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"I Gotcha Now" is a song written by Lynsey de Paul and released as a single by Zakatek ( Lenny Zakatek) on the Bell Records label on 2 March 1973. [1] [2] [3] The release of the single received interest from the British music press. [4] [5] The song features a pounding piano (possibly played by de Paul), fuzz guitar and " I Am the Walrus"-esque strings. [6] [7] De Paul's own demo of the song, with the title "Got You Here Now" and recorded at Orange Studios, London, by David Humphries in early 1973 resurfaced in 2022 and features a xylophone in place of the piano break in the middle of the song. [8] The B-side is also a de Paul song, " So Good To You", [1] [9] and both songs were recorded at 10cc's Strawberry Studios with Eric Stewart, the lead guitarist and singer of The Mindbenders and later a member of 10cc, being the co-engineer. [10] [11] De Paul recorded her own version of "So Good To You" and released it in October 1973 as the flip side to her single " Won't Somebody Dance with Me". [12] [13] In Japan, this was the A-side of the release. [14] Both songs were however, originally written by de Paul for Zakatek (as was the follow-up single " Get Your Gun"), [15] after she co-discovered him together with the actor Dudley Moore, [16] [17] her boyfriend at the time. However, some years later de Paul revealed that she had offered "I Gotcha Now" to Slade. [18] [19] Lenny Zakatek discussed recording the song in an interview given to Black Music & Jazz Review. [20]
"I Gotcha Now" was released on CD for the first time in 2018 on the compilation album Mixed Up Minds Part Thirteen: Rock & Pop From the British Isles, 1969-1973, [21] [22] and also on the 2006 album, PopCycles Volume 4. [23] The song is still played on the radio, most recently by KDVS based in Davis, California, [24] KOOP in Austin, Texas [25] and Jersey City's WFMU on the program "Wired Up!". [26]
![]() | The topic of this article may not meet Wikipedia's
notability guideline for music. (October 2016) |
"I Gotcha Now" is a song written by Lynsey de Paul and released as a single by Zakatek ( Lenny Zakatek) on the Bell Records label on 2 March 1973. [1] [2] [3] The release of the single received interest from the British music press. [4] [5] The song features a pounding piano (possibly played by de Paul), fuzz guitar and " I Am the Walrus"-esque strings. [6] [7] De Paul's own demo of the song, with the title "Got You Here Now" and recorded at Orange Studios, London, by David Humphries in early 1973 resurfaced in 2022 and features a xylophone in place of the piano break in the middle of the song. [8] The B-side is also a de Paul song, " So Good To You", [1] [9] and both songs were recorded at 10cc's Strawberry Studios with Eric Stewart, the lead guitarist and singer of The Mindbenders and later a member of 10cc, being the co-engineer. [10] [11] De Paul recorded her own version of "So Good To You" and released it in October 1973 as the flip side to her single " Won't Somebody Dance with Me". [12] [13] In Japan, this was the A-side of the release. [14] Both songs were however, originally written by de Paul for Zakatek (as was the follow-up single " Get Your Gun"), [15] after she co-discovered him together with the actor Dudley Moore, [16] [17] her boyfriend at the time. However, some years later de Paul revealed that she had offered "I Gotcha Now" to Slade. [18] [19] Lenny Zakatek discussed recording the song in an interview given to Black Music & Jazz Review. [20]
"I Gotcha Now" was released on CD for the first time in 2018 on the compilation album Mixed Up Minds Part Thirteen: Rock & Pop From the British Isles, 1969-1973, [21] [22] and also on the 2006 album, PopCycles Volume 4. [23] The song is still played on the radio, most recently by KDVS based in Davis, California, [24] KOOP in Austin, Texas [25] and Jersey City's WFMU on the program "Wired Up!". [26]