11/24/2023 0 Comments B j thomas hooked on a feeling![]() ![]() ![]() The bass player at the session, the legendary Herbie Flowers (Lou Reed’s “Walk on the Wild Side,” Harry Nilsson’s “Jump Into the Fire”) called the arrangement “the most brilliant thing I’ve ever heard.” It did fairly well too, selling over a million copies worldwide, though it didn’t get a whiff of success in America.Ī few years later, King got a call from one Bjorn Skifs. He also arranged for the instruments not to come in until after the first “I.I…I’m (thud thud)” part, for maximum impact. When he listened back to the demo, he thought the “Ooga chucka oogah oogah” part he’d sung was so compelling that it was worth keeping as sung, rather than played. ![]() He sang the individual parts into a tape recorder as a demo for his arranger not knowing how to start the song, he just sang the reggae rhythm, planning to assign instruments to play it later. “I wanted to turn it into a pop/reggae track since country was less appreciated in Britain,” he said in his autobiography 70 FFFY. In 1971, he decided to give “Hooked on a Feeling” the reworking treatment. Under various pseudonyms, he would cover various songs that somehow missed the UK charts, doing them in a wholly different style to some success – for an example, check out “It’s the Same Old Song,” done as the Weathermen, with a violin/drum break that’s crying to be sampled. Jonathan King was a Brit who had made a name for himself in England – or, to be more accurate, several names. ![]()
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