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Calvin Carter (A + R man, Vee-Jay Records]: Betty Everett came to me in 1963, and she had this magnificent voice, so I went to New York and got some tunes. I got a song called The Prince of Players and recorded her with that and nothing happened.
Then I went back to New York and got a tune called You're No Good. When I first selected the tune, I selected it for Dee Clark. Then when I went to rehearsal with the tune, it was so negative, I said, 'Hey guys, don't talk negative about girls, because girls are the record buyers. No, I better pass on that.'
So I gave the song to Betty Everett. Then we go into the studio and we're recording it, and The Dells were just sitting in on the recording date. They were sitting on the wooden platform where the string players would sit. Well, they were sitting there on the playback and just stomping their feet on this wooden platform to the beat of the song as it was playing back. So the mikes were open and I heard it. I told the engineer 'Let's do it again, and let's mike those foot sounds, 'cause it really gave it a hell of a beat.'
So we did that, and boom, a hit. Betty Everett, with The Dells on feet. That's how things would happen in those days, you know, by accident. You kept the mikes open and your ears all over the place, and when anything unusual happened, you'd just tape it.
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Then I went back to New York and got a tune called You're No Good. When I first selected the tune, I selected it for Dee Clark. Then when I went to rehearsal with the tune, it was so negative, I said, 'Hey guys, don't talk negative about girls, because girls are the record buyers. No, I better pass on that.'
So I gave the song to Betty Everett. Then we go into the studio and we're recording it, and The Dells were just sitting in on the recording date. They were sitting on the wooden platform where the string players would sit. Well, they were sitting there on the playback and just stomping their feet on this wooden platform to the beat of the song as it was playing back. So the mikes were open and I heard it. I told the engineer 'Let's do it again, and let's mike those foot sounds, 'cause it really gave it a hell of a beat.'
So we did that, and boom, a hit. Betty Everett, with The Dells on feet. That's how things would happen in those days, you know, by accident. You kept the mikes open and your ears all over the place, and when anything unusual happened, you'd just tape it.
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