Judy in Disguise (With Glasses)

"Judy in Disguise (With Glasses)"
Single by John Fred and his Playboy Band
from the album Agnes English
B-side Out Of Left Field
Released October 1967
Genre Pop rock
Length 2:55
Label Paula Records
Writer(s) John Fred Gourrier, Andrew Bernard
Certification Gold (U.S.)

"Judy In Disguise (With Glasses)" is a song that was a hit for the Louisiana-based John Fred and his Playboy Band in early 1968. The song was jointly written and composed by Fred and bandmate Andrew Bernard.

Arrangements and content

The song features strings, brass, a sitar, piano, bass, guitar, drums, breathing sounds, and dissonant string sounds. Its title is a play on, and a mondegreen of, "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds." (Fred thought the lyrics were "Lucy in disguise with diamonds" when he first heard the selection.)[1][2]

The other members of the Playboy Band did not like the unusual slow abrupt ending with Fred intoning the final line, "I guess I'll just take your glasses."[3]

Chart performance

The song reached #1 in the U.S., Germany[4] and Switzerland,[5] and #3 in Great Britain and Ireland.[6]

Cover versions

See also

References

  1. Kasser, Tom (July 2013). Lucy in the Mind of Lennon. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-974760-3.
  2. "Seven things you didn’t know about “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds”". blog.oup.com. Oxford University Press. July 9, 2013. Retrieved November 29, 2015.
  3. Bronson, Fred. Billboard Book of Number One Songs.
  4. Ehnert, Günter (1999). HIT BILANZ Deutsche Chart Singles 1956-1980. ISBN 3-922542-24-7
  5. Swiss Music Charts Number-Ones (1968)
  6. Judy in Disguise (with Glasses) UK chart position Retrieved 09-21-11

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Song lyrics

Preceded by
"Hello, Goodbye" by The Beatles
Billboard Hot 100 number-one single
January 20, 1968 – February 2, 1968
(two weeks)
Succeeded by
"Green Tambourine" by The Lemon Pipers
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