Fact #83701
When:
Short story:
Bob
B. Soxx And The Blue Jeans release a new single, Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah on Philles
Records in the USA.
Full article:
Larry Levine [Phil Spector's sound engineer) : On the second record we made [Bob B. Soxx And The Blue Jeans' Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah], things were starting to get out of hand and I knew that I wasn't going to be able to successfully record the sounds on tape at the levels he was instructing me to set. It still took me five or six minutes before I could gather the nerve to turn everything off and say, "You know, this is not going to work." That was because I knew he was going to scream at me, and he did - after all, he was a big-shot producer, and I was nothing at the time.
(Source : http://www.prosoundweb.com/article/behind_the_glass_the_wall_of_sound_deconstructed/P2/)
Al Hazan (producer/songwriter/performer) : When I sat in on the session for Zip-A-Dee Doo-Dah (a rock version of an old Academy Award-winning song), I heard Tommy Tedesco ask Phil between takes what Phil thought of a particular sound he could now create on his guitar. Phil was always ready to listen to new ideas from the musicians even when he was in the middle of the session.
Tommy played the new sound and, after hearing a few bars, Phil laughed and said he thought it was the "dirtiest guitar sound" he'd ever heard, which was a huge compliment.
Tommy's "dirty" guitar ended up as the lead instrumental break and helped turn the record into a big hit in the 1960s. The songwriter, Ray Gilbert, was so thrilled on hearing this updated version of his song that he gave Phil a beautiful gift; an expensive wristwatch with an inscription thanking Phil for recording it.
(Source : http://www.alhazan.com/phil-spector.html)
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(Source : http://www.prosoundweb.com/article/behind_the_glass_the_wall_of_sound_deconstructed/P2/)
Al Hazan (producer/songwriter/performer) : When I sat in on the session for Zip-A-Dee Doo-Dah (a rock version of an old Academy Award-winning song), I heard Tommy Tedesco ask Phil between takes what Phil thought of a particular sound he could now create on his guitar. Phil was always ready to listen to new ideas from the musicians even when he was in the middle of the session.
Tommy played the new sound and, after hearing a few bars, Phil laughed and said he thought it was the "dirtiest guitar sound" he'd ever heard, which was a huge compliment.
Tommy's "dirty" guitar ended up as the lead instrumental break and helped turn the record into a big hit in the 1960s. The songwriter, Ray Gilbert, was so thrilled on hearing this updated version of his song that he gave Phil a beautiful gift; an expensive wristwatch with an inscription thanking Phil for recording it.
(Source : http://www.alhazan.com/phil-spector.html)