he was replaced by Chris White. It was only given a US release because musician Al Kooper, then signed to Columbia Records, convinced his label of the album's merits. [37] The first stop on this tour was a first-time performance in Jamaica, as the featured artist on the Flower Power Cruise on the Celebrity Summit while in port in Falmouth. In 2011, "The Zombies featuring Colin Blunstone & Rod Argent" released their new studio album Breathe Out, Breathe In. I don't know where he got it from. Meanwhile, there were cover versions of "She's Not There" by the Ventures, Vanilla Fudge, and Orpheus, each in their individual styles. written by Giuseppe Cassia written by Pertti Reponen written by Rod Argent The album, scheduled for release in 1969, was cancelled and only a couple of the songs, "Imagine the Swan" (one of the newly recorded songs) and "If It Don't Work Out" (a demo of a song that Dusty Springfield recorded and released in 1965), were put out as singles instead. [35] The Zombies toured the US in the fall of 2015 to promote Still Got That Hunger and were again joined by surviving former members White and Grundy, along with keyboardist Darian Sahanaja, and White's wife Viv Boucherat (on backing vocals) to play the entire Odessey & Oracle album. Naturally, I'm titling this "She's Not There" for one of their biggest hits, and I'm putting that song first. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100 in December 1964. 3 2003 Still Got That Hunger 2015 The Zombies - The Original Studio Recordings, Vol. He very soon left the band after that." "She's Not There" was the second of four songs recorded by the Zombies at a 22 June 1964 recording session at Decca's West Hampstead Studio No. 2. In 2002, Ace/Big Beat releases The Decca Stereo Anthology, a 48-track 2-CD release which mixed all the Decca/Parrot recordings into true stereo for the first time. The Zombies were great from the very start. Unfortunately, like their previous Decca releases, it failed to reach the charts. Rolling Stone magazine ranked "She's Not There" No. written by Jesús González However, both Blunstone and Grundy came from Hatfield and both sang in the choir there at St Etheldreda's church. The Zombies - The Original Studio Recordings, Vol. There were enough tracks to have filled a follow-up album, but due to the band's lack of chart success, most of these tracks remained unissued at the time. To mark the 40th anniversary of Odessey and Oracle, the four surviving original members of the Zombies participated in a three-night series of concerts at London's Shepherd's Bush Empire Theatre between 7 and 9 March 2008. [33] On 12 January 1965 the band made their first in-person appearance on US television on the first episode of NBC's Hullabaloo and played "She's Not There" and their new single "Tell Her No" to a screaming, hysterical audience full of teenage girls.[6]. In January 2004, guitarist Paul Atkinson received the President's Merit Award from the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences at a benefit concert at the House of Blues in Los Angeles, California. The Zombies gave the song a recording that mixed Argent's jazzy electric piano playing and Colin Blunstone's ethereal vocal with a turn toward Merseybeat rave-up on the choruses. in the United States in 1968. That year, the three-day outdoor festival "Woodstock 50" was announced, to observe the 50th anniversary of the August 1969 Woodstock festival, at a Watkins Glen, N.Y. auto speedway, with the Zombies as a featured act; however the festival was ultimately cancelled due to financial backers withdrawing. In the US, two further singles—"Tell Her No" in 1965 and "Time of the Season" in 1968—were also successful. The 2011 tour schedule included Japan, France, Germany, Greece and Israel. [20] Another group toured in 1988, going so far as to not only trademark the group's name (the real band had let it lapse) but also recruit a bass guitarist named Ronald Hugh Grundy, claiming that original drummer Hugh Grundy had switched instruments. "She's Not There" is the kind of song that makes you think its composer is a major talent destined for a long and prolific career, which is not quite what happened. They met outside the Blacksmiths Arms pub in St Albans before their first rehearsal and gained their initial reputation playing the Old Verulamians Rugby Club in the same city. She's Not There (Zombies) 02. This positive experience set the stage for further collaborations to come.[22]. Thanks for the eagle eye in catching that so quickly. 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The band was finally inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2019. Bassist Chris White provided "I Can't Make Up My Mind", the quirky "I Don't Want to Know", plus the beaty "What More Can I Do" which, at 1:38, is the second-shortest cut on the album and contains a simple but distinctive drum riff. 2. The group scored a British and American hit in 1964 with "She's Not There". Argent performed the Zombies' songs "She's Not There" and "Time of the Season" as well as "Hold Your Head Up" from his other musical group, Argent. The real inspiration behind the song, however, was Argent's first love, Patricia, who called off their wedding weeks before and broke his heart. In 2010, Ace Records released a series of six 7-inch vinyl EPs. In turn, various concocted bands tried to capitalise on the success and falsely toured under the band's name. Paul Weller - Gravity - Various Acoustic Songs (20... Buckingham Nicks - Buckingham Nicks (1973), Buckingham Nicks - The Coffee Plant Demos (1972-1974). The change in direction was evident on their first single released by CBS, "Care of Cell 44", a song about the anticipation felt while waiting for the singer's partner to be released from prison. The Hollies - Wings - Various Songs (1968). Both CD and DVD were officially released in the UK and several countries around the world. Jim Rodford died after a fall on 20 January 2018, aged 76. [16], In 1967, frustrated by their continuing lack of success, the Zombies signed a recording contract with CBS Records for whom they recorded the album Odessey and Oracle at EMI's world-famous Abbey Road studios. Several new tracks were cut with a line-up of Argent, Hugh Grundy, Rodford (bass) and Rick Birkett (guitar), and were combined with some old Decca out-takes and demos that were overdubbed and enhanced in sessions at Morgan Studios in London. The song was later released both on The Zombies' UK album Begin Here (December 1964) and US album The Zombies (January 1965). 01. The backing tracks needed seven takes. It was a masterful effort that made the British Top 20 and crossed the Atlantic to hit number one on at least one U.S. singles chart. I just updated the post and the zip file with the correct track numbering. Argent wanted to form a band and initially asked his elder cousin Jim Rodford to join as a bassist. The song She's Not There was written by Rod Argent and was first released by The Zombies in 1964. 2. [16], After the Zombies disbanded, Rod Argent formed the band called Argent in 1969, with White as a non-performing songwriter. In May 2019, The Zombies announced a co-headlining tour with Brian Wilson of The Beach Boys called "Something Great From ’68’" featuring The Zombies performing Odessey and Oracle, in addition to other greatest hits. Of the eight original tracks, Rod Argent supplied the big attraction, "She's Not There", the upbeat "Woman", the atmospheric "I Remember When I Loved Her", plus "The Way I Feel Inside" which, at 1:28, was the shortest track on the album. In 2005, Blunstone and Argent released a DVD and 2-CD album (Live at the Bloomsbury Theatre) and continued touring with the Zombies. He came up with "She's Not There," a spooky minor-key tune with a lyric in which the singer takes out his frustration over a duplicitous (and, of course, absent) woman on a friend who failed to warn him about her in the first place.