Monkey Bidness Music

John's obsession with finding and re-recording this song led to this recording.  It began with a conversation between the band about songs they remembered. John thought it would be a cool selling piece to learn it to play at the live gigs they wanted to do. 

It took him six years to find an original copy to use to write his own arrangement.  By that time, Bidnessmen had become primarily a studio band, so John arranged a new piece to be recorded.  And then, his computer crashed.  Jere saved his hard drive and a sigh of relief was breathed.  John got Dale Brown to join the project as co-arranger, co-producer and backing vocalist.  The tracks were taken to Peter Keeble's Broken Door Studio to record Pete playing drums, the morning after they recorded "Love, Lust and Lies" and "Take Her to Her Dreams."

John asked Dale for a "Brian Wilson-type backing vocal arrangement" and then got Billy Cole to play rhythm guitar to his own lead vocal. Dale, Billy, the song's composer, Bill Davidson, Jere and John then sang parts and then swapped them to fatten the sound.  Finally Jere added his McCartneyesque octave guitar duet at the end and the piece was complete.

Two years had passed from the day that John had found the copy of the original, but the song was finally recorded, again.  And of course, because John did it and not him, Billy D hates it ...