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Originally posted by Johnny Stew
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.
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Could be. Maybe we're looking at the genesis out of order. Apparently, Stevie went to Gordon's studio in July 1978 after the band's concert at the Cotton Bowl (Stevie verifies this at the Dallas "Wild Heart" show). By that time, FM had already started tracking "Tusk." They may have tracked early takes of "Sara" by then, too (I have some "Saras" from 1978, but specific dates aren't given). Maybe Stevie took the FM beginnings (brushes, guitars, piano) to Goodnight Dallas with Carolyn & Lori & did some singing on
top of the instrumental stuff. To me, that makes more logistical sense than that Fleetwood Mac somehow laid down instrumentation atop an old piano & vocal demo.
Something else Lori says was a bizarre reminder of something to me. She says that Stevie played her the "Beauty & the Beast" demo from July 1978 in Dallas & told her to sing on her album. Back in '78, I thought the whole solo album thing for Stevie was an "if" rather than a "when." This makes it sound as if Stevie had already decided she
would make an album. Danny Goldberg said the omission of "Silver Springs" (1976) was the "last straw," or something like that. I know in '78 Stevie was dating Fishkin, & Goldberg says that the idea of Modern Records came up when Stevie was still living in the El Contento house, & that Modern Records had already actually been formed by the time she had moved to the Doheny mansion, which she moved to early in 1979, I guess.