Them Again
Them Again is the second album by the Northern Irish band, Them, whose lead singer and songwriter was Van Morrison. The album was released by Decca Records in the UK on 21 January 1966 but it failed to chart. In the U.S. it was released in April 1966 where it peaked at #138 on the "Billboard" charts. Songs. Two of the original Van Morrison songs included on the album, "My Lonely Sad Eyes" and "Hey Girl", can be seen as precursors to the poetic musings of Morrison's later "Astral Weeks" album, released in 1968. "My Lonely Sad  Eyes" begins with the words, "Fill me my cup, and I'll drink your sparkling wine/Pretend that everything is fine, 'til I see your sad eyes." The title implies that the sad eyes belong to the singer but the lyrics address the singer's love interest. The song "Hey Girl" has a pastoral feel to it, enhanced by the addition of flutes and in Brian Hinton's opinion is a "dry run for 'Cyprus Avenue'" from "Astral Weeks". The cover version of Bob Dylan's "It's All Over Now, Baby Blue", is considered by author Clinton Heylin to  be "that genuine rarity, a Dylan cover to match the original." Among the Van Morrison originals and cover versions found on the album, four of producer Tommy Scott's original compositions are also included. Like "Gloria" from the first LP, "I Can Only Give You Everything" was a popular song performed by a number of US garage bands around the country, and was covered by groups such as The Liverpool Five, The MC5, and R.E.M. The song was also covered by English hitmakers The Troggs and in French by Les Sultans (as "Tu es impossible") and Ronnie Bird (as "Chante ). The Australian band The Clefs released a version in 1966. In 2007 The San Franciscan band The Ex-Boyfriends released a version.