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unusual facts about recording sessions



The Art of the Improvisers

The album was assembled without Coleman's input, comprising outtakes from recording sessions of 1959 to 1961 for The Shape of Jazz to Come, Change of the Century, This Is Our Music, Ornette!, and Ornette on Tenor.


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Almost in Love

Tracks include 1968's "A Little Less Conversation" (a re-recording of this song by Elvis for his 1968 TV Special would later be remixed by Tom Holkenborg aka Junkie XL and become a hit in 2002) and "Rubberneckin", a 1969 single from the film Change of Habit recorded at American Sound Studio in Memphis during the 1969 recording sessions that had produced From Elvis in Memphis and Elvis Back in Memphis.

American Music Records

The label was founded by William Russell in 1944, who ran the label almost entirely by himself for most of his life (sometimes with the help of others on individual recording sessions).

Barry Sutton

Sutton joined The La's in August 1988 appearing in the music video for "There She Goes" and left in July 1989 after 11 months at the conclusion of the aborted Mike Hedges recording sessions for The La's.

Bill Coleman

During this same time, Coleman participated in many recording sessions with top jazz stars such as Lester Young, Billie Holiday and Coleman Hawkins.

Carl Dixon

On April 14, 2008, he was seriously injured in an automobile accident, during the recording sessions for the hit Australian TV series, The Saddle Club.

Conny Nimmersjö

Apart from being a member in bob hund and Bergman Rock, Conny Nimmersjö is a regular guitarist with Joakim Thåström, Pelle Ossler and Pugh Rogefeldt both during live performances and recording sessions.

Crno na belo

Crno na belo (Black and white) is the title of the comeback single by the Serbian punk rock band Goblini, featuring the songs "Luna" ("The Moon"), written during the rehearsals held on May 2010, and "Kao da" ("As if"), written during the U magnovenju recording sessions.

Dark Moor

Following a month of recording sessions, the album was mastered by Mika Jussila at Finnvox Studios.

Dark Moor began the recording sessions for their second album, The Hall of the Olden Dreams, in August 2000 at New Sin Studios with producer Luigi Stefanini.

Dirty Blonde: The Diaries of Courtney Love

The material contains an e-mail exchange with Lindsay Lohan about negative press coverage, comments about the JT LeRoy's hoax (she exchanged e-mails with "him" for years), lyrics of songs that will figure on her forthcoming album, Nobody's Daughter, and photos from the recording sessions.

Distant Lover

Later in the same recording sessions, with help from his sister-in-law, Gwen Gordy Fuqua, Gaye composed more lyrics and gave it its title, "Distant Lover".

Do-The-Undo

Throughout 2005 Soldaat coaches the band GEM during the recording sessions of their second album ‘Escapades’, assisting in songwriting.

Elvis' Golden Records

Although RCA executive Steve Sholes was the in-house A&R man for Presley, and nominally in charge of his recording sessions at RCA, accounts by Presley historian Peter Guralnick and Presley discographer Ernst Mikael Jorgensen indicate that Presley himself acted as the producer for his RCA sessions in the 1950s.

Even Better Than the Real Thing

The recording sessions, as well as the general mood, improved after the band returned to Dublin in 1991 to record at the "Elsinore" mansion on the Dalkey coastline.

Fading Trails

It is a compilation of tracks from four different recording sessions, including recordings at Electrical Audio in Chicago, engineered by Steve Albini, Sound of Music Studio in Richmond, Virginia, produced by David Lowery, and Sun Studios in Memphis, Tennessee, engineered by James Lott.

Galaxy Angel

The opening and ending theme is sang by the famous singer Hiromi Satō, known to be moved by the songs and wept during singing through the recording sessions.

Get On

However, according to Richard Stanley, the band had been playing the song live already during the previous summer, months before the recording sessions in Stockholm.

Get On Your Boots

A bootlegged, early version of the song was partly released to YouTube during the band's recording sessions at the French resort of Èze.

Hirohisa Horie

While a student of Tama Art University, Horie participated in many musicians' live performances and in recording sessions as a session keyboardist.

Home for Orphans

This album mainly consists of slower, moodier outtakes from the Too Much Guitar recording sessions, as well as a some covers, including "Without You," a Gene Clark cover.

If You Leave...

For the recording sessions, McEvoy recruited the talents of Grammy award-winning songwriter Jimmy Smyth on guitar, keyboard player James Delaney, bassists Paul Moore, Eoghan O’Neill, and drummer Des Lacey, with special guests Brian Connor on piano and David Agnew on oboe.

Jack Lancaster

Since then he has performed live on tour, composed for television and film, performed as a session musician and has produced, written and arranged recording sessions with artists including Phil Collins, Hans Zimmer, Stephane Grappelli, Brian Eno, Vangelis, Rod Argent, and Gary Moore.

Jim Sclavunos

He has recorded albums with Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Grinderman, Sonic Youth, The Cramps, Teenage Jesus & the Jerks, Tav Falco's Panther Burns, 8 Eyed Spy, The Vanity Set, and Congo Norvell as well as recording sessions with many artists including Marianne Faithfull, Iggy Pop, Beth Orton and Seasick Steve.

Kathy Westmoreland

She was one of Jimmy Joyce's singers, Ray Conniff's singers, Johnny Mann and many others, including vocals on recording sessions with hundreds of major artists.

Kind of a Drag

The engineer at the first recording sessions held at Chess Records in Chicago was Ron Malo.

Klimt 1918

Their debut full-length, Undressed Momento, came out in 2003; during the recording sessions, guitar player Francesco Tumbarello left the band, being replaced by Alessandro Pace, a well-known name in Rome's underground metal scene and a long-time friend of the band.

Kroke

As a result, joint recording sessions at Real World Studios with other musicians led to material from the band being subsequently used by Peter Gabriel on his album Long Walk Home- music from the Rabbit-Proof Fence, the soundtrack to the film of the same name.

LaMont Johnson

The same studio was also the site of demo recordings for Cat Mother (a rock group associated with Jimi Hendrix) as well as recording sessions for an Ornette Coleman album.

Lee, London

Eric Clapton stayed with him during the recording sessions of the album Blues Breakers with Eric Clapton

Mason Proper

2006 saw the group focus on promoting the debut album, touring across the country and recording sessions such as their WOXY.com Lounge Act in May.

Nil Recurring

The mini-album is composed of four tracks written during the Fear of a Blank Planet recording sessions and completed over the summer of 2007, of which one was a track originally composed for Fear of a Blank Planet but later dropped from the final tracklist.

Now and Forever: The Hits

While featuring new material, the greatest hits disc contains rare tracks such as a 2003 production "Come Get Some", which featured Sean Paul and Lil Jon of YoungBloodZ, and an exclusive censored version of the song "Whoop De Woo" (a leftover track from the 3D recording sessions).

Prestige Records

During this period, Weinstock ceased supervising recording sessions directly, employing Chris Albertson, Ozzie Cadena, Esmond Edwards, Don Schlitten, and producer/music supervisor Bob Porter, among others, to fulfil this function.

Quad Studios Nashville

More recent high profile artists recording sessions at the studio include Keith Urban, Taylor Swift, Lady Antebellum, The Fray, Jewel, Phil Vassar, George Strait, Toby Keith, T-Bone Burnett, Colombian Party Cartel and others.

Session man

Session musician, one who works with others at live performances or recording sessions

SGNL›05

SGNL>05 is an EP released by Isis which acts as an extension to their earlier full-length album Celestial, as the tracks were all directly culled from the Celestial recording sessions.

Sixth Floor Jazz

The CD is unique in featuring Enhanced CD audio and QuickTime video with credits and pictures for the recording sessions.

Slaves Going Single

Tracks one, two, four, and five are taken from the recording sessions of Gwar's Emmy-nominated contribution to the soundtrack for the movie S.F.W., and mainly consist of Dave Brockie and Mike Derks' drunken banter.

Stranger in the City

Recording sessions started in the summer of 1976 when Miles was promoting his first album with producer Rupert Holmes.

The Revival

Recording sessions for the album took place at several studios in California—The Plant in San Francisco, Eve-Jims Studio and Westlake Recording Studios in Los Angeles, Can-Am Studio in Tarzana, Live Oak Studio in Berkely, and J-Jam Studio in Oakland.

The State of Things EP

The songs on the EP were taken from the recording sessions for The Optimist LP.

Tiago Iorc

Chase—who had previously worked with groups such as The Smashing Pumpkins, Tahiti 80, and The Divine Comedy—pre-produced Tiago's album over the internet before actually meeting with him in Rio de Janeiro for recording sessions.

Venus and Mars

John Lennon, often in a nostalgic mood while in Los Angeles, had told May Pang (his then girlfriend) that he planned to visit the McCartneys during the recording sessions for Venus and Mars, but this was not to be.

Vic Lewis

Lewis first toured the United States in 1938, where he did recording sessions with a band that had Bobby Hackett, Eddie Condon, and Pee Wee Russell among its members.

Vintage: The Very Best of Moby Grape

One is an out-take from the recording sessions of "Just Like Gene Autry: A Foxtrot" where Arthur Godfrey records his spoken introduction to the song.

We Love You

It included footage from recording sessions along with segments that re-enacted the 1895 trial of Oscar Wilde, with Jagger, Richards and Marianne Faithfull respectively portraying Wilde, a judge and Lord Alfred Douglas.