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To: Lake Living

The one thing that always stood out for me was the end with the horns, they always sounded to me that they were a bit sharp on the notes, turned out I wasn’t the only who noticed:

Trained musicians can tell that the horns on this song are out of tune, and this didn’t escape the ear of Jerry Wexler at Atlantic Records. He sent back the original version so this could be fixed, but the fix never made it to the shelves. David Hood, who became the bass player in the Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section, told us: “Wexler thought the horns on the original version were out of tune - and they were - and he wanted them to change the horns. They went back in the studio and changed the horns, got different horn players to play on it. But then the tapes got mixed up and Atlantic put out their original version. So that’s the hit.”


5 posted on 04/15/2015 10:59:11 AM PDT by dfwgator
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The woman singing in the background of the song is Jeannie Johnson. Marlin Greene was one of the engineers and had her singing on the recording. Jeannie is also the background singer on Elvis' recordings of Little Less Conversation, Suspicious Minds, In the Ghetto, Kentucky Rain...
12 posted on 04/15/2015 2:07:02 PM PDT by vetvetdoug
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