Everyday: PTC Version Vs. Rockabilly Version
Everyday: PTC Version Vs. Rockabilly Version
It seems to me that there is a certain degree of animosity towards PTC, including the poppy Everyday I Write the Book. I personally think it is a perfect pop song. The original rockabilly version (for lack of a better word), is ok, but I think the melody during "I'm giving you a longing look", is a rip off of an old song or TV commercial I can't recall. I just feel that the album version is perfect. I don't think the production dates it at all. But I'd llike to hear some other's views on this, hence, the poll.
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I don't give a hoot about the production controversy...it was great the way he did it, a pop song, not a Renoir, but really good. It has a good feel. The new version is void of some of the feeling, or at least that's what I project onto it....maybe I just don't handle change well.....PTC!
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I think the non-album version (which I think EC described as having a Merseybeat kind of a sound) is FAR preferable to the album version, which I actually think is one of EC's weaker recordings. Way too slick. The song, I actually like -- though I like Nick Lowe's similar "When I Write the Book" even more.
Actually, I like the song that probably inspired both, Rodgers & Hart's "I Could Write a Book" even more, still.
Actually, I like the song that probably inspired both, Rodgers & Hart's "I Could Write a Book" even more, still.
http://www.forwardtoyesterday.com -- Where "hopelessly dated" is a compliment!
BlueChair wrote:Yeah, I forgot to mention that the alternate version of "Every Day I Write The Book" is in no way a 'rockabilly' version.
Yeah, I know, I just couldn't put my finger on it when EC had said Merseybeat. I just pulled Rackabilly out of my ass, and like all things that originate from there, it stunk.
I still think that the album version is a hell of a lot better, and a hell of a lot more daring than people are giving it credit for. I think it's wonderfully produced. Listen to it along side other pop songs of the same era. It's so well layered, and as in all most of EC's best, he reworked the melody from the demo until he got something thouroughly original.