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Friday, February 6, 2015

"You Were On My Mind," By "We Five"

Dear Machai,

Here is the classic We Five version of Ian and Sylvia's song. 

Audio (muddy): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29uNvGHsRlc

Audio (clearer recording but "video performance" not as good): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhABin6s78M



We Five (Wikipedia entry): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We_Five


Listening to the instrumental ending of "You Were On My Mind," I wonder if Roger McGuin and the Byrds "stole" their signature "jingle-jangle" from We Five... or vice versa.

"The We Five single marked a musical transition because the single was one of the first to feature drums and the electric guitar to a folk composition.[4]"

To this day, I remember sitting in a "club" on St. Paul St. across from my Dad's office at Hawkeye Works (a subsidiary of Kodak) listening to this song on the juke box and thinking "What a great song!"
  1. You Were On My Mind
    Song by We Five
  2. When I woke up this morning
    You were on my mind
    And you were on my mind
    I got troubles, whoa-oh
    I got worries, whoa-oh
    I got wounds to bind
    So I went to the corner
    Just to ease my pains
    Yeah, just to ease my pains
    I got troubles, whoa-oh
    I got worries, whoa-oh
    I came home again
    When I woke up this morning
    You were on my mi-i-i-ind and
    You were on my mind
    I got troubles, whoa-oh
    I got worries, whoa-oh
    I got wounds to bind
    And I got a feelin'
    Down in my sho-oo-oo-oes, said
    Way down in my sho-oo-oes
    Yeah, I got to ramble, whoa-oh
    I got to move on, whoa-oh
    I got to walk away my blues
    When I woke up this morning
    You were on my mind
    You were on my mind
    I got troubles, whoa-oh
    I got worries, whoa-oh
    I got wounds to bind
Have a great trip.

Paz contigo

Alan



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