@@patriciamills499 You have to admit the 67 Mustang and 67 Camaro the very early split window Corvette Stingray were the ones to have , also Pink Floyd , Stevie Ray , I mean .... I could go on .
What's really awesome is that this song came out in the mid 70s. These guys get to stand on a stage all these decades later with this fantastic, fabulous production, and still nail this tune.
What an amazing production of the song.The ladies choir make it sound so much like the original recodring.Always one of my favorite 10 cc numbers.As Ruthless Goat says, they did it proud.
Nunca había escuchado tanta belleza armónicamente hablando en una canción, que no pasa de moda ,se siente uno transportado hacia lugares mágicos llenos de ilusión y amor,,en fin es toda una obra de arte .
Trabaje en una Transnacional Electrolux en Venezuela, en los 90, cuando escuchaba esta cancion en el transporte que nos llevaba a casa en la madrugada, sentia lo que tu dices, lugares magicos. Electrolux se fue de Venezuela hace años y hoy dia recuerdo a mis compañeros de trabajo por esta cancion, es verdad lo que dices. Saludos desde Venezuela.
Me too …..the headphones with just the light of the stereo dial in my room. Wonderful memories. If only we could go back to more laidback and fun times . Beautiful.
Wow... with an orchestra and full choir backing ... this is magical. A performance that rivals the original recording. An amazing song still, 45 years later
It was Neil Young who said “Live music is better” Couldn’t agree more with your assertion that this rivals - if not betters - the recorded version. Beautiful.
"Nothing today comes close. There's more heart put into the songs of the 60's, 70's music." That's exactly my feeling ! I'm still and nowadays listening to this music, the only one with such great musicians and real talents "novateurs" (in french in the text)... Love these times !
Last night I was lucky enough to listen that song live at 10cc concert. And I must say that after 45 years (when I heard that for the very first time) emotions were still high. Without any doubt it is still one of the best love songs ever. Good old style 70's rock band - youngsters can only dream that 50 years from now anybody would remember their name or songs, forget a few thousand people singing together. Unbelievable experience - THANK YOU 10CC 😍
As a young man i lived the lyrics of this song a time or two during what I thought was my darkest days yet there was always light at the end and i sit at 62 single again but this song reminds me that fools fall in love thank you 10 cc
This magical performance takes this masterpiece from 1975 and places it into an altogether different realm of pure, ethereal beauty. I was 25 in 1975. This performance transports me back to a time filled with promise, hope, and enterprise. THANK YOU, 10cc.
This is one of the most wonderful love songs of all time. The denial. The obvious love is so compelling. It is impossible not to root for this guy and to hope that his love is reasonable and receptive to his love. Anything else is a tragedy. We never know how this plays out...We can only hope for a positive outcome to this genuine cry for help. I'm not in love, so don't forget is is just a wonderful gift to humanity. Thank you.
On repeated listens recently, I think the heartbreaking truth is that it didn't turn out well. At first, the other person is excited and talking to friends about what they think is love. By the end of the song, the singer is saying about their picture "so don't you ask me to give it back"--this could imply that it's over, which would be the most natural time to ask for something like that. The soft background "big boys don't cry" seems to fit. I'm afraid his love gave up on him because he downplayed his feelings. But that by itself is such a valuable warning, to not live in denial too long. When you love someone, embrace it! Truly a wonderful gift.
The writer (the original singer Eric Stewart) explained that it was a response to when his wife asked him why he didn't say I love you very often. His thought was that it would cheapen it if used too often. He tried to say it another way and he started to imagine a guy who was in such denial but at the same time was obviously very in love. So the premise is imagined, but if you apply it to the real life of the writer it had worked out well.
If any of these artist are still alive... THANK YOU. Sad lyrics feel like sunshine. Anyone who ever had complicated love... Mine has lasted 35 years and we are both still lost in denial... luckily "love" isn't contained in one vessel.
Stewart spent three weeks recording Gouldman, Godley and Creme singing "ahhh" 16 times for each note of the chromatic scale, building up a "choir" of 48 voices for each note of the scale. The main problem facing the band was how to keep the vocal notes going for an infinite length of time, but Creme suggested that they could get around this issue by using tape loops. Stewart created loops of about 12 feet in length by feeding the loop at one end through the tape heads of the stereo recorder in the studio, and at the other end through a capstan roller fixed to the top of a microphone stand, and tensioned the tape. By creating long loops the 'blip' caused by the splice in each tape loop could be drowned out by the rest of the backing track, providing that the splices in each loop did not coincide with each other. Having created twelve tape loops for each of the 12 notes of the chromatic scale, Stewart played each loop through a separate channel of the mixing desk. This effectively turned the mixing desk into a musical instrument complete with all the notes of the chromatic scale, which the four members together then "played", fading up three or four channels at a time to create "chords" for the song's melody. Stewart had put tape across the bottom of each channel so that it was impossible to completely fade down the tracks for each note, resulting in the constant background hiss of vocals heard throughout the song. Composer and music theory professor Thomas MacFarlane considered the resulting "ethereal voices" with distorted synthesized effects to be a major influence on Billy Joel's hit ballad "Just the Way You Are", released two years later. A basic guide track was recorded first in order to help create the melody using the vocals, but the proper instrumentation was added after the vocals had been recorded. In keeping with Godley's idea to focus on the voices, only a few instruments were used: a Fender Rhodes electric piano played by Stewart, a Gibson 335 electric guitar played by Gouldman for the rhythm melody, and a bass drum sound played by Godley on a Moog synthesizer which Creme had recently purchased and learned how to program. The drum sound that was created was very soft and more akin to a heartbeat, in order not to overpower the rest of the track. Creme played piano during the bridge and the middle eight, where it replicated the melody of lyrics that had been discarded. The middle eight is also the only part of the song that contains a bass guitar line, played by Gouldman. A toy music box was recorded and double tracked out of phase for the middle eight and the outro. Once the musical backing had been completed Stewart recorded the lead vocal and Godley and Creme the backing vocals, but even though the song was finished Godley felt it was still lacking something. Stewart said, "Lol remembered he had 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 if we could just find the right voice to speak the words. Just at that point the door to the control room opened and our secretary Kathy Redfern 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!'." The group agreed that Redfern was the ideal person, but Redfern was unconvinced and had to be coaxed into recording her vocal contribution, using the same whispered voice that she had used when entering the control room. These whispered lyrics would later serve as the inspiration for the name of the 1980s band Boys Don't Cry
Oh, the childhood memories. This was always a perplexing piece to listen to. Only in the past few years did I learn all the complexities, dub, overdubs and more overdubs and time went into this song.
Ho OMG I grow up with this beautiful music. Not the garbage do we have right now... son lindos recuerdos de mi infancia en Mexico cuando era niño.!!! God bless you guy’s
This song came out when I was in high school... I'd heard it over the weekend and came in Monday morning raving about it-Trying to tell everyone I could how amazing it was... my words fell on deaf ears. Funk and Soul (which I also loved) were the only sounds they were familiar with or interested in. I was mocked and humiliated. Never stopped loving this song or stopped listening to all kinds of music. Passed that part of me on to my kids... Lots of beauty in this world... Don't let ignorance cheat you out of it.
Few works of art, be they musical, poetic, literary, painting or sculpture, capture the deep pain and angst of love that is expressed so purely by this song.
Was in the mood for this classic and eventually found this in the search. Wonderful. Brings back the past as a shy teenager trying to settle down and find my path. And I found it!
SUPER PRODUCTION MANY YEARS OF ONE OF MY FAVOURITE SONGS! I AM 62 YEARS OLD, STILL FAITFUL TO THIS MUSIC. THANKS FOR GIVING IT TO THE WIDER WORLD. GREATINGS FROM HAVANA, CUBA
1:20 to 2:05 such ethereal beauty. omg i cant get over how this part sounds even better with the orchestral backing. the whole thing is great but that was always my favorite section of the song and it sounds breathtaking in this version.
An absolute beautiful piece of music! Notice how it takes an orchestra and multiple vocalists to replicate songs from 10CC and the Beach Boys in a live setting when the guys used to knock it down in the studio with only 5 guys? Beautiful!
Totally agree, I saw 10CC live in the 70's and they still "have it" today. However, just need to clarify one point about this particular song. 10CC didn't simply knock this song down in a few minutes. What they did though was ground-breaking and extremely clever, as follows: Eric Stewart spent three weeks recording Gouldman, Godley and Creme singing "ahhh" 16 times for each note of the chromatic scale, building up a "choir" of 48 voices for each note of the scale. The main problem facing the band was how to keep the vocal notes going for an infinite length of time, but Creme suggested that they could get around this issue by using tape loops. Stewart created loops of about 12 feet in length by feeding the loop at one end through the tape heads of the stereo recorder in the studio, and at the other end through a capstan roller fixed to the top of a microphone stand, and tensioned the tape. By creating long loops the 'blip' caused by the splice in each tape loop could be drowned out by the rest of the backing track, providing that the splices in each loop did not coincide with each other. Having created twelve tape loops for each of the 12 notes of the chromatic scale, Stewart played each loop through a separate channel of the mixing desk. This effectively turned the mixing desk into a musical instrument complete with all the notes of the chromatic scale, which the four members together then "played", fading up three or four channels at a time to create "chords" for the song's melody. Stewart had put tape across the bottom of each channel so that it was impossible to completely fade down the tracks for each note, resulting in the constant background hiss of vocals heard throughout the song. Phew!!!! so there we have it😄😉
This song is such a part of my teen years. Growing years. Its a part of me. I just love it. Fantastic song. The chorus harmony backround vocals really make this song. God bless
This song is surely a treasure. Listening here in Nova Scotia, Canada, Dec. 6, 2020. Started out as a bummer day, but my spirits are lifted now. Thank you 10cc!
This song is my earliest memory I was 4 when was released, I remember my mum playing it, it tskes me back to happier times, this has stuck as being my favourite song. This rendition is amazing!
it is for me one of those songs comes on when you least expect it and it takes years back , what was going on in your life, who your friends with, your family, the jersey shore comes to mine when I use to hear this song a lot during the summer, this song sounds as beautiful now as it did back then
His voice sounds the same so many years later. Such a great song!!! All of them still singing so well and you can see they’re really enjoying it. This performance with the orchestra and singers was phenomenal! Thank you 10cc!
This is the definition of a "band" - meaning a group of people who can sing and play instruments. A far cry from the "band" of today - a group of people who are tanned, have white teeth and who can mime!
It gives me the chills every single time I hear this play,, Such an amazing,, Beautiful Well Orchestraded Song too bless your heart you all,, way to go 10cc's and Orchestra
5:02 That was a beautiful music ending right there, the choir are still singing in the background to sound very harmony and it does sounds a bit heavenly, God bless them who sounded like angels 😇🙏👼🤗✨💖😇😇👼👼👼
2024 who else is listening to this classic song love it it, it only gets better …….
My time had the best music , best cars and I could go on . 60s , 70s 80s . Man , really miss that time .
We had the best music and cars,the 70s were awesome. ❤
@@patriciamills499 You have to admit the 67 Mustang and 67 Camaro the very early split window Corvette Stingray were the ones to have , also Pink Floyd , Stevie Ray , I mean .... I could go on .
April 12, 2024 at 5:45 pm and yes I listen to it frequently.
Nothing today comes close. There's more heart put into the songs of the 60's, 70's music.
What's really awesome is that this song came out in the mid 70s. These guys get to stand on a stage all these decades later with this fantastic, fabulous production, and still nail this tune.
It is a different crew, but they did it proud.
@@CosmicStargoat Yep, it´s not the same without Eric Stewarts voice. Nice try thoe.
What an amazing production of the song.The ladies choir make it sound so much like the original recodring.Always one of my favorite 10 cc numbers.As Ruthless Goat says, they did it proud.
You can tell they have taken care of their voices and their health....just awesome!!!
Nice to see Iain Hornal doing the lead vocal,since 2014 he is wellknown as backingvocalist from Jeff Lynne,s ELO!
Nunca había escuchado tanta belleza armónicamente hablando en una canción, que no pasa de moda ,se siente uno transportado hacia lugares mágicos llenos de ilusión y amor,,en fin es toda una obra de arte .
Trabaje en una Transnacional Electrolux en Venezuela, en los 90, cuando escuchaba esta cancion en el transporte que nos llevaba a casa en la madrugada, sentia lo que tu dices, lugares magicos. Electrolux se fue de Venezuela hace años y hoy dia recuerdo a mis compañeros de trabajo por esta cancion, es verdad lo que dices. Saludos desde Venezuela.
No estoy enamorado, así que esta canción me hace sentir que, después de todo, no es malo no estar enamorado.
One of the original composers of this song and 10cc member Graham Gouldman is playing bass guitar for this fantastic performance. Thanks Graham!
Love this song❤😊
Who is the lead singer here? I only know it with Eric Stewart singing the lead.
Haunting and surreal. This song never loses its appeal.
Still one of my favourite songs of all time. Just sublime 💕
Something about this song brings back intense nostalgia.
The music of my generation. I was just 16 when this came out. A better world back then.
Me too …..the headphones with just the light of the stereo dial in my room. Wonderful memories. If only we could go back to more laidback and fun times . Beautiful.
Wow... with an orchestra and full choir backing ... this is magical. A performance that rivals the original recording. An amazing song still, 45 years later
Watching the orchestra conductor just belting it out at around 2:45.
It was Neil Young who said “Live music is better” Couldn’t agree more with your assertion that this rivals - if not betters - the recorded version. Beautiful.
Just Great Music! Born in 1962!
Simply one of THE greatest songs of All time
"Nothing today comes close. There's more heart put into the songs of the 60's, 70's music."
That's exactly my feeling ! I'm still and nowadays listening to this music, the only one with such great musicians and real talents "novateurs" (in french in the text)... Love these times !
This song is a masterpiece!
Absolutely 👍
You are so right, Mick…..
Last night I was lucky enough to listen that song live at 10cc concert. And I must say that after 45 years (when I heard that for the very first time) emotions were still high. Without any doubt it is still one of the best love songs ever. Good old style 70's rock band - youngsters can only dream that 50 years from now anybody would remember their name or songs, forget a few thousand people singing together. Unbelievable experience - THANK YOU 10CC 😍
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Stunning rendition of the song. That choir is incredible.
Takes me back to the 70s...makes me cry....just love it ❤️
Wish I was back in the 70s Susan Dix ....!!
This song holds some profound memories for me….bittersweet…
Great times,music and life
Yes indeed I feel exactly the same way and I miss the 70s too.
Forgot to say I miss the past and the way it used to be sometimes.
This definitely is one of the best songs of all time and genre. Love the poetic lyrics and the intriguing musical arrangement
Sound of my youth❤ I was 15... and this year I am going too be 65. And it all come back too me ..feel young again.
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IDEM.... forever young 👍
As a young man i lived the lyrics of this song a time or two during what I thought was my darkest days yet there was always light at the end and i sit at 62 single again but this song reminds me that fools fall in love thank you 10 cc
This magical performance takes this masterpiece from 1975 and places it into an altogether different realm of pure, ethereal beauty. I was 25 in 1975. This performance transports me back to a time filled with promise, hope, and enterprise. THANK YOU, 10cc.
This is one of the most wonderful love songs of all time. The denial. The obvious love is so compelling. It is impossible not to root for this guy and to hope that his love is reasonable and receptive to his love. Anything else is a tragedy. We never know how this plays out...We can only hope for a positive outcome to this genuine cry for help. I'm not in love, so don't forget is is just a wonderful gift to humanity. Thank you.
On repeated listens recently, I think the heartbreaking truth is that it didn't turn out well. At first, the other person is excited and talking to friends about what they think is love. By the end of the song, the singer is saying about their picture "so don't you ask me to give it back"--this could imply that it's over, which would be the most natural time to ask for something like that. The soft background "big boys don't cry" seems to fit. I'm afraid his love gave up on him because he downplayed his feelings. But that by itself is such a valuable warning, to not live in denial too long. When you love someone, embrace it! Truly a wonderful gift.
I agree, except it's the complete opposite of a love song, haha
The writer (the original singer Eric Stewart) explained that it was a response to when his wife asked him why he didn't say I love you very often. His thought was that it would cheapen it if used too often. He tried to say it another way and he started to imagine a guy who was in such denial but at the same time was obviously very in love. So the premise is imagined, but if you apply it to the real life of the writer it had worked out well.
Always loved 10CC, still play their music all the time.
If any of these artist are still alive... THANK YOU. Sad lyrics feel like sunshine. Anyone who ever had complicated love... Mine has lasted 35 years and we are both still lost in denial... luckily "love" isn't contained in one vessel.
One of my favourites when I was about 15😊
Were you not in love, when you were about 15 :)
Lol me too 😅
I was 22 when this song came out and the fella I was seeing fit this song to a tee. Brings back special memories.
This song is realy a masterpiece. Nowdays we don't have much musics like this one. It's timeless.
Aww it sure is timeless indeed.
I am 81 and I love this timeless piece.
This us truly a magical version of there most classic song straight into my favourites folder ❤
That was magnificent. Congratulations to everyone who participated in this wonderful musical treat.
This song is on the list of 10 best compositions of all time. The amount of emotion can hardly be topped by anything
Stewart spent three weeks recording Gouldman, Godley and Creme singing "ahhh" 16 times for each note of the chromatic scale, building up a "choir" of 48 voices for each note of the scale. The main problem facing the band was how to keep the vocal notes going for an infinite length of time, but Creme suggested that they could get around this issue by using tape loops. Stewart created loops of about 12 feet in length by feeding the loop at one end through the tape heads of the stereo recorder in the studio, and at the other end through a capstan roller fixed to the top of a microphone stand, and tensioned the tape. By creating long loops the 'blip' caused by the splice in each tape loop could be drowned out by the rest of the backing track, providing that the splices in each loop did not coincide with each other. Having created twelve tape loops for each of the 12 notes of the chromatic scale, Stewart played each loop through a separate channel of the mixing desk. This effectively turned the mixing desk into a musical instrument complete with all the notes of the chromatic scale, which the four members together then "played", fading up three or four channels at a time to create "chords" for the song's melody. Stewart had put tape across the bottom of each channel so that it was impossible to completely fade down the tracks for each note, resulting in the constant background hiss of vocals heard throughout the song. Composer and music theory professor Thomas MacFarlane considered the resulting "ethereal voices" with distorted synthesized effects to be a major influence on Billy Joel's hit ballad "Just the Way You Are", released two years later.
A basic guide track was recorded first in order to help create the melody using the vocals, but the proper instrumentation was added after the vocals had been recorded. In keeping with Godley's idea to focus on the voices, only a few instruments were used: a Fender Rhodes electric piano played by Stewart, a Gibson 335 electric guitar played by Gouldman for the rhythm melody, and a bass drum sound played by Godley on a Moog synthesizer which Creme had recently purchased and learned how to program. The drum sound that was created was very soft and more akin to a heartbeat, in order not to overpower the rest of the track. Creme played piano during the bridge and the middle eight, where it replicated the melody of lyrics that had been discarded. The middle eight is also the only part of the song that contains a bass guitar line, played by Gouldman. A toy music box was recorded and double tracked out of phase for the middle eight and the outro.
Once the musical backing had been completed Stewart recorded the lead vocal and Godley and Creme the backing vocals, but even though the song was finished Godley felt it was still lacking something. Stewart said, "Lol remembered he had 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 if we could just find the right voice to speak the words. Just at that point the door to the control room opened and our secretary Kathy Redfern 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!'." The group agreed that Redfern was the ideal person, but Redfern was unconvinced and had to be coaxed into recording her vocal contribution, using the same whispered voice that she had used when entering the control room. These whispered lyrics would later serve as the inspiration for the name of the 1980s band Boys Don't Cry
Thanks! For the interesting history of the recording of the original song, "I'm Not In Love". So interesting to hear the concept performance of it. 👌
@@shelley3812 THANKS SO MUCH. I miss Eric and wish he could bury the hatchet and do lead vocals agein!!
@@fec139 why did they fall out ?
This amazing live version surpasses anything ever done by any group in history .This is an audio masterpiece unlike any other ...ever ❤
One of my favorite songs of all time and that band nailed it 😍.
Well considering Graham Gouldman wrote it I would expect him to "nail it"!!!!!
Oh, the childhood memories. This was always a perplexing piece to listen to. Only in the past few years did I learn all the complexities, dub, overdubs and more overdubs and time went into this song.
I'm lucky enough to have seen this performed live in the 70's. Still one of my very favourite songs.
Wish I had lived through the 70s. What a vibe and time to be alive.
Truly was the best!
I did ...... The BEST Music !!
10cc Still got it!
We grew up in the very BEST of times my friend. Our treasure trove of music and memories prove that.
Ciao! Benedica!!
Didn't know this song is from the seventies. I thought it was from the eighties.
Oh, it was so simple and the world was so kind back then
Ho OMG I grow up with this beautiful music. Not the garbage do we have right now... son lindos recuerdos de mi infancia en Mexico cuando era niño.!!! God bless you guy’s
Music is always beautiful the ears of those who listen change
This song came out when I was in high school... I'd heard it over the weekend and came in Monday morning raving about it-Trying to tell everyone I could how amazing it was... my words fell on deaf ears. Funk and Soul (which I also loved) were the only sounds they were familiar with or interested in. I was mocked and humiliated. Never stopped loving this song or stopped listening to all kinds of music. Passed that part of me on to my kids... Lots of beauty in this world... Don't let ignorance cheat you out of it.
Floating along in 2021 to this even dreamier version of I'm not in Love ..
I've always loved this song. A female orchestra conductor!!!! That's awesome!!!
Yeah I'm found that to be awesome as well including all the men & woman's choir,, 1000% Perfect ❤️❤️
Had to bring equality into it, huh?
Beautiful too
Few works of art, be they musical, poetic, literary, painting or sculpture, capture the deep pain and angst of love that is expressed so purely by this song.
This song came out in '75, the summer I turned 20...still evokes very strong memories
same here J D ;D
I was 13
I was just 31 and recently divorced . . . and not in love
That song came out when I was in high school. I loved it then, and still do today! Thanks.
This song will always remind me of my oldest sister. She played this song over and over. What a beautiful song.
Was in the mood for this classic and eventually found this in the search. Wonderful. Brings back the past as a shy teenager trying to settle down and find my path. And I found it!
One of the best pieces of the 70 ies❤❤❤
This song, as originally recorded was a work of studio art. I can't imagine the amount of work that went into this live production. It's so good!
Ian Hornal who is singing the lead part here is a very versatile artiste. He is also a backing singer with Jeff Lynnes ELO.
One of the most underrated bands of all time. Years later after this hit song, they recorded what I believe to be their best LP -- "Ten Out of 10".
"underrated" LOL !!
Yep so were the Beatles
Best album was deceptive bends
I'm back in 1976, and its much nicer than 2021!!!
Me too , still got the album .... and , still sounds great ,regardless of who's still in the band ..!! Cheers ..
SUPER PRODUCTION MANY YEARS OF ONE OF MY FAVOURITE SONGS!
I AM 62 YEARS OLD, STILL FAITFUL TO THIS MUSIC. THANKS FOR GIVING IT TO THE WIDER WORLD.
GREATINGS FROM HAVANA, CUBA
Very nice. Never get bored listening to this almost 50 years old song.
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I can remember listening to the radio over and over again.I loved it. still do.
I was 16 when this song came out and it was all over the radio waves. Classic and a legend
Love this song, even though Eric Stewart isn't singing, still beautiful
1:20 to 2:05 such ethereal beauty. omg i cant get over how this part sounds even better with the orchestral backing. the whole thing is great but that was always my favorite section of the song and it sounds breathtaking in this version.
I love the song
So many of us can relate to this song. Heartbreaking 💔
Still sounds as good as it ever did. One of my all time favourite songs. ❤
After all these years, they still sound so fantastic. What a beautiful, sweet, soft, sad song.
An absolute beautiful piece of music! Notice how it takes an orchestra and multiple vocalists to replicate songs from 10CC and the Beach Boys in a live setting when the guys used to knock it down in the studio with only 5 guys? Beautiful!
Totally agree, I saw 10CC live in the 70's and they still "have it" today. However, just need to clarify one point about this particular song. 10CC didn't simply knock this song down in a few minutes. What they did though was ground-breaking and extremely clever, as follows:
Eric Stewart spent three weeks recording Gouldman, Godley and Creme singing "ahhh" 16 times for each note of the chromatic scale, building up a "choir" of 48 voices for each note of the scale. The main problem facing the band was how to keep the vocal notes going for an infinite length of time, but Creme suggested that they could get around this issue by using tape loops. Stewart created loops of about 12 feet in length by feeding the loop at one end through the tape heads of the stereo recorder in the studio, and at the other end through a capstan roller fixed to the top of a microphone stand, and tensioned the tape. By creating long loops the 'blip' caused by the splice in each tape loop could be drowned out by the rest of the backing track, providing that the splices in each loop did not coincide with each other. Having created twelve tape loops for each of the 12 notes of the chromatic scale, Stewart played each loop through a separate channel of the mixing desk. This effectively turned the mixing desk into a musical instrument complete with all the notes of the chromatic scale, which the four members together then "played", fading up three or four channels at a time to create "chords" for the song's melody. Stewart had put tape across the bottom of each channel so that it was impossible to completely fade down the tracks for each note, resulting in the constant background hiss of vocals heard throughout the song.
Phew!!!! so there we have it😄😉
And we think we are so smart with tech now…. These guys were way in front ❤
This song is such a part of my teen years. Growing years. Its a part of me. I just love it. Fantastic song. The chorus harmony backround vocals really make this song. God bless
Saw these at Birmingham symphony hall couple of years ago. Fabulous took me back to when I was a teenager when the songs first came out..
LOVE this beautiful song listening on this October nigjt in 2020 relaxing my mind thru this pandemic any1 else joining me???
Same! Wa state ♡
Me too... LOL 😆
Detroit MI
11/01/2020
I'm listening right now! November 17th, 2020@1:15AM
This song is surely a treasure. Listening here in Nova Scotia, Canada, Dec. 6, 2020. Started out as a bummer day, but my spirits are lifted now. Thank you 10cc!
@@annewentzell1662
I pray your bummer day turn into a Blessed and happy day.
Sending love & warm thoughts from across the water
Detroit MI
My childhood (now 48) was shining thank to such beautiful songs like this one.
Very good singer.
I like the choir/chorus so much. What a great addition to this treasure!
This song is my earliest memory I was 4 when was released, I remember my mum playing it, it tskes me back to happier times, this has stuck as being my favourite song. This rendition is amazing!
LOL ;D Same
Great lead vocal from Iain Hornal. He was also amazing with Jeff Lynne's ELO live.
that's where i've seen him before....
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This is the 1st time I heard Paul sing this, I did prefer the mick Wilson but 50/50 now
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Such a magnificent touchstone of the greatest 70's music
it is for me one of those songs comes on when you least expect it and it takes years back , what was going on in your life, who your friends with, your family, the jersey shore comes to mine when I use to hear this song a lot during the summer, this song sounds as beautiful now as it did back then
Pochi giorni fa ho richiesto (alla Radio che ascolto da anni) proprio questa canzone.l'hanno trasmessa!! Emozione Pura. Grazie.alessandro dall'Italia
As a time traveller I'm able to appreciate this masterpiece throughout the decades.
Ah yes, the awesome memories this beautiful song helped create.
Absolutely fantastic. Love the choir!
Memories are forever! Marvelous years of my life!
From a youth of the 70’s great job. Wonderful❤️
A masterpiece ❤
His voice sounds the same so many years later. Such a great song!!! All of them still singing so well and you can see they’re really enjoying it. This performance with the orchestra and singers was phenomenal! Thank you 10cc!
Not the original lead vocalist.
I doubt he was born when this song was recorded in 1975...
Believe it or not, this is not the original lead singer for 10cc
Yes I didn’t realize that the original lead singer wasn’t there.
impecable performance!!!
Still after all of these years this group give me shivers!!!
Da BEST
still love it after all these years.
This is the definition of a "band" - meaning a group of people who can sing and play instruments.
A far cry from the "band" of today - a group of people who are tanned, have white teeth and who can mime!
Love can be so uplifting and so painful at the same time. This song says it all.
Fabulous! Sounded wonderful way back then, blew my mind, and it still sounds awesome. well done all!
Just saw them live in Hobart Tasmania last week. Absolutely incredible. Iain's voice was phenomenal.
such an otherworldly, unique, dreamlike composition.
Merci, une toune, qui roule dans ma tête depuis toujours...
To good ,classic, 60s 70s music, the only music i listen to, i am 61,1963
Absolutly fantastic version
Still a great version ... really good ....
Better voice with Eric Stewarts
Yes and the band have come back after the pandemic better than ever.
this song I fell came back
the time.
@@37drustan Yes
I had to listen to this two times, it gave me chills each time I heard it
Made my eyes water
one of the most beautiful songs ever written
It gives me the chills every single time I hear this play,, Such an amazing,, Beautiful Well Orchestraded Song too bless your heart you all,, way to go 10cc's and Orchestra
Just beautiful! Thoroughly enjoyable … and their voices are amazing! 👍🏻
Everything about this, is just CLASS
Awesome! They sound great! One of my favorites from back then!
Loved this song as a child. I see why I loved it. They did really good.
Iain Hornal rocks this song. Great artist!!
You would love it live! 😉
Música linda, arranjo sensacional , o tempo passa e cd vez mais amo essa música!
Still amazing after so many years.
It's even better with orchestra and choir. Beautiful.
One of the most unique songs I’ve ever heard at 61 years young. This was flipping 8th grade!
I was in primary school and I loved this as well. It's a fantastic song
5:02 That was a beautiful music ending right there, the choir are still singing in the background to sound very harmony and it does sounds a bit heavenly, God bless them who sounded like angels 😇🙏👼🤗✨💖😇😇👼👼👼
Beautiful
I love this song , yesterday as today xxx
Timeless!!!..sounds so recent!.. beautiful!!!❤
Had this on 8-track. Brings back so many positive memories.