On this day in music history:January 22,1968. Judy in Disguise (With Glasses) is a song that was a hit for the Louisiana-based John Fred and his Playboy Band in early 1968. The song was co-written by Fred with bandmate Andrew Bernard. The song features strings, brass, a sitar, piano, bass, guitar, drums, breathing sounds, and dissonant string sounds. Its title is a play on Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds. The other members of the Playboy band did not like the unusual slow abrupt ending with Fred intoning the final line: I guess Ill just take your glasses. The song also reached #1 in the U.S., Germany and Switzerland, and #3 in Great Britain. Los Quandos released a Spanish version in 1968 in one of their EPs, with the title of Judy con disfraz with Spanish lyrics by Julio Guiu Sr. Gary Lewis and the Playboys released a cover version on their 1968 album, Gary Lewis Now! Silicon Teens, the virtual British electronic new wave pop group created by Mute Records founder Daniel Miller, released a radically different electropop version in 1979. Heres a video. https://youtube/watch?v=myXmPJCseZk
Posted on: Sat, 24 Jan 2015 21:13:00 +0000