Hall & Oates - 'She's Gone' (Album version)

Here's the album version of Hall & Oates' "She's Gone," with the marvelous saxophone solo. The single edit is great, but there are times when I prefer the long version.

[towernw]

The much overlooked Atlantic years, funky, soulful, brilliant....

[raymondniven]

I remember when this song came out, and they made a taped appearance on a local show called "Steel Pier" from Atlantic City.

[mezzica]

This one made everyone sit up and listen.

[marccresta]

Classic.. Listen to it in the car when I gotta chill

[athenassigil]

Ain't this still pure magic! Soul, Philly style....So much a part of our listening lives....

[kathnh]

Their music is still sounds as good today as it sounded back then. Good music never goes out of style!

[Tony]

I was working as an Andy Frain usher at the old Chicago Stadium when the sound crew was using the saxophone section of the song for sound checks. That is how I was introduced to this song and I have appreciated it ever since.

[deannaysmith]

This song came out just after my newborn baby passed away after only 36 hours. Born 8 weeks premature and her little lungs couldn't function properly and she flew away. To this day whenever I hear this song I think of her. She's Gone.

[robbiestewart]

Like the poster of this video says, I too prefer the longer LP version of this song over the 45 version. One day whilst driving my now late father to do a gig, we were listening to the radio in his van and he asked me why I liked the longer versions of songs for. At the time, he felt that artists and songwriters should just get the point across to the listener and not drag things out with longer versions. So, me being the smart ass that I am, had to remind him of the many times when he'd be performing on stage that he would do this also as both a way of keeping the music going and the audience dancing. And I also had to remind him, that as a songwriter, when a producer starts editing your work down for radio air play, he or she is also taking away part of what you're actually trying to convey to your listener. My father was both a professional musician and entertainer for 50 + years, and once I reminded him of this, his response was I Love You, son. Although the 45 versions are good for the radio stations in that keeping them under the 5 minute playing rule means that station owners only have to pay the artists and songwriters the standard royalty rate, what many songwriters, BMI, and ASCAP don't realize is that they're also cutting themselves short, because their exposure is being limited to their intended audience, especially when the general idea is get as much exposure on radio as possible. Because that leads to more record sales, and concert sell outs. The 5 minute playing rule is one that is long past due for getting rid of. Many of Billy Joel's songs also suffered from this, in that his producer, Phil Ramon also heavenly edited many of his songs down for radio airplay, leaving his intended audience to wonder what he was actually trying to say to them as a songwriter.

[SteveEcksteinDouglasDrive]

OH THAT HEAVENLY STRANGE LOOKING VERY OLD SAXOPHONE, SO SWEET, SO PURE.

[kennykamerer]

Its nice to hear the whole song instead of being butchered by the modern radio stations. ugh! thx for posting!

[k]

Wow..! what a super seventies feel to THIS song. I was in my early teens when it first came out...still have the memories of the funk age and this song brings those memories flooding back in... I loved it then and love it now.. note the wah-wah sound (from the guitar on the wah-wah peddle).  

[TheDaniel]

this song went to #7 on the pop charts in 1976!!!

[johnm.diionno]

I fell in love with this song the first time I heard it ( way back when, lol ) .  Thank you for posting.

[crusty]

With out a doubt this song is the essence of what a man feels when she's really gone....What makes it worse is remembering her saying how much you'd regret losing her, while at the time you couldn't care less. Heart broken after the fact wishing now you could go back in time and do everything to keep that woman by your now it's all just wishful thinking...She's gone.

[ms.e.novalsky]

I used to listen to THIS, in the resort pools, or at a beach, or on my radio next ME, and it was a nice place in time.

[astralmusicman]

A girlfriend left me once, in about 1988, at the end of a party I threw, She just said, "I'm leaving, " and walked out. I was just high enough at the time not to really get it. But when I woke up, my heart was having a "She's Gone" attack, immediately this song came to mind, and 14 straight turntable plays of 'She's Gone' later, I felt even worse, but I did "get it" now, and gained a much deeper appreciation for this iconic song and the impeccable ability of a great pop song to know and even explain to me, exactly how I feel...

[kiramara]

Everybody's high on consolation
Everybody's trying to tell me
What is right for me, yeah
I need a drink and a quick decision
Now it's up to me, ooooh what will be

[Chorus:]
She's gone, she's gone
Oh, why
Oh, why
I better learn how to face it
She's gone, she's gone
Oh, why
Oh, why
I'd pay the devil to replace her
She's gone, she's gone
Oh, why
What went wrong

Get up in the morning, look in the mirror
One less tooth brush hanging in the stand
My face ain't looking any younger
Now what I can see
Love's taken a toll on me

[Chorus]

Think I'll spend eternity in the city
Let the carbon and monoxide choke my thoughts away
And pretty bodies help dissolve the memories
There can never be what she once was to me

[Chorus]

[ravenhill_centuries_past_]

good sound quality on this! this takes me way back.

[ogrebattle]

It's been a long time since I heard this song in it's full version... Very cool...