[Harp-L] Re: The Count Five- psychotic reaction

[vincent <vincent.fx@xxxxxxxxx>]

Yes I think you're right, no one has captured the feeling of the original.

About the words, you might be interested to know that this was another song
with the mystery lyrics controversy.  The line now purported to be "little
girl, would you like to take a ride, now" was sang as various things
including "little girl, move the ladder to the right".   (Heard this in an
interview with an original Count Fiver when I lived in San Jose CA, their
hometown).

About the harper in the video, I think he is acting funny because of the
obvious fake-performance aspect of the thing, everyone pretending to play
and sing along with the recording, as bands were asked to do for these shows
in those days.  I saw a vid of CrosbyStillsNash&Youg doing the same, and
just holding up their hands off their guitars by the end of the song to make
fun of this weird protocol.

On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 5:15 AM, hazcon <hazcon@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Strange, I bought (and still have) the original 45rpm : I  have always
> thought that i was the only person on earth who would count(pardon the pun)
> it as one of their favourite songs.
>                 A few years ago i played it to my son and his mates and
> they were "Like where the &*%# did this come from.
> Interesting  though ,with the links given through this thread i have
> watched quite a few covers and none of them even come close to capturing the
> feel of the original.
>              None of them at all get near at capturing that mania after the
> words "an' it goes like THIS.."
>
> Harp content: out of tune ,basic etc but absolutely perfect for a song
> about, Psychotic Reaction!
>
> Brilliant sixties punk
> Rick
> in NZ
>
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