Who Hit The Wrong Note In Unchained Melody?

[Alkali Ike]

The more I listen to that "clam" in Unchained Melody the more I like it! That's how it should always be played!

Actually at 2:29 and 2:44 it almost sounds like the bassist does the same thing only not as extreme. Maybe I'm imagining it. Listen carefully.

Maybe it's a hammer-on, not a clam. A clam'r-on.

Ok, it's probably a clam.

 

[PolkaHero]

The more I listen to that "clam" in Unchained Melody the more I like it! That's how it should always be played!

Actually at 2:29 and 2:44 it almost sounds like the bassist does the same thing only not as extreme. Maybe I'm imagining it. Listen carefully.

Nope, you're California dreamin' there! I always thought that flute solo sounded pretty good in that song. . .

Maybe the bassist meant to play the seventh of the Am chord! Jazz, yeah right.

 

[mellowinman]

Is CK hanging around on here and will I feel her wrath?

You better HOPE NOT, fella.

The last person to feel CK's wrath, well let's just say we're still looking for 'em.

 

[PolkaHero]

Our bandleader just told to learn "Feelin' Alright" by Joe Cocker (with Huey Lewis version horns added). Guess who played bass in that track?!

 

[Alkali Ike]

Our bandleader just told to learn "Feelin' Alright" by Joe Cocker (with Huey Lewis version horns added). Guess who played bass in that track?!

CAROL KAYE!!! I love that bass track.

 

[andruca]

A wrong note? Can't hear it thru' Spector's production "personality". Probably the most overrated producer ever, with a single laughable trick (the wall of crap) that equally managed to ruin songs from the Beatles to the Ramones.

 

[bucephylus]

You cats are tough.

I have to admit that I have covered that tune numerous times with several very talented vocalists. Always a crowd fav. But, I never listened to the original bass line that carefully. I just played the tune. Different strokes.

 

[lostreality]

You better HOPE NOT, fella.

The last person to feel CK's wrath, well let's just say we're still looking for 'em.

I hear she sacrificed James Jamerson to Satan in the early 80's, and that the only defenses against her are holy water and scooped mids

 

[NoiseNinja]

I guess it could be Carol Kaye, maybe she believes right notes are overrated as well as scales

Like she could have been like: "I refuse to play that note, cause it clearly belongs to a musical scale!"

I realize it's not, still funny though.

Great song by the way (so great I ponder of making a cover for my drone/ambient/noise solo project), and to be honest you wouldn't probably notice the mistake if you were not a musician, it's not like it throws the whole song off.

 

[Rip Van Dan]

Respectfully, two tiny errors: you mean the album Sgt. Pepper...and it was 4 track. Their first 8 track was the White Album.

Crap....must have been late at night for me to screw that up...

I went back and edited that, though I put strike throughs through the original mistakes so you'd know where I screwed up.

 

[HaphAsSard]

The bass player had the "I need your love" section, which does have the V as the second chord (comes in later, at 2'55''), in his (absent) mind. It happens when you have three minutes to learn a song before performing it live, or recording it!

 

[Rabidhamster]

It was Mrs Scarlett in the study

 

[bobyoung53]

On my little computer speakers it sounds like whoever played it played the C realized it and slid into the A too late. I've noticed that before. There are all sorts of little bass mistakes in old music if you really listen. Even The Beatles had some and not only bass mistakes.

 

[bobyoung53]

How about this one, the guitarist hits the first two chords in the wrong order at approx 0:55, supposed to be minor to major, he plays major to minor, always a very glaring mistake to me.

 

[bassbully]

I guess it says a lot about me and a tin ear, but I listened at 2:15 about a half dozen times I still can't make out a wrong note. Time to go back to kazoo I guess.

Yup I see no big deal here at all.

 

[bobyoung53]

This thread doesn't seem to be going anywhere but if anyone is interested here's another bass mistake by possibly the same player who I think has a great sound, the bassist held the B too long and slid into G# right at about 1:34 mark in Don't Worry Baby, Beach Boys, I'm not trying to bash any player here at all just have always noticed errors and find them interesting because 99.9% of people just have no idea. Another very obvious one is Berry Oakley coming in one beat early after the lead break right at about 3:20 in the live version of One Way Out from Eat A Peach and the whole band turns around within 2 or three measures thanks to one of the drummers who hits the snare twice to turn it around to Berry.

 

[PolkaHero]

Let's keep live recordings out of this discussion. We all know that mistakes happen frequently during live performances (just look at this year's Grammy performances!). No excuse for it in the studio especially if a producer/artist had a good hunch a particular song was going to be a hit.

 

[bobyoung53]

Let's keep live recordings out of this discussion. We all know that mistakes happen frequently during live performances (just look at this year's Grammy performances!). No excuse for it in the studio especially if a producer/artist had a good hunch a particular song was going to be a hit.

Well I think an exception can be made for a huge established tune like One Way Out which is THE version everyone knows.

 

[PolkaHero]

Well I think an exception can be made for a huge established tune like One Way Out which is THE version everyone knows.

You're comparing a relatively obscure Allman Brothers song to a #1 Billboard hit? I'm a big AB fan but last I checked "One Way Out" never made a dent in the charts.

I kind of like the "rhythmic displacement" that Oakley creates in the live version!

 

[Alkali Ike]

Time is money in the studio, especially with no digital fixit tools. If you do 10 takes and the best overall take happens to have a clam, maybe you go with it.