BOB B SOXX & THE BLUE JEANS Zip-A-Dee Doo-Dah NOV '62

[1964jazzbass]

check out The Mummies version hehehe

[kookoocachoo29]

Go to the library and check out "Tearing Down the Wall of Sound" by Mick Brown. An excellent book and you will get the whole Phil Spector story ... ALL OF THE SONGS AND ARTISTS ARE COVERED.

In fact, that's why I'm on YouYube right now. Reading about the songs I just have to go in and give them a listen. Can't get them out of my mind!!

[americanfellow]

I can't quite place those lyrics? ;)

Now, where have I heard them before?

[americanfellow]

I can't quite place those lyrics? ;)

Now, where have I heard them before?

[MizMackie]

One more time chi-i-ild! Whoa oh oh oh oh yeah! Darlene Love was the best at adding blues flourishes to a song. Love her on this one.

[tonybklyn]

The Wall of Sound. Phil Spector was a genius.

[MePJtheDJ]

Speaking of guitar, the studio musicians werent credited and many were famous people we all know!!!

[aud2369]

Great Harmony! Its what u dont hear in todays music. It music that will always be around to sooth the soul........Peace and Love

[zeguitarman]

thank you for the post ! Phil Spector the greatest pop music producer

[uptightkid]

Been reading a biography of Phil...a talented but tragically flawed guy. He has a track record for pointing guns at people so I wasn't surprised when he was convicted of murder. BTW...for fuzztone guitar sounds 'out there' becuase the amp was not amped directly....the sound of the solo was picked up by other mics in the room. Technically this is a no no (known as mic bleed).

[Johng10000]

@uptightkid

Al Hazan tells the story of being in Phil Spector's studio for this recording. During a break, session great guitar player, Tommy Tedesco shows Phil a new sound he has been working on. Phil calls it the "dirtiest guitar he has ever heard" and adds it to the break of this song. Sounds great.

[pinchold]

Absolutely awesome! Nov. 1962 is it? And imagine that that month that year Beatles released their first record "Love me do" It's plain to see who was bigger at the time.

thank you so much for posting it

[larrynealwaxmuseum]

I agree with your assessment of a record not being a great song if it were not a hit. This record I always liked back in 1963. Again, one of those you don't hear on the radio anymore, sad but true.

Larry N. Boyington, aka Larry Neal, former curator of the Wax Museum on the big 1520 KOMA

[nancyfloressantos]

A 1962 song......always treasured and cherished.

[tremsfan]

Another very good and interesting version of this song was recorded by the Dave Clark Five as an album cut on one of their first albums...it is on youtube, check it out!

[RoyFive]

This is still my favorite rendition of this song.

[srercrcr]

It's ironic that the person most responsible for elevating the role of women in popular music would be incarcerated for murdering a woman. Wealth and fame can be a dangerous thing.

[loqutor]

@srercrcr Yes, because a crime against one woman is a crime against all women.

[BigWhiteDude1]

a pity good old Phil is in jail now.  What a shame

[freddyscot]

great great posting, I lost 45years in a flash

[JessWonderin]

A total classic from the genius of Phil Spector - amazing when you look at the audio technology of the times - the legendary "Wall" that drove early rock and inspired the wall of Marshall amps . . . . nice post

[ThisBalladSucks]

great tune! thanks for the upload!

[afaninyourcrowd]

The guitar solo was actually recorded by putting an amp in a 'soundproof' room, turning it all the way up and placing a mic outside of the room. That's why you get the feeling of it being extremely loud but still fits in the song. Phil Spector is a genius.

[spacepatrolman]

Yea it sounds kind of distant they didnt have fuzz tone distortion boxes yet .

[TheBrowndawg]

@spacepatrolman actually yes they did, the ventures used a fuzz box in their 1962 song 2000 pound bee. this was recorded in 1963 (it mightnt have been called a fuzztone though)

[spacepatrolman]

@TheBrowndawg fuzztones werent available to the public then it was some recording studio trickery [the hunter by blue cheer has the same intro as war of the satellites by the ventures ]

[jimmygimmy]

god, that guitar solo just sounds amazing. i really don't think i've ever heard anything else quite like it.

[srercrcr]

That's whats great about re-living these old great tunes, everybody appreciates something different.

[Johng10000]

@jimmygimmy

Tommy Tedesco

[sexymama1966]

best version on youtube thanks:)

[srercrcr]

thx, sexy!