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Tears Are Not Enough Producer David Foster was my idol as a kid after seeing him put together this charity track in 1985 with all of Canada's best talent. Joni Mitchell later spoke to writer Iain Blair about the recording experience: "I know it sounds ridiculous, but I was literally starving when we did the session 'cause my yoga teacher had sent me to a psychic dietician who, while rubbing her chin and swinging her arm around in a circle, had diagnosed a lot of food allergies. The result was, predictably, that I was hardly allowed to eat anything, so by the time I arrived with an apple and a rice patty, my poor stomach was making all these strange noises. Then we get in the studio, and the engineer says he can't record 'cause he's picking up some weird rumbling sound coming from my direction. (She laughed.) And it was all pretty ironic, considering the subject matter!" At one point during the recording process, Foster also had Neil Young re-record his line after singing the word "innocence" flat, to which Young famously quipped, "That's my sound, man." Another favorite moment -seeing Anne Murray nail the first take, and then asked to record a couple more.. then she suggests the first take was the best one - and she's right. | |
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That's sort of funny because I saw a interview on television about this recording and Anne said that David kept making her sing her line again and again... and she could understand why he was making her sing it over, so she asked him. She said he said " I am waiting for the magic to happen"... in the interview her response was "it areadly happened asshole".. I have never forgotten that. I made me laugh. | |
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Well, she was certainly more cordial in the boof | |
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It's at 5:52 on this video (the most interesting stuff is in this one) | |
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Alot of the big name solos are on part 2, but that's not all.. here's part 3 [Edited 12/7/15 15:45pm] | |
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I thought this thread was about the ABC joint! | |
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I love Foster (well up until the mid 90's then he just got real lazy), but this song is poor as hell. Seriously, his "Voices that care" is a miles better tune. Still, as a Live Aid nut, I still remember Bryan Adams doing this acapella (though I think the feed I grew up watching got cut off, unlike this one...
Nice attempt, but damn compare that song to "do they know its christmas" or even "we are the world", and it's pretty terrible.
Heres "Voices that care", with Ralph Tresvant getting the first 2 lines, in a song with a pretty melody. And where else will you find a song with Brenda Russell and Bobby Brown standing next to each other LOL
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I thought this was about the ABC song Straight Jacket Funk Affair
Album plays and love for vinyl records. | |
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okay, I know that group but not that track. | |
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