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• Baket from UsAfter this song was included in Rush's R30 album it also appeared on Rush's 60's Rock cover album entitled Feedback. 8 songs total including the likes of Crossroads, The Seeker and other classics. All are superbly done covers.
• Barry from Sauquoit, NyOn December 16th 1965, the Yardbirds performed "Heart Full of Soul" on the ABC-TV program 'Shindig!'...
  Five months earlier on July 25th, 1965 the song entered Billboard's Hot Top 100 chart at position #86; and on September 9th, 1965 it peaked at #9 for one week...
  It spent 12 weeks on the Top 100; their record that preceded it on the chart was "For Your Love", reached #6 and also stayed on the Top 100 for 12 weeks...
  Both records were the groups only two Top 10 records, but they just missed having a 3rd Top 10 record when "Shapes of Things" peaked at #11 in 1966.
• Kevin from Los Angeles, CaTo Fred.."I'm a Man" is a combination of Muddy's "Mannish Boy" and Bo Diddley's "I'm a Man". The original versions were slow...the Yardbirds version alot faster...what they called a 'rave-up'.
• Gary from Seattle, WaIn one way or another, all three of The Yardbirds' key guitarists were involved with "Heart Full Of Soul". Although it is Beck that plays on the song, the U.S. single was released with a picture sleeve erroneously showing the Eric Clapton lineup. A March 1968 appearance on the music show Upbeat features the final lineup with Jimmy Page guitar-synching to the record.
  
  The U.S. picture sleeve shows the Eric Clapton lineup instead of the correct lineup with Jeff Beck. It was also featured on the 1965 compilation album "Having a Rave Up".
  
  Crowski-KZOK Seattle
• Fred from Laurel, MdNoel: Yes, I'm surprised that title isn't in this site's list. As I recall, The Yardbirds had just about 4 hits before they evaporated--"Heart Full of Soul" and "For Your Love," which are here, and "Shapes of Things" and "I'm a Man (I Spell M-A-N--Man)," which are not. BTW, that last title is no relation to the song "I'm a Man (yes I am, and I can't help but love ya so)" by The Spencer Davis Group about a year or so later. I think the one the Yardbirds recorded was by either Leadbelly or Muddy Waters. Or maybe some similar artist? Anybody know?
  
  
• Fred from Laurel, MdSpeaking of belly dancers, I'm thinkin that another, very prominent example of this Turkish influence in that era was "Stop Stop Stop" by the Hollies (led by Graham Nash). Thanks, Dirk, I hadn't thought of or realized that before!
  
  
• Noel from Christchurch, New ZealandHas anybody heard "Shapes Of Things" Jeff Beck guitarist/sitar fuzz-box. Great lyrics!
• Jon from London, EnglandYeah it is on the Rush 30th anniversary album and DVD. The Yardbirds were blues gods... and thanks to them Clapton made it big in England.
• Tom from East Lyme, CtIsn't the Rush 30th anniversary album called R30?!?!
• Bob from Comox, B.c., CanadaChris Isaak does an excellant cover of this song on
  his album "Chris Isaak" 1987.
• Aylin from MontrealInteresting. I never linked Turkish music and Paint it Black before.
• Dirk from Nashville, TnThe flavor of this record is not "Eastern" in the sense of Indian, like so many other recordings from 1966-1969. It is actually MIDDLE Eastern--specifically Turkish. It has been forgotten over the years that before the influence of Indian-influenced sounds in the psychedelic era of the 60s, there was a recurring Turkish influence. You hear it most clearly in the Rolling Stones' song "Paint It Black." You can almost visualize belly-dancers in that song. "Heart Full of Soul" was another good example of the Turkish sound.... What would attract a bunch of British rock-n-rollers to the culture of Istanbul?... Hmmm... Maybe the hooka?
• Marina from Seattle, WaOn one of their remastered and re-released CDs, there is an outtake version of this song with a sitar. However, the original version is the best by far.
• Kendall from Thomasville, GaThis song is amazes me, every time I listen to it, I just get so many mixed emotions
• Jeff from Haltom City, TxThe version of this by Rush sounds fantastic.

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