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Originally Posted by Sarge
Since Meat Loaf referred to John Phillips when talking about his take on the song, it kind of confuses me that he used a line I have never heard The Mamas & The Papas sing. Could it be possible that someone else's version influenced his or is there a recording of The Mamas & The Papas / John Phillips singing these lyrics that I don't know of yet? There are artists who have sung both variants of the lyrics.
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It doesn't me .. Meat's bent for depth of research would suggest to me he'd probably listen to many versions before he felt he really had a deep understanding of it and deciding how he would want to take and use a song.
This isn't a man who waits for songs to be delivered to him and records them .. it's someone who uses anything written for him, or that he finds, as a starting point, and who has a continuing desire for exploring music, understanding it, and then putting his own creative stamp on everything he does. He searches, he researches, he waits to find what he knows will be right for an album. I remember him saying how long it took him to find the close for CHSIB .. also a cover, but one which when he found it had exactly the message he wanted to convey to all his fans.
Caryl