![]() ![]() ![]() “When it was all over, to realize that I could have a million-seller and a number one record without sitting down with mental giants like Paul McCartney and… saying, ‘Let’s write a number one song,’ - you really can’t,” he reflects in The Billboard Book. In the end, “You Ain’t Seen Nothing Yet” taught Bachman a meaningful lesson about the art of writing a hit song. ![]() It charted in multiple other countries from Germany to South Africa. Not Fragile was their only album to have reached No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 and became BTO’s only major hit in the United Kingdom, reaching No. I woke up one day and asked myself, ‘Why am I stopping this?’… so I said to Charlie, ‘O.K., release it. My wife would say to me, ‘Look, at last, they’re playing a song of yours like mad…’ I was producer, so I had final say on what went out. “I started to hear it getting played and I was embarrassed,” Bachman explains. Not long after the album’s release in September 1974, radio stations started picking up “Ain’t” to the point where Fach Jr. Is Serious Business (3:35) producers Bruce Kapler Allie Davison, writers Alfie. “I had a work in progress, in two parts: a great rhythm and a heavy riff.”Īs for the lyrics, Bachman says they weren’t particularly inspired, noting that the song came to him “by accident.”Īt Fach’s request, the band went with the original version that included the stuttering. writers: Gilder, McCulloch publisher Beechwood. “I copped those jangling rhythms, changed the chords and then added some power chords of my own,” Bachman explained of his process, according to Louder Sound. “I wrote the lyrics, out of the blue, and stuttered them through.”īachman was musically inspired by guitarist Dave Mason of Traffic, especially his song “Only You Know and I Know,” along with the Doobie Brothers’ “Listen to the Music.” “It was basically just an instrumental and I was fooling around,” he continues. The band was already in the thick of recording Not Fragile when Bachman had an instrumental tune that he ended up putting lyrics to. Writer aka serious business Writers block part mother fucking 3 Welcome to greatness cock sucker June 27, history in the making my album. He’ll have the only copy in the world of this song by BTO.” Given the importance of engineering, science and technology in devel- opment, this lack of information is a serious constraint to the development and future. “We thought, just for fun… we’d take this song and I’d stutter and we’d send it to him. “He had a speech impediment,” Bachman is quoted as saying in Fred Bronson’s 1988 book, The Billboard Book of Number One Hits. In fact, BTO wasn’t even planning on releasing it, as they were only going to send a private copy to Gary. many Chicago Black Renaissance writers by providing them with a forum to develop. THE BAND-Get Up Jake (2:15) producers: The Band writer: J.R. Though the song drew comparisons to The Who’s “My Generation” for its similar guitar riffs and vocal stuttering, Bachman asserts that it was written as a joke for Gary. British band does a fine job of copying the instrumental style of American. ![]()
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