Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site dciem.UUCP Path: utzoo!dciem!jeff From: jeff@dciem.UUCP (Jeff Richardson) Newsgroups: net.music Subject: Re: 60s Psych-Out Curiosity Recall Drop (See Emily Play) Message-ID: <1552@dciem.UUCP> Date: Tue, 21-May-85 10:39:58 EDT Article-I.D.: dciem.1552 Posted: Tue May 21 10:39:58 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 21-May-85 12:08:26 EDT References: <5278@fortune.UUCP> Reply-To: jeff@dciem.UUCP (Jeff Richardson) Distribution: net Organization: D.C.I.E.M., Toronto, Canada Lines: 22 Summary: Just in case anyone's interested, "See Emily Play" was the second single released by Pink Floyd. It came out in the spring of 1967. Even at that stage in their career, Pink Floyd did not want to release any singles or any kind of music that was aimed at the top 40, but their arms were twisted by someone (producer, record company or manager, I can't remember which), so they reluctantly came up with "Arnold Layne" and "See Emily Play", both of which had a small amount of success in the British pop charts. However, the Floyd felt that those songs were too commercial and weren't very representative of the type of music they wanted to do, so they refused to include them on their first album ("The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn", released in the summer of '67.) and they refused to perform them in concert, despite the fact that most of the fans screamed for the familiar hit singles. David Bowie did an interesting cover of "See Emily Play" on his "Pin-Ups" album. "Pin-Ups" is made up entirely of Bowie's favourites from the British scene in the mid to late sixties, songs that were originally done by groups like The Kinks, The Who, Pretty Things, and other less famous groups that I can't remember. -- Jeff Richardson, DCIEM, Toronto (416) 635-2073 {linus,ihnp4,uw-beaver,floyd}!utcsrgv!dciem!jeff {allegra,ihnp4,linus,decvax}!utzoo!dciem!jeff