Yeh...Karen Carpenter's recorded her first 45 record in Joe's garage studio...1966 I think. Side A-th-cam.com/video/j8NzQOKN_po/w-d-xo.html Side B-th-cam.com/video/dz4MT5D6fFw/w-d-xo.html
I'm surprised Joe didn't mention this..... Songfacts®: Travelin Man This song was written by Jerry Fuller, a singer who had minor hits in 1959 with "Betty My Angel" and a cover of "Tennessee Waltz." Fuller wrote "Travelin' Man" one day at De Longpre Park in Hollywood while he was waiting to pick up his wife. He didn't play an instrument, so he beat out the melody on his car's dashboard. For the lyrics, Fuller came up with a "girl in every port" idea - a guy who travels all over the world and finds a different girl waiting for him wherever he goes. He used an atlas to get ideas for places, and looked up what the word for "girl" was in those places, so in German it's "Fraulien," in Mexico it's "Senorita," and in Alaska it's a "cute little Eskimo." He couldn't figure out what the term was in Hawaii, so he went with "pretty Polynesian baby." Fuller recorded a demo of this song with Glen Campbell on guitar. He was hoping Sam Cooke would record it, so he brought it to Cooke's manager, J.W. Alexander. "Joe Osborn, who was Ricky's bass player, heard it through the wall," Fuller said. "He said, 'J.W., do you have that 'Travelin'' song you just played?' He said, 'Yeah, you can have it,' and he reached in the trash and he pulled out the demo." Osborn brought the song to Nelson, who loved it and recorded it. The song became his second (and last) #1 hit, and gave him a huge career boost. Nelson used Elvis Presley's backing singers The Jordanaires on this song, as he did on most of his recordings. He loved the background vocals on the demo though, which were done by Fuller, Glen Campbell and Dave Burgess. Nelson brought them in to record on subsequent records.
2:15 So true...Vicksburg ain't changed much at all since 63' when the confederate army surrendered to Gen. Grant and they gained control of the mighty Misissippi river that changed the tide of the war✊😁
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I love the bass line he laid down for the Carpenters song "Let Me Be The One"
Yeh...Karen Carpenter's recorded her first 45 record in Joe's garage studio...1966 I think.
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I'm surprised Joe didn't mention this.....
Songfacts®: Travelin Man
This song was written by Jerry Fuller, a singer who had minor hits in 1959 with "Betty My Angel" and a cover of "Tennessee Waltz." Fuller wrote "Travelin' Man" one day at De Longpre Park in Hollywood while he was waiting to pick up his wife. He didn't play an instrument, so he beat out the melody on his car's dashboard.
For the lyrics, Fuller came up with a "girl in every port" idea - a guy who travels all over the world and finds a different girl waiting for him wherever he goes. He used an atlas to get ideas for places, and looked up what the word for "girl" was in those places, so in German it's "Fraulien," in Mexico it's "Senorita," and in Alaska it's a "cute little Eskimo." He couldn't figure out what the term was in Hawaii, so he went with "pretty Polynesian baby."
Fuller recorded a demo of this song with Glen Campbell on guitar. He was hoping Sam Cooke would record it, so he brought it to Cooke's manager, J.W. Alexander. "Joe Osborn, who was Ricky's bass player, heard it through the wall," Fuller said. "He said, 'J.W., do you have that 'Travelin'' song you just played?' He said, 'Yeah, you can have it,' and he reached in the trash and he pulled out the demo."
Osborn brought the song to Nelson, who loved it and recorded it. The song became his second (and last) #1 hit, and gave him a huge career boost.
Nelson used Elvis Presley's backing singers The Jordanaires on this song, as he did on most of his recordings. He loved the background vocals on the demo though, which were done by Fuller, Glen Campbell and Dave Burgess. Nelson brought them in to record on subsequent records.
2:15 So true...Vicksburg ain't changed much at all since 63' when the confederate army surrendered to Gen. Grant and they gained control of the mighty Misissippi river that changed the tide of the war✊😁