#Recording Session

[blondebrainpowered]

Fred Flinstone voiced by Alan Redd, Wilma Flinstone voiced by Jean Vander Pyl, Betty Rubble voiced by Bea Benaderet, Barney Rubble voiced by Mel Blanc, 1960s

[11oh1]

[keyofnow]

The White Album diary

The Beatles, a.k.a. “The White Album”, was recorded and produced in exactly 20 weeks from 30 May to 17 October 1968.

Notes On The Esher Demos Week 0: India to Esher, and “Revolution” Week 1: More “Revolution 1”, and “Don't Pass Me By” Week 2: “Blackbird”, and then the calm before the storm Week 3: Paul's birthday, “Revolution 9”, and Paul goes AWOL Week 4: “Sour Milk Sea” and “Everybody's Got Something To Hide...” Week 5: Stirrings of “Good Night” and “Ob-La-Di Ob-La-Da” Week 6: Remakes of “Ob-La-Di” and “Revolution” Progress Report #1: How their workflow compares to Sgt. Pepper Week 7: “Cry, Baby, Cry”, and Geoff Emerick quits Week 8: “Good Night” and “While My Guitar Gently Weeps” Week 9: “Hey Jude” at Trident Week 10: “Not Guilty” and “Mother Nature's Son” Progress Report #2: At the halfway point Week 11: “Sexy Sadie”, “Yer Blues”, “Mary Jane”, “Rocky Raccoon” Week 12: “Wild Honey Pie”, “Back In The U.S.S.R.”, and Ringo quits Week 13: “Dear Prudence” at Trident Week 14: Ringo returns, “While My Guitar Gently Weeps” remake Week 15: Enter Chris Thomas, “Helter Skelter”, and “Glass Onion” Week 16: “I Will”, “Birthday”, and “Piggies” Week 17: “Happiness Is A Warm Gun” Progress Report #3: Crunch time in Pepperland Week 18: “Honey Pie”, “Savoy Truffle”, and “Martha...”, all at Trident Week 19: “Long...”, “...Tired”, “...Bungalow Bill”, “...Do It In The Road?” Week 20: “Julia”, final overdubs, and marathon sequencing sesh The White Album Sessions In Review

And of course, the Get Back sessions kicked off exactly 11 weeks after the last White Album session. So in a very real way, the “White Album Beatles” are exactly who we're hanging with at Twickenham and Apple in January 1969...

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[sukipotier]

Suki Potier in the Beatles recording session of "A Day in The Life". February 10, 1967

[royalfoolsband]

in the studio for "madaket"

[astrangehourofrecoil]

Alan on the recording of “In Your Room”

That song was quite difficult. We recorded the song three or four different ways. One was entirely as you hear it in the second verse, with the smaller drum kit and the “groovy” bass line. But the whole song with that rhythm wasn’t strong enough; it didn’t go anywhere. We had the song structure from a fairly early stage. We knew where we wanted the verses, choruses, and middle eights. So much as I did with “I Feel You,” I went in and played drums along with the track in one particular style, then did it again in a funkier style, and so on.

[augustyearroundprod]

Sometimes all it takes is a little time and the love of some of your closest friends…

Another behind the scenes moment captured from CHAPTER NINE of MOONBURN, our queer YA fiction podcast. Check out the full episode wherever you get your podcasts. Season Two new episodes drop every Wednesday morning!

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📝 Show Summary: When a down-on-his-luck 18-year-old named Lucas moves into a NYC boarding home for a fresh start, he discovers decades-old diary cassette tapes left behind by the room’s first occupant, Carter. The tapes foreshadow tragedy, but they also lay out a beautiful path for surviving in the city. With the heartfelt stories and invaluable advice contained within these tapes, Lucas embarks on his journey�� through the trials and tribulations of life in a new city, accepting himself, creating lifelong friendships, falling in love, and even uncovering a few mysteries about his new home.

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[sjwallin]

Had a wonderful recording session at Stagg Street Studio in Van Nuys, CA today with Claire Fedoruk (soprano), Lydia Wu (piano), and Dave Martinez (engineer)!

[hooked-on-elvis]

ELVIS RECORDED A SONG FOR HIS FATHER

The story of the track “If I’m A Fool (For Loving You)” recorded at the American Sound Studio in Memphis, Tennessee (1969)

[ABOVE] Elvis and his father, Vernon Presley, early 60s and 70s.

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JANUARY 20, 1969 - AMERICAN SOUND STUDIO, MEMPHIS TENNESSEE

Elvis was working with the musicians in the studio since the night before, January 19. The night went on and it was already past midnight when, during a pause to catch the breath, Elvis Presley casually finds another song to record yet at that same recording session.

JANUARY 20, 1969 - AMERICAN SOUND STUDIO, MEMPHIS, TENNESSEE By 4:30 the next morning they were tired — and they’d pretty much exhausted the song list they’d come in with. Elvis and piano player Bobby Wood were sitting quietly on the piano bench talking about religion and music. Bobby had had a minor hit as a recording artist with “Searchin’” and had recorded Sun writer Stan Kesler’s “If I’m A Fool (For Loving You).” Elvis introduced Bobby to his father, and when Vernon said that “If I’m A Fool” was one of his favorites, Elvis decided to give it a try. Excerpt from "Elvis Presley: A Life in Music - The Complete Recording Sessions" (1998) by Ernst Jorgensen and Peter Guralnick

In an interview, this is what Bobby himself said about that moment:

Q: In 1964, you had a hit. Can you tell us when Elvis covered it? A: Yes, 'If I'm a Fool' in 1964 was a pretty big hit for me and so Elvis had know about that and his dad came in one night at the studio while we were recording Elvis. And he said, 'Dad, I'd like to have you meet somebody here'. And so he brought him over and I shook hands with him and then he introduced us and he said, 'Do you know who this guy is?' And he said, 'No, I'm not sure'. So Elvis said, 'What's your favorite record'. And he said, 'If I'm a Fool'. And he said, 'This is the guy that sang it'. And of course his father just said, 'Woah'. So Elvis went on and did it for his dad because that was one of his dad's favorite songs at the time.

Source: www.elvis.com.au

— BOBBY WOOD'S "IF I'M A FOOL (FOR LOVING YOU)", THE SONG VERNON PRESLEY HEARD AND APPRECIATED:

— [BELOW] Bobby Wood's EP released in 1964

— [BELOW] ELVIS' RECORDINGS: TAKES 1, 2 & 3 — JANUARY 20, 1969

What Elvis thought about his own performance on the song:

Maybe it was just too late in the day to introduce a new song, but even with Bobby’s help the master they produced elicited only one word from Elvis: “Rotten.” It’s a measure of how high Elvis’s standards had risen by this point: The master of “If I’m A Fool” may have been one of the lesser cuts Elvis made at American, but measured against the years of Hollywood soundtrack crap that came before, it was still a giant leap of musicality. Excerpt from "Elvis Presley: A Life in Music - The Complete Recording Sessions" (1998) by Ernst Jorgensen and Peter Guralnick

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THE MASTER OF "IF I'M A FOOL (FOR LOVING YOU)" WAS FIRST RELEASED IN 1970 IN THE COMPILATION ALBUM "LET'S BE FRIENDS".

Later the track was also released in the reissued album "From Elvis in Memphis" as bonus track in the "40th Anniversary Edition" (legacy edition, 2009).

MUSIC INFO: IF I'M A FOOL (FOR LOVING YOU)

Lyrics by Stanley Kesler.

Recorded February 20, 1969 at American Sound Studio, Memphis.

Guitar: Reggie Young, Elvis Presley. Bass: Tommy Cogbill. Drums: Gene Chrisman. Piano: Bobby Wood, Elvis Presley, Ronnie. Organ: Bobby Emmons. Harmonica: Ed Kollis. Trumpet: R. F. Taylor, Wayne Jackson, Dick Steff. Sax & Trombone: Jackie Thomas. Sax: Glen Spreen, J. P. Luper. Trombone: Jackie Thomas, Jack Hale, Gerald Richardson, French Horn: Tony Cason, Joe D'Gerolamo. Vocals: Mary (Jeannie) Green, Donna Thatcher, Susan Pilkington, Mary Holladay, Dolores Edgin, Hurshel Wiginton, Joe Babcock, Millie Kirkham, Sonja Montgomery.

Source: www.elvisthemusic.com

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— ADDITIONAL INFO

Elvis didn't only covered one version from his pianist Bobby Wood previously recorded tracks, but two. Still from the "Elvis Presley: A Life In Music" book:

On the 22nd Elvis returned to do repairs and to try another song Bobby Wood had recorded, the religious “Who Am I”.

Elvis' second song cover that had been previously recorded by Bobby Wood, "Who Am I?" was recorded in February 22, 1969 at the American Sound Studio, and first released in March 1971 in the compilation album "You'll Never Walk Alone". The track followed the same destiny as "If I'm A Fool (For Loving You)" being later released as a part of the "From Elvis in Memphis – 40th Anniversary Edition" (2009) also as a bonus track. Unfortunately I couldn't find Bobby's recording, not even the released EP with it.

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Here's a quick interview in video with Bobby Wood telling how he met Elvis and his impressions of him.

You can read a longer interview HERE [elvis.com.au].

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Well, well, well. Such a nice info I came across today. I wonder if Vernon liked his son's version of Bobby Wood's country song "If I'm A Fool", one of his favorites at the time. Anyhow, it's cute to learn Elvis was not at first interested in recording this song until he acknowledged his father's personal liking of it. I guess it makes this tune a special gift to Vernon from his son, if you think about it. It was one 'at the spur of the moment' decisions when Elvis just followed his heart. ♥

PICTURES: Elvis and his father, Vernon, and the R&B legend, Roy Hamilton, filmed during one of the recording sessions at the American Sound Studio in Memphis, Tennessee. Circa January 22, 1969.

[mrwelshdrummerman9015]

The joys of being a Music and Sound Tech Student. Basically I’m recording sound effects for a Pixar Short called Geri’s Game in which an old person plays Chess with himself. It’s Both pain in the arse as well as being fun. Plus I get to play with expensive stuff like the Rode NT2 and Neumann TLM-102 Condenser Microphones.

I’ve got to mix this stuff into 5.1 Surround Sound too then write a reflective essay thing afterwards which I’m not looking forward to.

[pennanbrae]

Putting the pieces together. A drum kit gets set up.

[keyofnow]

The Beatles workflow deep dive

As outlined in the previous post, sessions for every Beatles album yielded a certain number of released tracks, produced over a number of sessions during a given span of time. Here's a condensed outline:

Before the first album... Sessions: 4 Recorded: sporadically over six months (6 June to 26 Nov 1962). New releases: 4

Please Please Me Sessions: 1 Recorded: principally in one day (11 Feb 1963) New releases: 10

Between the albums... Sessions: 2 Recorded: in a pair of one-off sessions (5 March and 1 July 1963). New releases: 4

With The Beatles Sessions: 10 Recorded: across exactly 14 weeks (18 July to 23 Oct 1963). New releases: 16

A Hard Day's Night Sessions: 10 Recorded: across exactly 18 weeks (29 Jan to 3 June 1964). New releases: 17 Foreign language remakes: 2

Beatles For Sale Sessions: 8 Recorded: across 11 weeks (11 Aug to 26 Oct 1964). New releases: 16

Help! Sessions: 12 Recorded: across 17 and a half weeks (15 Feb to 17 June 1965). New releases: 17

Rubber Soul Sessions: 13 Recorded: in exactly one month (12 Oct to 11 Nov 1965). New releases: 15 Revived outtakes: 1 (from the Help! sessions)

Revolver Sessions: 22 Recorded: in exactly 12 weeks (6 April to 21 June 1966). New releases: 16

Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band Sessions: 67 Recorded: in roughly 21 weeks (24 Nov 1966 to 21 Apr 1967). New releases: 15

Between Sgt. Pepper and the White Album... Sessions: 59 Recorded: across nearly 42 weeks (25 Apr 1967 to 11 Feb 1968). New releases: 14 Outtakes: 2 (both of which would be revived by 1970)

The Beatles Sessions: 87 Recorded: in exactly 20 weeks (30 May to 17 Oct 1968). New releases: 32

(I'll stop there cuz everything gets more complicated after that, and anyway my focus has been on The White Album since it's the immediate backdrop of the Get Back sessions, which I can't get enough of.)

How does their workflow change from album to album?

Obviously the first album (PPM) is uniquely productive, even if the record was padded with a few already-released songs. 10 tracks in one session is almost unheard of for any artist.

The second album (WTB) yields 16 tracks in 10 sessions, setting the standard by which they'll judge their own progress for the next few years. The production average is about a song and a half per session.

The third album (AHDN) accelerates production with 19 tracks in 10 sessions, an average of nearly two songs per session.

The fourth album (B4S) picks up the pace even further with 16 tracks in 8 sessions, averaging exactly two songs per session. Apart from the first album, this is the fastest they work from session to session.

The fifth album (H!) shows the first deceleration with 17 tracks in 12 sessions. Production still averages more than one song per session.

The sixth album (RS) shows further deceleration with 16 tracks in 13 sessions, although it's their fastest overall production time since the first album. They still average more than one song per session.

The seventh album (R) nurtures 16 tracks in 22 sessions — twice their former standard. Their production average drops to fewer than one song per session — or, one and a half sessions per song.

The eighth album (SPLHCB) stretches time with 15 tracks in 67 sessions — six times their former standard. Production averages around four and a half sessions per song.

The ninth album (TB) picks up the pace again with 32 tracks in 87 sessions — nine times their former standard. Production averages a little under three sessions per song.

I don't know what else to say besides all that, but I'm sure I'll think of something....

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[royalfoolsband]

Greyson Suchecki in the studio recording drums for "Madaket"

[daemonianymphe-official]

Dear friends We are currently recording in London for two different projects, which will probably be released before the end of the year. We will also post updates about the new Daemonia Nymphe album soon. We are really excited about some of the guest musicians, which we will reveal in due time. Until then, enjoy the rest of the summer!

[do-androids-dream-ao3acc]

BLIND GUARDIAN x Saltatio Mortis - Darkenguard | Hansi Kürsch Vocal Reco...

I want Hansi’s sweater?! Also, Hansi Hansi Hansi! 🥹

[augustyearroundprod]

Oh you’re up, fabulous!! Are you ready for a brand new episode of MOONBURN tomorrow, April 9th?!

Catch up wherever you get your podcasts!! Season 2 episodes drop every Wednesday at 6AM EST!!

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🎙️ Fiction Podcast: MOONBURN

📗 Episode: CHAPTER NINE

📻 Available: Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music & wherever else you get your podcasts

💫 Starring: Anthony Keyvan, Alexandra Daniels, Kevin McHale, Teala Dunn, Anthony Turpel, Kelly Lamor Wilson, Chris Renfro & Lexi Simonson

✒️ Written By: Robbie Hyne

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