Anyone who's interested in the song may have followed it up to hear Ian & Sylvia's original recording on their 3rd album from 1964, NORTHERN JOURNEY. (And you should, if nothing else to hear how well the We Five and Bev Bivens reframed the song for their hit). One of the things I always thought odd about the We Five and subsequent covers (including by Nanci Griffith, who certainly knew the original and claimed to be a huge I&S fan---but she also loved the We Five cover, I guess) is the way that Bev Bivens took some of Sylvia's harmony as the lead vocal. As usual, Ian sang the lead on this in their duet recording, even though Sylvia had written the song. This was also true of the country-rock recording that the duo did on their final album together, with the Great Speckled Bird (their country-rock group) and which charted in Canada--so you may find that on UA-cam, but most everyone thinks the original recording superior. The original featured Sylvia's autoharp, too. In any case, if you look them up the first thing you might find is their Ian & Sylvia reunion television special from the 80s, and that's interesting, too, with Sylvia finally singing lead on her own song. But a while later, Sylvia returned to this song on her 1989 or so solo album, almost 30 years after writing it as a young folk-singer in her early 20s. I was reminded immediately of Gene Clark's revisit to "Tambourine Man" on his FIREBYRD record. I really like both reinterpretations, they're kind of laid-back, autumnal, almost hymn-like. I like the lead guitar on this--not sure who played it, and I'm not getting out the CD to write this--and the harmonies may well be from her compatriots in Quartette, the Canadian 4-woman vocal group that she formed about this time, and with which most of her subsequent work has been. (They don't sound much like the Bangles, but if you like harmonies... Check Quartette out). ua-cam.com/video/eFHPrY6AAsk/v-deo.html
I think that St. Peter pretty much copied the We Five cover--but he had a bona fide hit, #2 in the U.K. and #36 in the U.S. Originally he apparently thought it had been a traditional folk song, and he released it as by himself, but Sylvia Fricker Tyson eventually got that corrected. Clearly the Bangles (and most other covers) followed the We Five arrangement. Quite different from the original.
@@davidlenander The St. Peter version was released in 1965 the same time as the 'We Five' version, it entered the charts in January 1966 and went to #2 as you rightly pointed out, the 'We Five' version was also released in the UK but failed to chart at all. After the Bangles split up in 1989 Susanna Hoffs recorded a solo version of the song, that was released as a b-side track to a 1991 single 'Only Love'. When the Bangles reformed 10 years later they started to perform it as part of their live shows.
The Bangles can do no wrong. Love them.
Covering the 1966 We 5 classic, they would be so honored(& probably are), are they aware of this? Beautiful!
Thanks so much for putting this up
Anyone who's interested in the song may have followed it up to hear Ian & Sylvia's original recording on their 3rd album from 1964, NORTHERN JOURNEY. (And you should, if nothing else to hear how well the We Five and Bev Bivens reframed the song for their hit). One of the things I always thought odd about the We Five and subsequent covers (including by Nanci Griffith, who certainly knew the original and claimed to be a huge I&S fan---but she also loved the We Five cover, I guess) is the way that Bev Bivens took some of Sylvia's harmony as the lead vocal. As usual, Ian sang the lead on this in their duet recording, even though Sylvia had written the song. This was also true of the country-rock recording that the duo did on their final album together, with the Great Speckled Bird (their country-rock group) and which charted in Canada--so you may find that on UA-cam, but most everyone thinks the original recording superior. The original featured Sylvia's autoharp, too. In any case, if you look them up the first thing you might find is their Ian & Sylvia reunion television special from the 80s, and that's interesting, too, with Sylvia finally singing lead on her own song. But a while later, Sylvia returned to this song on her 1989 or so solo album, almost 30 years after writing it as a young folk-singer in her early 20s. I was reminded immediately of Gene Clark's revisit to "Tambourine Man" on his FIREBYRD record. I really like both reinterpretations, they're kind of laid-back, autumnal, almost hymn-like. I like the lead guitar on this--not sure who played it, and I'm not getting out the CD to write this--and the harmonies may well be from her compatriots in Quartette, the Canadian 4-woman vocal group that she formed about this time, and with which most of her subsequent work has been. (They don't sound much like the Bangles, but if you like harmonies... Check Quartette out). ua-cam.com/video/eFHPrY6AAsk/v-deo.html
hey i like it
Good Cover,Original is from Crispian St. Peters 1966,also very good!
Original is by Ian and Sylvia, not Crispian St. Peters. Syvlia Fricker Tyson wrote the song in 1962.
Memento Mori The We 5, I don't know if Crispian St. Peter did this. I know he had a hit in 1966 "I'm The Pied Piper".
I think that St. Peter pretty much copied the We Five cover--but he had a bona fide hit, #2 in the U.K. and #36 in the U.S. Originally he apparently thought it had been a traditional folk song, and he released it as by himself, but Sylvia Fricker Tyson eventually got that corrected. Clearly the Bangles (and most other covers) followed the We Five arrangement. Quite different from the original.
@@davidlenander The St. Peter version was released in 1965 the same time as the 'We Five' version, it entered the charts in January 1966 and went to #2 as you rightly pointed out, the 'We Five' version was also released in the UK but failed to chart at all. After the Bangles split up in 1989 Susanna Hoffs recorded a solo version of the song, that was released as a b-side track to a 1991 single 'Only Love'. When the Bangles reformed 10 years later they started to perform it as part of their live shows.
This sounds exactly like HOB Los Angeles concert
sorry, but they don't come close to Bev Bivens - sounds like they were just going through the motions of making a cover to fill a cd