Fact #41087
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Short story:
While working with Bob Dylan on his new electric music, Columbia Records producer Tom Wilson has some free studio time. Using Dylan's musicians, he overdubs electric guitar and drums onto The Sound Of Silence, a song by acoustic folk duo Simon And Garfunkel, in the hope that it might be a hit during the current folk-rock boom.
Full article:
Bob Johnston (another Columbia record producer) : They always had multiple albums going on at once. All at Columbia's Studios in New York or Nashville. Highway 61 and Sounds of Silence were done at the same time, same for Blonde on Blonde and Parsley, Sage, Rosemary And Thyme, and John Wesley Harding and Bookends.
Vinnie Bell (session guitarist) : We had no idea what we were going to work on that day - we were just doing a session. So we got there and there were no artists … and we had no music. They just played a demo record (actually an album track) of these two guys singing. It was really trite. Well, everybody got out their own paper, and we started jotting down music. We each made up our own parts, because there was no arranger on it. And we played along to this existing track.
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Vinnie Bell (session guitarist) : We had no idea what we were going to work on that day - we were just doing a session. So we got there and there were no artists … and we had no music. They just played a demo record (actually an album track) of these two guys singing. It was really trite. Well, everybody got out their own paper, and we started jotting down music. We each made up our own parts, because there was no arranger on it. And we played along to this existing track.