You Ain'T Seen Nothing Yet by jomel77

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Jul 05, 2024 01:13am

"You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet" is a song by Canadian <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock_music" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">rock</a> band <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bachman%E2%80%93Turner_Overdrive" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Bachman–Turner Overdrive</a> (BTO). The song was written by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randy_Bachman" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Randy Bachman</a> for the band's third studio album <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Not_Fragile" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Not Fragile</a> (1974). It was released as a single in 1974, with an instrumental track "Free Wheelin'" as the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B-side" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">B-side</a>. It reached the number one position on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart and the Canadian <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RPM_(magazine)" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">RPM</a> chart the week of November 9, 1974, as well as earning the band their only major hit single in the United Kingdom, peaking at number 2 on the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UK_Singles_Chart" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">UK Singles Chart</a>. The follow-up single, "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roll_on_Down_the_Highway" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Roll on Down the Highway</a>", was also a minor UK hit.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You_Ain%27t_Seen_Nothing_Yet_(Bachman%E2%80%93Turner_Overdrive_song)#cite_note-2" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[2]</a>The lyrics for the song tell of the narrator meeting a "devil woman" who gives him love. The chorus of the song includes the song's famous stutter, and speaks of her looking at him with big brown eyes and saying, "You ain't seen nothin' yet. B-b-b-baby, you just ain't seen na-na-nothin' yet. Here's somethin' that you're never gonna forget. B-b-b-baby, you just ain't seen na-na-nothin' yet.""You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet" was written by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randy_Bachman" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Randy Bachman</a>. According to Bachman, the song was performed as a joke for his brother, Gary, who had a stutter. They only intended to record it once with the stutter and send the only recording to Gary.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You_Ain%27t_Seen_Nothing_Yet_(Bachman%E2%80%93Turner_Overdrive_song)#cite_note-super-3" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[3]</a>Bachman developed the song while recording BTO's third album, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Not_Fragile" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Not Fragile</a> (1974). It began as an instrumental piece inspired by the rhythm guitar on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Mason" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Dave Mason</a>'s "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Only_You_Know_and_I_Know" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Only You Know and I Know</a>". Bachman says "it was basically just an instrumental and I was fooling around... I wrote the lyrics, out of the blue, and stuttered them through." The band typically used the song as a "work track" in the studio to get the amplifiers and microphones set properly.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You_Ain%27t_Seen_Nothing_Yet_(Bachman%E2%80%93Turner_Overdrive_song)#cite_note-4" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[4]</a>But when winding up production for the album, Charlie Fach of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercury_Records" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Mercury Records</a> said the eight tracks they had lacked the "magic" that would make a hit single. Some band members asked Bachman, "what about the work track?" Bachman reluctantly mentioned that he had this ninth song, but did not intend to use it on a record. He said, "We have this one song, but it's a joke. I'm laughing at the end. I sang it on the first take. It's sharp, it's flat, I'm stuttering to do this thing for my brother."<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You_Ain%27t_Seen_Nothing_Yet_(Bachman%E2%80%93Turner_Overdrive_song)#cite_note-super-3" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[3]</a>Fach asked to hear it, and they played the recording for him. Fach smiled and said "That's the track. It's got a brightness to it. It kind of floats a foot higher than the other songs when you listen to it."<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You_Ain%27t_Seen_Nothing_Yet_(Bachman%E2%80%93Turner_Overdrive_song)#cite_note-super-3" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[3]</a>Bachman agreed to rearrange the album sequence so the song could be added, but only if he could re-record the vocals first, without the stutter. Fach agreed, but Bachman says "I tried to sing it normal, but I sounded like <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Sinatra" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Frank Sinatra</a>. It didn't fit." Fach said to leave it as it was, with the stutter.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You_Ain%27t_Seen_Nothing_Yet_(Bachman%E2%80%93Turner_Overdrive_song)#cite_note-super-3" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[3]</a>