Post by Chippa on Apr 30, 2017 0:18:57 GMT
With the board's permission, I might make this a regular thing; I'll choose one JL related song, and have the members of the forum analyze, critique and otherwise comment on said song. Simple 'eh? Let's see how this goes...
First up is a song from Roy Orbison's 1989 album "Mystery Girl", the ballad "A Love So Beautiful". Written by Jeff Lynne and Roy Orbison, and produced by Jeff Lynne.
Here's a fantastic little story about the writing and recording of the song, courtesy of Robert Porter's Jeff Lynne Song Database
Barbara Orbison: Jeff and Roy started working on a song called A Love So Beautiful. And there was a day that all of a sudden we were all sitting around visiting. When Jeff looked at Roy. And Roy looked at Jeff. And they said, [look at watch], 'You think we should do it?' [Laughs] And Roy said, 'Yeah, I think we should.' So we all said, 'What are you talking about?' And they said, 'Well, Roy wants to put a vocal on A Love So Beautiful.' And George [Harrison] said, 'Can we go?' And they looked at one another, Jeff and Roy, and they said, 'No. We'll do it fast. We will be back.'
Jeff: That was one of the songs that I was building up as we finished Wilbury sessions. I would go in with the engineer and work more on Love So Beautiful [sic] and put guitars and keyboard on it, stuff like that.
Barbara: And we went around the outside and stood below where on the first floor was George's studio. 'Cause there were always windows open, it was summertime.
Jeff: When he sang it, it was just... just absolutely magnificent. His voice, I've never heard a voice like that live, you know, actually in the studio, ever.
Barbara: His voice was just floating over it. It felt like Roy was just floating through Friar's Park. Three minutes, and then it stopped. And we just stood there and we said, 'Oh, they're going to do it again.' Nothing.
Jeff: And he went in and did this most unbelievable performance in one take. I think we dropped in one word a bit afterwords, but it was absolutely stupendous. So I said to the engineer, 'Are you getting this down or what, on tape?' And he said, 'I don't know.' [Laughs] I said, 'Course you know.' He said, 'Yes, we know.'
Richard Dodd(Engineer): George and Jeff one day, when making George's album, Cloud Nine, were fantasizing about who would they have, if they could have anybody in a band, who would they have. George picked Bob Dylan. Jeff picked Roy Orbison.
Jeff: Something so special to me, to get him to be singing like that and me favorite singer ever in the world, and there he was, doing it for me.
Richard: Automated mixing with moving faders was in its infancy to some degree. And and at Rumbo Recorders, it was in its original form, which was made by Neve and they were very clumsy, moving faders, and they didn't always do as you told them to do. So Jeff was worried [that] when Roy got to hear this mix live, the faders might mess up, that sort of stuff. So I recall Roy coming in for the first playback of A Love So Beautiful and Jeff is very, very nervous that Roy's going to hate it.
Jeff: It was the most unbelievable thing happened in the studio when I was mixing it.
Richard: Jeff standing at one end of the console and I'm manning the other in of the console just in case something goes wrong. And Roy [was] standing up in the middle of that, listening to the song. And I could see Jeff willing those faders to work right.
Jeff: And after I played A Love So Beautiful and I thought, 'Wow, I hope he likes that.' I'd put strings on it and had a big production. And nobody was saying anything. I was looking at the speakers, you know, so I had to look behind me. and there was Roy, there were tears rolling down his face. And I went, 'Oh, God, he hates it.' [Laughs] No, I didn't. I didn't say that. I only made a joke to ease my... I didn't know what to do with myself. And I said, 'It's not that bad, Roy.' And he said, 'No, man, it's so beautiful, I can't stand it.' [Laughs]
Richard: He gave Jeff a hug and I know that [for] Jeff, that was probably one of the greatest moments of his life, in a musical sense anyway. That was his dream come true.
Jeff: Absolutely made me life, probably."
First up is a song from Roy Orbison's 1989 album "Mystery Girl", the ballad "A Love So Beautiful". Written by Jeff Lynne and Roy Orbison, and produced by Jeff Lynne.
Here's a fantastic little story about the writing and recording of the song, courtesy of Robert Porter's Jeff Lynne Song Database
Barbara Orbison: Jeff and Roy started working on a song called A Love So Beautiful. And there was a day that all of a sudden we were all sitting around visiting. When Jeff looked at Roy. And Roy looked at Jeff. And they said, [look at watch], 'You think we should do it?' [Laughs] And Roy said, 'Yeah, I think we should.' So we all said, 'What are you talking about?' And they said, 'Well, Roy wants to put a vocal on A Love So Beautiful.' And George [Harrison] said, 'Can we go?' And they looked at one another, Jeff and Roy, and they said, 'No. We'll do it fast. We will be back.'
Jeff: That was one of the songs that I was building up as we finished Wilbury sessions. I would go in with the engineer and work more on Love So Beautiful [sic] and put guitars and keyboard on it, stuff like that.
Barbara: And we went around the outside and stood below where on the first floor was George's studio. 'Cause there were always windows open, it was summertime.
Jeff: When he sang it, it was just... just absolutely magnificent. His voice, I've never heard a voice like that live, you know, actually in the studio, ever.
Barbara: His voice was just floating over it. It felt like Roy was just floating through Friar's Park. Three minutes, and then it stopped. And we just stood there and we said, 'Oh, they're going to do it again.' Nothing.
Jeff: And he went in and did this most unbelievable performance in one take. I think we dropped in one word a bit afterwords, but it was absolutely stupendous. So I said to the engineer, 'Are you getting this down or what, on tape?' And he said, 'I don't know.' [Laughs] I said, 'Course you know.' He said, 'Yes, we know.'
Richard Dodd(Engineer): George and Jeff one day, when making George's album, Cloud Nine, were fantasizing about who would they have, if they could have anybody in a band, who would they have. George picked Bob Dylan. Jeff picked Roy Orbison.
Jeff: Something so special to me, to get him to be singing like that and me favorite singer ever in the world, and there he was, doing it for me.
Richard: Automated mixing with moving faders was in its infancy to some degree. And and at Rumbo Recorders, it was in its original form, which was made by Neve and they were very clumsy, moving faders, and they didn't always do as you told them to do. So Jeff was worried [that] when Roy got to hear this mix live, the faders might mess up, that sort of stuff. So I recall Roy coming in for the first playback of A Love So Beautiful and Jeff is very, very nervous that Roy's going to hate it.
Jeff: It was the most unbelievable thing happened in the studio when I was mixing it.
Richard: Jeff standing at one end of the console and I'm manning the other in of the console just in case something goes wrong. And Roy [was] standing up in the middle of that, listening to the song. And I could see Jeff willing those faders to work right.
Jeff: And after I played A Love So Beautiful and I thought, 'Wow, I hope he likes that.' I'd put strings on it and had a big production. And nobody was saying anything. I was looking at the speakers, you know, so I had to look behind me. and there was Roy, there were tears rolling down his face. And I went, 'Oh, God, he hates it.' [Laughs] No, I didn't. I didn't say that. I only made a joke to ease my... I didn't know what to do with myself. And I said, 'It's not that bad, Roy.' And he said, 'No, man, it's so beautiful, I can't stand it.' [Laughs]
Richard: He gave Jeff a hug and I know that [for] Jeff, that was probably one of the greatest moments of his life, in a musical sense anyway. That was his dream come true.
Jeff: Absolutely made me life, probably."
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, but we're OK. 
Apparently it's quite hard to see them with the naked eye, you need to be looking through a camera or other type of lens?