GENE CLARK & DOUG DILLARD why not your baby (1968)
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- Опубліковано 29 сер 2024
- 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.
Gene was a genius!
Breathtakingly beautiful song!
What a great songwriter Gene was. This is SO moving!
Just love it
Heavenly
Why not a massive hit? The truly talented Gene Clark with this 1968 gem not forgetting Doug Dillard.
A very good friend died a few months ago. We worshipped the Byrds and Gene Clark,. And, of course, we loved the VU and Nico. I'm so sorry that he never got to see this, as far as I know. He would have watched it a million times.
I love this so much. The music, the images. Gene clark deserves every accolade. My favourite of all time. He was brilliant. Just amazing.
Such a beautiful song and the film really suits it ..magical.
Just listened for the first time...this song/melody could have been a hit. Wonder what was missing that kept it from breaking.
Great song, yes. Not a mystery why not a hit. The production is terrible. The song was not on the album, but the b-side was. The vocal and guitar sound like a demo done just out of bed. Seems like someone heard demo after album was complete and knew it was great but did nothing more than add Dillard's banjo at wrong tempo, some backing vocals, and a string arrangement at odds with the banjo. Really too bad because Gene's voice can be fantastic and the song is as well. It really seems like it could be contemporary hit today in the hands of the right producer and a country or pop vocalist. Just listen to some of the recent covers of the song to hear how shoddy the original production was. Really sad.
One of the best UA-cam-clips I have ever seen. I love Gene Clark, and the images just work perfectly with this song. MTV has got nothing on you, whoever produced this clip!
One of the very best rock ballads of all time. It's right up there with 'Waterloo Sunset'.
Should have been a massive hit, great song from a great album.
Velvet Crush did a great cover in 1994
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.
yup,this most deffinetly should have been a .......BIG HIT! i love genes music,
Love Dillard & Clark, both albums are great. Gene was a truly great songwriter and had a wonderful voice. Gone but not forgotten.
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
Cool
Miraculous in the Music Worl!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
why wasn't this a huge hit. Such an incredible song. My copy is a UK demo, set me back £15 back in the day, which I was happy to pay, but in a sane world this would be a common, 50p record cos it sold 20million copies!
I love his voice. Gene, R.I.P.
Greetings to all Gene-fans from Holland/europe
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.
Very well done!
Perfection, musically and visually.
EXCELLENT......................................
Gene Clark genial, RIP
Simply wonderful...
I very much agree with your write up. Fantastic song.
such a wonderful song - timeless!
Nice one. Very nice.
Ah, the late 1960's! Nico. A great Gene Clark song. Somewhere missing here is Brian Jones nodding to his two friends.
fabulous in every way
Great ! One of my many favorite Clark songs. Ü
Thanks for this. I bought every Byrds album and the first Dilliard and Clark album. I listen to Dilliard and Clark the most. Great songs and vocals.😎
Gene Clark and Doug Dillard - Why Not Your Baby
She wore a blue dress when she walked in the room
And in her eyes the look I saw was filled with gloom
Is this the question I would answer all too soon?
Come tell your friend what's wrong with you
Why don't you call me your baby anymore?
Am I so changed from some strange love that went before?
Is this the change of mind that I've been designed for?
Why not your baby anymore?
Those words we spoke they only seemed to block our way
The truth rang out when you called me and called my name
I don't know what I can do or I can say
Your good friends also find a way
Why don't you call me your baby anymore?
Am I so changed from some strange love that went before?
Is this the change of mind that I've been designed for?
Why not your baby anymore?
Great!!!
Such a stunning video 💕
@yakattack537 a great original and a great cover.. love Velvet Crush..
Gene Clark is incomparable in everything he did. What is the scene playing here? Is it a movie? What movie?
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This is the same pitch as my original 45......there is no album version as such
That's NICO!
Jesus, is that NICO in the clip that everyone is gawking at???
thats NICO
Omg it sure looks like her b4 her heroin days
...anymore
Guy sure looks like a young Ed Ruscha
Gene Clark - very long article / biography
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This is pitched up from the album version...
It was never on an album
i need to hear that banjo track isolated! can anyone help me on a quest to find who produced this song? it would be cool to get the isolated banjo tracks for a number of songs from the album
Let me know if you were successful in your quest please
nope, unfortunately not. i guess the only person who could probably teach us it is bernie leadon himself (im pretty sure thats him playing and not doug dillard)
Produced by Larry Marks
Banjo by Doug Dillard
Gene was into lots of things, but I didn't think helium was one of them.
????
+Mauricio Ochoa The audio is sped up.
Boyle.
Clark sounds like Buddy Holly on this song.
Frankie Boyle... thats all
Not sure why I am listening to this - ask FRANKIE BOYLE. Nice, though.
This is the chipmunk version
Fantastic song. Too bad the production was so lame. It's no wonder it wasn't a hit. Sounds like a demo of gene and his guitar that was neglected for the album (which it is not on). Then someone finally figured out it was great and made it a a-side single, added Dillard's up tempo banjo to a down tempo song, drums, backing vocals and a string arrangement at odds with the banjo. Terrible. So sad. The song is great and gene had such a wonderful voice. It really seems this could be a contemporary hit with the right producer and pop or country vocalist. Just listen to some of the recent covers to know just how badly the original release was blown.