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Fact #41691

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First generation San Francisco hippy band Jefferson Airplane record Today in RCA Music Center Of The World, Sunset Boulevard, Los Angeles, California, USA, for RCA Records. Jerry Garcia of the Grateful Dead plays guitar on the track.

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Marty Balin (Jefferson Airplane) : I wrote it to try to meet Tony Bennett. He was recording in the next studio. I admired him, so I thought I'd write him a song. I never got to meet him, but the Airplane ended up doing it.

Jorma Kaukonen (guitarist, Jefferson Airplane) : Jerry could be credited with really being the producer in the real sense of the word in that he was one of us and he knew what to do with the band .... He really was the producer who arranged those songs.