A backing track is an audio recording on audiotape, CD or a digital recording medium or a MIDI recording of synthesized instruments, sometimes of purely...
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The Miracle (album) (section Track listing)
tracks), backing vocals (all but 5), keyboards (1–4, 6, 7, 9, 10), drum machine (1), piano (1, 3, 6) Brian May – electric guitar (all tracks), backing vocals...
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The Beatles (album) (section Track listing)
Shack. The backing track was recorded in a small room next to the Studio 2 control room. Unusual for a Beatles recording, the four-track source tape...
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version of the track was released on the compilation I Can Hear Music: The 20/20 Sessions. In 2021, isolated vocals and backing track versions were released...
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Wouldn't It Be Nice (section Backing track)
legato parts that make it very interesting." Backing track of "Wouldn't It Be Nice" An excerpt of the backing track. Vocals of "Wouldn't It Be Nice" Isolated...
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Queen (Queen album) (section Track listing)
Mercury), 7), backing vocals (1–9) John Deacon (credited as Deacon John) – bass guitar (all tracks) Additional musicians John Anthony – backing vocals (7)...
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another Smile track, "Child Is Father of the Man". The only surviving full-band recording of "Surf's Up" from the 1960s is the basic backing track of the first...
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The Pet Sounds Sessions (section Track listing)
gave the "enlightening" box set a perfect score and wrote that "the backing music tracks sans vocals opens your ears to a bevy of awe-inspiring nuances previously...
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Hawthorne, CA (album) (section Track listing)
clip from a 1969 radio show. Home recordings dating back to 1960 and a backing track from 1973's "Sail On, Sailor" were also included. It never charted in...
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News of the World (album) (section Track listing)
of the band arrived at Sarm. They did backing track takes for "It's Late". After recording all the backing tracks, work moved to Wessex Sound, again preceded...
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hit "Streets of Philadelphia", which only uses the instruments as a backing track while the vocals were recorded with a microphone attached on the singer...
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Sheer Heart Attack (section Track listing)
the making of Sheer Heart Attack: most of the backing tracks were recorded at Rockfield, two backing tracks and some guitar overdubs were recorded at AIR...
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"Heroes" (David Bowie song) (section Backing track)
song was recorded in mid-1977 at Hansa Studio 2 in West Berlin. The backing track was recorded fully before lyrics were written; Bowie and Eno added synthesiser...
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Villains". Problems playing this file? See media help. "Barnyard" and the backing track verses of "Heroes and Villains" were both recorded on October 20, 1966...
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A backing vocalist is a singer who provides vocal harmony with the lead vocalist or other backing vocalists. A backing vocalist may also sing alone as...
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number 7 on the UK Singles Chart. Although a nearly eleven minute long backing track was recorded by the Funk Brothers, only slightly more than four minutes...
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and producer George Martin as a finale to the Beatles' career. The backing track was recorded at Olympic Sound Studios in Barnes, London, but the remainder...
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lyrics over the same backing track, but the truth is that the two songs were simultaneous adaptations of the same backing track. While Bertrand's single...
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multi-timbre polyphonic Polymoog in his home eight-track studio, and played on and recorded the backing track entirely himself, apart from bass guitar from...
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Muswell Hillbillies (section Track listing)
Holmes – saxophone, clarinet Vicki Brown – backing vocals on tracks 4 and 9 Ken Jones – harmonica on track 7 Mike Bobak – engineer Richard Edwards – engineer...
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I'm Not in Love (section Track listing)
and Graham Gouldman. It is known for its innovative and distinctive backing track, composed mostly of the band's multitracked vocals. Released in the...
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Pacific Ocean Blue (section Track listing)
1977, in two versions. Wilson had completed work on the instrumental backing track but never finished a satisfactory vocal, erasing an original attempt...
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The Game (Queen album) (section Track listing)
sound and DTS 5.1. The 5.1 mix of "Coming Soon" features an alternate backing track, as the final master tapes could not be found when mixing the album...
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(alternate version – backing track) – 3:20 "In the Lap of the Gods" (Part I – demo) – 3:14 "In the Lap of the Gods" (Part II – backing track rough mix) – 1:56...
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the first track on Wild Honey in December of the same year. The following year, the song's backing track was released on the Stack-O-Tracks album. The...
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The Smile Sessions (category Track listings with input errors)
full as track 36 on Disc Two in the five-CD box set edition. The vocals were stripped from the demo and laid on the existing backing tracks, comprising...
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he had recently recorded and gave a cassette to Asher containing the backing track to "In My Childhood". There are discrepancies from Asher as to whether...
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Stack-o-Tracks is an instrumental album release by the Beach Boys containing backing tracks to fifteen of their songs spanning their career to that point...
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(all tracks except 1, 4), organ, clavinet (track 1), soprano saxophone (track 1), electric piano (track 1), backing vocals (track 7), organ solo (track 3)...
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I Robot (album) (section Track listings)
Fender Rhodes (track 2), Wurlitzer (tracks 2, 4, 6), piano (tracks 3, 5, 8), organ (track 5), keyboards (tracks 7, 10), backing vocals (track 8) Alan Parsons...
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