10cc - I'm Not In Love from Top Pop-Be My Valentine Charlie Brown version

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I'm Not in Love: 

American straightforward soul singer and backing vocalist Dennis Englewood said, "When I heard 10cc's original, 'I'm Not In Love', I noticed that there were too many synthetic distorted choir voices, made from technical machines that made part of the real music disenchanted and I call their production horrible, sucked in and disembodied. I don't like how synthesized they were. Those weren't man-made for me. For my creamy vanilla soul ballad version of that song, I wanted to do the whole backing track with a lot of real instruments playing that are man-made for me and the real backing voices of myself, Laurie Maitland, Joyce Berry and Sue Fleming, created in a family style.

If you're interested in his man-made soul ballad remake of the 10cc, stream it on Spotify at:

https://open.spotify.com/track/4ciu1G07TVxYkRR6BWV9a8

As the original once said:

The ethereal sound was created by laboriously building up multiple overdubs of the voices of Stewart, Graham Gouldman, Godley and Creme singing a single note in unison. This multi-track was then mixed down and dubbed down onto 16-track tape. This process was repeated across all sixteen tracks to create a lush 256-voice "virtual" choir that could "sing" chromatic chords. A number of these prepared multi-tracks were then cut into several endless loops, each of which contained the basic notes of the main chords used in the song. The chorus loops could then be played by using the mixing desk rather like a keyboard -- each chord could be sounded by bringing up the fader for that loop.

The instrumental break featured the repeated spoken phrase: "Be quiet, big boys don't cry...", which was spoken by Kathy Warren, the receptionist of the Strawberry Studios where the band recorded the track...

In this pre-sampler period, the group was able to simulate a large polyphonic choir, creating a dramatic tonal effect similar to that produced by the well-known choir setting on the Mellotron, but with a far richer sound, and in full stereo.

Here's a brief documentary about the creation of the song:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SLkO9DYmAwc

10cc - I'm not in Love -Serious Version - with relevant scenes from Angel Dusted

 

I like the serious heartfelt ballad, "I'm Not in Love", done by only Eric Stewart from 10cc, better than Kathy Redfern's middle part that I'm not happy about since I'm a small 10cc fan.

10cc - I'm Not In Love - documentary and song

 

As someone commented:

You call her up? Check.

You like to see her? Check.

You keep her picture upon the wall? Check.

You my friend, are in love.

lyndon

It's about someone who's in love but he's afraid to admit it probably because he's afraid that he will be hurt. I love this song

Everybody's been close but no cigar, this song is about a guy who is denying that he's in love with this girl, if you listen to the song, or read the lyrics on the part that says (it's because) but then never gives an explanation, its cuz his feeling are too complicated to explain to the girl, trust me, When love presents its self guys like us are afraid of it, we'd rather have one night stands, or a girlfriend we don't love except for sex. than to treat ourselves to the real thing, not afraid of commitment, but love.. the guy in the songs pushing her away because he doseen't feel like he deserves real love,,,.and at the same time gets some kind of sick depressing satisfaction from breaking his heart and hers........ kcwheezy

on February 25, 2005

10cc - I'm Not In Love - song and story about why the mishap occured in midsong

 

American straightforward soul singer and backing vocalist Dennis Englewood said, "When I heard 10cc's original, 'I'm Not In Love', I noticed that there were too many synthetic distorted choir voices, made from technical machines that made part of the real music disenchanted and I call their production horrible, sucked in and disembodied. I don't like how synthesized they were. Those weren't man-made for me. For my creamy vanilla soul ballad version of that song, I wanted to do the whole backing track with a lot of real instruments playing that are man-made for me and the real backing voices of myself, Laurie Maitland, Joyce Berry and Sue Fleming, created in a family style.

If you're interested in his man-made soul ballad remake of the 10cc, stream it on Spotify at:

https://open.spotify.com/track/4ciu1G07TVxYkRR6BWV9a8

 

As the original once said:

The ethereal sound was created by laboriously building up multiple overdubs of the voices of Stewart, Graham Gouldman, Godley and Creme singing a single note in unison. This multi-track was then mixed down and dubbed down onto 16-track tape. This process was repeated across all sixteen tracks to create a lush 256-voice "virtual" choir that could "sing" chromatic chords. A number of these prepared multi-tracks were then cut into several endless loops, each of which contained the basic notes of the main chords used in the song. The chorus loops could then be played by using the mixing desk rather like a keyboard -- each chord could be sounded by bringing up the fader for that loop.

The instrumental break featured the repeated spoken phrase: "Be quiet, big boys don't cry...", which was spoken by Kathy Warren, the receptionist of the Strawberry Studios where the band recorded the track...

In this pre-sampler period, the group was able to simulate a large polyphonic choir, creating a dramatic tonal effect similar to that produced by the well-known choir setting on the Mellotron, but with a far richer sound, and in full stereo. 

Here's a brief documentary about the creation of the song: 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SLkO9DYmAwc