Here’s a little something that probably won’t interest anyone: you know that bit at the start of Tom Petty’s Even The Losers where a female voice says “It’s just the normal noises in here”? Well, if you look on the interweb, the voice is generally considered to be that of Mike Campbell’s wife, Marcie. Warren Zanes’ biography of Petty confirms this, saying it was taken from a home recording when Campbell thought their washing machine was broken.
But this week Australian rocker and Jessie’s girl Rick Springfield was a guest on Jonesy’s Jukebox and he claims matter-of-factly that the voice is his wife’s, as she was a 16-year-old answering phones at Sound City at the time. (9.15 into the broadcast).
So there you go.
I did warn you it wouldn’t interest you.
Btw, Rick Springfield is 68 years old!
I would.
There’s a Netflix documentary about Sound City*
*contains Dave Grohl
I’m not PERSONALLY interested in this… but I love and respect the fact that many people are, and that the Afterword continues to throw up interesting factoids like this! Keep on keeping on!
For your next trick , can you tell us more about the “I want to tell you a story…. ” spoken word section on Grandmaster Flash’s Adventures On the Wheels of Steel….?
Working on it.
Is it true that the vocals of Like A Rolling Stone were dubbed by Sandie Shaw?
Nope. You’re thinking of Sandy Richardson out of Crossroads.
And Noele Gordon played bass with Jimi Hendrix.
And Benny provides the violin introduction to Mr Blue Sky
It’s facts like these that keep me coming back here. Crossroads – is that the TV soap that had the black guy selling his soul to the devil or was that Emmerdale?
Amy Turtle was in league with the devil.
She negotiated the deal when Robert Johnson spent 2 nights in the Edgbaston Suite
You are a genius, Lodey.
The idea of a mash up between this
and this
is a dream scenario waiting to happen.
Ageing bluesman checks into Midlands motel in search of a deal with the devil. A wall collapses…..
Shughie McFee cookin’ soul food while Benny works the door.