" Porter described Atkins as respectful of musicians when recording — if someone was out of tune he would not single that person out by name.

" Schatz states that he would be "... more likely to use it in a live situation than on a recording — for a solo or to punctuate a particular place in a song or tune where I wouldn't be obliterating someone's solo.

After recording a handful of acoustic titles during 1924-1926, his signing with Irving Mills allowed him to record for nearly every label, often recording different versions of the same tune for numerous labels.

The tune knocked the Shirelles ' " Will You Love Me Tomorrow " out of the # 1 position, and it kept the Miracles ' " Shop Around " from becoming the group's first # 1 hit, holding their recording at # 2.

In 2002 Scruggs won a second Grammy award for the 2001 recording of " Foggy Mountain Breakdown ", which featured artists such as Steve Martin on 2nd banjo solo ( Martin played the banjo tune on his 1970s stand-up comic acts ), Vince Gill and Albert Lee on electric guitar solos, Paul Shaffer on piano, Leon Russell on organ, and Marty Stuart on mandolin.

The album included a new recording of a rare Keaggy solo tune, " What Matters ," the title track of a compilation album exclusively produced for and released through the International Bible Society in 2001.

According to Anka, after recording the song, Jackson decided not to use it and the tune was then recorded and released by singer Sa-Fire.

Ted Lewis's jazz band recording in 1920, became his signature tune, and spent 18 weeks on the charts ( seven weeks at No. 1 ).

* Steinberger headless ( but full-bodied, two-cutaway ) bass – Bought during the recording of Trompe Le Monde because the other basses were out of tune on the higher frets.

The Chess brothers liked the tune and soon the trio were in Chicago recording " Maybellene " and " Wee Wee Hours " – a song Johnson had been playing as an instrumental for years for which Berry quickly penned some lyrics.

Warwick, at first, balked at recording the tune and asked Bacharach " How many more versions of Alfie do you need?

Jones ' recording became the first of many hit versions of the tune.

In 1998, as a guest on Have I Got News For You, he accompanied the show's closing theme tune on the xylophone and as a pianist, he once accompanied Albert Einstein playing The Swan by Camille Saint-Saëns on the violin ( of which no recording was made ).

The albums Honey In The Horn and Cotton Candy were both in the Top 10 best sellers for 1964, the same year Hirt scored a hit single with his cover of Allen Toussaint's tune " Java " ( Billboard No. 4 ), and later won a Grammy Award for the same recording.

Since the recording of Alive or Just Breathing, they have learned how to keep in tune better as they record.

After a personnel change ( due to some of the original members growing up ), they experienced some backlash in the country for recording their song " El Alacrán " (" The Scorpion "), an innocent pop tune that made a coincidental reference to a clandestine group that was one of Francisco Franco's staunchest opponents.

The brothers appeared on the show This Is David Gest in 2007, including recording the theme tune Crazy Kinda Guy.

They appeared in an episode where Gest took cameras for a rare glimpse of the Jackson family house in Encino, California, where he met Tito and 3T as well as matriarch Katherine Jackson, as well as a later episode showing them recording the theme tune.

In the play, he introduced the title song written by Stephen Schwartz ( later recording the tune on an album for Platypus Records ).

Bruce Welch of The Shadows claimed in his autobiography that McCartney offered the tune to Shadow's lead guitarist Hank Marvin prior to the Beatles ' recording.

More serious British artists were rapping live or recording amateur tapes in the early 1980s, but the first British hip hop tune released on record was " London Bridge " by Newtrament in 1984.

Alpert set up a small recording studio in his garage and had been overdubbing a tune called " Twinkle Star ", written by Sol Lake, who would eventually write many of the Brass's original tunes.

Allegedly, when Kovacs first heard a recording of the tune, he immediately came up with a mental image of what would become The Nairobi Trio: three gorillas ( wearing derby hats and long overcoats ) mechanically miming to the music like wind-up toys.

While convalescing in his Virginia home he wrote a book recording his prison experiences and escape, entitled: They Shall Not Have Me Published originally in ( Helion's ) English by Dutton & Co. of New York, in 1943, the book was received by the press as a work of astonishing literary power and one of the most realistic accounts of World War 2, from the French side.

special equipment required for registering respiration and for recording the contraction of smooth muscles under various conditions was developed by the Instruments Section ( Victor Jackman, W. C. Barnes, J. F. Reiss ) ; ;

In all of this extensive and expensive effort, the camera was downgraded to the status of recording instrument for art work produced elsewhere by the actor or by the author.

It was about that time, a board member said later, that Dr. Thomas G. Pullen, Jr., State superintendent of schools, told Dr. Jenkins and a number of other education officials that he would not talk to them with a recording machine sitting in front of him.

The very first recording was made for RCA Victor in 1929 with Nathaniel Shilkret conducting the Victor Symphony Orchestra, drawn from members of the Philadelphia Orchestra.

Gershwin was on hand to " supervise " the recording ; however, Shilkret was reported to be in charge and eventually asked the composer to leave the recording studio.

Then, a little later, Shilkret discovered there was no one to play the brief celesta solo during the slow section, so he hastily asked Gershwin if he might play the solo ; Gershwin said he could and so he briefly participated in the actual recording.

He compares this to the work of the historian Thucydides, who found it difficult recording speeches verbatim but instead had the speakers say what he felt was appropriate for them to say on the occasion while adhering as much as possible to the general sense.

DiFranco was one of the first independent artists to own her own label, which has allowed her a considerable degree of creative freedom over the years, including, for example, providing all instrumentals and vocals and recording the album herself at her home on an analog 8-track reel to reel, and handling much of the artwork and packaging design for her 2004 album Educated Guess.

This effect is now done electronically using DSP, but originally the effect was created by playing the same recording on two synchronized tape players, and then mixing the signals together.

During 1976, Grant wrote her first song (" Mountain Man "), performed in public for the first time — at Harpeth Hall School — the all-girls school she attended, recorded a demo tape for her parents with church youth-leader Brown Bannister, then later when Bannister was dubbing a copy of the tape, Chris Christian, the owner of the recording studio, heard the demo and called Word Records.

He played it over the phone, and she was offered a recording contract, five weeks before her 16th birthday.

A soundtrack recording was released on LP, and a DVD release was issued in June 2007.

The concert was recorded by Columbia Records, preserving for the first time musical passages and numbers not included on the original Broadway cast recording.

It was recorded for the original Broadway cast recording but not included on the LP release ; it was reinstated on a later CD release.

Unfortunately, the drawings are long gone ; no recording was made.

An English-language version, simply titled Kristina, was staged in concert at Carnegie Hall in New York City for two nights in September 2009, yielding a live recording, and at the Royal Albert Hall for one night in April 2010.

The song was originally written for movie and recording star Divine, who was unable to record the song before his death in 1988.

In the liner notes to Buddy Holly: The Definitive Collection, Billy Altman notes that " Peggy Sue " was originally written as " Cindy Lou " ( after Holly's niece ), but Holly changed it prior to recording as a tip of the hat to Crickets drummer Jerry Allison's girlfriend, Peggy Sue Gerron.