Since it’s the new year I’m re-posting this one. A favorite of mine from a favorite band of mine. Everyone I wish you a Happy New Year in 2020. Maybe they will be the roaring 20’s like the last… Thanks for reading in 2019.
This sounds like it should have been a hit but it was never pushed as a single at the time. It was the B side to Butcher’s Tale (Western Front 1914) which is an experimental song and was a big surprise to the band that it was picked as the first single. Both are from the great album Odessey and Oracle in 1968. There are several songs on this album that could have been in the charts but Time of the Season was the only one that made it and it was a year after the album was released.
Bruce Eder of AllMusic gave the album five stars out of five, calling it “one of the flukiest (and best) albums of the 1960s, and one of the most enduring long-players to come out of the entire British psychedelic boom”.
On recording Odessey and Oracle….Rod Argent
“We had the chance of going in and putting things down in the way we wanted people to hear them and we had a new studio, we walked in just after The Beatles had walked out [after recording Sgt. Pepper]. We were the next band in. They’d left some of their instruments behind … I used John Lennon’s Mellotron, that’s why it’s all over Odessey and Oracle. We used some of their technological advances … we were using seven tracks, and that meant we could overdub for the first time. And it meant that when I played the piano part I could then overdub a Mellotron part, and it meant we could have a fuller sound on some of the songs and it means that at the moment the tour we’re doing with Odessey and Oracle it means we’re actually reproducing every note on the original record by having extra player with us as well.”
This Will Be A Year
The warmth of your love
Is like the warmth of the sun
And this will be our year
Took a long time to come
Don’t let go of my hand
Now darkness has gone
And this will be our year
Took a long time to come
And I won’t forget
The way you held me up when I was down
And I won’t forget the way you said,
“Darling I love you”
You gave me faith to go on
Now we’re there and we’ve only just begun
This will be our year
Took a long time to come
The warmth of your smile
Smile for me, little one
And this will be our year
Took a long time to come
You don’t have to worry
All your worried days are gone
This will be our year
Took a long time to come
And I won’t forget
The way you held me up when I was down
And I won’t forget the way you said,
“Darling I love you”
You gave me faith to go on
Now we’re there and we’ve only just begun
And this will be our year
Took a long time to come
Yeah we only just begun
Yeah this will be our year
Took a long time to come
Happy New Year Max! A good way to bring it in with The Zombies!
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Happy New Year Hans!
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A new year to dream big dreams, to set big goals and achieve all that you are wishing for. Happy New Year!
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Happy New Year!
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Happy 2020 Max!
good song- what a way to get to record, eh? Right after The Beatles with their stuff still lying around!
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Happy 2020 Dave! That was handy…I didn’t know John had a mellotron. Paul still has his and uses it.
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Wonderful romantic and whimsical sounding song. I like the flourishes with the mellotron and good decision on using the instruments they had at hand. Happy New Year, a Year of Perfect Vision 🙂
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It really is… The entire album is a gem…Happy New Year Lisa!
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Butchers Tale is such a weird choice as single – not just experimental but also completely unrepresentative and just not very good.
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I couldn’t agree with you more. I could not believe this song was the B side. Reverse the two and it would work.
A Rose For Emily would have been a better choice than Butchers Tale.
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I think the correct choice for single is anything except Butchers Tale – such a great album otherwise.
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Perfect choice. Happy New Year, Max!
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Happy New Year Mitch!
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