{"id":23752,"date":"2022-09-30T05:30:04","date_gmt":"2022-09-30T09:30:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?p=23752"},"modified":"2022-09-19T08:35:02","modified_gmt":"2022-09-19T12:35:02","slug":"five-classic-tracks-featuring-bassist-jim-rodford","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2022\/09\/30\/five-classic-tracks-featuring-bassist-jim-rodford\/","title":{"rendered":"Five Classic Tracks Featuring Bassist Jim Rodford"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Let&#8217;s <strong>Take Five<\/strong> in honor of Jim Rodford&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Jim Rodford would have turned 81 in July; sadly, he passed away in January 2018 after a fall down the stairs of his home days after concluding a U.S tour with The Zombies. Rodford had a long association with the group; he helped cousin Rod Argent put the group together in the early \u201860s, and Rodford finally joined as a permanent member in 2004.<\/p>\n<p>But Jim Rodford\u2019s career as an in-demand bassist spanned more than 60 years. Here are five of his most notable recordings.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mike Cotton Sound \u2013 \u201cI Don&#8217;t Wanna Know\u201d (1964)<\/strong> Cotton was a jazz\/r&amp;b horn player and band leader, but he successfully tapped into the Beatles-led beat group craze with this energetic, stomping rocker in a Dave Clark 5 style. Jim Rodford\u2019s solid bass propels the tune forward.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Z-dJPf2SFfM\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Argent \u2013 \u201cHold Your Head Up\u201d (1972)<\/strong> After The Zombies, keyboardist Rod Argent formed this eponymous group, making it big on both sides of the Atlantic with this anthemic top-ten hit from <em>All Together Now<\/em>, the band\u2019s third LP. The single edit is great, but \u201cHold Your Head Up\u201d is best heard in its unedited, six minute-plus album version, anchored by Rodford\u2019s hypnotic bass playing.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jvfxI9yD2dM\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Michael Fennelly \u2013 \u201cLane Changer\u201d (1974)<\/strong> Singer and songwriter Fennelly had been a member of baroque-pop underground sensations Sagittarius and The Millennium and had been a member of underrated Crabby Appleton. He finally broke out on his own with<em> Lane Changer<\/em>, an excellent 1974 solo album, featuring members of Argent (including Jim Rodford) backing him on the sessions.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/NwwcZ4ApM6k\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Kinks \u2013 \u201c(Wish I Could Fly Like) Superman\u201d (1979)<\/strong> A critic&#8217;s favorite, the beloved English band experienced its ups and downs throughout its 33 year history. Jim Rodford\u2019s joining coincided with a commercial resurgence that found the band scoring hits and playing large halls across the globe. This sly disco-flavored single was a highlight of the band\u2019s topical <em>Low Budget<\/em> LP.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9ql_m-4jdZE\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Zombies \u2013 \u201cShe&#8217;s Not There\u201d (2016)<\/strong> This live recording showcases the enduring vitality of The Zombies, touring triumphantly in belated support of <em>Odessey and Oracle<\/em>, their masterwork that was largely ignored on its release in 1968. Today the album is considered an undisputed classic. (Carrying on the family tradition, Jim\u2019s son Steve Rodford is the band\u2019s drummer here, a role in which he continues to this day.)<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/GOeKzwLy5J8\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let&#8217;s Take Five in honor of Jim Rodford&#8230; Jim Rodford would have turned 81 in July; sadly, he passed away in January 2018 after a fall down the stairs of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23753,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[4944,4943,1255,4945,2430],"class_list":["post-23752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-essay","tag-argent","tag-jim-rodford","tag-kinks","tag-michael-fennelly","tag-zombies","cat-27-id","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23752","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23752"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23752\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23754,"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23752\/revisions\/23754"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}