Classic Tracks: Cher’s “If I Could Turn Back Time”
Recording "If I Could Turn Back Time" was going great. There was just one problem: "Cher said, ‘I’m leaving. I hate this song.’”
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Recording "If I Could Turn Back Time" was going great. There was just one problem: "Cher said, ‘I’m leaving. I hate this song.’”
No one could touch her. Her voice was one of the most ravishing instruments ever recorded.
What's the secret sauce of the classic ballad? Bird song.
“If we would have been making that record today...I maybe would have screwed that all up. It would never have been the same record.”
"We recorded all these songs that were pretty good, but I didn't hear any hits," Kolotkin remembers.
In the spring of 1979, Rickie Lee Jones' "Chuck E.'s in Love" appeared like an oasis in a desert of disco and arena rock....
Michael Omartian first encountered Cross’s music at a Wednesday morning A&R meeting, where all the Warner Bros. producers sat around a table, listened and...
Did Phil Spector really hold The Ramones at gunpoint in the studio? Ed Stasium sets the record straight.
"I knew 'Girls, Girls, Girls'—the song—was a hit from the first time I heard it," says producer Tom Werman.
“The second day we were going to have a meeting,” says David Kershenbaum. “She said, ‘I have this new song I want to show...
The story behind “An American Dream," which put the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band back on pop radio after 10 years, was nothing less than...
It's one of Elvis' best-known songs, but "Burning Love" nearly wasn't recorded by The King.
Country music legend Merle Haggard recounts how he came to record the massive hit, "Mama Tried."
“Right Time of the Night,” released in 1976, was all about firsts—and it was no easy gig for producer Jim Ed Norman.
“When we first recorded ‘Riders on the Storm,’ it was a nice, light song—but when we got into mixing it is when it all...
The Cars' self-titled album is a quintessential new wave classic, taking the sound of the 50s and making it modern and new.
In August 1958, George Tomsco was facing a dilemma that many high school graduates face: what should he do with the rest of his...
Sometimes, a so-called "career record" can affect more than one career.
Nashville still had the door closed for us in country, so we figured, ‘What the hell, we’ll do exactly what we want,’ says producer...
“Are You Sure Hank Done It This Way,” is on Waylon Jennings’ Dreaming My Dreams, the only record he made with legendary engineer/producer Cowboy...
Fortunately, nice guys don't always finish last. Sometimes they reach the top of the hill and stay there for quite some time.
There was life before "Luka" and there was life after "Luka," engineer/producer Steve Addabbo says of the impact that the 1987 Suzanne Vega hit...
Steve Perry was on top of the world with Journey when he quietly started recording what would become his first solo hit.
Kenny Rogers' recording of the Don Schlitz-penned song The Gambler turned a simple record into an entire industry.
Janis Joplin got her start in folk music, surprisingly enough.
John Fogerty’s “Centerfield” is the only song formally “inducted” into the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, N.Y.—it plays there ’round the clock.
Jack Endino jumpstarted his producing career with EPs for Soundgarden, Green River and Mudhoney, and its debut single, “Touch Me I’m Sick."
John Lennon's top-10 hit, “Watching the Wheels,” was among producer Jack Douglas' favorite songs on 'Double Fantasy.'
You know the movie and you know the classic track, but do you know how the song really came to be?
Posthumously released, Jim Croce's “Time in a Bottle” reached the top slot on the pop charts in December 1973.
When Warren Zevon emerged in the midst of L.A.'s vibrant singer/songwriter scene in the mid-'70s, he was like a breath of...well, strange air.
Mix takes a deep dive into the recording of R.E.M.'s 'So. Central Rain' with producer Mitch Easter.
Although Steve Winwood was just shy of 19 when he formed the group Traffic in the spring of 1967, he was already a veteran...
Fifty years before Atmos, Auro and RA360, Stevie Wonder’s classic “Superstition” was recorded and mixed using the original immersive music format.
Fifty years before Atmos, Auro and RA360, Stevie Wonder’s classic “Superstition” was recorded and mixed using the original immersive music format.
In the summer of 1987, the Grateful Dead made it into the Top 10 with the only hit single of their 30-year career: “Touch...
When the National Guard was deployed against US citizens, killing four and injured nine others protesting at Kent State in 1970, CSN&Y's swift response...
Browne and the late legendary engineer Al Schmitt look back at the masterful title track of 1974's "Late For The Sky."
Producer/engineer Bill Szymczyk talks about the recording of Joe Walsh’s 1978 hit, “Life’s Been Good”
When it came out in late 1973, "Smokin' in the Boys Room" immediately became the rallying anthem for many high school students.
Building on the success of her debut album, Exile in Guyville, Liz Phair came back with a rockin' ode to her boyfriend, "Supernova."
The Traveling Wilburys were perhaps popular music's most unusual George Harrison, Bob Dylan, Jeff Lynne, Tom Petty and Roy Orbison wrote all the material