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Episode 134: “In the Midnight Hour” by Wilson Pickett

A History of Rock Music in 500 Songs

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'Mustang' Was Another Pop Top 30 Hit.

Tom dowd, atlantic's genius engineer, who had been a physicist on the manhattan project while still at enaga, wasn't going to let something as minor as that stop him. He told everyone to take a break for half an hour, gathered up all the randomly thrown bits of tape and spliced them back together. The completed recording apparently has forty splices in it, which would mean an average of a splice every four seconds. Have o listen to this 30 second segment and see if you can hear any at all. Signalrandsadin aaiamn: i think i can hear one splice in the whole track, a place where the rhythm hicc

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