Song of the Week: She’s so Fine
The Easybeats
She’s so Fine
Another delve in the mix tape box (sorry) came up with this early tune by The Easybeats.* I don’t think ‘She’s so Fine’ charted in the UK, but it was a bit of a ‘hits and memories’ radio perennial when I was growing up. Once you hear it you’ll know why – it’s 2 minutes 9 seconds of catchy pop perfection. And just listen to that scream five seconds in. What a way to open a song!
‘She’s so Fine’, The Easybeats, from Easy, 1965
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* bunged on the end of a tape after ‘What I like about you’ by the Romantics, but never mind.
Tags: mix tapes, song of the week
April 14th, 2010 at 11:29 pm
Sounds like a great lost Merseybeat track… Wikipedia tells us the singer is originally from Leeds and that the band were Australia’s first-ever international pop stars, long before Kylie was even thought of. One of them (it also says) went on to write ‘Fridays on my mind’ and another (or was it the same one) produced AC/DC. Who knew?
April 15th, 2010 at 9:39 am
Ah yes, Jonathan, the Easybeats were indeed responsible for the fabulous ‘Friday on my Mind’. And, just as excitingly (!), their two main songwriters Vanda & Young also wrote ‘Love is in the Air’…
April 15th, 2010 at 12:10 pm
Do try to avoid the Gary Moore/Kool Moe D cover of Friday On My Mind (The Kool Rap Version).
Otherwise you have to love the Easybeats.
April 15th, 2010 at 2:04 pm
I’m not a big fan of Friday On My Mind (their only hit here) but I do like the rest. Can’t believe they never caught on. Isn’t Harry Vanda in there somewhere?
They feature large in the Long Way To The Top series.
April 15th, 2010 at 2:54 pm
A Gary Moore/Kool Moe D cover, SimonB – that sounds exactly like something I have to check out. What a combination!
Of course they feature largely in the Long Way to the Top series F-C. What else was there in the 60s other than Johnny Young and Normie Rowe (and they wrote their stuff for them anyway didn’t they?) And how can you not like Friday on my Mind?! That song is the story of my life.
April 15th, 2010 at 9:10 pm
got bits of everything in there hasn’t it? You can here a little Macca n Lennon, Pacepakers, Searchers etc etc…
I’m dead keen on the lead singer and the guitarist to the right of him… Lead singer looks like he’s just done himself an injury as is in mid “blooooooody hell, that hurts”… and could that guitarist get his axe any higher??!
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April 16th, 2010 at 2:03 pm
I prefer Friday On My Mind but this is a winner too. Vanda and Young did produce AC/DC early on and Young is related to Malcolm and Angus of the great AC/DC .
April 16th, 2010 at 4:43 pm
Damn you Piley, your comment has forced me to look closely at that album cover and I’ve come to my own conclusions now, conclusions that I don’t want. Rather than pain, all I see on the lead singer’s posture is someone with a bowel complaint…
My God, Carl, you like a tune I’ve posted! I must be doing something wrong. ;)
April 16th, 2010 at 7:29 pm
i’m sticking with a nail in the boot….
April 16th, 2010 at 7:49 pm
What pranks were they up to? The guitarist looks like they’d superglued his instrument to his chin, and the singer is in urgent need of Prune Juice. But they made a good sound despite it all.
I’m quite fond of the Bowie cover of ‘Friday on my Mind’, though I appear to be quite alone in the world on that one.
April 18th, 2010 at 5:41 pm
Yes, ISBW you are. I’ve never been able to get into Pin-ups at all – it’s all just a bit… flat. Plus the cover is creepy.
April 19th, 2010 at 10:31 am
Yes i was shocked too :-) , keep it up !!!!! .
April 19th, 2010 at 10:32 am
P.S. I love Bowie’s cover of Friday on My mInd too isbw.