Fact #153993
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Short story:
Sonny And Cher release a new single, The Beat Goes On, in the USA.
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Carol Kaye (session musician) : On the session for The Beat Goes On, I was on acoustic guitar (usually I played electric 12-string fill parts for them but this was different), and the song was played for us. And it sounded like a nothing tune, a one-chord droning on "song" with a boring dotted quarter, then eighth single-noted bassline. That was Bob West on electric bass playing the written part.
I was playing a lot of bass dates already so automatically started to play several made-up basslines to see if I could come up with a rabbit out of a hat for this dog of a tune. About the fourth or fifth line, I came up with the line you hear today. And I do credit Sonny stopping the band and saying, "That's it, Carol. What's that line you're playing?"
So I played it and he gave it to the bassist, and you hear both of us playing it together which was kind of common in those days, guitar and electric bass together in unison. I wish you could've heard it with the original boring line and then heard the difference.
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I was playing a lot of bass dates already so automatically started to play several made-up basslines to see if I could come up with a rabbit out of a hat for this dog of a tune. About the fourth or fifth line, I came up with the line you hear today. And I do credit Sonny stopping the band and saying, "That's it, Carol. What's that line you're playing?"
So I played it and he gave it to the bassist, and you hear both of us playing it together which was kind of common in those days, guitar and electric bass together in unison. I wish you could've heard it with the original boring line and then heard the difference.