I MUST MOVE
Phil and the Frantics is best known for a song called “I Must Run”, which was a local hit single in their native Arizona; the song is said to have been adapted rather openly from the flip side of the Zombies’ fourth single, “She’s Coming Home” b/w “I Must Move” (the follow-up to one of their biggest hits “Tell Her No”). I was unfamiliar with the Zombies song but have played it recently, and I don’t really see the resemblance; if the song titles weren’t so similar, it might have slipped through the cracks altogether. In any case, “I Must Run” is a superior recording to “I Must Move”, and I am not the only one who thinks so; my view is shared by that of Ugly Things magazine.
For what it’s worth, the resemblance between “My Sweet Lord” by George Harrison and “He’s So Fine” by the Chiffons is much clearer to these ears than is the case with “I Must Run” by Phil and the Frantics and “I Must Move” by the Zombies.
(August 2012)
