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unusual facts about Backing track



Ikinari Musician

Ikinari Musician provides a piano-like keyboard, a treble clef on the staff to show note location, a 5-channel Backing track, 4 timbre choices, and controllers to manipulate common synthesizer parameters such as release and attack, LFO, etc.

Uta de Shika Ienai

Backing tracks of the songs like "Nagisa e" and "Minami Sanjou" were mostly recorded with North American session musicians including Abe Laboriel, Paulinho da Costa and Dean Parks.


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Azúcar Moreno

Two minutes of absolute silence ensued with much confusion both on and off stage, with the musicians staring blankly into the TV cameras, then a sudden false start of the backing track, then embarrassed applauds from the audience and legendary BBC commentator Terry Wogan dryly saying "Let's hope it doesn't go on like this or we're in for a very long night, ladies and gentlemen".

Buddy Buie

Most recently John Legend used "Stormy" as the backing track on the single "Save Room", earning Buie a writer's credit.

He Said He Loved Me

The song was used as a backing track in a video preview on the 2010 Rugby League Challenge Cup final.

IMac

The color rollout also featured two distinctive ads: one called 'Life Savers' featured the Rolling Stones song "She's a Rainbow" and an advertisement for the white version had the introduction of Cream's "White Room" as its backing track.

Jet Boy, Jet Girl

"Jet Boy, Jet Girl" has the same backing track as Plastic Bertrand/Lou Deprijck's "Ça Plane Pour Moi".

La Ritournelle

It was also used as a backing track for the credits in a "Come Dine With Me" episode and it features in the soundtrack of award-winning film Oslo, August 31st by Joachim Trier.

Letter 2 My Unborn

The song samples Michael Jackson's 1989 hit "Liberian Girl" (from Bad, 1987), but is set at a higher tempo and features a female vocal backing track by Tena Jones (formerly of 4th Avenue Jones.

Martha's Harbour

The song is also well-known for an incident on the popular BBC UK music show Top of the Pops, when the group, ready to do a mimed (as was BBC policy at the time) performance of their hit, were not played the backing track through their monitors, and so sat motionless while the television and studio audience could hear the song.

Motown Original Artist Karaoke

Released by The Singing Machine Company (a company specialized in karaoke equipment) from 2003 to 2005, the collection, unlike most karaoke discs, has the particularity of using the original master tapes for both the instrumental backing track and the lead vocals track.

My Favourite Waste of Time

It was famously aborted on the television programme Pebble Mill at One when the band members just stood still instead of miming as they were unable to hear the backing track.

Pluxus

Their 2008 release Transient was used as the backing track to the Europe Ford Fiesta television advertisement.

Run to Ruin

The backing track to this Japanese version of "While We Talk" (written in rōmaji as "Simpuru Ni"; which translates literally as "Simpler Thoughts") is identical to the English version, with the exception of some barely audible additional instrumentation (chamberlin and optigon).

Seventeen Seconds

Interviewed in 2004, producer Mike Hedges does not recall any demo tracks, with the band generally playing the track in the studio before laying down a backing track to which overdubs were added.

The Head and the Heart

It was also the backing track for the theatrical trailer of The Silver Linings Playbook.

The Peppermint Rainbow

Another single entitled Green Tambourine also did not chart despite the fact that Leka had stripped away the vocals of The Lemon Pipers' hit from the previous year and given the backing track to the group to record their own cover.

Tracks on Wax 4

A live version performed by Rockpile was released on Lowe's album Jesus of Cool (also 1978) and Edmunds used the same backing track, but overdubbed his own lead vocals in place of Lowe's.