To Be Lovers
Written By - Mark Charron.
Like a summer wind in the fall
Like a color book without a paper doll
This is what it's like
To be lovers
To be lovers when you're not in love
Like a drift of snow falling in June
Like a November night without an Autumn moon
This is what it's like
To be lovers
To be lovers when you're not in love
A sad old tree that's branches will not grow
A beautiful valley filled with sand
It's like a mockingbird with no song
Try to imagine the sun sleeping through dawn
This is what it's like
To be lovers
To be lovers when you're not in love
This is what it's like
To be lovers
To be lovers when you're not in love
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.
"To Be Lovers" - Part of original recording
"To Be Lovers" - altered to reflect David’s true voice.
On: The Partridge Family Album, Only A Moment Ago, Gold Disk
