and to keep a dead horse running.....b,121b,121how did they do those background 'club/party crowd' noises you can hear in the b/g? I'm just imagining a huge party in the studio, hookers, drugs, booze and bacchanalia....
"He had this riff that seemed very dancable. He was doing crazy things like banging on a half-filled grapefruit juice bottle for rhythm. Well, I kept stuff like that on the track. Also people talking in the studio - that loose feeling. At one point, Don Corneliius from Soul Train comes in and Marvin shouts out, 'Say , Don'. I left it in. Marvin wasnt sure of what I was doing, but he left me alone to piece the song together. On Christmas day,1976,after working on it for months,I ran it over to his house in Hidden Hills. He liked it but still wasnt sure - a typical Marvin reaction. Soon everyone was liking it. And when it came out in '77, it shot to Number One - Soul and Pop."b,121b,121Engineer Art Stewart to David Ritz - Divided Soul '85/91
Comments