[net.music] Original Are You Gonna Be There...

wjnz@sphinx.UChicago.UUCP (James Cooper) (08/16/85)

Oops.
>> is me...

>>..Also, the Chocolate Watchband did a great version of Let's Talk About Girls,
>>and Are You Gonna Be There (At the Love-in)?

>I know that the former was originally done by the Tongues of Truth, but was
>unaware that the latter is also a cover.  Who originally did it?

I posted a little too quickly.  Are You Gonna Be There may or may not have been
done originally by the Chocolate Watchband.  It was not written by anyone in
the band, but is credited to  McElroy.  This same person wrote songs that 
the Standell's did, and both the CW and the Standells were produced by the same
guy (Ed Cobb).  So this person may have just been a writer working with Cobb.

Anyone out there know who did the original version of "Are you Gonna Be There"?

Also, if you have never heard the Tongues of Truth's version of Let's Talk
About Girls, it is not nearly as good as the Chocolate Watchband's version.

-- 
   James Cooper 

     ..!ihnp4!gargoyle!sphinx!wjnz

     "Are you gonna be there...
        When I make my mark?
      Are you gonna be there...
        When I set the spark?
      At the Love-in..."