Thing a Week 17 - I Will
Easing back in with a Beatles cover this week. This song has been floating around in my head for quite a while, who knows why - maybe I’m in love. I think this may be the sweetest love song ever written, so I’ve recorded it without any winking or irony or irreverence. Just straight ahead sappy. And say what you want about Paul, but it takes guts to write a line like “Love you forever and forever, love you with all my heart” and never look back.
January 20th, 2006 at 11:16 am
That was good. I got a 10cc “I’m not in love” vibe with the droning vocal accompaniment. Mashup possibilities?
January 20th, 2006 at 11:24 am
I like it. It’s a change from the usual, but then that’s what this weekly thing is about, isn’t it?
January 20th, 2006 at 5:20 pm
This has to be my favorite Beatles song. Thank you for recording a version.
January 21st, 2006 at 9:10 am
Your rendition of the song was great!
But I don’t know about your comment that it takes a lot of guts for a guy to write the words “Love you forever and forever, love you with all my heart I mean we are, afterall talking about the same man who wrote the words to the song “Just a Silly Little Love Song”
January 21st, 2006 at 3:18 pm
Outstanding cover! one of my most favorite songs! Thank you!
January 22nd, 2006 at 8:09 am
Perfect! Ironic-detachment-free and very sweet and happy-making.
January 22nd, 2006 at 6:02 pm
Nice version. It got me thinking about the song and wound up turning it into a post of my own…
http://wingsforwheels.blogspot.com/2006/01/music-talk.html
January 23rd, 2006 at 6:54 am
I haven’t listened to this song in a long time, and this was the first time I heard it with my mommy ears. It really resonated. I love your version of it!
January 23rd, 2006 at 9:13 am
Dave: yes, yes yes. Mad props to you for discussing Del Amitri - that song kills me every time.
Liz: Ah, mommy ears. I know of what you speak. Don’t listen to closely with those ears, when I try to sing this song to my daughter I usually just start to sob.
January 23rd, 2006 at 7:19 pm
Jon, you know Whim does (or did) an arrangement of this one, right? It was just about my favorite in our whole repertoire. We unearthed it from the files towards the end of the year, realizing that we didn’t have any actual love songs (and a lot of stuff like “You’re No Good”). Bruce and I sang this as a duet at Rodger Roundy’s wedding back in 2001.
Your version is delicious. Thanks for making me smile!