Bandala
Written By - Wes Farrell and Eddie Singleton.
My baby!
(Bandala-la, my love) I need ya!
(Bandala-la, my love) Oh, oh, I want ya!
(Bandala-la, my love) Hold on! I'm comin' for ya
(Bandala-la) Hold on! Be there to getcha!
I rise with the sun
And start my existence
With dreams of the day
When we'll move away
Far from the hard times poor town's been givin'
And move on uptown to a better way of livin'
She's not a beauty and she don't wear fine clothes
Her heart and soul is all I'm livin' for
Hold on!
(Bandala-la) Oh, oh, you know I need ya!
(Bandala-la, my love) I want ya!
(Bandala-la) Hold on, I'm comin' for ya!
(Bandala-la) Hold on! Be there to getcha!
I'll be the fella
To save his Cinderella
By turnin' her dream world into real life
One day soon, I'm gonna carry Bandala away and make her my wife
We're gonna make it, baby!
(Bandala-la, my love) Be there to getcha!
(Bandala-la) Hold on! I'm comin' for ya!
(Bandala-la, my love) You know I want ya!
(Bandala-la) Oh! You know I need ya!
(Bandala-la, my love) You know I want ya!
(Bandala-la) Hey! My baby!
(Bandala-la, my love) You know I want ya!
(Bandala-la, my love) We're gonna make it, baby!
As David explains in the following excerpt from the book “C’mon Get Happy…Fear and Loathing on the Partridge Family Bus” by David Cassidy & Chip Deffaa, his voice on the first two of The Partridge Family records, his voice was altered.
“Wes had some problem with the way I naturally sounded. He had me double-track vocals (the way Neil Sedaka had so often done) to give my voice added pop-ness. And by altering the tape speed, he was able to raise the pitch of my voice a half-tone above what it actually was, so that on records I sounded a little younger, lighter than in real life.”
The following two recordings highlight this. The first recording is a small part of the original recording from 1970 LP “The Partridge Family Album”. The second recording has been provided by John Gomolka who altered the original track to better reflect David’s true voice.
"Bandala" - Part of original recording
"Bandala" - altered to reflect David’s true voice.
On: The Partridge Family Album, Only A Moment Ago
