Julie
Recording Artist: Prism
Writers: Jim Vallance (aka Rodney Higgs)
Date Written: 1972-75
Albums: Prism (1977)
Audio:
 
Produced by Bruce Fairbairn and Jim Vallance.  Recorded and mixed by Rolf Hennemann at Mushroom Studios, Vancouver.
Additional Audio-1: Demo - 1973?
 
 
This is a first draft demo of the chorus only ("I can see ...") -- possibly recorded in 1973 or '74 ... I don't remember.  However, I do remember that it was written in 1972, on a Kibbutz in northern Israel.
Additional Audio-2: Demo - 1974?
 
 
Jim Vallance - piano, acoustic guitar, bass, drums, vocal / David Sinclair - electric guitars.

The final "home demo" prior to the Prism studio session.  At this point the arrangement is finalized ... not much changed from here on.
Comments:
"Julie" was liberally inspired by the Elton John song "I've Seen The Saucers" (from the "Caribou" album). Elton's song starts with the lyric: "Truly, wouldn't it be something". My song starts with "Julie, wouldn't it be nice", with the melody for Truly and Julie being identical (the melodic similarity ends there).

The tom-toms leading into the chorus were borrowed from "Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds" (Beatles);  the guitar "stabs" in the verse were lifted from "Oh Darlin'"(Beatles);  and the end of the song sounds an awful lot like "Shaft" (Isaac Hayes).

As John Lennon once said, "I never wrote a song that I didn't steal from somewhere".

Mea culpa.
Lyrics: Julie, it would be so nice
If you’d just tell me what’s goin’ on
It’s a week since I’ve seen you
And I’d really and truly like to know

You put me through this more than once or twice
‘Cause I thought I was the only one
Julie, do you think it’s ‘bout time for me to go?

I can see by the look that’s in your eyes
Your surprise when I say the things I do
Is it true that you think I’m tellin’ lies?
I can see

Julie, would it be hard
Just to be the way we used to be?
Ooo - I’m feelin’ stranded
And it’s gettin’ so hard for me to see

Oh you left me standin’ with my heart on sleeve
And I just can;t hide the way I feel
Julie, do you think it’s ‘bout time for me to leave?

I can see by the look that’s in your eyes
Your surprise when I say the things I do
Is it true that you think I’m tellin’ lies?
I can see

I can see by the look that’s in your eyes
Your surprise when I say the things I do
Is it true that you think I’m tellin’ lies?
I can see