GENE CLARK & DOUG DILLARD why not your baby (1968)

album : The Fantastic Expedition of Dillard & Clark

Arranged by VAN DYKE PARKS
The banjo is present in the background, the rhythm section is pure pop/rock, not a million miles away from The Byrds. The vocals are heavenly and the lyrics clever and charming. Its a pop song that really should have been a hit - someone should cover it and turn it into one. A wonderfully dreamy song.
Gene Clark was the greatest underrated singer/songwriter to emerge from the '60s rock explosion, and deserves to be mentioned in the same breath as Neil Young. This album, his debut as a duo with virtuoso banjoist/guitarist Doug Dillard, is perhaps his most brilliant recording. Out of the ashes of the Byrds and a brilliant false start of a solo career (the excellent Echoes album), the 1968 Dillard & Clark project found Clark collecting some of his finest material (basically the entire album) and putting it in the familiar context of bluegrass and country, a good year before these elements became vogue in the pop world. But Gene Clark was always ahead of his time.

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[OubaelPhoumet]

It's Jacques Poitrenaud's Strip-Tease (1963) with a young Nico, a french movie, very far from the perfection (but Serge Gainsbourg is in the sountrack). Thanks for your commentaries.

[Eckhard Wunder]

what a fantastic song. simply beautiful!! gene clark-what a genius. just bought the cd "no other" very seldom i was so impressed. bought it a second time as a birthday present for my brother

[valleynissei]

truly wonderful song ♫

[Chris G]

Should have been a massive hit, great song from a great album.

[goldbugnz]

fabulous in every way

[Ethan Aries]

Came for the song, but loved the clip, and did a little further digging. On imdb, the title is "Sweet Skin" (orig. title "Strip-Tease" ) and Nico is not the only interesting person to appear in it. The man in the audience is Jean Sobieski, whose daughter found more fame here in the US--Leelee Sobieski. Also, not shown is Juliette Gréco, who is well-known in France as a singer of moody love songs.

[Fnarf]

No, it's not "Darling" -- that's Julie Christie, and ends in an Italian villa, not down by the Seine.

[Fnarf]

What is the name of this film? It's driving me crazy that I can't think of it.

[vanmandude]

Gene had a feel for life that none of the others did...guess that's why he's gone. But this song will always call his name...