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Post by Hervard on Apr 6, 2019 23:07:48 GMT -5
Dan Baird’s voice cracks when he sings “jing a ling a ling” in “Keep Your Hands To Yourself.” ^I always thought he was chuckling, when he was saying the last "ling".
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Post by johnnywest on Nov 7, 2019 16:36:21 GMT -5
In "Rocky Mountain High" during the second verse when John Denver sings, "He climbed cathedral mountains," it sounds like the engineer overlapped "he" and "climbed." In other words, it sounds like a bad edit to me.
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Post by chrislc on Nov 9, 2019 0:42:01 GMT -5
In Judy In Disguise, John Fred sings "come to me tonight" double tracked (or with another singer) the first time, but sings "come with me tonight" the second time as his double-track (or the other singer) is again singing "come to me tonight".
Definitely not something that was noticeable on 1968 AM radio!
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Post by chrislc on Nov 10, 2019 0:58:10 GMT -5
Was this one mentioned yet? It always sounded to me like whoever was playing the piano hit a wrong key at 2:01 of Wishing You Were Here. It was really noticeable and kind of messed up the song for me because it seemed like Chicago didn't care enough to fix it, but it didn't have the charm of some other messups that were left in other hit songs. It just sounded sloppy. I hear it even on this remaster www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zv0OwvsP0ekOr is it just an intentional but very awkward-sounding attempt at a complex Beach Boys-type harmony? Maybe the same notes as at other points in the song but not played quite as smoothly that time?
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Post by mga707 on Nov 10, 2019 10:31:16 GMT -5
Was this one mentioned yet? It always sounded to me like whoever was playing the piano hit a wrong key at 2:01 of Wishing You Were Here. It was really noticeable and kind of messed up the song for me because it seemed like Chicago didn't care enough to fix it, but it didn't have the charm of some other messups that were left in other hit songs. It just sounded sloppy. I hear it even on this remaster www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zv0OwvsP0ekOr is it just an intentional but very awkward-sounding attempt at a complex Beach Boys-type harmony? Maybe the same notes as at other points in the song but not played quite as smoothly that time? I think it was mentioned pages ago, maybe even by me--can't remember. Certain that this 'wrong key' was intentional, even though I agree with you that is does sound like a 'clinker'.
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Post by pb on Mar 4, 2020 19:59:15 GMT -5
I don't know if it was a mistake, but listening to last week's 1973 show I noticed that in King Harvest's "Dancing In The Moonlight" one of the singers makes a belching noise near the end of the guitar solo.
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Post by matt on Mar 5, 2020 10:12:27 GMT -5
Dan Baird’s voice cracks when he sings “jing a ling a ling” in “Keep Your Hands To Yourself.” I've always assumed that the voice 'crack' by Baird was intentional. Same thing with Nena in 99 Luftballons, mentioned toward the beginning of the thread. I think the crack is somewhat meant to be dramatic, in the way she's singing about the end of civilization, etc. You could probably find multiple instances of "mistakes" that either really weren't mistakes or were a product of improvisation in the studio that the artist, producer, etc. decided to keep. A well known example might be Lynyrd Skynyrd's Ronnie Van Zant at the beginning of "Sweet Home Alabama" saying "turn it up" -- a spoken line that wasn't originally intended to be part of the song, but that Van Zant said on an open mic as the song was being recorded. They liked the way it sounded so much that they left it in as part of the song. Bad edits, etc. are probably more of a true "mistake" in a song, and really probably haven't happened much over the last few decades since digital editing became the norm. Back in the day when they had to splice tape, I'm guessing it was more of a challenge to make edits sound good.
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Post by djjoe1960 on Mar 5, 2020 12:41:17 GMT -5
Sheena Easton's Modern Girl (#18 in 1981)--on the last chorus the background singers sing--She Don't Build Her World--but Sheena sings I Don't Build My World; of course, maybe Sheena was declaring her independence but all the other times she matches what the background singers sing. Hmm?!
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Post by doofus67 on Mar 5, 2020 16:20:29 GMT -5
Sheena Easton's Modern Girl (#18 in 1981)--on the last chorus the background singers sing--She Don't Build Her World--but Sheena sings I Don't Build My World; of course, maybe Sheena was declaring her independence but all the other times she matches what the background singers sing. Hmm?! It's a little bit of poetic license for the songwriters too. They switched the point of view from the third person to the first. Michael McDonald did the same thing in "What a Fool Believes."
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Post by djjoe1960 on Mar 11, 2020 10:07:29 GMT -5
Sheena Easton's Modern Girl (#18 in 1981)--on the last chorus the background singers sing--She Don't Build Her World--but Sheena sings I Don't Build My World; of course, maybe Sheena was declaring her independence but all the other times she matches what the background singers sing. Hmm?! It's a little bit of poetic license for the songwriters too. They switched the point of view from the third person to the first. Michael McDonald did the same thing in "What a Fool Believes." I think I read somewhere that Sheena was married at the time but wanted to pursue a music career--something that her husband at the time didn't want her to do; so I always felt like Sheena changed the words on the last chorus as a not too subtle jab at her hubby.
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Post by benster72 on Mar 11, 2020 16:10:10 GMT -5
There is a woman's laugh at the end of Benjamin Orr's song "Stay the Night" that always sounds like a mistake to me.
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Post by chrislc on Mar 14, 2020 16:40:45 GMT -5
There is a woman's laugh at the end of Benjamin Orr's song "Stay the Night" that always sounds like a mistake to me. Wow I never noticed her before. I guess it probably isn't the Hungry Like The Wolf Girl three years older.
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Post by chrislc on Mar 16, 2020 18:56:21 GMT -5
Also the beginning of "St. Elmo's Fire (Man In Motion)" always sounded clipped to me, like it was cued in a half second. I always think it was loaded into automation poorly, but when you listen to the original or the video on YouTube, it's the same! It is absolutely brutal. I wonder if there was some ambient sound over the beginning of the very first note that made the record company feel they had to do that. If not, it was so careless. Another I thought of is Hooked On A Feeling by Blue Swede. I guess they didn't speak English, but some of the lyrics they switched to made no sense. Got a bug from you, girl But I don't need no cure I just stay affecting If I can for sure Huh?
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Post by mga707 on Mar 16, 2020 21:22:37 GMT -5
Also the beginning of "St. Elmo's Fire (Man In Motion)" always sounded clipped to me, like it was cued in a half second. I always think it was loaded into automation poorly, but when you listen to the original or the video on YouTube, it's the same! It is absolutely brutal. I wonder if there was some ambient sound over the beginning of the very first note that made the record company feel they had to do that. If not, it was so careless. Another I thought of is Hooked On A Feeling by Blue Swede. I guess they didn't speak English, but some of the lyrics they switched to made no sense. Got a bug from you, girl But I don't need no cure I just stay affecting If I can for sure Huh? When B. J. Thoma sang the original in '68/'69, it made more sense, especially given the song's title. The first of those four lines was "I got it bad for you, girl", the second line is the same, and the last two lines are "I'll just stay addicted, and hope I can endure".
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Post by MrGeno502 on Mar 16, 2020 23:45:34 GMT -5
Also the beginning of "St. Elmo's Fire (Man In Motion)" always sounded clipped to me, like it was cued in a half second. I always think it was loaded into automation poorly, but when you listen to the original or the video on YouTube, it's the same! It is absolutely brutal. I wonder if there was some ambient sound over the beginning of the very first note that made the record company feel they had to do that. If not, it was so careless. Another I thought of is Hooked On A Feeling by Blue Swede. I guess they didn't speak English, but some of the lyrics they switched to made no sense. Got a bug from you, girl But I don't need no cure I just stay affecting If I can for sure Huh? When the song came out in 1974 I thought that they said "Got A Fart From You Girl" Pretty funny when you are 10 years old!
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