Posted on 04/22/2021 4:07:38 PM PDT by simpson96
Written by Eric Stewart and Graham Gouldman, Stewart came up with the idea for the song after his wife of eight years asked him why he didn't say "I love you" more often.
He said: "I had this crazy idea in my mind that repeating those words would somehow degrade the meaning, so I told her, 'Well, if I say every day "I love you, darling, I love you, blah, blah, blah", it's not gonna mean anything eventually'."(snip)
Stewart spent three weeks recording Gouldman, Godley and Creme singing "ahhh" 16 times for each note of the chromatic scale, creating a 'choir' of 48 voices for each note.
Creme suggested they could keep the voices going for an infinite time by using tape loops. Stewart created 12 ft long loops by feeding them at one end through the tape heads of the stereo recorder, and at the other end through a capstan roller fixed to the top of a microphone stand.
Stewart played each loop through a separate channel of the mixing desk, turning the desk into a musical instrument. He also put gaffer tape across the bottom the channels, making it impossible to completely fade them down, creating constant background vocals.(snip)
After the song was finished, Godley felt there was still something missing...
Stewart said: "Lol remembered he said something into the grand piano mics when he was laying down the solos. He'd said 'Be quiet, big boys don't cry'. Heaven knows why, but I soloed it and we all agreed that the idea sounded very interesting."
Who provided the whispered voice?
"...the door to the control room opened and our secretary Kathy looked in and whispered 'Eric, sorry to bother you. There's a telephone call for you.'
"Lol jumped up and said 'That's the voice, her voice is perfect!'."
(Excerpt) Read more at smoothradio.com ...
Ummm, should I tell you the origin of the band name, “Steely Dan”?
There’s a bathroom on the right.
Was their nickname “centiliter?”
Had a couple of break-ups through the years. The song still makes me cry to this day.
The Talk Box. Up until then only Joe Walsh had really used it as a soloing effect. It was a gimmick, but an interesting one.
Show Me the Way is on my favorite playlist
Interesting. Thank you for the nice distraction from the daily pile of bad news.
Thanks for the ear worm...
“The Things We Do For Love” is a good song.
I hate you...
By the way so is baby shark. 😇
There is a little Bevis & Butthead inside every Man,
#MeToo. It may (seem to) go away for long periods of time, but it is still there, sneering at all that is ‘respectable’ in society. Some women are the same way, in my opinion.
That is onehelluva song. Gets me in the ‘feels’ every time.
Thanks for posting. :)
I have always considered this song to be a masterpiece. The meticulous and compulsive engineering puts even Tom Scholz of Boston to shame.
This track has always made me feel as if I were floating on a cloud. It is ethereal. It is amazing...and it has a great backstory.
Saw the video making of “I’m not in Love” a while back and it is very interesting.
There is a musician named Kelsey Lu that did a cover of this song (and made a video) in 2019. It is a cool cover and is even haunting.
The way I found this is there was an HBO series called Euphoria (your grand children watched this) There was a really strange scene in an episode and they played this Kelsey Lu version during the scene.
Give it a shot.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SxdbSt5mnRs
I was in my forties before I finally looked what they were saying in that line.
What was the alternative? Bob Seeger? Kung fu fighting? The hustle?
It was fun.
I just spent a half hour on that web site....
1976, Boston self titled debut album. It was the best selling debut album until Michael Jackson made his comeback. Didn’t come out until August though so I guess it would be the Autumn of ‘76
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