"When You Walk In The Room"

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Poll Results

Option	Votes
Jackie DeShannon	6
The Searchers	3
Other (Feel free to include "Your Blessings" by Handsomeboy Technique, as it uses the DeShannon as a sample a	0

― Keep on the good work! (R Baez), Sunday, 20 February 2011 18:49 (fifteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XWQCLqab4o

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XivobA8xyxw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F1qzOGwFMzQ

― Keep on the good work! (R Baez), Sunday, 20 February 2011 18:52 (fifteen years ago)

GOT CUT OFF - "...and is awesome" is what I meant to write.

― Keep on the good work! (R Baez), Sunday, 20 February 2011 18:55 (fifteen years ago)

original= greatest pop song of all time
Searchers' cover = one of the 1000 greatest pop songs of the '60s

it's hard to beat the way Jackie slams out every last syllable in a soul rockabilly rasp in lines like "I! can! feel! a! some! thing! POUNDing" and "I hear thunder boo-ooo-ooo-ooom" and yet for all her intensity seems like she's holding back a flood of unutterable frustration. I give the Searchers credit though for going with a smooth, folksy delivery rather than just aping the original vocal, which would've inevitably sucked.

― uncle twikkelingssteurnissen (unregistered), Sunday, 20 February 2011 19:22 (fifteen years ago)

i played the searchers and jackie at the same time with jackie trailing the searchers by a second or two and it sounded really cool.

― scott seward, Tuesday, 22 February 2011 04:37 (fifteen years ago)

but i'm drunk...

― scott seward, Tuesday, 22 February 2011 04:38 (fifteen years ago)

I got curious and did some googling, and apparently Glen Campbell played guitar on the original. it's pretty unusual for a song from 1963 to have such a jangly sound; I wonder if Roger McGuinn took some cues from it when he developed his signature guitar tone a year or two later.

― administratieve blunder (unregistered), Friday, 25 February 2011 15:42 (fifteen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

― System, Friday, 4 March 2011 00:01 (fifteen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

― System, Saturday, 5 March 2011 00:01 (fifteen years ago)

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