"The Chain" question

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Originally Posted by Macfan4life

Wow, I will have to listen. I don't recall ever hearing this.
I love little known music mysteries like this.

Did you know the "Turn it up" at the beginning of Sweet Home Alabama was a mistake? The singer was talking about the music in his headphones before singing. After listening to the song, they thought it sounded cool to leave it in the song.

And Beat it from Michael Jackson. The door knock before the guitar solo was also by accident. There was a janitor that was knocking on the door to clean the studio and it was picked up on tape. They decided to leave it in anyway.

During the 20 year anniversary of Rumours it was described how they almost lost the entire album since all the recordings were on tape. There was no digital in those days. And they played the tape so many times that it no longer had a crisp sound. They they had to mix the original tape with the new additional tape with the overdubs and other things together. I wonder if this sound is part of this process.

Yeah, they had to make an emergency backup copy of the tape since they'd worn the magnetic part of the tape almost completely away.

Also on Jackson Browne's Running On Empty album, a few songs were recorded either in a hotel room or on the touring bus. In one song, I forget which, you can hear the driver down-shift in the background.

On "A Day In The Life" (from Sgt Pepper) Mal Evans (one of the Beatles inner circle) set an alarm clock to signal the orchestra to end the big build up in the middle of the song. They just left the sound of the alarm clock going off in the final mix since it fit McCartney's next line..."Woke up, fell out of bed..."

Don't remember the song, but on the Rolling Stones' Satanic Majesties Request album, there's somebody snoring at the end of one of the songs...it was Keef. He'd fallen asleep during the recording of the song and started to snore...they left it in the mix.

I love reading this kind of stuff.