There were two 1960s bands with similar names, but different spellings:
… Read Full Bio ↴There were two 1960s bands with similar names, but different spellings:
1. The Chocolate Watchband from San Jose, CA., United States.
2. The Chocolate Watch Band from London, United Kingdom.
If you are playing the American band, please suggest a spell correction to Last.fm. Not only would it fix the spelling, it would help differentiate between two bands. Unfortunately, Last.fm auto-corrects everything to the U.K. band at the moment, so scrobbles are badly mixed up.
The Chocolate Watchband is an American garage rock band that formed in 1965 in Los Altos, California. The band went through several lineup changes during its existence. Combining psychedelic and garage rock components, their sound was marked by David Aguilar's lead vocals, as well as proto-punk musical arrangements. The band's rebellious musical posture made them one of the harder-edged groups of the period. This band should not be confused with The Chocolate Watch Band, a London-based UK group that issued two singles on Decca Records in 1967.
The Chocolate Watchband was signed to Tower Records in 1966 and released their first single, "Sweet Young Thing", in 1967. Later in the year, the band released their debut album, No Way Out. Though the album was nationally unsuccessful, the band became a frequent attraction in San Jose and the San Francisco Bay Area. In 1968, their second album, The Inner Mystique, was released and included the band's most popular song, a cover version of "I'm Not Like Everybody Else". By 1969, the band released their final album, One Step Beyond, however it was not as highly regarded as their past work, and the band broke up in 1970.
The Chocolate Watchband was formed in the summer of 1965 in Los Altos, California by Ned Torney and Mark Loomis, who had previously played guitar together in a local band known as The Chaparrals in the previous year. The two were joined by other local collegies Rick Young (bass guitar), Pete Curry (drums), Jo Kemling (organ), and Danny Phay (lead vocals) to form the first version of the Chocolate Watchband, a name that was originally meant to be taken as a joke. All five musicians had a background rooted in rock and roll and blues, with each one having spent time on the local club circuit. The band garnered a local following, integrating cover versions of British Invasion groups, particularly The Who, into their live repertoire. Curry was soon replaced by Gary Andrijasevich, a jazz drummer from Cupertino High School. They never recorded any commercial releases, but rare demos by the group appeared in the 1990s. The band was gaining popularity until Torney and Phay accepted an offer from a rival band, The Otherside, to join their group. Kemling followed soon after, effectively dismantling the first incarnation of the band.
With the first version of the Chocolate Watchband disbanded, Mark Loomis moved on to join The Shandels. Quickly becoming disillusioned, he took the discarded name "Chocolate Watchband" and recruited The Shandels' bass player Bill 'Flo' Flores and former Watchband drummer, Gary Andrijasevich. Next he convinced former Topsiders guitarist Dave "Sean" Tolby to enlist. The group recruited David Aguilar as the frontman and lead singer; at the time, Aguilar was a college student studying biology at San Jose State University.
Loomis naturally asserted the role of leader during this initial time period, although the band never acknowledged it had a designated leader. Songs to cover were presented, shows were talked about, the band voted together on all decisions. Sean Tolby obtained the latest in Vox equipment while Loomis provided the space for nightly rehearsals. Within a week, the band began performing at local clubs in San Francisco's South Bay, playing a range of songs that included obscure British import tunes never released before in the States.[5] Unlike other local bands who were covering the latest hits from the top 10 on radio, the Chocolate Watchband played songs few people had ever heard before. Thus, in many instances, these songs became associated with the Chocolate Watchband and not the original artists.
Six months later, after opening for the Mothers of Invention at the Fillmore Auditorium, Hollywood music producer Bill Graham urged the Chocolate Watchband to sign a management contract with him. He was opening up a new Fillmore East in New York City and wanted to shuttle the Chocolate Watchband, the Grateful Dead, and Jefferson Airplane back and forth from coast to coast as his personal house bands. However, having signed a management contract with local promoter Ron Roupe a week earlier, their future followed a different path. Roupe, having secured a recording deal with Green Grass Productions in Los Angeles, introduced the band to producers Ed Cobb and Ray Harris. The band flew to Los Angeles and entered the recording studio; as a warm-up to show Cobb their capabilities, they quickly recorded down tracks for "Come On," a Chuck Berry song that had also been the first track recorded by the Rolling Stones (the latter of whom the band was frequently compared to). Cobb introduced the band to a song he had written a week earlier named "Sweet Young Thing". Released in December 1966 by Tower Records, the B-side featured the group's cover of Bob Dylan's "It's All Over Now, Baby Blue", another stage song the band regularly played. However, unknown to the Watchband, Tower Records farmed the distribution of their recordings out to Uptown Records, a rhythm and blues label with predominantly black artists.
Frontman Aguilar began writing material for the band, including originals like "Right By My Side", "Gone & Passes By", "Don't Need Your Lovin' Anymore", "No Way Out" and "Sitting There Standing." The band's second single was the more restrained track "Misty Lane", released with a sweet orchestrated ballad, "She Weaves a Tender Trap", as its B-side. During this period the band were featured in two Sam Katzman films: Riot on Sunset Strip and The Love-Ins. The latter film inspired the group's next single; "Are You Gonna Be There At The Love-In", which was written and recorded in one day. The single was released with the B-side "No Way Out", an instrumental spawned from a studio warm-up with spontaneous Aguilar vocals that Cobb later took credit for. With Loomis gone, the band drifted apart in late 1967, shortly after the release of their first album, No Way Out (1967). The band would reform with Sean Tolby, Billy Flores, Gary Andrijasevich, Tim Abbott and Mark Flinders, who came together to fulfill outstanding contracts with the record label. The third incarnation of the band was based on a blues rock sound, but lasted merely weeks.
After the departure of Loomis, Andrijasevich and Aguilar, Tolby and Flores were left with the duty of fulfilling a month's worth of bookings. They decided to enlist the services of Tim Abbott, Mark Whittaker and Chris Flinders, members of the San Francisco Bay Blues Band. The band still maintained a level of success, but the sound and style differed somewhat from the original band. They managed to secure a place as the opening act for The Doors, and also performed at the KFRC Magic Mountain Festival—the first rock music festival in the United States—among thirty other bands in June 1967. In late 1967, Abbott and Flinders had a disagreement with Tolby and manager Ron Roupe over financial matters, which ensured the indefinite break-up of the Watchband in December 1967.
In 1967, they were featured in two movies, The Love-Ins and Riot on Sunset Strip.
The Chocolate Watchband was reformed in late 1968, with the Danny Phay, the group's original vocalist in its 1965 inception, re-joining the band, as well as guitarist Ned Torney; bassist Bill Flores and guitarist Sean Tolby from the 1967 line-up remained. The band worked with Cobb to produce their third studio album, One Step Beyond (1969). One Step Beyond was a commercial failure except for the songs written and sung by David Aguilar that were put in on the album from past recording sessions, but on other tracks session players - including Moby Grape guitarist Jerry Miller (who played on "Devil's Motorcycle") - were used. The Chocolate Watchband recorded a Cobb tune already done by The Standells, "Medication" (on The Inner Mystique).
The band had begun to contest Cobb's influence because they believed he presented them as being more instrumentally refined on record than they were live; Cobb also used session musicians, sometimes entire ghost bands, to record portions of Chocolate Watchband albums. Less than half of the group's second official studio release, The Inner Mystique (1969), featured studio work by official members of the band; the majority of the record featured session musicians, and a singer named Don Bennett contributed vocals on the track "Let's Talk About Girls."
After their dissolution in 1970, a revival of interest in psychedelic and garage rock in the late 1980s and 1990s brought the group to public attention, and their original vinyl releases became collectors' items, selling among private sellers for over USD$100. Rhino Records issued a best-of release of the band in 1983, while Sundazed and other labels re-issued the original albums on compact discs, including bonus tracks. After leaving the band, its members each embarked on other non-musical pursuits; Aguilar had worked as an astronomy professor after the band's dissolution.
Continued interest prompted the band to reunite in 1999, with Dave Aguilar, Tim Abbott (replacing Mark Loomis, who backed out of the reunion), Bill Flores, and Gary Andrijasevich; Michael Reese was added as drummer in place of Sean Tolby. The group began to touring internationally in 2000, culminating in a show at New York's Cavestomp and a live album, At the Love-In Live! in 2001. They also issued a studio album,Get Away, in between the Cavestomp show and the live album. The group has since performed in Europe and the United States. In 2005, Melts in Your Brain . . . Not on Your Wrist, a two-CD compilation of the Chocolate Watchband's complete Tower and Uptown recordings, was released.
In June 2013, the Chocolate Watchband made it back to a recording studio in their hometown San Jose, to begin a new album. From 2015 to the present (2018), the band's lineup is Tim Abbott on lead guitar and vocals; Gary Andrijasevich on drums; David Aguilar on vocals, keyboards, and harmonica; Alec Palao on bass and backing vocals; and Derek See on guitar and vocals.
The first song recorded was a tribute to Sky Saxon who had recently died. Former member Mark Loomis died on September 26, 2014, in Hawaii.
From David Aguilar:
This is a sad moment for all of us in the band. I never quite understood Mark's withdrawal and leaving, but in later years he expressed deep regret in breaking up the band. However, at that point in time there was no way to revive that magical moment in time. I always marveled at his guitar work and as time passed, my admiration for his musical abilities and unique guitar playing grew like the expanding universe. I can't express how sad I feel knowing all that is now permanently behind us. In my heart all I can say is thank you Mark for making the Watchband happen. And thank you for selecting me as your lead singer. With our fans - your musical notes will always play on.
Discography
Singles
"Sweet Young Thing" b/w "Baby Blue" (Uptown 740) (1966)
"Misty Lane" b/w "She Weaves a Tender Trap" (Uptown 749) (1967)
"Are You Gonna Be There (At the Love-In)" b/w "No Way Out" (Tower 373) (1967)
Albums
No Way Out (Tower ST 5096) (1967)
The Inner Mystique (Tower ST 5106) (1968)
One Step Beyond: (Tower ST 5153) (1969) (as The Chocolate Watchband)
Get Away (Orchard 3716) (2000)
At the Love-In Live! (Roir 8272) (2001)
Compilations
The Best of the Chocolate Watchband (Rhino RNLP-108) (1983)
Forty Four (Big Beat WIKA 25) (1984)
Melts in Your Brain...Not On Your Wrist! (Big Beat CDWIK2 249) (2005)
Members
Danny Phay - lead vocals (1965; 1968–69)
David Aguilar - lead vocals, harmonica (1966–67; 1999–present)
Bill Flores - bass, backing vocals (1966–69; 1999–2001) (died in 2018)
Mark Loomis - lead guitar, keyboards (1966–67; 1968–69)
Sean Tolby - rhythm guitar (1966–67; 1968–69)
Gary Andrijasevich - drums, backing vocals (1966–69; 1999–present)
Chris Flinders - lead vocals (1967)
Tim Abbott - rhythm guitar (1967; 2015–present)
Mark Whittaker - drums (1967)
Ned Torney - guitar (1968–69)
Michael Reese - drums (1999–2001)
Alec Palao - bass, backing vocals (2015–present)
Derek See - guitar, vocals (2015-present)
Jo Kemling, keyboards original incarnation 1965/1966
Rich Young, bass, original incarnation 1965
… Read Full Bio ↴There were two 1960s bands with similar names, but different spellings:
1. The Chocolate Watchband from San Jose, CA., United States.
2. The Chocolate Watch Band from London, United Kingdom.
If you are playing the American band, please suggest a spell correction to Last.fm. Not only would it fix the spelling, it would help differentiate between two bands. Unfortunately, Last.fm auto-corrects everything to the U.K. band at the moment, so scrobbles are badly mixed up.
The Chocolate Watchband is an American garage rock band that formed in 1965 in Los Altos, California. The band went through several lineup changes during its existence. Combining psychedelic and garage rock components, their sound was marked by David Aguilar's lead vocals, as well as proto-punk musical arrangements. The band's rebellious musical posture made them one of the harder-edged groups of the period. This band should not be confused with The Chocolate Watch Band, a London-based UK group that issued two singles on Decca Records in 1967.
The Chocolate Watchband was signed to Tower Records in 1966 and released their first single, "Sweet Young Thing", in 1967. Later in the year, the band released their debut album, No Way Out. Though the album was nationally unsuccessful, the band became a frequent attraction in San Jose and the San Francisco Bay Area. In 1968, their second album, The Inner Mystique, was released and included the band's most popular song, a cover version of "I'm Not Like Everybody Else". By 1969, the band released their final album, One Step Beyond, however it was not as highly regarded as their past work, and the band broke up in 1970.
The Chocolate Watchband was formed in the summer of 1965 in Los Altos, California by Ned Torney and Mark Loomis, who had previously played guitar together in a local band known as The Chaparrals in the previous year. The two were joined by other local collegies Rick Young (bass guitar), Pete Curry (drums), Jo Kemling (organ), and Danny Phay (lead vocals) to form the first version of the Chocolate Watchband, a name that was originally meant to be taken as a joke. All five musicians had a background rooted in rock and roll and blues, with each one having spent time on the local club circuit. The band garnered a local following, integrating cover versions of British Invasion groups, particularly The Who, into their live repertoire. Curry was soon replaced by Gary Andrijasevich, a jazz drummer from Cupertino High School. They never recorded any commercial releases, but rare demos by the group appeared in the 1990s. The band was gaining popularity until Torney and Phay accepted an offer from a rival band, The Otherside, to join their group. Kemling followed soon after, effectively dismantling the first incarnation of the band.
With the first version of the Chocolate Watchband disbanded, Mark Loomis moved on to join The Shandels. Quickly becoming disillusioned, he took the discarded name "Chocolate Watchband" and recruited The Shandels' bass player Bill 'Flo' Flores and former Watchband drummer, Gary Andrijasevich. Next he convinced former Topsiders guitarist Dave "Sean" Tolby to enlist. The group recruited David Aguilar as the frontman and lead singer; at the time, Aguilar was a college student studying biology at San Jose State University.
Loomis naturally asserted the role of leader during this initial time period, although the band never acknowledged it had a designated leader. Songs to cover were presented, shows were talked about, the band voted together on all decisions. Sean Tolby obtained the latest in Vox equipment while Loomis provided the space for nightly rehearsals. Within a week, the band began performing at local clubs in San Francisco's South Bay, playing a range of songs that included obscure British import tunes never released before in the States.[5] Unlike other local bands who were covering the latest hits from the top 10 on radio, the Chocolate Watchband played songs few people had ever heard before. Thus, in many instances, these songs became associated with the Chocolate Watchband and not the original artists.
Six months later, after opening for the Mothers of Invention at the Fillmore Auditorium, Hollywood music producer Bill Graham urged the Chocolate Watchband to sign a management contract with him. He was opening up a new Fillmore East in New York City and wanted to shuttle the Chocolate Watchband, the Grateful Dead, and Jefferson Airplane back and forth from coast to coast as his personal house bands. However, having signed a management contract with local promoter Ron Roupe a week earlier, their future followed a different path. Roupe, having secured a recording deal with Green Grass Productions in Los Angeles, introduced the band to producers Ed Cobb and Ray Harris. The band flew to Los Angeles and entered the recording studio; as a warm-up to show Cobb their capabilities, they quickly recorded down tracks for "Come On," a Chuck Berry song that had also been the first track recorded by the Rolling Stones (the latter of whom the band was frequently compared to). Cobb introduced the band to a song he had written a week earlier named "Sweet Young Thing". Released in December 1966 by Tower Records, the B-side featured the group's cover of Bob Dylan's "It's All Over Now, Baby Blue", another stage song the band regularly played. However, unknown to the Watchband, Tower Records farmed the distribution of their recordings out to Uptown Records, a rhythm and blues label with predominantly black artists.
Frontman Aguilar began writing material for the band, including originals like "Right By My Side", "Gone & Passes By", "Don't Need Your Lovin' Anymore", "No Way Out" and "Sitting There Standing." The band's second single was the more restrained track "Misty Lane", released with a sweet orchestrated ballad, "She Weaves a Tender Trap", as its B-side. During this period the band were featured in two Sam Katzman films: Riot on Sunset Strip and The Love-Ins. The latter film inspired the group's next single; "Are You Gonna Be There At The Love-In", which was written and recorded in one day. The single was released with the B-side "No Way Out", an instrumental spawned from a studio warm-up with spontaneous Aguilar vocals that Cobb later took credit for. With Loomis gone, the band drifted apart in late 1967, shortly after the release of their first album, No Way Out (1967). The band would reform with Sean Tolby, Billy Flores, Gary Andrijasevich, Tim Abbott and Mark Flinders, who came together to fulfill outstanding contracts with the record label. The third incarnation of the band was based on a blues rock sound, but lasted merely weeks.
After the departure of Loomis, Andrijasevich and Aguilar, Tolby and Flores were left with the duty of fulfilling a month's worth of bookings. They decided to enlist the services of Tim Abbott, Mark Whittaker and Chris Flinders, members of the San Francisco Bay Blues Band. The band still maintained a level of success, but the sound and style differed somewhat from the original band. They managed to secure a place as the opening act for The Doors, and also performed at the KFRC Magic Mountain Festival—the first rock music festival in the United States—among thirty other bands in June 1967. In late 1967, Abbott and Flinders had a disagreement with Tolby and manager Ron Roupe over financial matters, which ensured the indefinite break-up of the Watchband in December 1967.
In 1967, they were featured in two movies, The Love-Ins and Riot on Sunset Strip.
The Chocolate Watchband was reformed in late 1968, with the Danny Phay, the group's original vocalist in its 1965 inception, re-joining the band, as well as guitarist Ned Torney; bassist Bill Flores and guitarist Sean Tolby from the 1967 line-up remained. The band worked with Cobb to produce their third studio album, One Step Beyond (1969). One Step Beyond was a commercial failure except for the songs written and sung by David Aguilar that were put in on the album from past recording sessions, but on other tracks session players - including Moby Grape guitarist Jerry Miller (who played on "Devil's Motorcycle") - were used. The Chocolate Watchband recorded a Cobb tune already done by The Standells, "Medication" (on The Inner Mystique).
The band had begun to contest Cobb's influence because they believed he presented them as being more instrumentally refined on record than they were live; Cobb also used session musicians, sometimes entire ghost bands, to record portions of Chocolate Watchband albums. Less than half of the group's second official studio release, The Inner Mystique (1969), featured studio work by official members of the band; the majority of the record featured session musicians, and a singer named Don Bennett contributed vocals on the track "Let's Talk About Girls."
After their dissolution in 1970, a revival of interest in psychedelic and garage rock in the late 1980s and 1990s brought the group to public attention, and their original vinyl releases became collectors' items, selling among private sellers for over USD$100. Rhino Records issued a best-of release of the band in 1983, while Sundazed and other labels re-issued the original albums on compact discs, including bonus tracks. After leaving the band, its members each embarked on other non-musical pursuits; Aguilar had worked as an astronomy professor after the band's dissolution.
Continued interest prompted the band to reunite in 1999, with Dave Aguilar, Tim Abbott (replacing Mark Loomis, who backed out of the reunion), Bill Flores, and Gary Andrijasevich; Michael Reese was added as drummer in place of Sean Tolby. The group began to touring internationally in 2000, culminating in a show at New York's Cavestomp and a live album, At the Love-In Live! in 2001. They also issued a studio album,Get Away, in between the Cavestomp show and the live album. The group has since performed in Europe and the United States. In 2005, Melts in Your Brain . . . Not on Your Wrist, a two-CD compilation of the Chocolate Watchband's complete Tower and Uptown recordings, was released.
In June 2013, the Chocolate Watchband made it back to a recording studio in their hometown San Jose, to begin a new album. From 2015 to the present (2018), the band's lineup is Tim Abbott on lead guitar and vocals; Gary Andrijasevich on drums; David Aguilar on vocals, keyboards, and harmonica; Alec Palao on bass and backing vocals; and Derek See on guitar and vocals.
The first song recorded was a tribute to Sky Saxon who had recently died. Former member Mark Loomis died on September 26, 2014, in Hawaii.
From David Aguilar:
This is a sad moment for all of us in the band. I never quite understood Mark's withdrawal and leaving, but in later years he expressed deep regret in breaking up the band. However, at that point in time there was no way to revive that magical moment in time. I always marveled at his guitar work and as time passed, my admiration for his musical abilities and unique guitar playing grew like the expanding universe. I can't express how sad I feel knowing all that is now permanently behind us. In my heart all I can say is thank you Mark for making the Watchband happen. And thank you for selecting me as your lead singer. With our fans - your musical notes will always play on.
Discography
Singles
"Sweet Young Thing" b/w "Baby Blue" (Uptown 740) (1966)
"Misty Lane" b/w "She Weaves a Tender Trap" (Uptown 749) (1967)
"Are You Gonna Be There (At the Love-In)" b/w "No Way Out" (Tower 373) (1967)
Albums
No Way Out (Tower ST 5096) (1967)
The Inner Mystique (Tower ST 5106) (1968)
One Step Beyond: (Tower ST 5153) (1969) (as The Chocolate Watchband)
Get Away (Orchard 3716) (2000)
At the Love-In Live! (Roir 8272) (2001)
Compilations
The Best of the Chocolate Watchband (Rhino RNLP-108) (1983)
Forty Four (Big Beat WIKA 25) (1984)
Melts in Your Brain...Not On Your Wrist! (Big Beat CDWIK2 249) (2005)
Members
Danny Phay - lead vocals (1965; 1968–69)
David Aguilar - lead vocals, harmonica (1966–67; 1999–present)
Bill Flores - bass, backing vocals (1966–69; 1999–2001) (died in 2018)
Mark Loomis - lead guitar, keyboards (1966–67; 1968–69)
Sean Tolby - rhythm guitar (1966–67; 1968–69)
Gary Andrijasevich - drums, backing vocals (1966–69; 1999–present)
Chris Flinders - lead vocals (1967)
Tim Abbott - rhythm guitar (1967; 2015–present)
Mark Whittaker - drums (1967)
Ned Torney - guitar (1968–69)
Michael Reese - drums (1999–2001)
Alec Palao - bass, backing vocals (2015–present)
Derek See - guitar, vocals (2015-present)
Jo Kemling, keyboards original incarnation 1965/1966
Rich Young, bass, original incarnation 1965
Baby Blue
The Chocolate Watch Band Lyrics
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She looked so proud and held her head up high
And her eyes were softer than a summer sky
And in the distance there were clouds
Somebody made her cry
And the salt of the tears she couldn't hide
Told her broken hearts need time to mend
Mostly thinkin' that this girl might need a friend
But suddenly her eyes met mine, world went in a spin
And I knew I'd never be the same again
Baby blues oh baby blues
All caught up in those baby blues
I found heaven and my refuge
Live and die for those baby blues
Caught up in those baby blues
Now I'm with those blue eyes everyday
And even in the silence they have so much to say
Talk to my heart, bring some sunshine and the rain
Make me look at love a brand new way
Baby blues oh baby blues
All caught up in those baby blues
I found heaven when I found you
Live and die for those baby blues
Caught up in those baby blues
All wrapped up in those baby blues
Oh baby baby oh baby blues
All caught up in those baby blues
I found heaven when I found you
Live and die for those baby blues
Caught up in those baby blues
All wrapped up in those baby blues
Baby blues
Baby blues
All caught up in those baby baby blues
All wrapped up in those baby baby blues
Baby blues
And her eyes were softer than a summer sky
And in the distance there were clouds
Somebody made her cry
And the salt of the tears she couldn't hide
Told her broken hearts need time to mend
Mostly thinkin' that this girl might need a friend
But suddenly her eyes met mine, world went in a spin
Baby blues oh baby blues
All caught up in those baby blues
I found heaven and my refuge
Live and die for those baby blues
Caught up in those baby blues
Now I'm with those blue eyes everyday
And even in the silence they have so much to say
Talk to my heart, bring some sunshine and the rain
Make me look at love a brand new way
Baby blues oh baby blues
All caught up in those baby blues
I found heaven when I found you
Live and die for those baby blues
Caught up in those baby blues
All wrapped up in those baby blues
Oh baby baby oh baby blues
All caught up in those baby blues
I found heaven when I found you
Live and die for those baby blues
Caught up in those baby blues
All wrapped up in those baby blues
Baby blues
Baby blues
All caught up in those baby baby blues
All wrapped up in those baby baby blues
Baby blues
The Chocolate Watch Band's song Baby Blue is a romantic ballad about falling in love with a girl with beautiful blue eyes. The song describes how the girl looked proud and held her head high, despite having tears in her eyes. The singer notices her eyes, which are described as softer than a summer sky, and feels a connection to her as they make eye contact. This moment makes his world spin, and he realizes that he will never be the same again. The singer is drawn to her blue eyes and finds refuge in them. The lyrics suggest that the girl's eyes are full of emotions and speak to the singer’s heart. The song talks about how those baby blues have the power to make him look at love in a brand new way.
The song has a simple, catchy melody that reflects the romantic, timeless nature of the lyrics. Its upbeat rhythm and use of harmonies add to the song's emotional impact. The song was released as a single in 1966 and although it did not chart, it became a fan favorite and has since been covered by several other artists.
Line by Line Meaning
She looked so proud and held her head up high
The girl looked confident and poised.
And her eyes were softer than a Summer sky
Her eyes were kind and gentle like a clear blue sky in Summer.
And in the distance there were clouds
There was some trouble or sadness lurking in the background.
Somebody made her cry
Someone had hurt her and made her cry.
And the salt of the tears she couldn't hide
Her tears were visible and showed that she was deeply affected.
Told her broken hearts need time to mend
Her tears indicated that she was heartbroken and needed time to heal.
Mostly thinkin' that this girl might need a friend
The singer felt that the girl could use a friend to support her through this tough time.
But suddenly her eyes met mine, world went in a spin
The singer was caught off guard when the girl made eye contact with him, causing him to feel dizzy and disoriented.
And I knew I'd never be the same again
The singer felt a strong connection with the girl and knew that meeting her would change his life forever.
All caught up in those baby blues
The singer was captivated by the girl's beautiful blue eyes.
I found heaven and my refuge
Being with the girl made the singer feel like he had found a place of safety and solace.
Live and die for those baby blues
The singer was so in love with the girl that he would do anything for her, even if it meant risking his own life.
Now I'm with those blue eyes everyday
The singer is now in a relationship with the girl and sees her every day.
And even in the silence they have so much to say
Even when they're not talking, the girl's eyes still communicate a lot to the singer.
Talk to my heart, bring some sunshine and the rain
The girl's eyes have the power to make the singer feel happy and sad, and they have a strong emotional impact on him.
Make me look at love a brand new way
Being with the girl has changed the singer's perspective on love and made him see it in a new light.
All wrapped up in those baby blues
The singer is completely enamoured with the girl and can't stop thinking about her blue eyes.
Oh baby baby oh baby blues
The singer is addressing the girl and expressing his love for her.
Baby blues
The song is about the singer's love for the girl and how her blue eyes have captured his heart.
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@timothymadison2673
The highway is for gamblers, better use your sense
Take what you have gathered from coincidence
The empty-handed painter from your streets
Is drawing crazy patterns on your sheets
Look out babe, the sky is falling through
And, it’s all over now, Baby Blue
Leave your stepping stones behind, Girl start anew
Forget about the debts you have, they will not follow you
Your lover who has just walked through the door
Has taken all his blankets from the floor
Look out babe, the carpets fallen over you
And, it’s all over now, Baby Blue
Well, strike another match girl, go, go start anew, go start anew
Cause it’s all over now, Baby Blue, Yes
it’s all over, all over now, Baby Blue, yeah, yes
it’s all over, all over, all over, Baby Blue
@timothymadison2673
The highway is for gamblers, better use your sense
Take what you have gathered from coincidence
The empty-handed painter from your streets
Is drawing crazy patterns on your sheets
Look out babe, the sky is falling through
And, it’s all over now, Baby Blue
Leave your stepping stones behind, Girl start anew
Forget about the debts you have, they will not follow you
Your lover who has just walked through the door
Has taken all his blankets from the floor
Look out babe, the carpets fallen over you
And, it’s all over now, Baby Blue
Well, strike another match girl, go, go start anew, go start anew
Cause it’s all over now, Baby Blue, Yes
it’s all over, all over now, Baby Blue, yeah, yes
it’s all over, all over, all over, Baby Blue
@killuminati63
Glad to see your still kickin' SBritt, One of my favorite nostalgic music channels
@austinjobe4966
That kid in Demolition had some good taste in music.
@moneyasusual
15, looks 12, acts like he’s 21. My daughter.
@me2menow17
hands down the best thing to ever come out of san jose
@ShuffleBassT
that's true man ! 13th floor elevators was one of the best (if not the best) psychedelic band back then. but I also like this version.. the chocolate watch band kinda sound like the 13th floor elevators in a way
@dang2443
well they both play guitars I guess
@allergeist
I’m pretty sure Beck sampled the version that was recorded by Them, but both of them have the harpsichord sounding keys. Devils Haircut was lifted from “I can only give you everything” from the same Them record.
@HitsFromTheBlog
So what, this still sounds awesome. Just sit back and enjoy man.
@blackwoodc3722
This is the song I want to play after Rock dies cuz this is it for me