PHIL SPECTOR...eccentric behavior, yes. Out of control, yes. Perfectionist, yes. Crazy? Maybe. But, a living legend, a genius! Real genius! The best music producer of the world, fact!!!
@WilshirecityBlues Truth sends em scurrying like the hateful rats they are. Spector remains unsurpassed as a producer. As important to music as Picasso was to Art. Done 👊
I only learned about The Wrecking Crew recently via Danny Kelly on the radio, and it's absolutely fascinating how these unsung hero's were the complete foundation to so many classics like the above. Spector's spectacular fall from grace notwithstanding he was clearly a genius of his day; he had to be to get The Beatles gig!
@@bobcarter4343 but how is that possible? I can understand the public not knowing about them, even to this day. But Dick Clark was heavily involved in the music business. How could he not have known about the Wrecking Crew?
Bells, saxophones, trumpets, trombones, harpsichord at 2:46, bass, xylophone prominent, maracas, pianos, french horns, and of course fabulous drums...subdued tambourines keeping the beat with drums...
What made Phil Spector so amazing was that he was the "First" acknowledged Record Producer in Rock Music who in his own way kicked the door for so many other Record Producers (Pharrell Williams, Timbaland, Dallas Austin, Rodney "Darkchild" Jerkins, and of course David Foster). In the UK they may have taken a page where Stock Aitken Waterman (aka SAW) were the Hottest Record Producers of the 1990's whose acts although were more popular in the UK although some of their Hits were popular in the US. Venus (Bananrama), Never Gonna Give You Up (Rick Astley), You Spin Me Round (Dead Or Alive) that Flo Rida later sampled, as well as Say I'm Your Number One (Princess) which was a Top Twenty Hit on the R & B Charts in the 1980's. Xenomania in their own way continue that legacy with a Team Of Ten Songwriters/Producers who have produced/written Hit After Hit for Girls Aloud who are to this Day in The UK the most successful Group to come from a Reality Show.
Info: Brian Wilson of the Beach Boys heard the song and rang Mann and Weil in January 1965 to say: "Your song is the greatest record ever. I was ready to quit the music business, but this has inspired me to write again." Wilson later referred to the Beach Boys' 1966 song "Good Vibrations" as his attempt to surpass "You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin'". Over the subsequent decades, he recorded numerous unreleased renditions of "You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin'". One of them, recorded during the sessions for the 1977 album The Beach Boys Love You, was released on the 2013 compilation Made in California. th-cam.com/video/62kqMWccwDY/w-d-xo.html
Phil was so much better than Brian, Brian was the pop star of the day but Spector was the genius, Brian spent his entire career trying to emulate the Spector sound but contrary to popular belief, he never did. His saccharine barbershop quartet songs will never hold a candle to Spector’s boisterous, echoic, symphonic, wondrous masterpieces.
I came here via the fabulous 'Jazz Wax' E-mail feed, and this is, as noted by others, rather brilliant. Obvious here just how much input the wecking crew had on 'The Beach Boys' sound. what a fabulous match, Brian Wilson and this talented bunch.
I didn't recognize the song for a while there! But it's pretty cool knowing this is the same orchestra that played for Pet Sounds, I definitely get some of those vibes from this.
Note that the time on the label reads 3:05 when it's actually over 4 minutes long...a ploy to fool the DJ's when top 40 wouldn't play a record that length.
I once was a session player in a band myself. (Nothing we recorded ever made it to production). But knowing and hearing all their successful tracks, I wonder how much of the Wrecking Crew's work ended up on the cutting room floor?
When you hear it without the vocals, you can hear just how wet the tracks are. Kind of surprising. I like how they restated the intro bass riff in the 4th and 8th bar of the verses. 2:56 - Without the vocals, the bongos take it more latin than I would have expected. And then, there's that kid hidden under the cymbal in the drum kit. Who is that lucky kid (and was he on the clock that day)?
That is interesting to see, Abthony, since there has been a very ardent discussion recently in the Spectropop on-line chat group about what happened to the famous echo chamber at Gold Star, and reports seem to suggest that it was destroyed when the studio burned down.
If she did, she's not the only bassist... There's possibly an upright and 6 string bass. There were several bassists for the Wrecking Crew so she was one of many that were used.
Carol Kaye was one of three bassists in the recording. Carol Kaye played on a standard 4-string bass, Ray Pohlman played 6-string bass, and Lyle Ritz played upright bass. This arrangement was typical for Phil Spector's Wall of Sound and was just one of numerous arrangements as such.
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You can hear the structure on the verse's of the Rolling Stones,"Get off my Cloud." It's there on the verse's to Twist and Shout. On Dino, Desi and Billy's "I'm a Fool." It's everywhere.
Mr. Spector doesn't have a life left. He hadn't since "Concert for Bangladesh". If he'd come to terms with that back then Lana Clarkson would still be here. Something was severely wrong with him even back when he was making those records...and he was 23 when he made this one.
@@MCGRABI - SALMON WHISPERER - His controlling, domineering, abusive nature could have been eliminated while leaving his UNdeniable talent intact. His ex-wife, Ronnie, woke up the morning after her wedding to the sounds of bars being installed on the windows. He should have received in intense help he, clearly, needed.
March 4, 1969 All-Time Classic Moment in Jerry Seipel's Drama 101 Class: Craig Klosterman teams up with frosh Freddy Mathews and proceeds to blow everyone away with their lip-sync version of "You've Lost That Loving Feeling" :)
And to think that Spector was worried that this song would fail on the charts, since it was the first he recorded that "didn't have a backbeat." Also, check the "3:05" time stamp on the single, which was purposely misleading to fool program directors into thinking the song was shorter than what it really was.
At 2:37 this masterpiece, i think, "borrows" the BASS line from the 1963 Kingsmen's LOUIE LOUIE !!....and again at 4:09...and at 4:50....I don't think this version was used in the final production for Righteous Bros.
I think that these guys were next to The Funk Brothers the most successful Session Musicans in Pop Music. I have The Box Set of Phil Spector Back To Mono and it's a Masterpiece. You really see how Brian Wilson of The Beach Boys was influenced by him by trying to emulate his Style with Pet Sounds.
Well, unfortunately we couldn´t be that fly, but that kid beside the double bass at 0:53 sure as hell was the nearest to that fly, lol...a lucky one...
So .. at 1:39 and 1:49 there is this descending part that sounds like a de-tuned electric guitar. What played that? (and it sounds like key is closer to D)
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that man sitting near the bass player with the pcture of that little boy's picture near him is RAY POLMAN... who the little boy is could be a picture of ray's son
LOL... a friend of mine was the engineer on a #1 record...after 150 takes he said: "I'm done with this". But sometimes that's what it takes to get the magic of a hit record!
@@paulharvey3437 It can't have been easy to get the perfect take back then. I bet so many people did it until they lost it. Brian Wilson made the celloists on Good Vibrations play the stattaco parts for over 3 hrs. Then in the 70's people would make a song by splicing a few takes together to avoid doing it all again.
"THE WRECKING CREW" the unsung musicians behind so of the hits. Here doing the backing for The Righteous Bros. classic, "You've Lost That Loving Feeling". Produced by Phil Spector in 1964. www.beatlely.wordpress.com
alan chrisman besides the Funk Brothers these guys and gal are the best band around for me sadly a lot of them are now deceased if you want a good read get Hal Blaines book
Earl Palmer was the drummer. He said he didn't have much to do. He noticed Phil's frustration when trying to tell the bass players to play a decending bass line as if the tempo was slowing down but to still keep in time. Initially they didn't know what he wanted. As for Earl, he was simply asked to just play with a loose snare. Interesting back story.
F-ing brilliant. You really feel the Wagnerian dynamics. Spector was a sculptor. So much grandeur. More operatic than Brian Wilson IMO. Better rhythms.
Phil and Brian are in different styles altogether, Brian is baroque-pop and and Phil is Wagnerian-pop. I have to say Brian Wilson's Pet Sounds I play all the time on vinyl through big cabinet speakers, loudly if I am alone, and I get a contact high. Sitting on the floor right across from the music made for hi-fi vinyl is the best way to hear one of the top few coolest albums from the late sixties. Brian was a collaborator in the studio but made his style his own. I will also say that Phil Spector was the breakthrough in young music that added a sophistication to rock/pop music and made himself with little help. By composing, arranging and recording his own songs where he not only produced but played on the records too, fender bass, acoustic and electric guitar lead and rhythm, piano/keyboards and sang on top of it all. He recruited Sandy Nelson to play drums as drummers are either capable or not Phil didn't dabble so he hired drummers. Listening to the late 50's Phil Spector like to know him is to love him, you are hearing a vocal trio, with female lead and Phil's backup vocals with Marshal Leib, and the rest was Phil overdubbing and producing himself.
@Ted Wilson I have to say, I don't like that you used glorified engineer is an insult. Audio engineers are in my experience and historically amazing in their skill, especially a good one. If you're going to talk record production, you should know how much every musician and producer would be lost without his engineer. How could I record anything without someone to interpret my ideas musically and get the sounds I hear to come to fruition? Its the merger of the tech with the artistic that makes the resulting music. On analogue, recording is basic and there isn't a lot to work with but your mind, the reels, and the few notches and buttons. Pet Sounds and Phil Spector singles were both engineered by Award winning Larry Levine. The music we love wouldn't exist without a talented engineer.
@Ted Wilson I'm not sure you do know, otherwise you wouldn't have used it to insult somebody. I am a musician and I produce, I use similar Equipment to what was used to make the old classics. It takes a lot of work to use and get the music sound in your head. Hours and days. What do you play? What have you done in a studio? You can read about but try writing a song and making into a finished production. If you have I'd like to talk about music. It is the influence of Phil's work on me that changed how I thought about recorded music. Almost as wild as the effect it had on on Brian Wilson. He heard Be My Baby on the radio and pulled his car over he was so blow away. He would play the song on repeat, loudly, with his face right up to the speaker, as it was mono. Don't worry Baby is one of his best songs, and his homage to Phil and Be My Baby. You can dislike something and still respect it. I don't know how you feel about If Let It Be, Imagine, Instant Karma, All Things Must Pass, but if its not your thing I feel bad, its some beautiful music and a lot of it.
@Ted Wilson I hate to be a curmudgeon, but if you don't care for Phil's style that is perfectly fine. However I'd do some research and listening to Phi's other work before making technical critiques. He is a maniac, he's bipolar, and if you listen to his other work and learn about him you may be surprised. He innovated in lots of different productions and deserves credit. The wrecking crew didn't collaborate with him. He played the studio as an instrument. As far as a one trick pony...well he did more than just wall of sound. His work on Imagine was minimalist, as was his folk style on "I left A Woman Waiting" with Leonard Cohen's lyrics. He made gospel records too, like when he wrote Chapel Of Love and arranged it in gospel style. Produced "Proud Mary" using a full gospel choir of 200 singers. He added blues to "My Heart Beat A Little Bit Faster" He added classical elements to most all of his Post 1963 records. Phil Spector bridged the gap between the late fifties style and the Beatles with Brian being the link in between. He took what was thought of as a fad and made rock and roll more than what it was before 1960 and opened up a world of style that changed pop music into a legitimate art.
Tell you the truth he invented the karaoke not japan japan got it after him karaoke echos similar to so it was him subconscious ly with out realizing it he invented it
I agree George, the ballistics and forensic evidence proves he didn't do it. Let's all unite in prayer for Phil's health, and for the success of his appel in the Federal Court
This track doesn't even necessarily need the singing, it's gold in itself.
PHIL SPECTOR...eccentric behavior, yes. Out of control, yes. Perfectionist, yes. Crazy? Maybe. But, a living legend, a genius! Real genius! The best music producer of the world, fact!!!
And an insecure, pathetic murderer. Cancels out all else. Done.
thin line between mad man and pirfectionist this guy was amazing
@@College-Boy it takes 2 to be murdered 1 to murder and 1 to be murdered.. it was a murder suicide gone wrong, she backed out at the last minute,
Tell it man! Elite tier sonic visionary!
@WilshirecityBlues Truth sends em scurrying like the hateful rats they are. Spector remains unsurpassed as a producer. As important to music as Picasso was to Art. Done 👊
i did sessions at gold star before the tore it down to build a crummy mini mall... that place should have been a shrine.
I heard it had one of the best echo chambers up in the attic. All those wooden baffles all torn down. What a damn shame.
This is America we talking about. People need their retail therapy
Exactly - hitsville, stax and muscle shoals still standing. Shameful Goldstar isnt.
What year was it?
@@radioman66 I heard it was under studio a. 2 trapezoid echo chambers.
I only learned about The Wrecking Crew recently via Danny Kelly on the radio, and it's absolutely fascinating how these unsung hero's were the complete foundation to so many classics like the above.
Spector's spectacular fall from grace notwithstanding he was clearly a genius of his day; he had to be to get The Beatles gig!
Jay J this is better than anything the Beatles did IMO.
Could not agree more... Why Knew at the time? Even Dick Clark said he was in the dark about the Wrecking Crew for a number of years.
@@bobcarter4343 but how is that possible? I can understand the public not knowing about them, even to this day. But Dick Clark was heavily involved in the music business. How could he not have known about the Wrecking Crew?
Best known Wrecking Crew member is probably Glenn Campbell, guitar.
Nobody makes music like that any more. That was the essence of music......
Those were the days of music that will go down as classics forever timeless
It's possibile to make music like this nowadays. It's hard, it's expensive but you can do it.
@@MarcoZucchi81It’s not. I haven’t heard anything close to that sound ever, please prove me wrong.
There’s something about a Phil Spector/Wrecking Crew composition that just feels...warm.
Bells, saxophones, trumpets, trombones, harpsichord at 2:46, bass, xylophone prominent, maracas, pianos, french horns, and of course fabulous drums...subdued tambourines keeping the beat with drums...
THAT, my friend is the beautiful "Wall of Sound".
No cheating and artificial effects. Just pure artistry.
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*So fondly memorable and nostalgic!*
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It’s that echo.....um and Great production.....and oh yea...Great musicians!
Good god, it's just mesmerizing!
What made Phil Spector so amazing was that he was the "First" acknowledged Record Producer in Rock Music who in his own way kicked the door for so many other Record Producers (Pharrell Williams, Timbaland, Dallas Austin, Rodney "Darkchild" Jerkins, and of course David Foster). In the UK they may have taken a page where Stock Aitken Waterman (aka SAW) were the Hottest Record Producers of the 1990's whose acts although were more popular in the UK although some of their Hits were popular in the US. Venus (Bananrama), Never Gonna Give You Up (Rick Astley), You Spin Me Round (Dead Or Alive) that Flo Rida later sampled, as well as Say I'm Your Number One (Princess) which was a Top Twenty Hit on the R & B Charts in the 1980's. Xenomania in their own way continue that legacy with a Team Of Ten Songwriters/Producers who have produced/written Hit After Hit for Girls Aloud who are to this Day in The UK the most successful Group to come from a Reality Show.
And yet, Joe Meek is still grossly underappreciated, even today.
SAW was 80s
@@tonygermano7222 and comparing SAW to Phil Spector is a joke surely.
@@northernsoulsongs When I said it was to acknowledge that The Producer is the true Starmaker.
That is another great backing track from GoldStar sessions. Thank you so much for sharing it. - John
enormous influence on Brian wilson--- this sounds like pet sounds music!
Info: Brian Wilson of the Beach Boys heard the song and rang Mann and Weil in January 1965 to say: "Your song is the greatest record ever. I was ready to quit the music business, but this has inspired me to write again." Wilson later referred to the Beach Boys' 1966 song "Good Vibrations" as his attempt to surpass "You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin'". Over the subsequent decades, he recorded numerous unreleased renditions of "You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin'". One of them, recorded during the sessions for the 1977 album The Beach Boys Love You, was released on the 2013 compilation Made in California. th-cam.com/video/62kqMWccwDY/w-d-xo.html
I find it muddy sounding and meshed together Don’t get it
Same musicians, same studio.
@@waltdude Yeah, but coming out of a transistor AM radio it sounds like gold!
Phil was so much better than Brian, Brian was the pop star of the day but Spector was the genius, Brian spent his entire career trying to emulate the Spector sound but contrary to popular belief, he never did. His saccharine barbershop quartet songs will never hold a candle to Spector’s boisterous, echoic, symphonic, wondrous masterpieces.
Fascinating insight. Thanks for posting
I came here via the fabulous 'Jazz Wax' E-mail feed, and this is, as noted by others, rather brilliant. Obvious here just how much input the wecking crew had on 'The Beach Boys' sound. what a fabulous match, Brian Wilson and this talented bunch.
You can divide rock history by before---and after----this recording. Everything changed after this.
That was phenomenal!
Fantastic musicians, Incredible sound, alongside Motown Records this really sums up the sixties for me-Thank you very much for this.
Amazing backup.
GREAT STUFF!!!
Majestic!!
SUPER...........AWESOME............TUNE!
I didn't recognize the song for a while there! But it's pretty cool knowing this is the same orchestra that played for Pet Sounds, I definitely get some of those vibes from this.
thank you. thank you.
Note that the time on the label reads 3:05 when it's actually over 4 minutes long...a ploy to fool the DJ's when top 40 wouldn't play a record that length.
The righteous brothers were also great in their own right. They had Soul an inspiration after Phil Spector
Wonderful arrangement by the geat maestro Gene Page.
Gene Page who went on to work with a certain Barry White
Total eargasm 3:38, as only Phil could do.
Absolutely!
Masterpiece !!
sheer beauty
how they mustve felt when it was played back, could they have known the resonance this tune would have over 50 years later....
I once was a session player in a band myself. (Nothing we recorded ever made it to production). But knowing and hearing all their successful tracks, I wonder how much of the Wrecking Crew's work ended up on the cutting room floor?
How wonderful their music is
When you hear it without the vocals, you can hear just how wet the tracks are. Kind of surprising. I like how they restated the intro bass riff in the 4th and 8th bar of the verses. 2:56 - Without the vocals, the bongos take it more latin than I would have expected.
And then, there's that kid hidden under the cymbal in the drum kit. Who is that lucky kid (and was he on the clock that day)?
@NadaSurfinAB I believe that little boy is bass/guitar player, Carol Kaye's son, Pete.
@@AnthonyReichardt Thanks for that.
awesome! thank you.
Awesome!!!
That is interesting to see, Abthony, since there has been a very ardent discussion recently in the Spectropop on-line chat group about what happened to the famous echo chamber at Gold Star, and reports seem to suggest that it was destroyed when the studio burned down.
Carol Kaye played the bass in this recording!
If she did, she's not the only bassist... There's possibly an upright and 6 string bass. There were several bassists for the Wrecking Crew so she was one of many that were used.
Carol Kaye was one of three bassists in the recording. Carol Kaye played on a standard 4-string bass, Ray Pohlman played 6-string bass, and Lyle Ritz played upright bass. This arrangement was typical for Phil Spector's Wall of Sound and was just one of numerous arrangements as such.
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impossible de le remplacé PHIL SPECTOR ..IL étais un phénomène rare merci PHIL tu a fait connaitre la vrai oui la vraie musique
Earl Palmer on drums
Earl Palmer was the drummer on the actual recording. And up until recently, it was the most played song in history
2 people never had that loving feeling to begin with...
As Hal Blaine said: The Phil-Harmonic Orchestra.
Clever.
You can hear the structure on the verse's of the Rolling Stones,"Get off my Cloud." It's there on the verse's to Twist and Shout. On Dino, Desi and Billy's "I'm a Fool." It's everywhere.
Make sure you give the song a listen after this.
Phil Spector...one of rock greatest producers and all people will remember is that he's doing 'life' for murder.
bodensick his talents absolve him of any crime!
I respect Phil for his work, but he's not absolved of murder!! He had a history of abusing everyone around him...and it finally caught up with him.
Mr. Spector doesn't have a life left.
He hadn't since "Concert for Bangladesh".
If he'd come to terms with that back then Lana Clarkson would still be here.
Something was severely wrong with him even back when he was making those records...and he was 23 when he made this one.
@@MCGRABI - SALMON WHISPERER - His controlling, domineering, abusive nature could have been eliminated while leaving his UNdeniable talent intact. His ex-wife, Ronnie, woke up the morning after her wedding to the sounds of bars being installed on the windows. He should have received in intense help he, clearly, needed.
That fine line between genius and insanity.
Musical genius
Who's the little kid--lower left near the drums--in the studio, at 1:07????
@GREGMCKEE YES! It sounds so much like Brian's stuff, all the Pet Sounds elements... eerie!
March 4, 1969 All-Time Classic Moment in Jerry Seipel's Drama 101 Class: Craig Klosterman teams up with frosh Freddy Mathews and proceeds to blow everyone away with their lip-sync version of "You've Lost That Loving Feeling" :)
@SavageDutchman the recording is in the key of C# (Db)
Only 3 min. Not. That was so cool.
And to think that Spector was worried that this song would fail on the charts, since it was the first he recorded that "didn't have a backbeat." Also, check the "3:05" time stamp on the single, which was purposely misleading to fool program directors into thinking the song was shorter than what it really was.
Brian took this feeling and invented so much psychedelia and stuff Icant explain... Such geniuses......I guess I just wasnt made for these times
Trying to figure out why Steve Albini wears coveralls, went down a rabbit hole and ended up here.
I couldn't help but notice at 3:11 where "La Bamba" was quoted ...
It's also the main riff in The Beatles' "Twist and Shout"
Chills
Phil Spector,also knew how to dress. The man had style.
she also played the bass in Valens' "La Bamba"
At 2:37 this masterpiece, i think, "borrows" the BASS line from the 1963 Kingsmen's LOUIE LOUIE !!....and again at 4:09...and at 4:50....I don't think this version was used in the final production for Righteous Bros.
th-cam.com/video/emhda7MBmQ4/w-d-xo.html at 3:09 ->Twist and Shout? I thought that was the one
I recall a tune called 'Rat Race' on a Righteous Brothers album credited to the Righteous Brothers Band. I assume that was the Wrecking Crew as well?
@newburyma7 I totally agree..when I first heard the track I thought of Brian and how this could easily have been a BB song
I think that these guys were next to The Funk Brothers the most successful Session Musicans in Pop Music. I have The Box Set of Phil Spector Back To Mono and it's a Masterpiece. You really see how Brian Wilson of The Beach Boys was influenced by him by trying to emulate his Style with Pet Sounds.
Question; Did Chris Montez ever record at Gold Star or use the Wrecking Crew session players?
He certainly did.
@@AnthonyReichardt Thanks Anthony! I appreciate your vast knowledge. :D
interesting---at GOLD STAR with WRECKING CREW ===The George-Edwards Groupo (Ed)
The fire occurred after the studio had already closed down and moved everything out.
Its a latin based melody. its everywhere in rocknroll. it is the opening bassline to Hang On Sloopy by the McCoys too.
This is a Phil Spector production, and there are three people playing bass here.
How on earth do you recreate that sound??
Thanks for this remnant. Are any of the other tracks available, especially with the choir or stylists? I likely screwed up that name.
Did you get this take from the studio reels?
Brian Wilson got the backing tracks why not Spector?
I played this for a pal and said, "name this tune" and due to the bass line....the 1st guess...."Hang on Sloopy" !!!
2nd guess was correct. :)
They pulled the piano part in the middle from hang on sloopy.
Matt, it is called a son montuno in latin music..it's really salsa type form Puerto Rico and Cuba...
Well, unfortunately we couldn´t be that fly, but that kid beside the double bass at 0:53 sure as hell was the nearest to that fly, lol...a lucky one...
So .. at 1:39 and 1:49 there is this descending part that sounds like a de-tuned electric guitar. What played that? (and it sounds like key is closer to D)
It is sad Phil passed away.!!!!
Sad he became a nut bag too.
Sounds like Let's Go Away for Awhile. I think Brian Wilson got a lot more creative with the instrumental parts than Spector did though.
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And this is an excuse for murder?
that man sitting near the bass player with the pcture of that little boy's picture near him is RAY POLMAN... who the little boy is could be a picture of ray's son
That's not a gun in his pocket- Phil's just happy to see you.
Wasn't Gold Star burned down in a fire in 1984?
Which take was this take 39?
Take 38 - false start.
Take 39 - complete.
It sounds like Pet Sounds prototype
No way I'm doin' more than 20 takes -without pharmacology.
LOL... a friend of mine was the engineer on a #1 record...after 150 takes he said: "I'm done with this".
But sometimes that's what it takes to get the magic of a hit record!
@@paulharvey3437 It can't have been easy to get the perfect take back then. I bet so many people did it until they lost it. Brian Wilson made the celloists on Good Vibrations play the stattaco parts for over 3 hrs. Then in the 70's people would make a song by splicing a few takes together to avoid doing it all again.
@@jaggass At the end Good Vibrations were edited. It isn't entirely one perfect take.
@@wertor666 I can hear where its been spliced.
@@paulharvey3437 I think that all the magic would have been washed out after 150 takes.
Which one is Will Ferrell's Dad?
"THE WRECKING CREW" the unsung musicians behind so of the hits. Here doing the backing for The Righteous Bros. classic, "You've Lost That Loving Feeling". Produced by Phil Spector in 1964. www.beatlely.wordpress.com
alan chrisman besides the Funk Brothers these guys and gal are the best band around for me sadly a lot of them are now deceased if you want a good read get Hal Blaines book
Hal Blaine told me he did not play on this song.
Earl Palmer was the drummer. He said he didn't have much to do. He noticed Phil's frustration when trying to tell the bass players to play a decending bass line as if the tempo was slowing down but to still keep in time. Initially they didn't know what he wanted. As for Earl, he was simply asked to just play with a loose snare. Interesting back story.
@@AnthonyReichardt thanks.
I heard this track had 2 drummers
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F-ing brilliant. You really feel the Wagnerian dynamics. Spector was a sculptor. So much grandeur. More operatic than Brian Wilson IMO. Better rhythms.
Goose Langston absolutely !
Phil and Brian are in different styles altogether, Brian is baroque-pop and and Phil is Wagnerian-pop. I have to say Brian Wilson's Pet Sounds I play all the time on vinyl through big cabinet speakers, loudly if I am alone, and I get a contact high. Sitting on the floor right across from the music made for hi-fi vinyl is the best way to hear one of the top few coolest albums from the late sixties. Brian was a collaborator in the studio but made his style his own. I will also say that Phil Spector was the breakthrough in young music that added a sophistication to rock/pop music and made himself with little help. By composing, arranging and recording his own songs where he not only produced but played on the records too, fender bass, acoustic and electric guitar lead and rhythm, piano/keyboards and sang on top of it all. He recruited Sandy Nelson to play drums as drummers are either capable or not Phil didn't dabble so he hired drummers. Listening to the late 50's Phil Spector like to know him is to love him, you are hearing a vocal trio, with female lead and Phil's backup vocals with Marshal Leib, and the rest was Phil overdubbing and producing himself.
@Ted Wilson I have to say, I don't like that you used glorified engineer is an insult. Audio engineers are in my experience and historically amazing in their skill, especially a good one. If you're going to talk record production, you should know how much every musician and producer would be lost without his engineer. How could I record anything without someone to interpret my ideas musically and get the sounds I hear to come to fruition? Its the merger of the tech with the artistic that makes the resulting music. On analogue, recording is basic and there isn't a lot to work with but your mind, the reels, and the few notches and buttons. Pet Sounds and Phil Spector singles were both engineered by Award winning Larry Levine. The music we love wouldn't exist without a talented engineer.
@Ted Wilson I'm not sure you do know, otherwise you wouldn't have used it to insult somebody. I am a musician and I produce, I use similar Equipment to what was used to make the old classics. It takes a lot of work to use and get the music sound in your head. Hours and days. What do you play? What have you done in a studio? You can read about but try writing a song and making into a finished production. If you have I'd like to talk about music. It is the influence of Phil's work on me that changed how I thought about recorded music. Almost as wild as the effect it had on on Brian Wilson. He heard Be My Baby on the radio and pulled his car over he was so blow away. He would play the song on repeat, loudly, with his face right up to the speaker, as it was mono. Don't worry Baby is one of his best songs, and his homage to Phil and Be My Baby. You can dislike something and still respect it. I don't know how you feel about If Let It Be, Imagine, Instant Karma, All Things Must Pass, but if its not your thing I feel bad, its some beautiful music and a lot of it.
@Ted Wilson I hate to be a curmudgeon, but if you don't care for Phil's style that is perfectly fine. However I'd do some research and listening to Phi's other work before making technical critiques. He is a maniac, he's bipolar, and if you listen to his other work and learn about him you may be surprised. He innovated in lots of different productions and deserves credit. The wrecking crew didn't collaborate with him. He played the studio as an instrument. As far as a one trick pony...well he did more than just wall of sound. His work on Imagine was minimalist, as was his folk style on "I left A Woman Waiting" with Leonard Cohen's lyrics. He made gospel records too, like when he wrote Chapel Of Love and arranged it in gospel style. Produced "Proud Mary" using a full gospel choir of 200 singers. He added blues to "My Heart Beat A Little Bit Faster" He added classical elements to most all of his Post 1963 records. Phil Spector bridged the gap between the late fifties style and the Beatles with Brian being the link in between. He took what was thought of as a fad and made rock and roll more than what it was before 1960 and opened up a world of style that changed pop music into a legitimate art.
Wall of Sound exemple
Yeah, but he learned everything from Phil.
I'm singing over this backing track, and I know I am better than Medley and Hatfield. Why don't people realize this? WTF??
Correct but similar not even borrowing....
Tell you the truth he invented the karaoke not japan japan got it after him karaoke echos similar to so it was him subconscious ly with out realizing it he invented it
Phil is innocent. He should be set free.
I agree George, the ballistics and forensic evidence proves he didn't do it. Let's all unite in prayer for Phil's health, and for the success of his appel in the Federal Court
je suis phil depuis plusieur annéé et mon opinion ces quil est INOCENT ,,, SIL VOUS PLAIS LIBÉRER CET HOMME Alan Hootnick
+George Kokonas You Sir are a Dip Shit!
How do you spell "musical genius"? the answer is: "P-H-I-L S-P-E-C-T-O-R"
He was an evil guy I hope he got saved.
sammyvh11 Do Americans EVER stop with the religion business?
did he kill her,or not,hmm