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Believe it or not, according to Wiki, on The Drifters’ recording Please Stay (1961)



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There Goes My Baby,” (1959) — it was reported that Atlantic Records initially released a promo 45 RPM single, but then requested that radio stations discard it, as it would be replaced. I believe violins were added in the second pressing. Can this be confirmed? — John, N.J.

Initially when Jerry Wexler heard “There Goes My Baby,” produced by Lieber & Stoller and recorded on a sound stage, he was concerned that the strings in the arrangement would not be the sound that people were accustomed to with the Drifters. He had Atlantic send out promo copies to disc jockeys, and the reaction was so positive that they released it — thus the new sound of the Drifters, different from Clyde McPhatter’s Drifters and the beginning of the use of strings on R&B recordings

Re: There Goes My Baby

Here is the story I heard...
The song was recorded featuring orchestrations by Ray Ellis....Ray conducted the session,
and somehow the results were out of tune, perhaps it was the basic track, and maybe the strings were unable to match on an overdub, intonationwise....The powers that be, perhaps Ertegun or Wexler
mentioned the possibility of realeasing it, and Ray said, heavens no, youre not going to release that thing are you, its all out of tune, and sounds bad..."but someone, again I cant remember who, but at the top, the producer(was it Leiber and Stoller?) or record label owner felt the record had some strange mysterious appeal, because of its strange sound, so they decided to release it....and it became a hit.

Someone maybe can correct me or embellish on what happened with this story..
Steveo

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