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Originally posted by David
That doesn't make sense to me. It may be possible, but I don't think it's practical. Generally, you need to lay down the drum tracks first. How on earth could Fleetwood Mac record over a "demo"? Where did the demo meter come from? And where did you learn that Lori Perry & Carolyn Brooks are vocalizing? On the Nicks Fix singers page, Carolyn just says that she remembers Lori & Gordon doing some vocals for some Stevie demos a few years before "The Wild Heart" was being recorded. Other fans think it's Lori & Sharon. When we're listening, how do we know which witch is which?
The "cleaning lady" thing is, to my ears, a Fleetwood Mac work in progress.
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No one seems to have a conclusive answer on the origins of that "Cleaning Lady" outtake... which is why I said, "it seems that...."
You're right, Carolyn Brooks only mentions putting backing vocals on "a couple of demos," but Lori Nicks actually identifies those demos as being "Sara" and "Beauty And The Beast."
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One night, after a show in Dallas, Stevie came to Gordon’s studio, “Goodnight Dallas,” to record some demos. She recorded two songs: “Sara” and “Beauty and the Beast.”
Stevie found out that I sang, and suggested I try to put some background parts on the songs. I was so flattered, but a bit reticent to do so.... I really didn’t feel that I had the talent to sing on a “Stevie Nicks” song. Finally, after much urging by Gordon, and the promise that my best friend, Carolyn Brooks, would sing with me, we went into the studio and added background vocals and had a musician put keyboards on the demo “Beauty and the Beast”. When Stevie heard the demo, she called me and told me right then that when she started her solo record, she wanted me to be one of her back-up singers, along with Sharon Celani.
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Some fans have long argued that there's no way Fleetwood Mac would have had other backing singers on one of their songs at that time, and they're right in that argument... and yet, the backing vocals on the "Cleaning Lady" outtake are most definitely not Lindsey and Christine. So the only explanation for that, would seem to be that this "Cleaning Lady" version must be a hybrid of Stevie's Dallas demo and FM's overdubbed instrumentation... of course there's no conclusive proof that that's the case.
Perhaps Stevie's Dallas demo was recorded using a metronome to keep time?
Mick has said that "Sara" was one of the most difficult songs he ever worked on, because he had to get it "just right" to fit the song... of course that doesn't necessarily prove anything either.
I guess the best thing we can hope for is that they did indeed include this version on the remastered 'Tusk,' and that those "extensive liner notes" will offer some explanation as to the song's origins.