Length 2:41 | ||
Released March 12, 1967 (1967-03-12) Recorded April 25, 1966Scepter Studios, Manhattan Genre Jangle rockjangle poprhythm and blueslo-fi |
"There She Goes Again" is a song by The Velvet Underground. It first appeared on their 1967 debut album, The Velvet Underground & Nico. The syncopated guitar riff is taken from the 1962 Marvin Gaye song "Hitch Hike", but is most likely influenced by The Rolling Stones' cover version, from their 1965 album Out of Our Heads.
There have been several other notable versions of the song, including a B-side on the 1983 R.E.M. single "Radio Free Europe" (and as such appeared on their B-side compilation Dead Letter Office in 1987). It was also included as a bonus track on the 1993 re-release of R.E.M.'s 1983 album Murmur.
A band called The Banana may have recorded the first cover version of "There She Goes Again". According to bandmember Dean Ellis Kohler, they recorded it in a tent in Vietnam in April 1967 and sent the master tape to a company in California to have 45 RPM records pressed. The 1960s revivalists The Crawdaddys of San Diego released the song as a single in 1980.