Sable on Blond demos?
 

Is it just me, or is it hard to find demos for Sable on Blond? It's not on this site, for example, and I've heard a total of two demos.

One of them - it's a bit more rocking than the album version - is on YouTube. I really like it, but it's only a clip (please tell me there's a full version somewhere :laugh: ). Here's the other demo. The quality isn't great and the drums appear to be out of sync.

So are there any more Sable on Blond demos or is it just one of those songs that doesn't have 400 piano demos? :laugh:

Oh wow, I freaking love her vocal on that first version of the song. I don't know if there are any other Sable on Blonde demos out there, but, I really hope there are. Especially after hearing that!

I think in general TWH is the album with the least amount of demos. I'm probably wrong though.

I agree. It also seems like the Wild Heart demos are really muffled and the sound quality just sucks.

In the same vein, what about Enchanted? I Will Run to You? I can't say I've ever heard any demos for those songs. Surely they must be out there :shrug:

i've always loved that song and this is the first demos i've ever heard...thanks!

That's the video I made!!!;) This is the only demo I know of and I've been looking for years cause this is my second favorite song of Stevie's next to 'Sara"..... I actually think the demos are the same, just the one in the video I made is a little better quality than the other you posted..I agree,, I love the Wild Heart album but have been disappointed more demos aren't floating around..:(

There's only the one, in varying quality. Same vocal, exactly the same.

Well that's utterly depressing. :laugh:

Yes, it is. The Wild Heart has the least outtakes and demos in fans' hands of all of Stevie' eras.

Let's see: There are abysmal sounding extended-length album versions of:

"Wild Heart"
"Nightbird"

Incredibly COOL extra ending vocals, but the sound is atrocious.

Then there are the (also abysmal-sounding) "early mixes" of "Stand Back", but nothing extra vocal-wise (that happened in 2007 with the Crystal Visions "Stand Back" remixes utilizing un-used vocals from 1983).

That leaves us with for outtakes (not the ones on albums or soundtracks) and demos:

"Destiny" - Full-length 6-minutes and 4-minute edit.
"All The Beautiful Worlds"
"Dial The Number" - 2 takes from 1982.
"Sable On Blond"
"If Anyone Falls"
"Julia"
"Nothing Ever Changes"
"Violet And Blue"
"One More Tomorrow"
"Beauty And The Beast" - 2 Takes/Demos from The Wild Heart (discounting the 1978 piano demos and Tusk version).

All of the above are pretty great sound-wise, some better than others, but most very listenable. But not a lot. And since the release of the Rock A Little work tapes, The Wild Heart looks even more skimpy.

Sounds interesting, could you post it? "Wild Heart" has always been, for me, the absolute best Stevie vocal.

I just heard this song about 2 weeks ago and am absolutely in love.Having only heard the epic album version I would love to hear how the song evolved:). Is there any way I could find the tusk versions and demos that you speak of? Are they available for download?

Do you have the lyrics for "Wild Heart"? The extended vocals are those extras lyrics at the end, where Stevie is going on and on:

"Even in the back!
Even in the back!!!
Baby, baby, baby..."

And so forth, just incredible!!!! If only Enchanted had included this full end version (and "Nightbird", which also has the extra lyrics as seen on the lyrics sheet.).

"Beauty And The Beast" - Evolution goes:

1978 Piano demo session, about 23 minutes long, usually broken up into 3 parts. Stevie describes seeing the French movie and constructs the song on piano. Tom Montcrieff is there with her (not Tom Petty).

1978-1979 - A fully-produced version of "Beauty And The Beast" is on a completed Master Reel of Stevie's Tusk songs, including her 5 on the album, and "The Dealer".

Circa 1982 - Two different takes with piano and synthesizers that sound like orchestral instruments, sounding closer to the album version on The Wild Heart. One version has a male voice talking French at the end.

if Violet and Blue would have made The Wild Heart I think that album would have been even more amazing.....its still my favorite cd but wow!! I would have loved to have seen it after Gate & Garden

That's where I put it, too!

I also put "Garbo" in between "Nightbird" and "Stand Back".

I'll post the above stuff tomorrow if no one else does by then.

I had these already uploaded. I'll try to get the rest tomorrow!

"Destiny"
http://www.mediafire.com/?ebt8jg2tqzfdtcd

"Destiny" - Edit
http://www.mediafire.com/?ukxgsbvsw777qy7

"One More Tomorrow"
http://www.mediafire.com/?99nzv2ipplpu2gp

"Julia" - The Wild Heart Outtake
http://www.mediafire.com/?q0d2qq7aqc5ki34

"All The Beautiful Worlds"
http://www.mediafire.com/?jzodmzexmh2

"Nothing Ever Changes" - Demo
http://www.mediafire.com/?j8xnb6btchrx1oz

"Sable On Blond" - Demo
http://www.mediafire.com/?44tqlpn9lp6szaw

"Beauty And The Beast" - Demo from The Wild Heart
http://www.mediafire.com/?2rf2czaw37br7pe

"Violet And Blue" - Outtake
http://www.mediafire.com/?ya1m3m8lcw21pr6

"If Anyone Falls" - Outtake
http://www.mediafire.com/?i1kibrbt725uwek

"Violet And Blue" - 1991 Remix
http://www.mediafire.com/?3hmdu74vu5n1r2i

Thanks for those links! I just listened to Sable on Blond and it sounds a lot better than the one I had.

So I wonder happened to the Wild Heart outtakes and demos. Is somebody hoarding them or were they thrown out?

Beauty and the Beast blues jam!

Mmmmmmm :thumbsup: I like that.....I'm such a huge fan of Wild Heart that I really like the idea of having Violet & Blue balancing Nothing Ever Changes...like bookends! I think I would put Garbo after Nothin Ever Changes!

"Beauty And The Beast" - Tusk Outtake
http://www.mediafire.com/?8m8h2j4v836d0cp

"Beauty And The Beast" - Piano Demo 1
http://www.mediafire.com/?eccqxpkl5vx84i4

"Beauty And The Beast" - Piano Demo 2
http://www.mediafire.com/?1ryzufo22vc62al

"Beauty And The Beast" - Piano Demo 3
http://www.mediafire.com/?rbqkc7hadrsl8k3

What about that one version of "I Sing for the Things," with a full band in a fairly rocking arrangement, where she ends by repeating "Any-thiiiiiing..."

I always thought that was from TWH sessions? Sound quality not great. My favorite version of that song, by far.

There's tape of an FM jam session from the Mirage sessions of Eyes Of The World and you can hear Stevie working out parts of Enchanted.

mp3 file is here:
http://www.mediafire.com/?aznojrgmzmm

But you probably knew that!

Here is the other demo of "Beauty And the Beast" from The Wild Heart. This one has the male French vocals in it.

"Beauty And the Beast" - Demo 2 from The Wild Heart
http://www.mediafire.com/?w19i8gaoyw3mj4k

I had hope to finish with the 2 versions of "Dial The Number" and the full ending vocals of "Wild Heart" and "Nightbird", but Mediafire has stopped working for me today. Maybe another day.

Not great quality, but listen to Stevie go WILD on the extended ending of "Wild Heart"!!!


"Wild Heart" - Full End Lyric
http://www.mediafire.com/?hbbcjs3qf3nehgo

"Nightbird" - Full End Lyric
http://www.mediafire.com/?ca14j6ytwuv49fn

Outtakes from The Wild Heart, recorded and copyrighted in 1982, Lyrics by Stevie, Music by Stevie and Sandy Stewart:

"Dial The Number" - Outtake 1
http://www.mediafire.com/?zde3i2oiv325a7g

"Dial The Number" - Outtake 2
http://www.mediafire.com/?cb4i9iqorzfnyfq

Posted for GoldDustWoman22, just in case she doesn't have this live version of "Beauty And the Beast" on The Wild Heart Tour from November 1983, broadcast on Westwood One Radio:

"Beauty And The Beast" - Live 11/1983 Westwood One
http://www.mediafire.com/?6og38wx89f902o8

MIke - Thank you so, so much for all the demos and the live performance!! I just checked this thread so they are all downloading now I cannot wait to listen!! Beauty and the Beast is one of my very favorite songs ever! So beautiful and so haunting!! Thanks so much...I really appreciate it!! :)

This is why Stevie's albums need to be remastered, so we can get amazing quality versions of these extended versions and demos! :blob2:

thanks for all the goodies :)