Big Love - Stevie Version

[PenguinHead]

Originally Posted by MacAttack

Somebody posted some new remixes of Mac songs the other day. One is a version of Big Love that clearly has Stevie singing a few lines from it. Does anyone know where these recordings came from? Or if there is a whole version of Big Love with Stevie singing it? That would blow my mind. Thanks in advance.

They may be new remixes to you, but I think the mixes you are referring to are from the Tango era. 12" discs were released with extended dance remixes of Big Love, Seven Wonders, Little Lies and Everywhere. (I have them all, but I'm too lazy to see who remixed them.) I don't believe there was ever a version of the song with Stevie singing lead -- it's very much a Buckingham song!

The Big Love remix is very interesting for the inclusion of Stevie's vocal interjections. It's up to speculation as to whether these vocals were recorded exlusively for the extended remixes -- most likely Stevie's vocal lines were pulled from the studio outtakes. I suspect band had no involvement with the extended versions. I recall Stevie singing solo a repetative "house upon the hill."

I love when Lindsey appeared on the Letterman show, doing his customary acoustic version of the song. Stevie sang the chorus lines with him and it was great. I wish she would do this in concert -- but she'd have to give up a bathroom break.