Post #232085 by donhonyc on Mon, May 15, 2006 2:13 PM

I am going to have to check out the Zombies.

Just to reiterate, if you don't know already, The Zombies are not Prog and I'm pretty sure most people wouldn't throw them in that category so proceed with caution if you are expecting a Prog band. The Zombies are (and you may know this already) most well known for their 1960s hits "Tell her No","She's Not There" and "Time of the Season". The latter was part of the 'Odyssey and Oracle' album that I mentioned in my other post which was recorded in 1967. It was one of the first to use Mellotron because, as the story goes, the band didn't have a budget to hire a string section for the recording. The album apparently was only released in the US in 1968 because Al Kooper had campaigned for it to be. "Time of the Season" wasn't a chart hit until 1969, AFTER the band had already broken up. The keyboardist in that band, Rod Argent had gone on to form the early 70s band "Argent" that had that major hit around '72 or '73, "Hold You're Head Up". Actually a pretty cool song and a Top 10 hit. You'll never hear a song like that in the Top 10 these days, that's fer sure.