Songfacts®:

• Written by Zombies keyboard player Rod Argent, this song is about a guy who isn't handling a breakup very well - all he can think about is getting his girl back again.
  
  Running a tight 1:58, it's an early Zombies track with the trademark elements of the band: Colin Blunstone's breathy, desperate vocals and Argent's organ break.
• The Zombies had a huge hit in 1964 with "She's Not There," but very little ensuing output. Their first album emerged in 1965, and this song came out that same year as a standalone single in the US. With management problems and burnout plaguing the band, it suffered from poor promotion and distribution, and barely cracked the Hot 100.
  
  In 1967, The Zombies recorded the album Odessey and Oracle, but broke up before it was released the following year. The album caught on in America when radio stations started playing "Time Of The Season," but with the band no longer extant, there was no more from The Zombies until the '90s, when they did some one-off projects before getting back together in the '00s.
• Many journalists, listeners and musicians consider this song a hidden gem. Perhaps the its biggest champion is Tom Petty, who saw The Zombies at his first concert, tracked down this song, and learned how to play it. Decades later, he started performing the song with his group Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, playing it at a run of shows at The Fillmore in San Francisco in 1997, and including it from time to time in subsequent shows.
• The Zombies recorded a new version of this song on their 2015 album Still Got That Hunger. It was the first song they recorded for the session; they decided to take a crack at it after hearing the Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers version. In our interview with Colin Blunstone, he said, "Sometimes when someone does a cover of a song that you've originally recorded, you see it in a different light. Because of that cover, it just made us think about what a good song 'I Want You Back Again' is."