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The Yardbirds — Heart Full Of Soul
Album: The Yardbirds
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Released: 1965
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Sick at heart and lonely, deep in dark despair
When you want her only, tell me where is she where?
And if she says to you, that she don't love me
Just give her my message, tell her of my plea
And I know, if I could have her back again, I would never make her sad
I got a heart full of soul I got a heart full of soul
She's been gone such a long time, longer than I can bear
But if she says she wants me, tell her I'll be there

And I know, if I could have her back again, I would never make her sad
I got a heart full of soul I got a heart full of soul
Sick at heart and lonely, deep in dark despair
When you want her only, tell me where is she where?
And if she says to you, that she don't love me
Just give her my message, tell her of my plea
And I know, if I could have her back again, I would never make her sad
I got a heart full of soul I got a heart full of soul
I got a heart full of soul!
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(guitar riff plays)
 
Circle of change
the world around you
The same changes
 
Oh wait, not that song
Posted 1 year ago by timmus    [ Reply ]
 sfyi2001 wrote:




This photo implies that the band's real or original name was The Yardfurs.
Posted 1 year ago by kingart    [ Reply ]
The Yardbirds Greatest Hits on 4 track carts.  Everyone had this one in their car back then.
Posted 1 year ago by kurtster    [ Reply ]
 stevesaw wrote:

All the 'interesting' Yardbirds songs featured Jeff Beck. Damn he was good. Glad he left us so much to listen to.




I Agree!!   RIP Jeff!!
Posted 1 year ago by joejennings    [ Reply ]
All the 'interesting' Yardbirds songs featured Jeff Beck. Damn he was good. Glad he left us so much to listen to.
Posted 1 year ago by stevesaw    [ Reply ]
Rest in Peace Jeff ....
Posted 1 year ago by Red52    [ Reply ]
RIP Jeff Beck. You were the best xx
Posted 1 year ago by SpinyNorma    [ Reply ]
Great call and a very thoughtful introduction Bill.

He brought  great music and memories to so many of us.  He will be missed.
Posted 1 year ago by chinacat    [ Reply ]
Gotta weigh in here. I saw these guys live in the summer of 1967 playing from the back of a flatbed trailer at the Sonoma County Fairgrounds in Santa Rosa CA. It might have been a little better than listening to them on AM radio but maybe not.
Posted 2 years ago by Philipirata    [ Reply ]
 coloradojohn wrote:

I remember FREAKING OUT and dying to hear this again immediately after it ceased playing on the tiny transistor radio above the bed when I was a kid...




Same here! I had a pocket Lloyds transistor radio. I was 10yrs old. I listened to WMCA 570 AM NYC (the Good Guys)!
Posted 2 years ago by joejennings    [ Reply ]
At 2:24 I wonder if there's such a thing as a song being too short.  The song gets a groove going and paints a mood, then abruptly disappears.
Posted 2 years ago by timmus    [ Reply ]
I remember FREAKING OUT and dying to hear this again immediately after it ceased playing on the tiny transistor radio above the bed when I was a kid...
Posted 2 years ago by coloradojohn    [ Reply ]
PETA advertisement?

 sfyi2001 wrote:



Posted 2 years ago by xcranky_yankee    [ Reply ]
 ortega1 wrote:

My grandfather had this song on 'sound postcard', something rarely seen in other countries. It was a small vinyl plate just to play with gramophone, just like other big vinyl plates. As a kid I didn't understood lyrics, but the music amazed me from beginning. 20 years later, as grandfather died, I found this postcard and took home. Part of childhood's  memories I think.



brings me back to wanting to learn to play the guitar play some ugly ducklings 
Bill an awesome band from toronto in mid sixties very much the yardbirds
Posted 2 years ago by Yiungdrac    [ Reply ]
Summer of '81...I'd just had a new cassette deck installed in my awesome '73 Rally Maroon Cutlass Supreme, and as soon as they were done, I drove my buddy Mike and I to the park, where we sat and smoked my newest killer weed through his wicked balloon-full-o'-nitrous-injected bamboo-pipe, and when it felt right, I jammed this new Yardbords Greatest Hits cassette tape I'd found in a department store discount bin into it, and cranked the volume all the way up. We opened the doors and windows, tossed the 'Frizz, folks came by and joined us, and we chugged our way through a coolers' worth of beer...
You know, those were different times...
Posted 2 years ago by coloradojohn    [ Reply ]
GREAT!!!!  ICONIC!!!!
Posted 3 years ago by joejennings    [ Reply ]
wow I forgot Jimmy Page was in this group.
Posted 3 years ago by igotitmade2k    [ Reply ]
 ortega1 wrote:

My grandfather had this song on 'sound postcard', something rarely seen in other countries. It was a small vinyl plate just to play with gramophone, just like other big vinyl plates. As a kid I didn't understood lyrics, but the music amazed me from beginning. 20 years later, as grandfather died, I found this postcard and took home. Part of childhood's  memories I think.



If you still have this postcard, I'd love to see a couple of photos. Thanks!
Posted 3 years ago by djtarnowski3283    [ Reply ]
 Tim_in_N_FL wrote:
GREAT song! I also like RUSH's cover from a few years ago. {#Yes}
 
Some songs shouldn't be covered, like Seven Nation Army for example.
Posted 3 years ago by whatsupdude    [ Reply ]
 helgigermany wrote:
Not bad....
 
That certainly says it all not.
Posted 3 years ago by whatsupdude    [ Reply ]
 ziakut wrote:
I always used to think this was very early Moody Blues.
 
If you had seen The Moody Blues live back then you wouldn't necessarily think so.
Posted 3 years ago by whatsupdude    [ Reply ]
My career started with this song.
Posted 3 years ago by whatsupdude    [ Reply ]
I always used to think this was very early Moody Blues.
Posted 3 years ago by ziakut    [ Reply ]
My grandfather had this song on 'sound postcard', something rarely seen in other countries. It was a small vinyl plate just to play with gramophone, just like other big vinyl plates. As a kid I didn't understood lyrics, but the music amazed me from beginning. 20 years later, as grandfather died, I found this postcard and took home. Part of childhood's  memories I think.
Posted 4 years ago by ortega1    [ Reply ]

"...if I could have her back again..." 

The core thought so common to many great rock songs remains just as compelling today... 
Posted 4 years ago by vandal    [ Reply ]
British Invasion excellence 
Posted 4 years ago by neptunejeff    [ Reply ]
 sfyi2001 wrote:

 

Photo taken before "Little Jimmy" started wearing stilts under his pants.
Posted 4 years ago by On_The_Beach    [ Reply ]
 Propayne wrote:
When I first heard this song, as a kid in the '60s, I remember thinking how "grownup" it sounded compared to what was being played on the radio at the time.
 
Totally. Was soooo sophisticated, I thought as a kid hearing it, too. Probably stole some red wine &  cheese from some wasted grownups and threw a little cocktail party for myself and my Barbies & lovies. And cranked up the AM radio station. 
Posted 5 years ago by Grayson    [ Reply ]
I was born too late 
Posted 5 years ago by ExploitingChaos    [ Reply ]
Love this based on sentiments for that moment in time
Posted 6 years ago by fitmartin    [ Reply ]
Still awesome after all these years.  Jeff Beck with that classic guitar riff, their first single after Eric Clapton moved on to start Cream.  Good times in those days.

{#Bananajam}
Posted 6 years ago by buddy    [ Reply ]
{#Music}
Posted 6 years ago by johnybladex    [ Reply ]
Great to hear this again!
Posted 7 years ago by BonzoWiltsUK    [ Reply ]
Hey Bill - love the mix 99% of the time, lots of good new and old stuff, but would be great to hear a few more rock "standards" like Heart Full of Soul" and a few more "deep tracks" from the era that formed the culture of a whole generation.

And remember the mantra........"Blues is the foundation of all Rock 'n Roll Music"

thanks for Radio Paradise!~

Posted 7 years ago by geodesmo    [ Reply ]
{#Arrowd} Furs Are Us must have had a good sale
Posted 7 years ago by Skydog    [ Reply ]

Posted 7 years ago by sfyi2001    [ Reply ]
It's almost a direct line from here to Dreadlock Holiday. 

Graham Gouldman is the man! 
Posted 7 years ago by GuiltyFeat    [ Reply ]
While nowhere near as good as this original, Rush did a cover of this song on their cover songs album "Feedback" which is actually pretty good.
Posted 7 years ago by FatPants    [ Reply ]
Follow with Secret Agent Man !!!!
Posted 7 years ago by Emwolb    [ Reply ]
In the 90's here in Oz there were quite a number of bands doing their take on this sound. Looking back it so obvious.
Posted 7 years ago by janac13    [ Reply ]
I remember when I was a kid I thought the Yardbirds sounded 'old fashioned'
This of course was a few years into Beatle-Mania that I thought this
 
Posted 7 years ago by Skydog    [ Reply ]
Brilliant Graham Gouldman song.
Posted 8 years ago by Andybob    [ Reply ]
 hayduke2 wrote:
Oooh ooh woooooo - o this song rocks

 
Yeah
 
Posted 8 years ago by dhalevi    [ Reply ]
 Propayne wrote:
When I first heard this song, as a kid in the '60s, I remember thinking how "grownup" it sounded compared to what was being played on the radio at the time.

 

Exactly.


Posted 8 years ago by Hannio    [ Reply ]
When I first heard this song, as a kid in the '60s, I remember thinking how "grownup" it sounded compared to what was being played on the radio at the time.
Posted 9 years ago by Propayne    [ Reply ]
 helgigermany wrote:
Not bad....

 
How about for 1965? I mean, we're talkin' 50 fucking years ago Jack! Featuring your very own Jeff Beck!
Posted 9 years ago by dragon1952    [ Reply ]
Not bad....
Posted 9 years ago by helgigermany    [ Reply ]
The Yardbirds just lift off on this wonderful Graham Gouldman song, featuring some nice guitar work from Jeff Beck.
Posted 10 years ago by vrza    [ Reply ]
Oooh ooh woooooo - o this song rocks
Posted 10 years ago by hayduke2    [ Reply ]
This is a 10 all day long.
Posted 10 years ago by Propayne    [ Reply ]
..... this is bloody good
Posted 10 years ago by Peter_Bradshaw    [ Reply ]
That Eric Burdon-style vocal, that Jeff Beck on wild 60's guitar gets me every time...many tasty memories tied to this, then and since...
Posted 10 years ago by coloradojohn    [ Reply ]
GREAT!
Posted 10 years ago by Stingray    [ Reply ]
That's Jeff Beck on guitar. One of the first times for fuzz guitar sound.
 
Posted 10 years ago by Quixmundi    [ Reply ]
 lemmoth wrote:
I think this was the song that convinced Clapton to leave in search of "blues purity."  Years later we got Lay Down Sally.  Oh well{#Biggrin}

 
I don't believe Clapton played on this tune - I guess he disapproved before recording.  In addition to "Lay Down, Sally", don't forget his classic dud, "I've Got a Rock 'n' Roll Heart" .
Posted 10 years ago by Proclivities    [ Reply ]
Great sixties stuff! 
Posted 10 years ago by megaboogieman    [ Reply ]
How much i love this radio station!
Posted 10 years ago by isparos9    [ Reply ]
This followed Ween absolutely brilliantly!

Way to go again, Bill!!
Posted 10 years ago by subgyro    [ Reply ]
Yeah! How cool it was indeed to be an angst-ridden love-tortured teen & come across this hard-rocking thing; I dived right into it & swam...
Posted 10 years ago by coloradojohn    [ Reply ]
great, great song
Posted 11 years ago by gjr    [ Reply ]

Everybody in my mushrooming multitude of churches loves this song...
 
Posted 11 years ago by Lazarus    [ Reply ]
 lemmoth wrote:
I think this was the song that convinced Clapton to leave in search of "blues purity."  Years later we got Lay Down Sally.  Oh well{#Biggrin}

 
Wasn't it "For Your Love"? Yeah, that "purity" sure didn't last long--Cream took the blues and practically electrocuted them. 
Posted 11 years ago by kcar    [ Reply ]
Good on you Bill.

Loved this when it first came out when I was an almost teenager; still love it now.
Definitely stands the test of time.
Posted 11 years ago by Donna_Stride    [ Reply ]
A staple back in the days of 4 track car players.  Everybody had the Yardbirds Greatest Hits and the Doors Strange Days.  What was neat about Strange Days was that it had Light My Fire on it to balance the time on the two tracks.
Posted 11 years ago by kurtster    [ Reply ]
Keith Relf had a cool look and a cool sound.  But geez, what a sad and tragic demise.
Posted 11 years ago by treatment_bound    [ Reply ]
Never stale, although a bit before my time but, awesome!{#Bananajam}
Posted 11 years ago by pixelpush    [ Reply ]
A rare 10 from 1965!  Love it...
Posted 11 years ago by Foot    [ Reply ]
Not stale in the least.
Posted 11 years ago by Propayne    [ Reply ]
I think this was the song that convinced Clapton to leave in search of "blues purity."  Years later we got Lay Down Sally.  Oh well{#Biggrin}
Posted 11 years ago by lemmoth    [ Reply ]
Yes, dammit !
Posted 11 years ago by kurtster    [ Reply ]
 Lazarus wrote:


I'm around...  I have been saved...  I am a sinner no more...  I will never let women use me for my body just for money again—  only if they love me, or at least like me a lot...

everybody in my church loves this song...
 

 
Respect. Best ever post on RP.
Posted 11 years ago by ncollingridge    [ Reply ]
 EdmoJoe wrote:
Excellent song (or at least it was), but it's one of those that after 12,000 life time listenings, it has gotten stale. Maybe time to let some newer music see the light of day.
 
Thought You were talking about Coldpaly. Although could apply to many songs / bands /music/.../comments.
Posted 11 years ago by cormatic    [ Reply ]
Excellent song (or at least it was), but it's one of those that after 12,000 life time listenings, it has gotten stale. Maybe time to let some newer music see the light of day.
Posted 11 years ago by EdmoJoe    [ Reply ]
 oldsaxon wrote:

Wherefore art thou?
 

I'm around...  I have been saved...  I am a sinner no more...  I will never let women use me for my body just for money again—  only if they love me, or at least like me a lot...

everybody in my church loves this song...
 
Posted 11 years ago by Lazarus    [ Reply ]
It sounds old with the "woah oh oh oh" stuff but I love it any way. 
Posted 11 years ago by terrapin52    [ Reply ]
 (former member) wrote:

Everybody in my hotel room loves this song...

 
 
Wherefore art thou?
Posted 12 years ago by oldsaxon    [ Reply ]
Any Y-birds makes a good day.
Posted 12 years ago by joelbb    [ Reply ]
PSD >> hooray! {#Clap}
Posted 12 years ago by Mari    [ Reply ]
Keith Relf - Awesome!!!{#Dancingbanana_2}  Takes me WAYYY back.
Posted 12 years ago by dw    [ Reply ]
Hmmm, coincidentally I just watched a movie last night called "London Boulevard" (Colin Farrell / Keira Knightley) which featured this song prominently. Not a bad film, I'll give it a 7.
Posted 12 years ago by On_The_Beach    [ Reply ]
 Jazbo wrote:
Hey, is that a young Anthony Bourdaine on the right? Pure 10!!
 
That would be a young Paul Samwell-Smith.
Posted 12 years ago by RedGuitar    [ Reply ]
Any Yardbirds is good Yardbirds...
Posted 12 years ago by neuticle    [ Reply ]
One of the greatest rock & roll songs of all-time.
Posted 12 years ago by Propayne    [ Reply ]
Yup, sounds grand and apropos with musical continuity in the set...and always sends me back to tooling around in Mom's '75 Beetle or Dad's Vista Cruiser, newly licensed and happily blasting tunes like this...
Posted 12 years ago by coloradojohn    [ Reply ]
meh. Never liked it. Never will.
Posted 12 years ago by Roguewarer    [ Reply ]
 nerakdon wrote:
I saw Nina Simone doing "Feelings" on You Tube, and practically spitting she was so mad at herself for having written it.  I'm guessing the guy who wrote this one felt something similar, once the infatuation died down.
 
Are you talking about "Feelings" by Morris Albert?  That song (widely listed as one of the worst songs ever) has very little in common with this one.  I don't think Graham Gouldman ever regretted writing this tune.



Posted 12 years ago by Proclivities    [ Reply ]
Music!
Posted 12 years ago by bluecshells    [ Reply ]
Cool. Chris Isaak does a nice version of this.
Posted 13 years ago by lshinkawa    [ Reply ]
 RedGuitar wrote:

Yes, it's a tasty little solo.  Love El Becko and his fuzz-toned guitar!

  He looked so BORED!  Who'da thunk, back then, that he'd eclipse the Yardbirds with his solo stuff?  (Guessing it was fermenting in his mind, even then...)


Posted 13 years ago by Cynaera    [ Reply ]
Hey, is that a young Anthony Bourdaine on the right? Pure 10!!
Posted 13 years ago by Jazbo    [ Reply ]
 nerakdon wrote:
I saw Nina Simone doing "Feelings" on You Tube, and practically spitting she was so mad at herself for having written it.  I'm guessing the guy who wrote this one felt something similar, once the infatuation died down.
  Wiki indicates she did not write that song. Why she ever performed it is another matter. But hey, we all have our little indiscretions...


Posted 13 years ago by cc_rider    [ Reply ]
 bigeclecticcat wrote:
Check out this "Shindig" performance featuring "Heart full of Soul". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9W-VehwX_ik Probably the easiest break Jeff Beck ever did...but tasty!
 
Yes, it's a tasty little solo.  Love El Becko and his fuzz-toned guitar!

Posted 13 years ago by RedGuitar    [ Reply ]
10
Posted 13 years ago by jimmy41    [ Reply ]
Yardbirds drummer Jim McCarty said of the Graham Gouldman songs like this one:
Very interesting songs, very moody, because they were usually in a minor key, the ones we did, anyway.

Jim McCarty interview

Posted 13 years ago by Ndugu    [ Reply ]
Check out this "Shindig" performance featuring "Heart full of Soul". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9W-VehwX_ik Probably the easiest break Jeff Beck ever did...but tasty!
Posted 14 years ago by bigeclecticcat    [ Reply ]
 kurtster wrote:
Just ain't long enough. Still a 10.
  On this we can agree...play it again Bill !


Posted 14 years ago by HazzeSwede    [ Reply ]
Takes me back to high school days and I'm dancing in my parents kitchen again when I hear this song come on the radio!!  Some real good times!
Posted 14 years ago by jerrieberrie    [ Reply ]
My fave Yardbirds song.
Thought I was listening to my playlist!

Posted 14 years ago by meadowwoods    [ Reply ]
I saw Nina Simone doing "Feelings" on You Tube, and practically spitting she was so mad at herself for having written it.  I'm guessing the guy who wrote this one felt something similar, once the infatuation died down.
Posted 14 years ago by nerakdon    [ Reply ]
Always dug Keith Relf's deep tenor. . .
Posted 14 years ago by vandal    [ Reply ]
band still performing (Dreja and Mcarty) and sound great with some young folks filling in at guitar, bass and vocals/harp.
Posted 14 years ago by black321    [ Reply ]
 RobRyan wrote:
I'm pretty sure they stole that "signature" guitar riff from Sam Phillips.  {#Doh}
 t
you're paying attention

Posted 14 years ago by Giselle62    [ Reply ]
 bachbeet wrote:
Great song from a great group that produced 3 great guitarists which led to other great groups.  I also think Paul Samwell Smith became a producer.  An interesting piece of info I read was that Clapton left the Yardbirds because he felt the group was trying to pull away from a blues sound and was trying to get too experimental instead of just basic blues.  The irony is that then Clapton goes to Cream and starts using the same sorts of electronic effects and experimental sounds in a lot of Cream's music.
 
I'd read that Clapton left because he thought the band was becoming too commercial or "pop"-oriented.  Apparently "For Your Love" is what drove him off.

Posted 14 years ago by Proclivities    [ Reply ]
 RobRyan wrote:
I'm pretty sure they stole that "signature" guitar riff from Sam Phillips.  {#Doh}
 
That's funny.  I like her homage to the riff in this song.

Posted 14 years ago by BKardon    [ Reply ]
I didn't know they did a cover of Chris Isaak's song  
Posted 14 years ago by MojoJojo    [ Reply ]
Iconic - a 10.

Posted 14 years ago by kaybee    [ Reply ]
Great song from a great group that produced 3 great guitarists which led to other great groups.  I also think Paul Samwell Smith became a producer.  An interesting piece of info I read was that Clapton left the Yardbirds because he felt the group was trying to pull away from a blues sound and was trying to get too experimental instead of just basic blues.  The irony is that then Clapton goes to Cream and starts using the same sorts of electronic effects and experimental sounds in a lot of Cream's music.
Posted 14 years ago by bachbeet    [ Reply ]
I prefer the Rush version. {#Lol}
Posted 14 years ago by crockydile    [ Reply ]
I had too much to dream last night, or maybe it was just those soundalike prunes.

Posted 14 years ago by Businessgypsy    [ Reply ]
 RobRyan wrote:
I'm pretty sure they stole that "signature" guitar riff from Sam Phillips.  {#Doh}

tha's funny!

Posted 14 years ago by sharkartist    [ Reply ]
 Proclivities wrote:

No. In 1965 Jeff Beck was their lead guitarist.  I don't think Page joined until 1966.
 
Yep, that's Beck playing guitar here.

I wasn't born for another 10 years... still...

I think THIS may have been the most important band laying the groundwork for what was to come next.  At every stage in their development... they were YEARS ahead of everybody else.  Plus... Relf is one of my favorite frontmen of all time.
Posted 14 years ago by bobringer    [ Reply ]
Just ain't long enough. Still a 10.
Posted 14 years ago by kurtster    [ Reply ]
definitely godlike! its been around forever. always takes you back. love it.
Posted 15 years ago by buzmaggie    [ Reply ]
I love the clothing, very sharp....oh yeah great tune too you can hear the beginnings of rock here.
Posted 15 years ago by EssexTex    [ Reply ]
 nuggler wrote:
Page on guitar even though the cover shows Beck?
 
No. In 1965 Jeff Beck was their lead guitarist.  I don't think Page joined until 1966.

Posted 15 years ago by Proclivities    [ Reply ]
 RobRyan wrote:
I'm pretty sure they stole that "signature" guitar riff from Sam Phillips.  {#Doh}
 
I'm pretty sure it doesn't matter. This song still sounds great. 
Posted 15 years ago by LowPhreak    [ Reply ]
The Yardbirds... man, what a group that was. They constituted a Super-Group before there even was such a thing. I mean, their guitarists were Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck and Jimmy Page. Rock n' Roll emanated from the Yardbirds. And Heartful of Soul? Blasting good, then and now.

Posted 15 years ago by jadewahoo    [ Reply ]
 ceviche wrote:

Tremendous song, and the cover photo/graphics are priceless.


  agree.  If the song weren't already a ten it would get an extra point for the cover photo.
Posted 15 years ago by Wizzuvvoz    [ Reply ]

Tremendous song, and the cover photo/graphics are priceless.


Posted 15 years ago by ceviche    [ Reply ]
 RobRyan wrote:
I'm pretty sure they stole that "signature" guitar riff from Sam Phillips.  {#Doh}
One Sam was too young the other was a producer.

Posted 15 years ago by stkman    [ Reply ]