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Classic Tracks: Neil Sedaka’s “Breaking Up Is Hard to Do”
Neil Sedaka shares how he made a smash out of four tracks and a vocal he taught the background singers while driving them to...
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Classic Tracks: Three Dog Night’s “Mama Told Me (Not to Come)”
Take a deep dive into the 1970 recording sessions that produced Three Dog Night's breakthrough hit, “Mama Told Me (Not to Come.)”
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Classic Tracks: Luther Vandross’ “Here and Now”
“When Luther played me the demo," says Marcus Miller, "it was obvious that it was already a hit.”
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Classic Tracks: The Angels’ “My Boyfriend’s Back”
“Those kids were amazing!” says producer Richard Gottehrer. “We decided to get them into the studio as quickly as possible."
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Classic Tracks: Minnie Riperton’s “Lovin’ You”
What's the secret sauce of the classic ballad? Bird song.
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Classic Tracks: Merle Haggard’s “Mama Tried”
Country music legend Merle Haggard recounts how he came to record the massive hit, "Mama Tried."
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Classic Tracks: The Lovin’ Spoonful’s “Do You Believe in Magic”
Fortunately, nice guys don't always finish last. Sometimes they reach the top of the hill and stay there for quite some time.
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Classic Tracks: Jim Croce’s “Time in a Bottle”
Posthumously released, Jim Croce's “Time in a Bottle” reached the top slot on the pop charts in December 1973.
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Classic Tracks: The Average White Band’s “Pick Up the Pieces”
There was something audacious about it: a group from Scotland calling itself The Average White Band. If the funk don't fly, then the honky...
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Classic Tracks: Hall & Oates “I Can’t Go For That (No Can Do)”
"Remember the old Roland CompuRhythm box? I turned to the Rock and Roll 1 preset, sat down at a Korg organ that happened...
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Classic Tracks: Steppenwolf’s “Born to Be Wild”
The road to becoming a rock 'n' roll icon is stranger for some than others. Take John Kay the voice and face of the...
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Classic Tracks: Booker T. & The MG’s’ “Time Is Tight”
A simple, four-chord tune laid to tape with no overdubs, "Time Is TIght" is a consummate work of soul minimalism.
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Nate Barr: Texture and Color in Television Music
Climbing aboard a used school bus in Queens, N.Y., and driving it 16,000 miles into the heart of South America and back with a...
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Heavyocity for Heavy Melodies: Sound Design, Composition and VI Creation
In a previous life, Neil Goldberg, a founding member of Heavy Melody Music, was a guitarist with the cult metal band Annihilator who once...
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A Conversation With BT: On Composing, Sampling and a ‘Song Across Wires’
Sampling has altered the course of music in obvious and subtle ways over the past quarter-century or so. Integrating snippets of well-known recordings with...
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Virtual Instrument Libraries | The Hybrid Score
VIRTUAL INSTRUMENT LIBRARIES FOR HIGH-END PRODUCTION
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Classic Tracks: Stephen Bishop’s “On and On”
If you happened to take a course on the art of songwriting given recently at the Songwriting Institute of Los Angeles and were not...
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Classic Tracks: Classics IV’s “Traces”
Cover-band mates cum pop stars: As old as rock itself, this dream, born from endless hours spent woodshedding hits of the day, can come...
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Field Test: EastWest PLAY Sample Libraries
NEW ADDITIONS OFFER LUSH SOUNDS, 64-BIT POWER, CONVOLUTION REVERB
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Classic Tracks: The Ventures’ “Walk Don’t Run”
Buckle up, because this month we're taking the Wayback Machine out for a real spin all the way back to 1960. JFK became president...
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Classic Tracks: The Romantics’ “What I Like About You”
Sometimes the rock 'n' roll myth of using music to get out of a dead-end life actually comes to pass—much as it did for...
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Classic Tracks: The Cyrkle’s “Red Rubber Ball”
Folk singers wouldn't throw in the towel. The Brits were here. Blues masters tossed jagged contrapuntal lines into a densely textured pop symphony. Back
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Composer David Kitay
Mix magazine speaks with film composer David Kitay, whose work includes Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Look Who's Talking and Frank's Place. David Kitay...
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Classic Tracks: Janis Ian’s “At Seventeen”
She scored her first hit, Society's Child, in 1966. An earnest plea for the acceptance of interracial relationships that cleverly ends with the protagonist
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Classic Tracks: Van Morrison’s “Moondance”
Legendary engineer Elliot Scheiner and others look back at capturing Van Morrison's most famous album, Moondance.