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itsnicodegallo@lemm.ee to Today I Learned (TIL)@lemmy.ca · 2 years ago

TIL the applause in Elton John's "Bennie and the Jets" was taken from a Jimi Hendrix performance and "fake-lived" by the audio engineers.

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TIL the applause in Elton John's "Bennie and the Jets" was taken from a Jimi Hendrix performance and "fake-lived" by the audio engineers.

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itsnicodegallo@lemm.ee to Today I Learned (TIL)@lemmy.ca · 2 years ago
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Elton John – Bennie And The Jets (1974)
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After recording the song in the studio, John and the band worried that it was too plain and unoriginal. In the Eagle Vision documentary on the making of “Goodbye Yellow Brick Road,” Joh…
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    “He added reverb effects, applause and other audience sounds from John’s previous concerts and a loop from the Jimi Hendrix live album Isle of Wight, plus whistles, giving it the “live concert recording” feel”

    Oh - ha I clicked. Damn

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    I’d heard they added clapping sounds on every beat of that track to imitate an audience that didn’t know to clap on 2 and 4.

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      Someone made a version without crowd noises: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cAfAlfSlobA

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