WWSYS question

wackyoverkhaki · 02-12-2007, 04:41 AM

Is it true that the original version of WWSYS was recorded for the album, and then replaced? This is what I've read:

"The original version of 'Who Will Save Your Soul' was recorded in 1995 and then removed from the track listing of Jewel's first album, Pieces of You when she went back into the studio and reworked the single for the radio. Instead of just a guitar and her voice, other instruments were added and more pop sound was created, a verse was cut, and the radio version of the single was produced. It incorporates unique vocal key changes and is a classic example of her honest lyrics and raw voice."

"Removed from the track listing"? Does this mean that if I were to buy the CD in the store right now, the re-recorded version would be on there and not the original? Even back in 1997 when I first got the album (on cassette) the one I heard sounded like the "re-recorded" version. So I never even heard the original? Does the original even still exist? If so, what did it sound like? I'm really curious about this.

JewelWiki · 02-12-2007, 12:02 PM

I don't know that the original is available anywhere.
If you look in the liner notes, it has the line "Another burger another hot dog some fried you wish in a well, hope your health don't go to hell, well"
That line's missing from the version that's on the album. Also, just about every song on the album is just Jewel and her guitar...there was very little added to it except for piano on a couple tracks, strings on a few tracks and using her own voice to harmonize with some of the tracks. I wouldn't find it hard to believe that WWSYS was also Jewel and her Guitar originally.

wackyoverkhaki · 02-12-2007, 07:28 PM

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Originally Posted by vansciver

I don't know that the original is available anywhere.
If you look in the liner notes, it has the line "Another burger another hot dog some fried you wish in a well, hope your health don't go to hell, well"
That line's missing from the version that's on the album. Also, just about every song on the album is just Jewel and her guitar...there was very little added to it except for piano on a couple tracks, strings on a few tracks and using her own voice to harmonize with some of the tracks. I wouldn't find it hard to believe that WWSYS was also Jewel and her Guitar originally.

Yeah...I noticed that line in the liner notes...but she always includes that part when she performs it live. And I have noticed how WWSYS really stood out from the record as being more upbeat and poppy. So when I first listened to the album, I was surprised to hear how different the rest of the record sounded. So from 1996 onward or so (or whenever she rerecorded it?) they replaced the original on the CD and all of the subsequent POY CDs and cassettes distributed and sold was that reissue and the ones with the original cut were discontinued? So somewhere out there, the earliest buyers of her record have the CD with original on it and aren't sharing it with us?

JewelWiki · 02-12-2007, 08:21 PM

Sorry for being confusing. The "original" version never made it to the CD any year...before the CD went to being mass-produced, they did a re-take of WWSYS where Jewel is accompanied by a group called "The Stray Gators" who also accompany her on the album recording of YWMFM. Even Save the Linoleum has this version of WWSYS on it. I guess the version that you read about on wikipedia is locked in Atlantic's vaults never to be heard. :P

02-12-2007, 04:41 AM	#1
wackyoverkhaki Super JKF Member Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: fishin'...or a-wishin' Posts: 473 Rep Power: 0	WWSYS question Is it true that the original version of WWSYS was recorded for the album, and then replaced? This is what I've read: "The original version of 'Who Will Save Your Soul' was recorded in 1995 and then removed from the track listing of Jewel's first album, Pieces of You when she went back into the studio and reworked the single for the radio. Instead of just a guitar and her voice, other instruments were added and more pop sound was created, a verse was cut, and the radio version of the single was produced. It incorporates unique vocal key changes and is a classic example of her honest lyrics and raw voice." "Removed from the track listing"? Does this mean that if I were to buy the CD in the store right now, the re-recorded version would be on there and not the original? Even back in 1997 when I first got the album (on cassette) the one I heard sounded like the "re-recorded" version. So I never even heard the original? Does the original even still exist? If so, what did it sound like? I'm really curious about this.

02-12-2007, 12:02 PM	#2
JewelWiki JKF Member Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Charlottesville, VA, USA Posts: 805 Rep Power: 0	I don't know that the original is available anywhere. If you look in the liner notes, it has the line "Another burger another hot dog some fried you wish in a well, hope your health don't go to hell, well" That line's missing from the version that's on the album. Also, just about every song on the album is just Jewel and her guitar...there was very little added to it except for piano on a couple tracks, strings on a few tracks and using her own voice to harmonize with some of the tracks. I wouldn't find it hard to believe that WWSYS was also Jewel and her Guitar originally. __________________ JewelWiki!

02-12-2007, 08:21 PM	#4
JewelWiki JKF Member Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Charlottesville, VA, USA Posts: 805 Rep Power: 0	Sorry for being confusing. The "original" version never made it to the CD any year...before the CD went to being mass-produced, they did a re-take of WWSYS where Jewel is accompanied by a group called "The Stray Gators" who also accompany her on the album recording of YWMFM. Even Save the Linoleum has this version of WWSYS on it. I guess the version that you read about on wikipedia is locked in Atlantic's vaults never to be heard. :P __________________ JewelWiki!