The Yardbirds: Knowing That I’m Losing You (“Tangerine“) “Pre Led Zeppelin“

As with several Led Zeppelin tunes, “’Tangerine’ was a song dating back to Jimmy’s Yardbirds’ days“.[3] Page explained “I’d written it after an old emotional upheaval and I just changed a few of the lyrics for the new version“.[1] It has been suggested that it may have been influenced by his relationship with Jackie DeShannon, whom he had been involved with around the time.[4] On April 4, 1968, the Yardbirds recorded “a very similar demo called ’Knowing That I’m Losing You’“[5] during their last recording sessions at the Columbia Studios in New York City.[6] Page composed the music and the Yardbirds’ singer Keith Relf contributed the words.[7][8] The lyrics, that “smack[ed] of the classic flower-child-isms of Keith Relf“,[2] included: Measuring a summer’s day You’ll only find it slips away to gray The hours will bring you pain[9] “Knowing That I’m Losing You“, along with the other demos recorded during their last sessions, have been seen as half-hearted attempts by the Yardbirds to meet contractual obligations.[4][7] In 2000, several of these appeared on the Yardbirds’ compilation Cumular Limit; however, Page did not consent to the use of “Knowing That I’m Losing You“. IMPORTANT DISCLAIMER: The music and video remain copyright of their respective owners and are strictly used here on Youtube for educational reasons as well as for the artists’s promotional purposes only! Therefore, if you own copyright over any part of these materials and do not wish to see it here, please contact me directly (rather than immediately referring to Youtube) and I will remove it as soon as possible! Thank you very much in advance for your understanding!