Showing posts with label Hung up on a Dream. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Hung up on a Dream. Show all posts

Wednesday, August 10, 2016

The Zombies' "Hung up on a Dream"

This afternoon I listened to the 30th anniversary edition of the Zombies' Odessey and Oracle, and I noticed something about "Hung up on a Dream."  There's an interval of a fourth between "sights" and "above" in the line "And showed me strangest clouded sights above."  "Sights" is sung to an A, and the two syllables of "above" are sung to D notes.  The distance between the pitches of those notes helps to give a sense of the spatial distance mentioned in the lyric.