ian mitchell wrote the song i go to pieces.
ian mitchell wrote the song i go to pieces.
who wrote the song i go to pieces?
ian mitchell
"i go to pieces" passed to peter and gordon when that duo and del shannon along with the searchers shared the bill for a tour of australia in the second half of 1964. at one of that tour's venues shannon pitched "i go to pieces" to the searchers singing it for the group in their dressing room: peter and gordon in the dressing room next door overheard shannon singing "i go to pieces" to the searchers - who weren't interested in it - and recognizing the song's potential to become a merseybeat-style hit peter and gordon asked shannon to let them record it. peter and gordon recorded "i go to pieces" at abbey road studios with john burgess producing and geoff love as arranger/conductor; as well as peter and gordon themselves playing guitars the session featured [eddie king], their guitar player/md, on twelve string guitar.
i go to pieces
the acehnese live in northern sumatra, but on the island of simeulue (or simaloer or simalur) which is just west of sumatra, the inhabitants play a similar game and may fill in some of the rule deficiencies found for meurimueng-rimueng, the previous game described above. it is similar to version b of rimau-rimau. edw. jacobson wrote in "tijdschrift voor indische taal-, land- en volkenkunde" (1919) which is a collection of articles written in dutch, and wrote the name of the game as rimoe (which sounds like rimau), and jacobson states that it is the malay rimau or the tiger game. the game was also described by h.j.r. murray in "a history of board-games other than chess" (1952), and references edw. jacobson's work as his source. the game uses the same board. there are 24 pieces called "ana" (which means child in some austronesian languages, and the inhabitants of simuelue do speak austronesian languages) played by one player. there is also 1 or 2 "rimoe" or "radjo" (depending upon the version) played by the other player. in the beginning only 8 ana are placed on the 8 intersection points surrounding the central point of the board. if playing with the version with 1 rimoe, then that 1 rimoe is placed on the central intersection point. if playing with the version with 2 rimoe, then both rimoe are placed on the central intersection point, hence two pieces are occupying one intersection point. in both versions, the rimoe start first with each player alternating their turns. the rimoe having been completely surrounded by ana pieces jumps over one along a marked line and landing on a vacant intersection point immediately beyond as in rimau-rimau, and removes the ana from the board. in the version with two rimoe, the player may choose any one of the two rimoes to jump over an ana. only one rimoe may be used in a turn throughout the game. in both versions, the person playing with the ana pieces must first enter the remaining 16 ana pieces (one piece per turn) before he can move any of the pieces on the board. after all 16 ana pieces have been dropped, the ana pieces may be moved to any adjacent vacant intersection point along a marked line. only one ana piece may be moved in a turn. ana pieces cannot capture or perform jumps. the person playing with the rimoe piece or pieces may move a rimoe piece following a marked line onto a vacant adjacent intersection point. in the single rimoe version, the rimoe may jump over an adjacent odd number of ana pieces as in rimau-rimau. if playing with the version with two rimoe, the rimoe may capture no more than 1 ana per turn. the person playing the rimoe pieces may only perform a move or a capture in a turn, but not both. the objective of the person playing the ana pieces is to hem in or trap the rimoe piece or pieces as in rimau-rimau. the objective of the person playing the rimoe piece or pieces is to capture all the ana pieces. jacobson writes that rimoe is a favorite pastime among the inhabitants of simuelue, and are found on the plank floors of many homes or suraës incised (a sura is a place where religious instruction is given, or serves as a lodge for foreigners especially in simeulue). game boards (that are separate from the floor or wall) are never to be found. the two triangle board sections are called "alas" among the inhabitants of simeulue, and it means beach, but among the malay it is often referred to as a forest (or mountain).
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