Fact #103733
When:
Short story:
The
Nashville Teens enter the UK singles chart with their cover of
the John D.
Loudermilk song Tobacco
Road. It will peak at No6.
Full article:
Mickie Most (producer) : Don Arden, who was promoting the tour I was on when I found The Animals in Newcastle, said that he had got this band that he was managing called The Nashville Teens, and would I go and have a look at them, so I went to have a look at them at some club in South London, UK.
Their repertoire was pretty much standard Chicago r'n'b tunes, but they also did these two John D. Loudermilk songs that were less well-known - to me anyway. The best one was Tobacco Road.
I thought I could do something with it so we went to the studio and cut a couple of things, including Tobacco Road. In the studio, they were fine, very nice guys and I never had any problems with them at all they were really terrific to work with. The two singers were great, keyboard, bass player, drummer - all very nice guys.
I think I made the records sound good. I really worked on the sound of the record and made everything middley and punchy. Because we didn't have all the equipment for echoes then, we had to almost invent echo using tape delay and running tape all round the room.
Shel Talmy (engineer) : While we were doing the session, the guitarist grounded himself on a microphone and got terribly shocked.
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Their repertoire was pretty much standard Chicago r'n'b tunes, but they also did these two John D. Loudermilk songs that were less well-known - to me anyway. The best one was Tobacco Road.
I thought I could do something with it so we went to the studio and cut a couple of things, including Tobacco Road. In the studio, they were fine, very nice guys and I never had any problems with them at all they were really terrific to work with. The two singers were great, keyboard, bass player, drummer - all very nice guys.
I think I made the records sound good. I really worked on the sound of the record and made everything middley and punchy. Because we didn't have all the equipment for echoes then, we had to almost invent echo using tape delay and running tape all round the room.
Shel Talmy (engineer) : While we were doing the session, the guitarist grounded himself on a microphone and got terribly shocked.