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Maybe those of you with better ears can answer this. I can hear new clarinet parts, a new vocal line, and a new intro compared to the original 1976 Hush version.
What else am I hearing?
July of 1977?Good ears @Mark-T!
Like @Harry points out, there are two, slightly different tempos between verses one and two, along with some additional overdubbing.
All of this was intentional in an effort to liven up the track for radio. The meter on the original take is a bit draggy to begin with, which is why the redo of the intro and verse one starts slightly faster and more energetic. They were click tracking most everything at this point, so it's not like engineer Ray Gerhardt, (who would have set the tempo) along with Richard, couldn't get the two tempos to match if they wanted to.
This was all done in late July, orchestra brought back in, and the woodwind embellishments added to the arrangement along with a couple of other revisions.
July of '76. The modifications were added a little over a month after the album was released.July of 1977?
Interesting.
Was it being considered as a potential single to follow up Goofus if that was a hit? Or were there other plans?
Very interesting. And somewhere in this forum, or the Internet, Karen had heard Barry's arrangement and said that she wished that she had done that. Paraphrasing.It was actually. Richard knew that the song itself was a hit, but was anything but happy with his arrangement of it. He brought Tom Scott in for the big band break to do the Bennie Goodman/Artie Shaw thing. As far as the release date of the single, that was more of a timing issue than anything.