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Rolling Stone reported that Jimmy Page played rhthym guitar on the Who's first single "I can't explain", but according to the producer, Page did not play with the Who, but played rhythm for the Kinks first album, but not on You Really Got Me.

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Phil Collins - "Susudio"........When the vocals were initially recorded Phil Collins wanted to title the song after a woman, but he did not have a name in mind at the time, so during the recording he sang "Susudio" just to fill in the space. The intent was to overdub another name at a later date. That never happened.
 
The title of REM's "What's the Frequency Kenneth" refers to what some dude asked Dan Rather just before assaulting him way back in the mid-80's.
 
The phrase "my doughnuts, god damn!" at the end of Lynrd Skynrd's "Sweet Home Alabama" happened when Ronnie van Zandt realized that various hangers-on had consumed all of the studio's doughnuts while he tracked his vocals. They left it in the mix.
 
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Bookman...Murphy was sweet on that sax.











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Chip Taylor became a fixture on the Austin music scene in the early 2000s when he started performing with Carrie Rodriguez. He previously had been a very successful songwriter in the late 60s, penning a significant number of rock and country hits such as "Wild Thing" and "Angel of the Morning." Prior to taking up songwriting, he attempted a career as a pro golfer. He left the music scene in the 70s to pursue a career as a professional gambler (chariot racing, mainly) among other things, returning to music in the late 90s after spending time at SXSW and working with Austin songwriters such as Darden Smith.

Chip's brother is the actor Jon Voight, and his niece is Angelina Jolie.
 
Otis Redding died in a plane crash on December 10, 1967, two days after he finished recording "Sitting on the Dock of the Bay," which would posthumously become the biggest hit of his career and the 6th most played record of all time.
 
Goodbye Norma Jean was on the B side of a 45 single in the late 70's / early 80's by Elton John and it was never played untill years later when he released it as a single because people requested it.
 
On the Who's rock opera epic 'A Quick While He's Away' during the 5th movement the band is singing/chanting "cello-cello-cello-cello-cello" to signify where they wanted to add the instrument to the track.

They decided they liked the sound of them singing cello better.
 
The sound at the very end of "Crazy Train" is a studio engineer saying "An Egg" through an oscillator. Ozzy had asked him what he had for breakfast that morning.
 
Brandon Cruz, who played "Eddie" opposite Bill Bixby in the ABC television series "The Courtship of Eddie's Father," during the early 1970's, went on to front the punk band "The Dead Kennedy's" after Jello Biafra left them.
 
In 1961, Willie Nelson wrote "Crazy." At the time, he was a struggling singer, and he got his break when Patsy Cline recorded this song, making it a hit. Willie Nelson originally titled this song "Stupid." Two months before this song was recorded, Patsy Cline was thrown through a windshield in a car accident. There were no seat belts back then. She couldn't hit the high notes of the song because of a broken rip. The studio musicians recorded their parts without her, and she did her vocals two weeks later on crutches. "Crazy" was Patsy Cline's biggest hit.
 
The woman in pasties and a G-String on the cover of Tom Waits's album Small Change is Cassandra Peterson, who went on to become Elvira, Mistress of the Dark.
 
Good Vibrations was written by the Beach Boys Brian Wilson after remembering his mother's statement about a dog he passed by walking home, and the dog seemed to like some people but not others. His mom said that dogs could sense vibrations from people, and some people had bad vibrations and some good.
 
Eddie Van Halen initially wanted to hire Patty Smyth (yes, "The Warrior" herself) to replace David Lee Roth after he left the band in 1984.

The Rush instrumental "YYZ" is named for Toronto's airport code.

Annie Lennox & Dave Stewart were in a band called The Tourists before they formed Eurythmics. They had a pretty big hit with a great cover of Dusty Springfield's "I Only Want To Be With You" in 1979.

Glen Campbell toured with the Beach Boys before going solo. So did The Captain & Tennille.

Led Zeppelin's John Paul Jones wrote the string arrangements for R.E.M.'s "Automatic for the People."

Bruce Springsteen originally wrote "Hungry Heart" for the Ramones, "Fire" for Elvis Presley, and "Cover Me" for Donna Summer.

Paul McCartney plays all of the drums on his "Band On the Run" album. He also plays drums on "Back In the USSR," as Ringo had stormed out of the studio that day after a disagreement.
 
Mick Jagger does the back up vocals on Carly Simon's "You're So Vain."
very well.

How many hits did Manfred Mann get from Bruce Springsteen?

*Sidenote - Olivia D'abo (Karen from the Wonder Years). Her father was in Manfred Mann.
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Little Richard says in the early 60's he was in England on tour and a friend of his took him to a club to hear his band and offered him a peice of the band if he would take them on tour with him, Richard said no that that music wont go over in the state, the band was the beatles. Little Richard was also the person that taught Paul to do the WOOO he used in the Beatles songs.
 
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