DCAHNM was to be Stevie's?

JazmenFlowers · #1 02-21-2007, 10:29 AM

I read over on BuckinghamNicks that Don't Come Around Here No More was originally supposed to be on Rock A Little and, well, long story short, Stevie ended up just putting her backing vocals on it for Tom's album.

that's very interesting. but what I'm really interested in is if those are actually Stevie's vocals on Tom's version?

Phoenix · #2 02-21-2007, 10:37 AM

I allways thought that it seemed "Stevie like". Sometimes on the album, it does sound like her backing in parts, and then other times it sounds like someone else. one of my favorites from the tom tour w/ stevie on backround vocals it sounded really good. wonder if theres a version w/ alternate vocals?
Where are the Tom fans...

Livia · #3 02-21-2007, 10:54 AM

Yep - it's Stevie and Sharon on the background vocals.

The story: The song was intended to be for Stevie - and then when she found out that Dave Stewart and Tom had already been working on it without her - she got pissed-off and told Tom that he could just have it.

Stevie talked about this on one of those VH1 video countdown shows - I've got it on VHS somewhere -but I don't have the technology to upload it anywhere. Maybe it's on youtube already??

dontlookdown · #4 02-21-2007, 10:54 AM

me too - it's the most "Stevie" Tom has have ever gotten.
It would have fit right in with the rest of Rock A Little.
But I'm glad things turned out the way they did.
It's a great Tom Petty song, and it really helped people to look at him in a way that they didn't before. He suddenly wasn't only about Breakdown or Refugee.

JazmenFlowers · #5 02-21-2007, 10:56 AM

well I'll be damned. I've loved this song all this time and always thought the backing sounded like Stevie, but was never sure. then, when I saw her doing it with Tom last year, it popped in my mind again...and now, ok, it's now my fav Tom tune.

thanks Livia

strandinthewind · #6 02-21-2007, 11:06 AM

There is a mix of it, which I do not have, where you can clearly hear La Nicks on the chorus. Maybe someone can post it.

ELIUD · #7 02-21-2007, 11:48 AM

I remember hearing that along time ago as well - that it was supposed to be for Stevie - and how pissed I was that she didin't do it. I imagined it would have been a great song for her about quitting drugs. The background singers to me sounded like Sharon and Lori but I never thought Stevie was in it as well. The woman screaming at the end is FABULOUS and my favorite part. I think Stevie should do this song live today. I swear it's getting to where I want Stevie to sing more covers than her own standards.

gldstwmn · #8 02-21-2007, 12:29 PM

Dave Stewart wrote it for her and Petty, I think. For whatever reason, she didn't show up at the recording session but Sharon did. That's the official story anyway. Another huge opportunity missed by Stevie in her solo career. The video is awesome and she would have been fab in it.

Josh2003 · #9 02-21-2007, 04:05 PM

I always thought that Stevie is singing background, but I thought there was a Q&A in which someone says that Stevie is not singing on it, which I still find hard to believe.

Johnny Stew · #10 02-21-2007, 04:34 PM

As has been said, the song was written for Stevie... plus Tom thought Dave Stewart would also be an ideal candidate to take over production on 'Rock A Little,' since Jimmy Iovine had quit. Apparently Stevie & Dave never really clicked though.

Anyway, there are two different versions of the story behind this song.
One goes that Stevie initially started working on the song, and had already laid down some vocals, but abandoned it when she came into the studio late one day and saw that Tom was singing lead as the band was rehearsing it.
Now, depending on who's telling that version, there are two different reactions: She was either pissed that they didn't wait for her and said, "fine -- then you just do the song"... or... she heard Tom singing it and felt it was better suited to him than her.
Either way, in this version of the story, it is said that there are some of Stevie's vocals still on the completed track.

The other story is somewhat similiar, but the difference is that Stevie never sang a note of the song -- coming in to find Tom rehearsing it with the band, and getting pissed that they didn't wait for her.

I can't remember where... I think a VH1 interview within the last 5 or 6 years... but I'm pretty certain that Stevie said her vocals ARE on the finished studio track.

JazmenFlowers · #11 02-21-2007, 06:07 PM

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Originally Posted by Johnny Stew

but I'm pretty certain that Stevie said her vocals ARE on the finished studio track.

I've listened to this song over and over all day and I swear I can't hear Stevie. if she's on it, she's buried somewhere. I can't even hear her on parts where Stevie is usually distinctively heard (like low, breathy parts).

the main female voice in this song always reminded me of Mrs. Loud of Meat Loaf fame.

catinthedark · #12 02-21-2007, 11:38 PM

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Originally Posted by Livia

Yep - it's Stevie and Sharon on the background vocals.

The story: The song was intended to be for Stevie - and then when she found out that Dave Stewart and Tom had already been working on it without her - she got pissed-off and told Tom that he could just have it.

has anyone ever suggested stevie nicks is maybe, perhaps, i hate to say it... a bit of a diva?

amber · #13 02-21-2007, 11:42 PM

I love that version of the story, because it's like Stevie is me in 6th grade, but she's a grown ass woman acting like that.

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Originally Posted by catinthedark

has anyone ever suggested stevie nicks is maybe, perhaps, i hate to say it... a bit of a diva?

Her arms are too fat for her to be a diva.

*relating to the rumor that she scrapped some video that was totally done because she thought her arms looked fat, and made a whole new video*

Which reminds me, I haven't seen the Stand Back video for weeks now. I better go look.

I had always heard the "she didn't sing on it at all, but was supposed to" theory regarding DeeCeeAyyAychEnnEmm (DCAHNM).

sparky · #14 02-21-2007, 11:48 PM

I heard in some interview years ago with TP that she was supposed to sing, and that Sharon and maybe Lori showed up instead.
I can't imagine Stevie in that era being late.

The bg vox are definitely in the Stevie mode.

For some reason I thought I heard that the song was about Stevie at one time, as she really used to pester Tom a lot when they lived in the same neighborhood. I remember him specifically saying, "She was kind of a pest!"

RockALittle250 · #15 02-21-2007, 11:50 PM

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Originally Posted by Livia

Yep - it's Stevie and Sharon on the background vocals.

The story: The song was intended to be for Stevie - and then when she found out that Dave Stewart and Tom had already been working on it without her - she got pissed-off and told Tom that he could just have it.

Stevie talked about this on one of those VH1 video countdown shows - I've got it on VHS somewhere -but I don't have the technology to upload it anywhere. Maybe it's on youtube already??

Stevie getting pissed off...why, that never happens...