A fine version of a fine song: Gene Clark, Carla Olson & Joe South
Among the little amount of vinyls I own, "So Rebellious a Lover", a collection of songs done by Carla Olson and Gene Clark (of Byrds fame) is one of my favourite ones. Nicely arranged great duets of wonderful songs. This here came to my mind today when washing the dishes. It was written by Joe South who first recorded it and also did the arrangements - I have to say, the first job - writing it - was very well done, the third one - arranging it, could've been done better.
In my opinion, the Clark/Olson version is the very best ever recorded (I do not know all the versions), so it is featured here first in line. Followed by Joe South's original recording and the ones by Bobby Bear and Glen Campbell.
The latter is my favourite one next to Clark/Olson, as it just breaks it down to its core (Booby Bear also does a great job), whilst Joe South ruined his beautiful song by using those unnecessary string arrangements and the like. I guess, Carla and Gene worked their version out with the Glen Campbell rendering of the song in mind.
