One of Britain's secret rock bands. Far too ingenious for modern, bland sensibilities, they're completely underestimated now. The first four albums are full of wit, invention, satire, and tributes to previous musical styles, with crisp pop songs side by side with extended rock, in a totally unconventional and unique style. They have a complete genre all to themselves...............
I remember being a 10 year old kid and hearing this song when it was released. So incredible and unique. The 1970s AM and FM radio airwaves were full of amazing music!
I absolutely adore this song. Nothing like belting it out at the top of your lungs when you don’t want to be in love but you know, deep down, that it’s far too late.
No doubt my introduction to 10cc. I was ten, just starting to really get into FM radio, buying 45s and vinyl records ... Led Zeppelin, Elton John, etc.
I like that album a lot but ironically that's the one song I didn't care for but it was a big hit for them so a lot of people like it and that's fine. I get a kick out of the song Good Morning Judge.
There's a great "making of" video that's about 15 min. They explain what you read about the voices and have them isolated from the recording. Really gives you chills.
I'm dating myself here, but I always liked this song upon first hearing it in the summer of 75 at 17 years of age. My favorite line has always been, ♫"I keep your picture upon the wall...it hides a messy stain that's lying there"♫. Upon first hearing it, brought a smile to my face and always will, it conjures up in ones mind the image of a frustrated guy being in love and not wanting to be, in a moment of totally losing it, throwing a plate of spaghetti against the wall and being too lazy afterwards to clean up the mess.
Just imagine Daniel, as teens we woke up to this kind of greatness every day on the radio. This sounded like angels. Imagine it Daniel; in UK we only had 3 tv channels! p.s. yes he is in love; methinks he doth protest too much.
What a great song full of atmosphere. Another artist with aerial aesthetics would be Al Stewart listen to The Year of the Cat, or Time Passages both with amazing atmospherics
Its a magical song. I remember when it came out - all of the parts manage to come together in a thoughtful, heartfelt manner. Utterly timeless and will be played 150 years from now.
Daniel, you have to play this at night, in your bedroom, with minimal light in the room. The members of this band were prolific song writers before 10cc ever came in to being. Graham Gouldman's first hit was a song written that was rejected but then picked up by The Yardbirds which became a hit called "For Your Love". The Yardbirds included Eric Clapton and Jimmy Page. Gouldman was 16 years of age at the time. Kevin Godley and Laurence Creme went on to become a song writing duo as well as music video producers, producing the following music videos (among others): Asia "The Heat of the Moment" Eric Clapton "Forever Man" Huey Lewis & The News "Hip to be Square" Yes "Leave It" George Harrison "When we was Fab"
Godley and Creme also were the creative masterminds behind the videoclip of Peter Gabriels Sledgehammer. They worked on some kind of mechanical guitar effect the gizmotron. I loved the (weird) album Consequences by Godley and Creme, I can recommend the song 5 o' clock in the morning.
Nice work Daniel 10cc we're very innovative and so many great song like Rubber Bullets, I'm Mandy Fly Me, Good Morning Judge, Life is a Minestrone, Wall Sreet Shuffle, Dreadlocks Holiday and one of my favourites Art for Art's Sake
1975! Just a kid and this song worked its magic on me. It was sad and yet mesmerizing. At the end I used to think of drifting off to outer space. A fascinating classic.
@@cherylreichardt me too. It really is amazing. I can remember listening to the 45 on my “Not” my gfs Close and Play phonograph and feeling all kinds of awkward. It’s a magical song.
You can do this type of vocal by singing the notes of a chord on separate tracks and using the faders or draw a volume envelope across each take. Use reverb and a chorus or phaser/flanging effect. Of course you could build it up more layers and do it for every chord change in your song. Copy and paste stacks of vocals unaligned in time to give a smeary sound, much like a Mellotron. These old love songs really bring back memories. The summer of 74 ( maybe) this song was everywhere and it’s etched into my mind forever.
Hi Hartlor. I’ve seen you on Live Chat during Daniel’s Live Streams. Are you getting Daniel a Birthday gift and sending it to his P.O. Box? Daniel’s Birthday is in Sept, that’s 3 months away. Just wondering. Have a good day. 😃
The two things that made this a great reaction video are, firstly, you listened to the full version of this classic song. Several reactors before you have done the radio edit which sadly cuts out the musical end outro. Secondly you analysed the song so that you discovered what they had to do back in the mid 70s in order to create that vocal sound. Quite something the lengths they had to go to, in contrast to today when it would be a very simple click on a computer. Tip of the hat to whoever suggested this song, and thank you Daniel for sharing with us! 👍 Your UK fan & friend, Ian
Watch the "making of" video. The sang every note in the scale and held it as long as they could. Each one was looped on long long long tape on its on track. They played it all simultaneously and adjusted the volume on the mixer (played it like an instrument.) to the final mix. Insane. The "Big Boys Don't Cry" whisper was the receptionist in the studio.
I’m so pleased you like the humour in their lyrics - I thought you’d enjoy them :) 10cc were all northern English men born in the 40s. They’re a stoic lot up there :) To me the denial of love, the “big boys don’t cry”, the deeply emotional music, is the voice of a man who can’t openly declare his true vulnerable, tender feelings because of cultural inhibitions. Eric Stewart said the lyrics were inspired by his wife commenting that he didn’t say “I love you” as much any more. He replied that saying it all the time would diminish the meaning, and that just because he didn’t say it often, didn’t mean he didn’t feel it. I recommend watching the short “making of” video available on TH-cam.
I have a ton of favorite 70s songs from multiple genres and groups, and edging very close to the top of the list is this one. No matter how many times I hear it I am still amazed at the feelings it evokes. What's more, I don't believe there's ever been a cover done of it.
Fun fact is that they called 10CC that name because one of the guys read that it was the average volume of human ejaculate. Reminds me a bit of the naming of Steely Dan.
WOW! What an incredible backstory, and you've added so much to my understanding of this (still) heartbreaking classic. Thanks so much for posting.........
The 4 of them would each put on a track….a ahhhhh vocal…each one of them…then ooohss…..and….ehhhhssss……many different back up sounds…..then kept recording them until they had six hundred different voices making these back up vocals ……….they then each took a couple of tracks with their assigned sounds…and played the board like a keyboard…bringing them in and out….it’s……brilliance.
The 70's was an epic time for music, experimenting our limits, many many different genre's. I know, I know, o.k. boomer, ha ha. But it's true. We will never experience that type of exploration again.
My favourite 10cc song and I don’t listen to it very often so that when I do it retains its power. Oh and Daniel I totally agree about Marvel, I’m all superheroed out at the moment
Great reaction! After the airwaves had been bombarded with this song during the height of it's popularity, I'd just tucked it away in the place where my mind usually locks up music I just can't stand to hear anymore... Nowadays I've developed a better appreciation for it... and it didn't even take a FULL half century for me to get there. Go figure. My inner mixtape compiler tells me that you should listen to How Long by Ace next. Cheers!
Was a big 10cc fan in high school. The songs “How Dare You” and “Lazy Ways” are a potent back to back album opener. Saw them live in 1977. They rocked pretty hard. Good reaction.
A hauntingly beautiful song...and, yes, he IS in love, but he is incapable of admitting it, even to himself. This is because of his repressed childhood. ( " Be quiet, big boys don't cry ).....sung so tenderly it just shouts out to you. I've loved this song for years. 💕
I agree that he is in love, and he knows he is in love, but he doesn’t want to admit it to her because she doesn’t care about him. Anyway, that’s what it says to me.
When I hear this, I don't think GOTG. I think 1975, flipping the AM radio dial, and this being on 2 or 3 stations at the same time. And I didn't think about the ambience or any of the other vocal effects until...now :)
The 1970s AM and FM radio airwaves were a veritable cornucopia of musical styles and genres brought to us by great bands and artists that refused to be pigeonholed. A great GREAT time for radio.
Daniel son, You gotta watch both Guardians of the Galaxy! For the music alone. All the best songs are there. I hated Marvel too, but those movies Rocked!
Big fan of them when I was a teenager. This is yet another rabbit hole to fall down. I recommend checking out their 2nd album Sheet Music, especially the track 'Somewhere In Hollywood', which is a masterpiece, though it's all great. The following albums all really good too. Check out 'Flying Junk', 'Life Is A Minestrone' and 'One Night In Paris' from the The Original Soundtrack. x
Child of Vision, by a different group, Supertramp, the studio version from the Breakfast In America album is also a great track. All 7 minutes plus of it with a superb keyboard solo.
Both love and hate this song, love the feel and craftsmanship, But it came out while I was going through a divorce from my one true love. Like the singer I kept trying to convince myself that I wasn't still in love. It just hit way too close. Couldn't listen to it for years. (Big boys don't cry)
My favorite mellow song ( of all time ). I never get tired of it - and doubt I ever will. Beautiful - innovative - and those lyrics always hit me right in the feels.
Kathy Redfern's retirement was 'made' with this one crazy accidental inclusion on the smash hit. Residuals! How wonderful and what a nice perk for the secretary. 😂
This song was recorded at the end of the quadraphonic craze that used a 4-pt (top right ear/bottom right ear/top left ear/bottom left ear with an occasional shot that blazed across your mind--this feature is exemplified by Olivia Newton-John's cover of the Air that I Breath on her Have You Never Been Mellow) stereo.
He was never allowed to show emotion growing up, as that was taught to young boys at that time. He's in love... when this song came out we fell in love with this song. Call the radio station to play it. lol
nope, you're right. the guy is in love and he doth protest too much. this song is beautiful and hypnotic, i love his denial - it's contradiction within a love song adds another layer - gorgeous. also: the groundbreaking vocal-layering techniques they used here so impressed billy joel that it inspired the vocals/sound of joel's huge hit "just the way you are" a couple years later.
10cc were all highly accomplished songwriters and musicians. They could all sing, play multiple instruments, write, produce, engineer, and were innovative artistically and technically. This was a highly influential song when it was released in 1975, and a hit. Apparently it influenced Freddie Mercury when he was writing and arranging Bohemian Rhapsody. Highly recommend delving into their albums Original Soundtrack, Sheet Music, and How Dare You. Next song I would recommend is Art For Art’s Sake or I’m Mandy, Fly Me.
I remember Mr. Jaws, Rex. Those crazy sound bites that Dickie Goodman played . He was too funny. Those were my Summers in the 70's, living in Hawaii. My Father was in the Air Force, my family moved to Hawaii, in the 1970's, when I was 9 or 10. Best of Times. Wonderful memories. ☺️☺️♥️ My Dad was an Air Force Veteran. He passed away in 2018. ☹️
Talk about a man in denial, and afraid to admit to himself that he really is in love..who keeps a picture of a girl on his wall, says it's there to hide a nasty stain and says don't ask to have it back...oh yeah, making excuses to try and hide his true feelings about this girl..looks like he umm...fooled around and fell in love lol..great reaction, Daniel..the sounds on this song are hauntingly beautiful.
This was experimental back in the day. Since I was in Elementary school in the 70’s, I always believed this was a beautiful & haunting love song. You reacting to “I’m Not In Love” Daniel you’re right, the protagonist was in denial, and he was in love. Holy Cow after all these years!! Great reaction, Daniel. ❤❤❤
Have u ever listen to Poor man's mody blues by Barclay James Harvest?......I recommend the life version of 1978(?).......a masterpiece and the best live version ever❤❤❤❤❤.......btw, you're so full of feelings and emotions and I guess I love just for that 😃❤️
Written by band members 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.
Music can have such a magical ability to transport someone back to another time, another place, another lifetime . . . Thanks so much for this one young Daniel . . .this took me back decades . . . Somewhere in the late 1960's - early 1970's olden AM rock radio morphed into something called AOR, Album Oriented Rock . . . With its introduction the 3 minute limit on radio songs was smashed . . . AOR played five minute, seven minute nine minute songs . . . And suddenly songs the length of this one could be heard on AOR radio stations which began typically in large college and university but quickly started popping up in smaller markets . . .
AM morphed into "Talk" radio. FM which was known for Classical music, more and more was replaced by LP Rock starting in the late 60's. There's an episode of Leave It To Beaver, circa 1961, where Eddie Haskell informs Wally that he's just installed an FM radio in his jalopy. When asked by Wally as to why, Eddie proudly informs Wally that people will now view him as "cultured". That episode provides a snapshot into what FM radio was all about in the early 60's.
10CC were a "supergroup" of sorts, all of whom had big UK hits in the past (Godley & Creme as Hotlegs, Eric Stewart with the Mindbenders' Groovy Kind Of Love, and Graham Gouldman was a wunderkind songwriter who'd been producing hits for bands like The Hollies since the mid-60s.) They came together to be the house band at the newly-built Strawberry Studios in Manchester which they'd invested in - their first client was Neil Sedaka! They then decided to write & record their own songs for other artists, but were persuaded to release them for themselves under the name 10cc... their albums are full of cleverly arranged, funny songs in all sorts of genres, well worth checking out... try "I'm Mandy, Fly Me" a multi-part song I think you'll get a kick out of!
the song "Cry" by Godley and Creme, two members of 10CC is also very amazing, blending synths into vocals with a similarly emotional tone and lyrics that I like as much as this one, highly recommended!
There’s great acoustic versions they did of this on TH-cam. Godley & Creme did such great and varied stuff. In 10CC, Dreadlock Holiday is my favourite reggae song (I know it’s a bunch of white guys, but it just works for me), and The Things We Do For Love was also cool. Solo they did the fantastic Englishman In New York (their own song, not Sting’s An Englishman In New York), and I think that would blow your mind, Daniel. Plus they also directed stuff like the awesome Synchronicity concert for The Police and the original video for Peter Gabriel and Kate Bush doing Peter’s Don’t Give Up. That’d just a small list of their credits. A very talented duo.
I was 16, and started out with my now wife in June 1975. The song was a sensation. I'm not technically/musically minded but I understand there were many tapes merged into one for this song. 10cc are one of my favourite groups. Musical genius.
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One of Britain's secret rock bands. Far too ingenious for modern, bland sensibilities, they're completely underestimated now. The first four albums are full of wit, invention, satire, and tributes to previous musical styles, with crisp pop songs side by side with extended rock, in a totally unconventional and unique style. They have a complete genre all to themselves...............
I remember being a 10 year old kid and hearing this song when it was released. So incredible and unique.
The 1970s AM and FM radio airwaves were full of amazing music!
Me too. Same age
I absolutely adore this song. Nothing like belting it out at the top of your lungs when you don’t want to be in love but you know, deep down, that it’s far too late.
"The Things We Do For Love" is a pretty good 10cc song as well.
agreed
Yessss : )
Absolutely. COMPLETELY different feel on that song!
No doubt my introduction to 10cc. I was ten, just starting to really get into FM radio, buying 45s and vinyl records ... Led Zeppelin, Elton John, etc.
I like that album a lot but ironically that's the one song I didn't care for but it was a big hit for them so a lot of people like it and that's fine. I get a kick out of the song Good Morning Judge.
There's a great "making of" video that's about 15 min. They explain what you read about the voices and have them isolated from the recording. Really gives you chills.
There's actually a couple of videos on the making of this song, very similar, remember liking the longer one better. Ground breaking song.
Their making I'm not in love in some ways was more labor intensive than Bohemian Rhapsody.
Here's a link about 15mins long on how.... enjoy, th-cam.com/video/3oxe4mlsQos/w-d-xo.html&ab_channel=spek6
Seconding to suggest the video on the creative process they used.
th-cam.com/video/3oxe4mlsQos/w-d-xo.html
I'm dating myself here, but I always liked this song upon first hearing it in the summer of 75 at 17 years of age. My favorite line has always been, ♫"I keep your picture upon the wall...it hides a messy stain that's lying there"♫. Upon first hearing it, brought a smile to my face and always will, it conjures up in ones mind the image of a frustrated guy being in love and not wanting to be, in a moment of totally losing it, throwing a plate of spaghetti against the wall and being too lazy afterwards to clean up the mess.
Anything but spaghetti….Anything else. 😉
Just imagine Daniel, as teens we woke up to this kind of greatness every day on the radio. This sounded like angels. Imagine it Daniel; in UK we only had 3 tv channels!
p.s. yes he is in love; methinks he doth protest too much.
What a great song full of atmosphere. Another artist with aerial aesthetics would be Al Stewart listen to The Year of the Cat, or Time Passages both with amazing atmospherics
Totally agree. One of my favorites easy listening. Love The sweet too. Totally different Genre of music tho.
Two of the band members left 10cc to form ‘Godley and Creme’ and produced the wonderful haunting song “Cry”.
And the marvellous album 'L'.
They also went into producing videos, and Lol also joined the Art of Noise.
I was going to say the same thing.
Alai the weird and wonderful Consequences album, showing off their Gizmotron device for guitar
Cry was also a groundbreaking clip
An Englishman In New York was good.
10cc and ELO were the best of the British pop scene of the time.
Its a magical song. I remember when it came out - all of the parts manage to come together in a thoughtful, heartfelt manner. Utterly timeless and will be played 150 years from now.
Daniel, you have to play this at night, in your bedroom, with minimal light in the room. The members of this band were prolific song writers before 10cc ever came in to being. Graham Gouldman's first hit was a song written that was rejected but then picked up by The Yardbirds which became a hit called "For Your Love". The Yardbirds included Eric Clapton and Jimmy Page. Gouldman was 16 years of age at the time. Kevin Godley and Laurence Creme went on to become a song writing duo as well as music video producers, producing the following music videos (among others):
Asia "The Heat of the Moment"
Eric Clapton "Forever Man"
Huey Lewis & The News "Hip to be Square"
Yes "Leave It"
George Harrison "When we was Fab"
Thanks for the history 🎶✨
Heh you nailed the atmosphere for listening to this tune.
Godley and Creme also were the creative masterminds behind the videoclip of Peter Gabriels Sledgehammer. They worked on some kind of mechanical guitar effect the gizmotron. I loved the (weird) album Consequences by Godley and Creme, I can recommend the song 5 o' clock in the morning.
Bus Stop by The Hollies was also written by Graham .
Nice work Daniel 10cc we're very innovative and so many great song like Rubber Bullets, I'm Mandy Fly Me, Good Morning Judge, Life is a Minestrone, Wall Sreet Shuffle, Dreadlocks Holiday and one of my favourites Art for Art's Sake
70s Quality. Check Out " I'm Mandy Fly Me " Daniel.
1975! Just a kid and this song worked its magic on me. It was sad and yet mesmerizing. At the end I used to think of drifting off to outer space. A fascinating classic.
Me, too! 100%! It has stuck with me ever since. I still get chills. 🥰
“Sad and mesmerizing” is right
Same with me
The beauty of it all is that I'm still given that in a trance feeling!
@@cherylreichardt me too. It really is amazing. I can remember listening to the 45 on my “Not” my gfs Close and Play phonograph and feeling all kinds of awkward. It’s a magical song.
You can do this type of vocal by singing the notes of a chord on separate tracks and using the faders or draw a volume envelope across each take. Use reverb and a chorus or phaser/flanging effect. Of course you could build it up more layers and do it for every chord change in your song. Copy and paste stacks of vocals unaligned in time to give a smeary sound, much like a Mellotron. These old love songs really bring back memories. The summer of 74 ( maybe) this song was everywhere and it’s etched into my mind forever.
Hi Hartlor. I’ve seen you on Live Chat during Daniel’s Live Streams. Are you getting Daniel a Birthday gift and sending it to his P.O. Box? Daniel’s Birthday is in Sept, that’s 3 months away. Just wondering.
Have a good day. 😃
The two things that made this a great reaction video are, firstly, you listened to the full version of this classic song. Several reactors before you have done the radio edit which sadly cuts out the musical end outro.
Secondly you analysed the song so that you discovered what they had to do back in the mid 70s in order to create that vocal sound. Quite something the lengths they had to go to, in contrast to today when it would be a very simple click on a computer.
Tip of the hat to whoever suggested this song, and thank you Daniel for sharing with us! 👍 Your UK fan & friend, Ian
Watch the "making of" video. The sang every note in the scale and held it as long as they could. Each one was looped on long long long tape on its on track. They played it all simultaneously and adjusted the volume on the mixer (played it like an instrument.) to the final mix. Insane. The "Big Boys Don't Cry" whisper was the receptionist in the studio.
A custom, single-voice Mellotron, in a way...
Billy Joel loved that tape loop effect so much, he used it on “Just The Way You Are.”
You're listening to a masterpiece of song writing and production.
This track held the Guinness “Book of Records “ for the greatest amount of overdubs ever, yes I had all their albums, sad old bugger , right!.
Making of the song th-cam.com/video/Qq7oGenbp2I/w-d-xo.html (I haven't seen the entire video).
I’m so pleased you like the humour in their lyrics - I thought you’d enjoy them :) 10cc were all northern English men born in the 40s. They’re a stoic lot up there :) To me the denial of love, the “big boys don’t cry”, the deeply emotional music, is the voice of a man who can’t openly declare his true vulnerable, tender feelings because of cultural inhibitions. Eric Stewart said the lyrics were inspired by his wife commenting that he didn’t say “I love you” as much any more. He replied that saying it all the time would diminish the meaning, and that just because he didn’t say it often, didn’t mean he didn’t feel it. I recommend watching the short “making of” video available on TH-cam.
I have a ton of favorite 70s songs from multiple genres and groups, and edging very close to the top of the list is this one. No matter how many times I hear it I am still amazed at the feelings it evokes. What's more, I don't believe there's ever been a cover done of it.
Fun fact is that they called 10CC that name because one of the guys read that it was the average volume of human ejaculate.
Reminds me a bit of the naming of Steely Dan.
This entire album is amazing. One Night In Paris, The Second Sitting For The Last Supper, and Life Is A Minestrone. Check it out.
Oh the memories😏
Me too!
And to think we heard this on the radio, daily! Damn I’m getting old!
One of the greatest tracks to come out of the 70s. It's wonderful to see you react to this amazing number.
The word your searching for....ethereal.
Absolute Classic...I Would Highly Recommend 10CC "Dreadlock Holiday" For The Next One To Check Out By Them.
WOW! What an incredible backstory, and you've added so much to my understanding of this (still) heartbreaking classic. Thanks so much for posting.........
This was a big hit around the time I graduated from high school, May of 1975.
So, for me, it's the last high school song.
Class of 75 - we had the music!
Great memory to share. Kinda sad our youth is quickly fading away. Thank God for music ahy?
The 4 of them would each put on a track….a ahhhhh vocal…each one of them…then ooohss…..and….ehhhhssss……many different back up sounds…..then kept recording them until they had six hundred different voices making these back up vocals ……….they then each took a couple of tracks with their assigned sounds…and played the board like a keyboard…bringing them in and out….it’s……brilliance.
Old school SFX,
Thanks Daniel. I remember the female voice, she was a 19 year girl a receptionist at the studio it was her first day .
That’s great info. Wow where is she now.
Kathy
I'm not crying. You're crying.
The 70's was an epic time for music, experimenting our limits, many many different genre's. I know, I know, o.k. boomer, ha ha. But it's true. We will never experience that type of exploration again.
My favourite 10cc song and I don’t listen to it very often so that when I do it retains its power. Oh and Daniel I totally agree about Marvel, I’m all superheroed out at the moment
The whispering voice was the recording studios secretary.
Great reaction!
After the airwaves had been bombarded with this song during the height of it's popularity, I'd just tucked it away in the place where my mind usually locks up music I just can't stand to hear anymore...
Nowadays I've developed a better appreciation for it... and it didn't even take a FULL half century for me to get there. Go figure.
My inner mixtape compiler tells me that you should listen to How Long by Ace next.
Cheers!
I just got whiplash from this! Love it!
Hi Daniel!!! So proud of you!!!
💜💫✌🏼🎵
You should react to, "The things we do for love" by 10cc.
Was a big 10cc fan in high school. The songs “How Dare You” and “Lazy Ways” are a potent back to back album opener. Saw them live in 1977. They rocked pretty hard. Good reaction.
When this first came out and I would hear it on the radio. I thought so hauntly, beautiful. It was a new sound I had never heard before.
Dreadlock Holiday, another 10cc song, is about cricket. (the group is British).
Welcome to the 60s and 70s. Let yourself be guided, let yourself be rocked.
A hauntingly beautiful song...and, yes, he IS in love, but he is incapable of admitting it, even to himself. This is because of his repressed childhood. ( " Be quiet, big boys don't cry ).....sung so tenderly it just shouts out to you. I've loved this song for years. 💕
I agree that he is in love, and he knows he is in love, but he doesn’t want to admit it to her because she doesn’t care about him. Anyway, that’s what it says to me.
When I hear this, I don't think GOTG. I think 1975, flipping the AM radio dial, and this being on 2 or 3 stations at the same time. And I didn't think about the ambience or any of the other vocal effects until...now :)
The 1970s AM and FM radio airwaves were a veritable cornucopia of musical styles and genres brought to us by great bands and artists that refused to be pigeonholed.
A great GREAT time for radio.
Whilst this song is definitely unique, listen to Billy Joel's Don't Go Changing and see how Bill may have been 'influenced' by I'm Not In Love.
Yes yes yes. I hear it.
Daniel son, You gotta watch both Guardians of the Galaxy! For the music alone. All the best songs are there. I hated Marvel too, but those movies Rocked!
There's a 15 minute doc "The making of I'm Not In Love" on TH-cam.
It Was Actually The Receptionist On The Desk! They Called Her In To Do Some Vocal Backing!
i think she only did the "be quiet... big boys don't cry' part
This came out when I was in High School, it was amazing then and sounds just as good today. 70s Rock
I’m Mandy Fly Me
"The lady doth protest too much, methinks"
One of the gems of the fabulous 70's.
The more he denies his love, the more obvious his love is. Clever, clever, clever.
This is how they made it: th-cam.com/video/Qq7oGenbp2I/w-d-xo.html
Big fan of them when I was a teenager. This is yet another rabbit hole to fall down. I recommend checking out their 2nd album Sheet Music, especially the track 'Somewhere In Hollywood', which is a masterpiece, though it's all great. The following albums all really good too. Check out 'Flying Junk', 'Life Is A Minestrone' and 'One Night In Paris' from the The Original Soundtrack. x
Child of Vision, by a different group, Supertramp, the studio version from the Breakfast In America album is also a great track. All 7 minutes plus of it with a superb keyboard solo.
Both love and hate this song, love the feel and craftsmanship, But it came out while I was going through a divorce from my one true love. Like the singer I kept trying to convince myself that I wasn't still in love. It just hit way too close. Couldn't listen to it for years. (Big boys don't cry)
My favorite mellow song ( of all time ). I never get tired of it - and doubt I ever will. Beautiful - innovative - and those lyrics always hit me right in the feels.
Great choice! 10CC is what happened when amazing sound engineers reminded us they were also amazing musicians....
Kathy Redfern's retirement was 'made' with this one crazy accidental inclusion on the smash hit. Residuals! How wonderful and what a nice perk for the secretary. 😂
This song was recorded at the end of the quadraphonic craze that used a 4-pt (top right ear/bottom right ear/top left ear/bottom left ear with an occasional shot that blazed across your mind--this feature is exemplified by Olivia Newton-John's cover of the Air that I Breath on her Have You Never Been Mellow) stereo.
"Big Boys Don't Cry"...influenced from The 4 Seasons' "Big Girls Don't Cry"?
He was never allowed to show emotion growing up, as that was taught to young boys at that time. He's in love... when this song came out we fell in love with this song. Call the radio station to play it. lol
They are plenty of videos documenting how they did it. Professor of Rock covered this on his channel.
So cute this kid's reaction to such an amazing old song, very open minded 🤗
nope, you're right. the guy is in love and he doth protest too much. this song is beautiful and hypnotic, i love his denial - it's contradiction within a love song adds another layer - gorgeous.
also: the groundbreaking vocal-layering techniques they used here so impressed billy joel that it inspired the vocals/sound of joel's huge hit "just the way you are" a couple years later.
2:21 R.E.M. used this same technique on a song called Star Me Kitten.
Great track with tech ahead of its time
I forgot who sung this, a Blast from the Past.
Another Great pick Daniel 🤘
Autotune would have completely killed all the magic if used on this track. Even though this song is very technological, it sounds perfectly human.
Autotune didnt exist in the 1970's, it came in during the 1980's/90's which is why singers don't sound natural.
@@denisemeredith2436 Autotune came into use in the late nineties.
How was it made? Here you go.
th-cam.com/video/3oxe4mlsQos/w-d-xo.html
Discordian Saints. Brilliant band and quite funny. Good Morning Judge is one of my all time favorite videos.
10cc were all highly accomplished songwriters and musicians. They could all sing, play multiple instruments, write, produce, engineer, and were innovative artistically and technically. This was a highly influential song when it was released in 1975, and a hit. Apparently it influenced Freddie Mercury when he was writing and arranging Bohemian Rhapsody. Highly recommend delving into their albums Original Soundtrack, Sheet Music, and How Dare You. Next song I would recommend is Art For Art’s Sake or I’m Mandy, Fly Me.
Let’s not forget that the “big boys don’t cry” clip was also famously used in the Dickie Goodman classic “Mr Jaws” 😂
I remember Mr. Jaws, Rex. Those crazy sound bites that Dickie Goodman played . He was too funny. Those were my Summers in the 70's, living in Hawaii. My Father was in the Air Force, my family moved to Hawaii, in the 1970's, when I was 9 or 10. Best of Times. Wonderful memories. ☺️☺️♥️
My Dad was an Air Force Veteran. He passed away in 2018. ☹️
From the days when musicians were allowed to create their own music, not the current market-researched jingles.
We had easy access to such great music...at the touch of a dial.
There is a video of them showing how they achieved all the background vocals, you should check it out.
Talk about a man in denial, and afraid to admit to himself that he really is in love..who keeps a picture of a girl on his wall, says it's there to hide a nasty stain and says don't ask to have it back...oh yeah, making excuses to try and hide his true feelings about this girl..looks like he umm...fooled around and fell in love lol..great reaction, Daniel..the sounds on this song are hauntingly beautiful.
Disney is a disgrace and MARVEL TOO….. but don’t dismiss Gardians, they are some of the more respectable films made this century
This was experimental back in the day. Since I was in Elementary school in the 70’s, I always believed this was a beautiful & haunting love song. You reacting to “I’m Not In Love”
Daniel you’re right, the protagonist was in denial, and he was in love. Holy Cow after all these years!! Great reaction, Daniel. ❤❤❤
"...almost experimental..." - good grief - what WOULD BE experimental in your view? LOL
Have u ever listen to Poor man's mody blues by Barclay James Harvest?......I recommend the life version of 1978(?).......a masterpiece and the best live version ever❤❤❤❤❤.......btw, you're so full of feelings and emotions and I guess I love just for that 😃❤️
OMG. DANIEL. GOTGs are a MUST WATCH. TOP TIER. PLEASE REPENT. LET US PRAY.
Written by band members 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.
Music can have such a magical ability to transport someone back to another time, another place, another lifetime . . . Thanks so much for this one young Daniel . . .this took me back decades . . . Somewhere in the late 1960's - early 1970's olden AM rock radio morphed into something called AOR, Album Oriented Rock . . . With its introduction the 3 minute limit on radio songs was smashed . . . AOR played five minute, seven minute nine minute songs . . . And suddenly songs the length of this one could be heard on AOR radio stations which began typically in large college and university but quickly started popping up in smaller markets . . .
AM morphed into "Talk" radio. FM which was known for Classical music, more and more was replaced by LP Rock starting in the late 60's.
There's an episode of Leave It To Beaver, circa 1961, where Eddie Haskell informs Wally that he's just installed an FM radio in his jalopy. When asked by Wally as to why, Eddie proudly informs Wally that people will now view him as "cultured".
That episode provides a snapshot into what FM radio was all about in the early 60's.
seems like a very complex song. Absolutely Beautiful!!!!!
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For your consideration, I'd like to nominate a song by Manfred Mann's Earth Band
"Don't Kill It Carol"
This song came out when I was 14. Amazing sound back then. Still a brilliant song.
“Dreadlock holiday “ is another great song of theirs.
10CC were a "supergroup" of sorts, all of whom had big UK hits in the past (Godley & Creme as Hotlegs, Eric Stewart with the Mindbenders' Groovy Kind Of Love, and Graham Gouldman was a wunderkind songwriter who'd been producing hits for bands like The Hollies since the mid-60s.) They came together to be the house band at the newly-built Strawberry Studios in Manchester which they'd invested in - their first client was Neil Sedaka! They then decided to write & record their own songs for other artists, but were persuaded to release them for themselves under the name 10cc... their albums are full of cleverly arranged, funny songs in all sorts of genres, well worth checking out... try "I'm Mandy, Fly Me" a multi-part song I think you'll get a kick out of!
the song "Cry" by Godley and Creme, two members of 10CC is also very amazing, blending synths into vocals with a similarly emotional tone and lyrics that I like as much as this one, highly recommended!
Please react to 10CC -Dreadlock Holiday -Thanks!!!
There’s great acoustic versions they did of this on TH-cam.
Godley & Creme did such great and varied stuff.
In 10CC, Dreadlock Holiday is my favourite reggae song (I know it’s a bunch of white guys, but it just works for me), and The Things We Do For Love was also cool.
Solo they did the fantastic Englishman In New York (their own song, not Sting’s An Englishman In New York), and I think that would blow your mind, Daniel.
Plus they also directed stuff like the awesome Synchronicity concert for The Police and the original video for Peter Gabriel and Kate Bush doing Peter’s Don’t Give Up.
That’d just a small list of their credits. A very talented duo.
I love Godley and Creme’s “Under Your Thumb”. Very atmospheric and an eerie story.
426st ahh mnan this reminds me of 15yr old me on a summer day in 1975 ....WFIL54 AM Radio Philadelphia ........ damm time Flies
When Daniel says the first few seconds "I like the atmosphere it's making" I'm thinking, just wait! LOL
Definitely check out Good Morning Judge, another 10cc banger
The first I heard when I played it on a MARANTZ 143 system with a Linear Tracking Turntable.
I was 16, and started out with my now wife in June 1975. The song was a sensation. I'm not technically/musically minded but I understand there were many tapes merged into one for this song. 10cc are one of my favourite groups. Musical genius.