You and Me, Lying on the Beach

So: we recorded and released, I dunno, 25 songs and the lyrics to just one are listed on the web. That song is You and Me Lying on the Beach, which was a B-side on our third single.

What’s that all about? Not sufficient that we are an ultra-obscure band, whoever transcribed these lyrics chose our most obscure song and possibly the one with the fewest lyrics.

(They actually got some of them wrong but I like their version more than ours so I won’t correct them.)

While we’re here, I quite like what we were trying to do with this song, though it didn’t quite come out. We’d run out of money to record the B-sides at the proper studio, so two of us went to Lancaster Music Co-Op to do them instead. Cost buttons. That vibe of ghostly-girl-backing-vocals we probably heard on John Leyton’s Johnny Remember Me (a Joe Meek production from about 1961) and thought it hadn’t been done for 30 years, so why not give it a go? The guitars sound good too, I think. It’s a real simple song and, like all the best pop songs (well, like some of the best pop songs), it’s really kind-of a song about pop itself. Though it does sound like it cost us £40 to do it. Maybe one day we’ll do it properly.

But what I want to know is: did the person who transcribed it initially set out to do all our songs? And why did they give up after just one?