Shoulda left it to Manfred Mann.
I reckon itβs a more than decent cover. (Still got the original M.M. single in my collection)
Heard this on the radio the other day. When the back announce mentioned Linda Ronstadt I went βwait whatβ!
Anyway this was before my time a bit but Iβd heard it enough over the years to be a bit familiar. I read recently (after hearing it a couple weeks back) that Mike Nesmith wrote it but it was rejected by the Monkees brains trust.
Itβs been ear worming away but it keeps morphing into βGeorgie girlβ, which I realise has the same basic progressionβ¦
I wonder if the seekers consciously or sub-consciously pinched it (they were later by a year or two)..
Sorry if I posted the song when I first heard it and have forgotten that. Itβs just today I realised the chord similarity bit.
What a tune.
Trust you!
Edited to say that the man sitting behind Dylan has ears that give Sir Jamesβ a run for their money x
Newport 1964, a year later. He comes onstage and sings this. Imagine being there and hearing it for the first time.
Yes, to dance beneath the diamond sky with one hand waving free.
(swoon) x