How The Zombies Made "Time Of The Season"

[@stevelinscome728]

Thank you for that history. I'm 70 yrs old and finally got to see them for my first time a couple weeks ago. Had. A. Blast.!

[@janitoroflunacy]

Odessey and Oracle is somewhere on my top ten album list. Glad you made this video!

[@kellyparkinson8594]

Ooh ooh! I've been wondering about that genius breath riff or clap and mouth percussion. So amazing. Thank you, this was super intereeting.

[@kyfifer]

The Zombies are legends. They still sound amazing to this day. Loved their most recent studio album too. Still got that hunger :)

[@hectorsalcido4106]

" The Zombies were ( are) extremely under rated, they have never gotten the credit they deserve , one of the best ever from the 60's .

[@kyfifer]

hector Salcido couldn’t agree more. They were like a treasure trove when I discovered them. Had only heard the hits, when I discovered O & A. So good.

[@bobby666666]

Love the original band. Apart from some out-takes in EPS issued about 9/10 years ago, I have all the 60s output. Colin Bluntstone is Also featured on at least two Alan Parsons Project albums too.

[@Large23collectibles]

Odessey and Oracle is criminally underrated.

[@firesoulrocker]

I'm working on a full boxset w all things of O&O. Mono, stereo, singles, demo, alt mixes , instrumentals. About 18 track 3rd disk. Fan made. At this time working on remastering it.

[@firesoulrocker]

@@cockshield thank you 😊

[@namcat53]

Only to unaware, way too young people.

[@joegongora2200]

The song is absolutely a masterpiece because it defines the 60's. They possessed the talent & it's sad they were underrated. They had a unique sound because they mainly used an electronic piano. But it was fitting that Rod Argent used an organ for the song. Using their creativity they brought the song to life. If they were part of the British Invasion then they're part of Rock History. They're still performing out there, because they appeared on The Jimmy Fallon Show. Guys "Keep On Rockin" while you all can.

[@maralorca6518]

With their induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame last month, it's just great to see video essays like this to really showcase how good they were in their day, and their writing and recording processes. Thank you for this and I hope you'd discuss more songs from many artists in the future. More power!

[@scotennis609]

I bought a new copy of Oracle and Odessey, in 2011, on the Big Beat label. The songs were remastered. I saw The Zombies in 2013 in Charlottesville Virginia. I met Rod and Colin after the show, spent 10 minutes with them as the stage was being taken apart. They both signed my album. Both very normal and nice people.

[@terr777]

Well, I was around when they were, and finally got to hear and meet them in 2004 (and '05 and '13). Good luck with your writing, you have good taste.

[@marivg8948]

I think The Zombies influenced The Doors' sound with the use of the electric piano. To me it's like, "no Zombies, no Doors."

[@StormyDay]

It fills my heart with joy that the music of my youth inspires and moves you. Thank you for this and the loving way you presented it. I can tell you are an old soul. The way that I feel when I listen to this music, remembering how new this all was and how simple life was in the 1960s, are the best memories. Best of luck with your music, I hope you have a lot of success. ❤

[@AKRON-Productions]

Great content in the last few days!! PLEASE KEEP UP!

[@RaunakShikhar]

Didn't know about them enough. Heard the song before your video. Loved it. Might binge The Zombies.

[@chrisdelisle3954]

Hollyhobs is correct - Odessey And Oracle is one of the greatest little-heard albums of all time.

[@kathleenbradford5086]

I "discovered" The Zombies on the first Moody Blues Cruise......they were the talk of the ship. Since then I've seen them a few times each year when they tour in the US until 2020 when all the concerts were cancelled. They're supposed to be back in June 2021 across Canada and a few shows in the US. The Zombies are better than ever and they were also the first band British Invasion band after the Beatles to have a hit with a song written by a member of the band (Rod). Their last album "Still Got that Hunger" is also terrific.

[@fletcherlucas7908]

I just saw the Zombies perform Odessey and Oracle when they opened for Brian Wilson like two weeks ago. It actually sounded really amazing live.

[@OM-md6ki]

This is a great great video and commentary

[@Scottlp2]

Thanks for the video. I guess the Abbey road connection explains how Alan Parsons found Colin for his own group. I remember his beautiful voice on a number of Parson’s songs.

[@zeldaguy1003]

Love your videos!

[@johntousseau9380]

I just got the Zombie vinyl box set. They have tons of great stuff. Very underrated band.

[@natiikdc1312]

one of my all time favorites...thank you so much for posting an amazing video, once again:)

[@chrisdelisle3954]

Absolutely love Odessey And Oracle. It's perfect from beginning to end. It boggles the mind that that album didn't light the pop world on fire. The same could be said of The Kinks Are The Village Green Preservation Society. Although, I believe that album had the misfortune of being released right around the time of the Beatles White Album.

[@probono9341]

Chris DeLisle The fact that the band had split was the major factor. There was no tour or promotion to carry the album to the masses. Also, there was no hope of another album so fans didn’t have the chance to connect with the band at the time.

[@mattkaustickomments]

I would also say the same about Kinks Arthur album.

[@bgsdrama]

Did you know that after Time of The Season was a hit and there was no band to tour the states for it; some guys in America made a fake band to tour as the zombies. Eventually the real zombies stopped them- but the drummer and guitar player from the fake zombies decided to stay in a band together... This band became ZZ Top! Crazy story, huh?

[@makeshift_battlefield_music]

Hahaha that is awesome

[@DandyLion662a]

I'd heard that story on Randy Bachman's radio show. If memory serves, there were actually two USA bands posing as The Zombies. One was sort of a cover/bar band and the other was the band that later became ZZ Top.

[@mattyust6127]

That's Bullshit!! C'mon man🙄

[@bgsdrama]

Matt Yust it’s true, google it

[@bgsdrama]

DandyLion662a it’s true- look it up

[@camilanieto8673]

love the video thank you!!

[@jamessheppard717]

Love the zombies, loved this vid, subbed🤘

[@petabulmer7345]

I fell in love with this song when I heard it in the movie 1969. Loved it ever since!

[@lionheartroar3104]

Great work

[@freedomspreads9683]

Man I never thought you’d actually do a video on the Zombies, love their keyboard sound!

[@craigwooden7649]

The Zombies were so underrated.

[@CycleAndEat]

Thanks for this video my friend

[@MarkTulsa2024]

Congratulations to the Zombies on their induction into the RRHF!

[@walterpezzella2520]

This is my favorite song and group.

[@nancybeckett890]

Odessey and Oracle, along with Pet Sounds, are the only two albums that rate right up there with the best Beatles albums. The premature demise of the Zombies is the greatest tragedy of Rock'n'Roll -- except maybe Badfinger... and the way Mike Love and the Beach Boys stomped out Brian Wilson's creativity...

[@cockshield]

Check out the albums Butterfly House and Coral Island by The Coral, who came from Beatleland. They're up there with those albums for sure!

[@ipsurvivor]

Odessey And Oracle is one of the best albums of all time. I’ve always loved Time Of The Season but after hearing the entire album many many times the album would still be one of the greatest even if Time Of The Season had not been on it. Interestingly they released Butcher’s Tale as a single and kind of overlooked what became a huge hit. For those not familiar with the album it is must listening, bucket list kind of stuff...

[@vincentm614]

The Zombies seemed to have a heavy jazz influence in their music in Rod Argents keyboards and Colin's vocals. They were slightly ahead of the other british groups harmonically.

[@G0K3001]

Great vid! Thank You-

[@WalshieYT1]

This is an absolute classic, great sampling on Rhyme or Reason also

[@makeshift_battlefield_music]

Hell yeah. Was hoping someone would mention that song. That whole album MMLP2 is total badassery.

[@WalshieYT1]

@@makeshift_battlefield_music I'm with you, the first album I ever listened to in full and will forever be underated, maybe if it was released between Eminem show and Encore it would get the credit it deserves.

[@makeshift_battlefield_music]

@@WalshieYT1 for me it was the album that got me back into his music, I live in Michigan and was a fan of ICP when I was like 12, which was 1998. My friend had the Slim Shady LP and I was a fan right away, bought the MMLP when it came out but then as I got older started getting into other music and didnt pay much attention to what Eminem was up to until the LP2 and that brought me back in. I really like Kamikaze btw, I think everything is written when it needs to be written, and he says what he needs to say. Hes really personal and honest about himself and what he thinks about the world, he delivers the comedy and tragedy in the right amounts. His fans have grown up with him and I've gone back and listened to those albums I missed and I would say despite sales or critics opinions, those are still high quality works even though I could pick out things to criticize about them, it wouldn't make any difference.

[@WalshieYT1]

@@makeshift_battlefield_music I didn't really get into Em's music until recovery, and even then I was quite young, I'm completely with you on everything you just said. His technical skills and versatility as an artist, a story teller, a comedian and just a really fucking good rapper is umatched. It's cliche as hell but his music genuinely helped me through a lot growing up, just being able to laugh or know there were people dealing with my struggles and worse, which is why Rabbit Run is probably always gonna be my favourite track ever, and the final verse of bad guy my favourite verse ever

[@nigelbryant7980]

LOVE YOUR STUFF MAN! Video idea, could you do a song by Oasis?

[@Jacobgilbert86]

Have you thought about doing how the byrds made turn, turn, turn

[@mattkaustickomments]

Odessey & Oracle was an Epiphany. All killer and no filler. Can’t believe I never heard it til about 3 years ago.

[@จีโน่จัดไป]

Love the Zombies And listened to this song a million times but i had to go listen again after hearing this Brilliant part about Rod and his picky phrasing It shows and makes their music stand out It enhances the poetry abd lyricism You hear every word that he wrote And Many other great songs, i confess i have no idea what they are saying I have always noted that Colin sounds a bit hoarse when he hits that note singing "the blood runs high" This song fabulous always, I have to listen to the Zombies at least once a week

[@katgrey6239]

Another favorite!!!

[@martanika7554]

Great song oh ya

[@765respect]

This is on my Top 10 all time favorites. Played it for my boys and now they love it. Playing it now for the grandies, gotta pass on great music.

[@squatch545]

Time of the Season only made it to no.3 on the Billboard charts in the US. It made it to no.1 in Canada.

[@kenlodge3399]

Back then I was always buying the LP and for some reason known only to God I never got that one, in spite of knowing how great Argent and the Zombies were. Kind of wish I had.

[@aviluxstream]

Curious to have had "extra tracks," when recording on four track machines. Without access to eight-track machines in 1967, Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band was recorded in pretty wild experimental way; using paired four track machines. That was what Abbey Road had. The first eight-track machine in the UK (an Ampex) did not go there, however, but was installed at London's Trident Studios in early 1968. Wonder how the Zombies had "extra tracks" in 1967... They actually had a bit of a track shortage. One phrase is repeated. "What's your name ..." Both times, the word "is" (in the elongated "is - he - rich") gets swallowed up by a "punch-in." The vocals were recorded onto an unused part of another track. But to avoid messing up what was there already, the "punch" had to follow it, and (being before the introduction of the "sync head"), a small beat of time interval was needed for the heads to shift, creating an artifact of a "punch-in" where the word "is" should be. How did they do it exactly the same way, both times? The exact same artifact, the exact same punch, in the exact same place, so identically that if a recording of each instance is cut out, and duplicated multiple times, then reassembled at random, it's impossible to distinguish which is the first and which is the second? It's simple. It's the same recording, used twice. So if it was only recorded once, originally, that means the entire original arrangement was completely different. Yup.

[@Knards]

Rod argent was massive in music

[@MrMojo5299]

Love the video :) Your voice is very soothing too also I think something from the Smashing pumpkins would be good

[@markbunker5934]

All time classic...thank you Zombies

[@hailesupreme_]

Am I the only one who hears exactly where Sting and The Police got their sound from?

[@hectorsalcido4106]

The Zombies , along with the Beatles and the Animals, were the three best groups of the British Invasion, The Stones were way over rated and not that good.

[@misternewoutlook5437]

Yeah, the Zombies definitely belong among the innovative groups of the 1960s. You can add a few others, but I would say the Kinks are definitely in the vanguard of the British Invasion too.

[@matthewcrich5951]

hector Salcido I could not disagree more about the Stones being overrated, but that's an argument for another day. Other then The Beatles & Stones, it's The Kinks, The Zombies & The Animals that don't quite get the respect they deserved *at that time*. Retrospectively, 50 years later they do, along with the rest of the British Invasion

[@lauriewalker90]

Kinks!

[@matthewcrich5951]

Ray Segura Hey, Ray. I'm a *huge* stones fans but I've always felt they thought they needed to continually play catch up with the Beatles. The evidence of this is their response to "Sgt. Pepper's" with the release of "Satanic Magesties", one of their worst albums in my opinion. They truly came into their own during & after the Beatles breakup. "Sticky Fingers" & "Exile" are simply outstanding pieces of work.

[@RodolfLeclerc]

@@geetarman Not quite but also very close to the Beatles as songwriting is concerned. But not quite......

[@cheryalhussain975]

Who was the models that were used posed in the song she’s not there? Very beautiful ladies.

[@dannyruble5488]

Although FM was king of the airways at this time, Phil Spector would have been proud to have produced this song, because along with Spinning Wheel, I Can Hear Music, Bad Moon Rising and a very few others , Time of the Season just absolutely Owned the AM market with the way these few records blasted such overwhelming joy that overtook the minds and bodies of AM car radio listening music lovers in those days. It was almost impossible to wipe the grin off your face when this magic came out of the car speakers.

[@mclifer]

Yes, and if you pushed a button something else just as good was playing.

[@roboatnick6178]

I would add the Yardbirds and the Kinks to that list.

[@axxellein]

Lousy Moniker ==Excellent Mellotron Leaden Masterwork!

[@plaguedoctormasque8089]

Timeof the season is one of my Halloween mix songs like Dont fear the Reaper by BOC and Witchy Woman by The Eagles Black Magic Woman by Santana Magic Man by Heart.You can do Magic by Reo speedwagon. The list goes on...

[@st.beatles7283]

Your videos are the fucking bomb

[@itaintmebabe714]

5:30 I also really like The Beach Bores

[@alward5678]

Bands and music smokes the crap today and there is A LOT of it. All good..

[@steveturner2763]

Because they were on a strict budget of only 1000 £ {pounds sterling), EMI and CBS would not pay for the stereo mixes; the Zombies had to pay 200 £ out of their own pockets. One of the best sound engineers in the world, Geoffrey Emerick, produced the record.The Zombies ended up owning the master recordings. In fact, in the U.S., C.B.S. initially would not even release the record. It was until U.S. A&R producer Al Kooper raved about the record, that CBS released the recording on their Date Records subsidiary label for Columbia's acquired and independently produced recordings. Unfortunately, by this time the band had broken up and when "Time of the Season" became a hit and reached #3 in the Billboard top 100 in March of 1969,and number 1 on the Cashbox and Canadian charts, the Zombies had been broken up well over a year.

[@stevenangel8235]

song used in the intro?

[@sandraweilbrenner67]

Good story great band

[@beestains779]

The Beatles are my favorite rock group, but I think Odessey and Oracle > Sgt. Pepper.

[@workingmansdead44-ug8hl]

Glad I was old enough to have appreciated the sixties,really good times,as odd as it may sound folks were still folks then.The seventies were pretty good too outside of the first two years for me. And lookn back they werent all that bad either.Nows not to bad,though except for music and people.

[@allensaunders449]

Album best pop masterpiece of the 60s

[@garyduran1]

I dig the zombies

[@cindydasilva4115]

The Zombies are playing a worldwide livestream on September 18. veeps.events/TheZombies_YT tickets are only $20. You should see them! They're filming it from Abbey Road Studios in London.Once in a lifetime opportunity!

[@seanhoward5562]

Saw them in concert in Florida around 1968. There was a possibility, though, that there were fake Zombie groups at that time, from what I heard, so I'm not sure if they were original group.

[@mrnobody3161]

Fake Zombies. The real Zombies broke up in 1967. In 1969 they were offered $1,000,000.00 to reunite, but they all had moved on by the then. Integrity.

[@alpine1600s]

I live back then. I was just born in the 80's.🧐🤣

[@Ringo98000]

Lol. Thx. Nice one.

[@chrisspiring4303]

Can you please make a video about “isn’t it a pity” by George harrison

[@revolutionaryviews9702]

Are you holding a Glass Onion in your caricature?

[@hipster_tacos]

Great song, though it used to get spammed across every single one of my Pandora stations a few years ago, so I started to hate it lol

[@rogershahan3342]

I sing Time of the season in karaoke

[@lamper2]

HOW ABOUT HOW EMMITT RHODES BEAT McCARTNEY AT HIS OWN GAME?

[@raymondfrye5017]

Emmitt Rhodes? The Rhodesian musical wunderkind?...beat McCartney? How so?

[@freddyfurrah3789]

The Zombies had two great songs and one good one. She's not There in The Time of the Season are classics. Tell Her No is a good song.

[@Wolfwolveswolf]

ZOMBIES

[@princeofcupspoc9073]

A lot of people rank the Beatles as number one rock band of all time. I would never rank them that high. But I know one thing. Zombies >>>> Beatles. No argument.

[@painmanist]

One thing i don't like in your videos is that you don't/can't put the music itself on them...

[@docwill184]

The blockers are out in force; just one bar and you're out. He took a risk with what he played...

[@nateuhrich1527]

Like a rolling stone

[@ekoell]

Lots of background info but no real insight into the song itself. Talk to us about the lyrics! Disappointing.

[@ingvarhallstrom2306]

So why don't you go write something?

[@VultureClone]

Hearing an American say 'bollocks' will never not sound awkward, lol. Sorry mate.

[@anthonyrodriguez2382]

Although I really enjoyed this video, and the zombies do have some great music? To compare them to the Beatles is foolish

[@walteriamusic5556]

Agreed, but check out each band's version of. " You really got a hold on me."

[@TheJayson8899]

Because they’re better or worse?

[@walteriamusic5556]

@@TheJayson8899 We like them both, what do you think ?

[@johnnycash4217]

Some Steely Dan?

[@wbchaney]

You might want to check out Rick Beato's channel for some Steely Dan. And Tim Pierce.

[@peetsnort]

The harder the time the better the music. Take a look at the rumours album The British people have previously been in hard times and it shows with the modern lot who very few can play an instrument

[@TheJayson8899]

What)s even the point in comparing them to The Beatles or other bands

[@mikecushing7276]

Great band but not compared to the Beatles or the Beach Boys

[@mathewm7136]

per both Page and Plant, the Zombies were their single most greatest influence. The Beatles were pop, the Beach Boys were Surfer Rock. You're comparing apples to oranges in your assessment Mike.

[@pretorious700]

Zombies were great, but comparing them to the Beatles is laughable.

[@mrnobody3161]

The Beatles loved The Zombies too and so did Elvis, so perhaps the joke's on you. 🤪

[@victorricolucero]

Don’t turn this shit into femmes

[@chadwaldron6329]

They were simply not that good.

[@franceshaha]

Maybe, if you'd like to you could make how Red Hot Chili Peppers made Californication?

[@joebobjenkins7837]

The album sucked. The song is an all time classic.

[@redflamered]

Horrible song. How this band with just a couple of hits made the Hall of Fame is beyond belief.