That'll Be the Day
Written by Tony Romeo
When the chains around me no longer ground me
And my soul can sail away to a better life
That'll be the day
And when the silence is broken and words unspoken
Can finally have their say, then we'll all sing out
That'll be the day
That'll be the day
We should be together like the sand and the sea
Like the rocks in the sunshine go together
With the grass on the summer ground, the leaves on the tree
Like the sheep and the meadow go together like the words and the music
The honey and the bee, like the work and the play
That'll be the day
And when those feelings I've hidden are no longer forbidden
And our love is here to stay
Then we'll all shine on
That'll be the day
That'll be the day
And when those feelings I've hidden are no longer forbidden
And our love is here to stay
Then we'll all shine on
That'll be the day
That'll be the day
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.
"That'll Be the Day" - Part of original recording
"That'll Be the Day" - altered to reflect David’s true voice.
From: Up To Date, The Partridge Family Greatest Hits -Bell
