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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsJust curious--does anyone remember Sonny & Cher singing "The Beat Goes On?"
I have a VERY good reason for asking.........
DFW
(54,384 posts)hedda_foil
(16,374 posts)Remember.
DFW
(54,384 posts)DFW
(54,384 posts)The lyrics might be a little different. Stay tuned...............
3catwoman3
(23,987 posts)Why do you ask?
DFW
(54,384 posts)Should be fun...............
DFW
(54,384 posts)dchill
(38,493 posts)DFW
(54,384 posts)haven't heard it in a while.
DFW
(54,384 posts)Try this version:
reACTIONary
(5,770 posts)DFW
(54,384 posts)Silver Gaia
(4,544 posts)Now I have an ear worm! LOL
DFW
(54,384 posts)DFW
(54,384 posts)reACTIONary
(5,770 posts)DFW
(54,384 posts)3catwoman3
(23,987 posts)That would be an enjoyable ear worm. 🐛
Are you familiar with the delightful musical parodies done by a gentleman who goes by the name of Rocky Mountain Mike? His creations are regularly featured on the Stephanie Miller radio show.
If you Google him, there are lots of different links. Like you, he has a good sense of keeping with the beat/rhythm.
DFW
(54,384 posts)But if so, it was long ago. Sounds like worth checking out.
MrScorpio
(73,631 posts)DFW
(54,384 posts)It's a good thing he stuck to drumming and not managing his daughter's singing career!
I notice that Salvatore (Sonny) Bono's grammatical error in pronouncing reminisce "remonisce" was repeated!!
samnsara
(17,622 posts)N_E_1 for Tennis
(9,724 posts)Listened on my little transistor radio.
C_U_L8R
(45,002 posts)gratuitous
(82,849 posts)Carol Kaye is interviewed there, and gives the same story about coming up with the bass line for the song.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wrecking_Crew_(2008_film)
The name came from the arrival of a bunch of studio musicians in Los Angeles, who were going to revolutionize the way music was played and recorded. A handful of them established careers on their own, but most of them were just that: Session musicians sitting in for established singers and acts. I don't know why I eat this stuff up, but I do.
Brother Buzz
(36,434 posts)The Wrecking Crew: The Inside Story of Rock and Roll's Best-Kept Secret
by Kent Hartman
It covers the same material, but from a different perspective. It's fully indexed, and makes an excellent companion read to reference stuff while watching the film (and there's a LOT of stuff to reference).
I believe it was in the book, an established contemporary drummer gave us this nugget - "My top ten favorite drummers, growing up, turned out to be one dude (Earl Palmer).
Gidney N Cloyd
(19,835 posts)secondwind
(16,903 posts)DFW
(54,384 posts)Not that he seems the musical scholar in the first place:
Even as a child, I also remember wondering why she was with him.
DFW
(54,384 posts)And you never know what starts a spark. I never figured out what my wife ever saw in me, and we've been together now for over 45 years.
Anyway, here's what at least Cher might be singing, were she to revisit the song today:
Harker
(14,018 posts)I only knew the woman I loved was making a mistake.
Brother Buzz
(36,434 posts)Brother Buzz
(36,434 posts)DFW
(54,384 posts)Gidney N Cloyd
(19,835 posts)Unless you like liner notes-- and are there liner notes anymore?
Brother Buzz
(36,434 posts)along with most of the session musicians, but everyone who needed to know, knew she was laying down the bass lines.
Best is subjective, but she was arguably the most recorded, and the certainly the most creative. Hell, her background in jazz guitar stood her well in understanding music structure; smart producers didn't ever bother writing her parts, "Just get the feel for the song, then make up something cool.".
Side note: The bass or the drums generally keep time in a song, and the BIG session drummers during that period were Hal Blaine and Earl Palmer. Carol Kaye was a real close friend of Earl Palmer, and they could pass the responsibility back and forth, depending on the piece. Hal Blaine, a self-promoting chauvinistic asshole could, NEVER, EVER, do that.
Gidney N Cloyd
(19,835 posts)Brother Buzz
(36,434 posts)and just about your post, I mentioned a book on the wrecking Crew with the same title. The book and the film are two different items entirely. If you really like the Wrecking Crew, and if you read this American Heritage article by Hartman, I guarantee it will blow your socks off and you'll run out and locate a copy of his book. FWIW, this AH piece was my introduction to the Wrecking Crew.
https://www.americanheritage.com/wrecking-crew
(Bummer, the article is four pages long and DU's copyright thingy only allows me to post four paragraphs)
The Wrecking Crew
Was Hal Blaine one of your favorite musicians back in the 1960s? How about Larry Knechtel? Carol Kaye? Oh yes they were.
Kent Hartman
February/March 2007
Volume 58 Issue 1
On a cool, overcast February night in Hollywood, near the slightly scruffy, down-on-its-luck intersection of Vine Street and Santa Monica Boulevardthe final stretch of Route 66a group of highly talented musicians gathered in a weathered, non-descript former dentists office are about to make rock n roll history. No one present, from the bass player to the drummer to the guitarist, has any inkling that this particular studio session is likely to differ from any other. For the song being cut this night is by the Beach Boys, one of the biggest bands in pop music, and a band quite accustomed to churning out Top 10 AM radio favorites.
As Brian Wilson, the groups producer and chief songwriter, calls out instructions from the control booth over the talk-back speakerlets play a little tighter on that first break, okay, guys?the drummer clears his throat, counts off one, two, three, four, and suddenly a staccato burst of Hammond B2 organ notes, punctuated by the rhythmic thump of a Fender bass guitar and a cleverly syncopated snare drum, begins to fill Gold Star Recording Studios. The sound of the future number one hit Good Vibrations is clearly evident. Yep, this is the Beach Boys all right. Except its not. In fact, theres not a Beach Boy in the room.
During the sixties and seventies, perhaps the most fertile period of popular music our nation has ever produced, recording stars such as the Monkees, Carpenters, Gary Lewis and the Playboys, Jan & Dean, the Beach Boys, the Association, the Grass Roots, Simon and Garfunkel, Paul Revere & the Raiders, Kenny Rogers & the First Edition, the Mamas and the Papas, and dozens more ruled the airwaves. However, most listeners are likely unaware that a good share of these legendary artists seldom, if ever , played any of the instruments on their own records.
Thats right. Virtually all the instruments were played by an uncredited close-knit group of Los Angeles studio musicians, often referred to today by insiders as the Wrecking Crew (a name coined by the drummer Hal Blaine after the fact to describe how he and other sidemen had revolutionized the recording industry). From Last Train to Clarksville to Monday, Monday to Mrs. Robinson, these same studio pros time and again provided most or all of the guitars, bass, drums, keyboards, horns, and more on hundreds of the best-known singles and albums of all time. Their collective story provides a surprising behind-the-scenes glimpse of the creation of the songs that became the soundtrack for one of the most socially volatile periods in American history.
(More, a lot more)
https://www.americanheritage.com/wrecking-crew
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12129983-the-wrecking-crew
Gidney N Cloyd
(19,835 posts)lillypaddle
(9,580 posts)why?