Next to Auld Lang Syne this is my favorite New Years Song. A favorite of mine from a favorite band of mine. Everyone… I wish you a Happy New Year in 2022.
You didn’t have to read my blog but you did and I really appreciate it…I want to thank all of you for reading and commenting in 2021.
This song 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
I love this tune, which I’m not sure I had heard before. And ‘this will be our year’ is a great motto to kick off 2022!
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This is another one that the Foo Fighters covered also…this is one I post every year.
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love this choice and new to me
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Beth I post it every year I admit…something about it I really like….and it’s not burned out.
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A bunch of best friends got together and formed the band, they had a few hits, they only had five songs reach Billboard’s Top 100, most people only remember three of their songs, they were surprisingly unsuccessful commercially and they should have done much better, as they had the potential and they were highly original.
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This album was brilliant… but it didn’t really get pushed until after they broke up. They were great musicians…
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Definitely has a Beatles flavor to it. I agree with Christian, a great choice to herald the new year.
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Thanks Lisa…I hope you have a great year!
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You’re welcome and you too!
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Great lyrics! Great performance! Possibly I’d put it ahead of Auld Lang Syne!
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It stuns me that this one isn’t known more…thanks for listening Bruce!
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I never thought of this as a New Year’s song, but it definitely works. It’s a nice song. Happy New Year!
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Yes it does work well enough! Happy New Year to you!
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Like the FF song you did today, somewhat under-rated, as perhaps the Zombies themselves were.
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Has to be the worst single choice ever – it’s the only questionable song on a great album.
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I can’t believe this was the B side to that song.
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