The Zombies – Lighting Up The Saturday Club (1966) Album Edit (Take 2)

We are back with another Zombies fan album and our first live album. As stated before, songs that only exist as live recordings are counted as studio ones, as they sound good enough. It seemed appropriate to include the live songs with studio versions in the fold of fan albums, but not on the studio album ones. The way this was done was by having live albums. I could only locate thirty live recordings as the band’s obscurity led them to not do that much recording and some of what was recorded is now lost. It’s possible that there could be another album or more of material that’s unavailable. Still, this is what we do have, so that’s what we’re working with. This set includes the fifteen live recordings recorded first. “Tell Her No” and “She’s Not There” have several different recordings, so each one is represented once on the album and the three copies are counted as bonus features.

The sequencing was simple. Fortunately, not that many recordings featured an announcer. If there was often one, that’d get annoying. There seems to be a healthy mix present. There’s also the amusing coincidence of all the Chris White songs being on side a and most the Rod Argent ones being on side b. The cover comes from a picture of the band at a live show messed with to be trippy and psychedelic. This could be called a prelude to the more psychedelic stuff to come. I did say I wouldn’t use any more pictures of the band dressed the same, but this one is cool looking and you can’t see what they’re wearing. Seeing as most of these recordings were recorded at the Saturday Club, the title seemed appropriate, though not all the recordings are. I also don’t know if the cover photo is from the Saturday Club.

With that, we’re now halfway through the Zombies. There’s three more fan albums left and then their material can be enjoyed to its fullest.

THE ZOMBIES – LIGHTING UP THE SATURDAY CLUB

TRACKLISTING

SIDE A

1. “If It Don’t Work Out (Saturday Club)” (Rod Argent)
2. “I Must Move” (Chris White)
3. “What More Can I Do” (Chris White)
4. “Road Runner (Saturday Club)” (Elias McDaniels)
5. “You Make Me Feel Good (Saturday Club)” (Chris White)
6. “Just Out of Reach (Saturday Club)” (Colin Blunstone)

SIDE B

1. “Tell Her No” (Rod Argent)
2. “Whenever You’re Ready (Saturday Club)” (Rod Argent)
3. “She’s Coming Home” (Rod Argent)
4. “She’s Not There (Saturday Club)” (Rod Argent)
5. “Can’t Nobody Love You (Top Gear)” (James Mitchell)
6. “I’m Going Home” (Bob Bain)

BONUS TRACKS

1. “Tell Her No (Saturday Club)”
2. “She’s Not There (Hullaballoo)”
3. “She’s Not There”
4. “Interview – The Zombies Find America”
5. “Interview – Before They Were Zombies”
6. “Interview – Different Instruments”
7. “Interview – The Zombies Return to University”
8. “Interview – Globetrotting Zombies”
9. “Pop Profile – Colin Blunstone”
10. “Interview – The Zombies Talk About America”

PERSONNEL

• Colin Blunstone – lead vocals
• Rod Argent – keyboards, backing vocals
• Paul Atkinson – guitar
• Chris White – bass guitar, backing vocals
• Hugh Grundy – drums

Lighting Up The Saturday Club (1966) – Archive.org