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  • 歌词
  • 标题:Unchained Melody

    艺人:Righteous Brothers

    作词:Hy Zaret

    作曲:Alex North

    编曲:Phil Spector

    制谱人:Tabbed by blackiel 19-June-2004, as requested by Lenono.

    指示:Vocal track is much improvised by Hatfield, so this is an approximation!

    附注:
    Unchained Melody is probably one of the most 
    covered songs ever.  This 1965 Righteous Brothers' 
    version was the first of the best.  Their version omits 
    the 2nd bridge. My version has a semitone key change 
    for the last verse (at Lenono's request!).
    
    They weren't brothers, but Bill Medley and Bobby 
    Hatfield (both born in 1941) were most definitely 
    righteous, defining (and perhaps even inspiring) the 
    term "blue-eyed soul" in the mid-'60s. The white 
    Southern California duo were an established 
    journeyman doo wop/R&B act before an association 
    with Phil Spector produced one of the most memorable 
    hits of the 1960s, "You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin'." 
    The collaboration soon fell apart, though, and while 
    the singers had some other excellent hit singles in a 
    similar style, they proved unable to sustain their 
    momentum after just a year or two at the top. 
    When Medley and Hatfield combined forces in 1962, 
    they emerged from regional groups the Paramours and 
    the Variations; in fact, they kept the Paramours billing 
    for their first single. By 1963, they were calling 
    themselves the Righteous Brothers, Medley taking the 
    low parts with his smoky baritone, Hatfield taking the 
    higher tenor and falsetto lines. For the next couple of 
    years they did quite a few energetic R&B tunes on the 
    Moonglow label that bore similarity to the 
    gospel/soul/rock style of Ray Charles, copping their 
    greatest success with "Little Latin Lupe Lu," which 
    became a garage-band favorite covered by Mitch 
    Ryder, the Kingsmen, and others. 
    
    Even on the Moonglow recordings, Bill Medley acted 
    as producer and principal songwriter, but the duo 
    wouldn't break out nationally until they put themselves 
    at the services of Phil Spector. Spector gave the Wall 
    of Sound treatment to "You've Lost That Lovin' 
    Feelin'," a grandiose ballad penned by himself, Barry 
    Mann, and Cynthia Weil. At nearly four minutes, the 
    song was pushing the limits of what could be played 
    on radio in the mid-'60s, and some listeners thought 
    they were hearing a 45 single played at 33 rpm due to 
    Medley's low, blurry lead vocal. No matter; the song 
    had a power that couldn't be denied, and went all the 
    way to number one. 
    
    The Righteous Brothers had three more big hits in 
    1965 on Spector's Philles label ("Just Once in My 
    Life," "Unchained Melody," and "Ebb Tide"), all 
    employing similar dense orchestral arrangements and 
    swelling vocal crescendos. Yet the Righteous 
    Brothers-Spector partnership wasn't a smooth one, and 
    by 1966 the duo had left Philles for a lucrative deal 
    with Verve. Medley, already an experienced hand in 
    the producer's booth, reclaimed the producer's chair, 
    and the Righteous Brothers had another number one 
    hit with their first Verve outing, "(You're My) Soul and 
    Inspiration." Its success must have been a particularly 
    bitter blow for Spector, given that Medley successfully 
    emulated the Wall of Sound orchestral ambience of 
    the Righteous Brothers' Philles singles down to the 
    smallest detail, even employing the same Mann-Weil 
    writing team that had contributed to "You've Lost That 
    Lovin' Feelin'." It's a bit of a mystery as to why the 
    Righteous Brothers never came close to duplicating 
    that success during the rest of their tenure at Verve. 
    But they would only have a couple of other Top 40 hits 
    in the 1960s ("He" and "Go Ahead and Cry," both in 
    1966), even with the aid of occasional compositions by 
    the formidable Goffin-King team. In 1968 Medley left for 
    a solo career; Hatfield, the less talented of the pair (at 
    least from a songwriting and production standpoint), 
    kept the Righteous Brothers going with Jimmy Walker 
    (who had been in the Knickerbockers). 
    
    Medley had a couple of small hits in the late '60s as a 
    solo act, but unsurprisingly neither "brother" was worth 
    half as much on their own as they were together. In 
    1974 they reunited and had a number three hit with 
    "Rock and Roll Heaven," a tribute to dead rock stars 
    that some found tacky. A couple of smaller hits 
    followed before Medley retired from performing for five 
    years in 1976. The Righteous Brothers continued to 
    tour the oldies circuit off and on in the 1980s and 
    1990s. It was while on one of these tours that Bobby 
    Hatfield died suddenly on November 5, 2003.

    节拍: ♩ = 67

    和弦:C Am F G Gsus4 Em C7 Eb G# C# Bbm F# G#sus4 Fm F#m

    注释:Improvised vocalrit.Key change to C# majorCapo ICapo I
    标记:Verse 1BridgeVerse 2
    歌词:
    Whoa, my love
    My darling
    I've hungered for your touch
    A long, lonely time

    And time goes by so slowly
    And time can do so much
    Are you still mine?

    I need your love
    I need your love
    God speed your love to me

    Lonely rivers flow to the sea, to the sea
    To the open arms of the sea
    Lonely rivers sigh, "Wait for me, wait for me
    I'll be coming home, wait for me"

    Whoa, my love
    My darling
    I've hungered, hungered for your touch
    A long, lonely time

    And time goes by so slowly
    And time can do so much
    Are you still mine?

    I need your love
    I need your love
    God speed your love to me
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