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The Zombies - Girl Help Me
There’s a game I like to play when I’m lying in bed with my number one girl and I call it “Dead Zombie” - that’s when I roll over on top of her, usually while she’s still sleeping, allow all my weight to fall on her as awkwardly as possible, and then basically just act dead, and zombie like. But cool dead, you know? She inevitably asks me “What the hell are you doing?” to which I reply “I’m a dead zombie. I can’t hear you.” This is usually followed by a cute little struggle and her saying “Get the fuck off me”, or something to that effect. I remind her that I’m a dead zombie and obviously she’s going to have to move me herself if she wants me off. Anyway, this game is a real hit as you might imagine and somehow reminded me of this Zombies tune that I figure I’d post for you today.
In 1968 The Zombies released what they feared may be their final album, the fuckupedly spelled Odessey and Oracle. The singles chosen from these recordings failed to chart as expected and the band had actually disbanded before the album was properly released. But then a third single was then released, “Time of the Season”, and would provide the band with a bit of a ‘dead cat bounce’ resulting in whispers of a reunion. Even though keyboardist Rod Argent and bass tickler Chris White were already steps ahead assembling a new band, which would eventually become “Argent”, it was during this time that Argent and White were persuaded to compile and release a final Zombies album “RIP” - consisting of older out-takes, demos as well as a few newer recordings. This track “Girl Help Me” is one of those newer 1968 recordings, and as a result doesn’t include main Zombies vocalist Colin Blunstone (which can’t have bothered Blunstone a whole lot as he was busily playing his own version of the zombie game with girlfriend Caroline Munro). Hooooonk! Anyway, I don’t think this final Zombies album, “RIP”, ever saw the light of day — at least until its reissue years later — but then again neither do Zombies.
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