You Are Always On My Mind

Written by Tony Romeo

Wake up in the mornin' feelin' all right 'till I recall

You're gone from my life and I stare like a dummy against the wall

Since you've been away, oh, yes, I am uptight

It's a fact of my life I guess I'll try to fight

I could be so good for you if I had that right

If I had that right

You are always on my mind

Have I gotta go through this old life

Day after day and find

You there on my mind

You are always on my mind

Have I gotta go through this old life

Day after day and find

You there on my mind

I don't understand you at all but I don't care

Still a lot of good love in our lives for us to share

You might think it's sad, but I'm together now, yeah, you laugh, huh

I know it's true I'm much better now

You ought to come on by and see for yourself just how

I'm much better now

You are always on my mind

Have I gotta go through this old life

Day after day and find

You there on my mind

You are always on my mind

Have I gotta go through this old life

Day after day and find

You there on my mind

Repeat and fade

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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 1971 LP “Up To Date”. The second recording has been provided by John Gomolka who altered the original track to better reflect David’s true voice.

"You Are Always On My Mind" - Part of original recording

"You Are Always On My Mind" - altered to reflect David’s true voice.

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