Randy wrote the song as a birthday gift to his brother (who stuttered) to have a little fun. The label guy heard it and insisted it be on...with the stuttering. lol
Thanks! Yea, they taped it both ways, record company insisted on releasing the stutter version. Wrong but, funny and they knew better, obviously. Peace
That's not quite the way it happened but, close enough. They used to use the (instrumental) song a lot in the studio, especially when noodling around (i.e. warming up, setting the amps and mics, in between recordings, etc.), and yeah, Randy Bachman added the stuttering lyrics partly a joke to his brother ... who actually loved it. As I understand it, they were short 1 (hit) song for the album they were working on, the band suggested it, and after hearing it, the producer insisted they use it ... WITH the stutter.
Randy Bachman was a member of one of the greatest Canadian bands of all time, the Guess Who and it’s a crime that they are not in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame!!!
R&R Hall of Fame is a farce. It's a commercialized shrine to bands that were popular with the writers and editors at Rolling Stone. If you peer behind the curtain you'll find the same group of people in both corporations.
I heard that their hometown of Winnipeg is renaming a bridge the Bachman Turner Overdrive. A great way to honour them with a sense of humour thrown in.
The National Stuttering Association (or whatever they call themselves) apparently awarded this song the best stuttering song of all time, beating out such other famous stuttering songs as Bennie and the Jets, My Generation by the Who, and many others.
Great pick fellas Randy Bachman and Fred Turner were a great duo Randy left the Guess Who and started this band. Too many awesome tunes to mention but definitely worth a dive!
Huge rabbit hole here guys. Randy Bachman was the lead guitarist and major songwriter in the Guess Who. Growing up in Winnipeg Randy learned from Lenny Breaux, a noted jazz/rock guitarist. BTO is known for hard rocking songs but they also have some very jazzy tunes. Blue Collar and Looking Out For #1 mainly. BTO was huge in the 70's.
My hometown boys from Winnipeg, Canada 🇨🇦 Randy Bachman the vocalist and guitarist on this song was also in The Guess Who who wrote American Woman. He left the Guess Who and started BTO. This song started out as a bit of a joke with the stuttering as one of Randy 's brothers stuttered. Management heard the song and thought it would be a hit and it was. Other BTO songs Blue Collar Not Fragile Taking Care of Business Looking out for number one Hey You Cheers
Randy Bachman is the singer/songwriter/guitarist that had previously been in The Guess Who (American Woman, These Eyes, No Sugar Tonight) and Turner is the bass player.
BTO was a great radio friendly rock band. Short, catchy songs played right into radios idea of music at the time. Takes nothing away from their music, and the multiple styles they mastered.
Fun fact: I remember reading an article sometime in or around the late 90's, that more people tried to pass themselves off as Randy Bachman than any other famous/semi-famous person. Many people know the name but not the face, so people were going around using his name to get free drinks, or comps/special treatment at establishments. I just remember that little fact in that article cracked me up and always stuck with me.
They are from my home Province of Manitoba, Canada. Also from Manitoba are The Guess Who, Neil Young who spent his teenage years here and started his first band (The Squires), Monty Hall from Let’s Make a Deal, and Winnie the Pooh who was named after the capital city, Winnipeg.
I have worked with Jack Richardson (the producer of the Guess Who) and Randy Bachman and I had radio shows over the same years and talked on occasion, too! This was the sound track to the summer of 1974! These guys are HARD! Check out “Taking Care of Business” We called this stuff “Wheatfield Soul” Peace - from British Columbia, Canada! Love your channel!
The lead singer Randy Bachman and his brother [the bass player] were band members. Originally the song was meant to be recorded with normal vocals. So while they were screwing around in the studio Randy decided to add the stutter to tease his brother. A record exec happen to walk by and said "That's a Hit!" So it was recorded and released that way. A joke that exploded into a hit.
When I was living in Hawaii back in the 80's, a local radio station created a montage of rock songs that had stuttering. It included, among others: "Ain't Seen Nothing Yet" "My Generation," "Benny and the Jets" "My Sharona" "Bad to the Bone"
Let It Ride is my favorite BTO song. Came out when I was in high school. Blue Collar is another great BTO song, more low key than most of their hits but worth a listen.
THANK YOU for simply LISTENING and NOT pausing the song/video a ton of times! I love y'all's channel because y'all play the song or video and allow the vibe to sink in and wash over you...a witnessing, if you will! MUCH LOVE AND MAD RESPECT FROM NOLA BABY! ^..^⚜🎺🎷🥁🎭🥃🍺🦐🦞🦀☕🐊
I saw Randy and the band perform last summer. Still touring with his band and his son Tal. Also saw him with Burton Cummings a few years ago. They did BTO, BURTON stuff and The Guess Who. Amazing
I saw them in concert in 1974. I was leaning on the stage!! They had many hits and the concert was awesome. They were known as BTO. I was 14 at the time!!❤
These guys are from my hometown of Vancouver, Canada. Randy Bachman actually has a son named Tal and he has a band. He had a one hit wonder in the late 90s called She's So High that is underrated. For that era, the song was pretty good.
Randy Bachman, creator of the guitar riff of "American Woman" when he was with the Guess Who, he left the group to form BTO and got two of his brothers Robbie and Tim and to join him along Fred Turner
One of my all time favorite tunes! From the album "Not Fragile" a great album from 1974! You might want to give the title cut Not Fragile a listen to, it has a great bass line and it rocks!
Fun song ! Stuttering never sounded so good . Randy Bachman sang on this one , their bass player is Fred Turner who has one of the powerful voices ever in rock music . Check out their song " Blue Collar " very cool jazzy / rock song . Good reaction down memory lane
Three of them were brothers when the band formed and through their first two albums, which included such hit songs as Let it Ride and Takin' Care of Business. Brother Tim left the band and was replaced by the great guitar player in this video, Blair Thornton. So the band started out as 3 Bachman brothers and Turner, the bass player with a killer voice. Named after a trucker magazine, Overdrive.
Yeah BTO. Great rabbit hole of good music On this song you have Randy Bachman. Lead vocals/ guitar FC Turner. Bass / vocals Rob Bachman. Drums / vocals Blair Thornton. Lead guitar/ vocals
The Lead Singer on this one, Randy Bachman was one of the founding members of the Guess Who (American Woman) and then split over issues of Lifestyle (Randy was a Mormon) to form Brave Belt which morphed into Bachman Turner Overdrive. Randy would later leave this band and form Union (1 Album) and then do solo stuff and reunion tours with the Guess Who & Bachman Turner Overdrive. The drummer is brother Robbie Bachman and another Brother Tim played guitar on the first 2 albums. Fred Turner is the other big guy in the video (thus Bachman-Turner)
I'm from Atlanta & this song makes me think of the old rock station 96-Rock (96.1 on the radio). Every week they would let listeners submit a 6-pack of request songs & if they picked that listener's list, they'd play it during that Friday's rush-hour. The ONLY reason I ever knew of this song is because whoever won had picked 6 songs with the theme of them all having stuttering in them. LOL. So it was this song, George Thorogood's "Bad to the Bone", Elton John's "Bennie & the Jets", The Who's "My Generation", David Bowie's "Changes" & I 'think' the last 1 was The Knack's "My Sharona".
The stutter was a joke by Randy Bachman to his brother who did stutter.Cool band with Randy singing lead on some songs,and Fred Turner singing and playing bass on some songs.Try Let It Ride to hear Fred singing lead.Thanks guys for this one.
Canadian bands get so little recognition but we have so many talented musicians! Check out Trooper: Here For A Good Time, Two for the Show and Santa Maria... oh and Raise a Little Hell, of course!
Randy Bachman played guitar in the 70's in a band called The Guess Who, along with Fred Turner on bass. When the band broke up, Randy formed a band called Bachman Turner Overdrive with Fred Turner bass, Tim Bachman guitar, and Robbie Bachman drums who had a studder in 1973. When doing a sound check, Randy wanted to make Robbie laugh, so he started playing and singing this song, making up words as he went along. When he took the album without this song, to Charlie Fach the producer, he told them they needed a bigger song so Fred said hey how about the joke song, Randy played it Charlie loved it and it was their only #1 hit.
This song and The Who's "My Generation" both use stuttering to great effect. Maybe, also, David Bowie's "Ch- Ch- Ch- Ch- Changes" but that one seems a lot more regular and consistent, where those others really sound wild and unpredictable. I'm also amazed at how perfectly this video matches the studio recording. Obviously, they filmed this as a music video and not at a real concert, but they seem like they are really playing the song and not pantomiming and lip-synching. So, if they are really playing the song, they matched the studio recording perfectly.
Randy Bachman was an original member of the iconic Canadian band, the Guess Who. There biggest hit was American Woman later covered by Lenny Kravitz. This would be a great song for you to do a reaction too! Appreciate you, gentlemen!
Ever Heard of Pablo's Cruise !!!! Listen to Them Also , You Will Like !💗👌. These Guys are Great ! I graduated in 1974. Partied on the Rhine River , Germany to This . Tunes Were Absolutely Great 💗👌. Wore Mini- Skirts 💯 (Jack's Wife)
Randy wrote the song as a birthday gift to his brother (who stuttered) to have a little fun. The label guy heard it and insisted it be on...with the stuttering. lol
Thanks! Yea, they taped it both ways, record company insisted on releasing the stutter version. Wrong but, funny and they knew better, obviously. Peace
That's not quite the way it happened but, close enough. They used to use the (instrumental) song a lot in the studio, especially when noodling around (i.e. warming up, setting the amps and mics, in between recordings, etc.), and yeah, Randy Bachman added the stuttering lyrics partly a joke to his brother ... who actually loved it. As I understand it, they were short 1 (hit) song for the album they were working on, the band suggested it, and after hearing it, the producer insisted they use it ... WITH the stutter.
Randy Bachman was a member of one of the greatest Canadian bands of all time, the Guess Who and it’s a crime that they are not in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame!!!
Watched a video/concert with Randy & Burton performing Guess Who and solo songs. Lot of dialogue about the songs. Entertaining.
R&R Hall of Fame is a farce.
It's a commercialized shrine to bands that were popular with the writers and editors at Rolling Stone.
If you peer behind the curtain you'll find the same group of people in both corporations.
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is BS anyway.
Definitely
Fuk the HOF.
"Taking Care of Business"
"Roll on Down the Highway"
Not Fragile Shotgun Rider Taking Care of Business Wheels Won't Turn
Let it ride is a good one as well.
No sugar tonight!!!!! You will love this!!!!!
Blue collar is a good one also. A different sound from them.
YEAH!! TCB-BTO
I heard that their hometown of Winnipeg is renaming a bridge the Bachman Turner Overdrive. A great way to honour them with a sense of humour thrown in.
Proposed to change the name to Bachman-Turner Overpass.
BTO was (and still is) the ultimate road trip music.. Windows down and the volume all the way up...
Hell Yeah
I can see that
AGREED BIG TIME!!!
Their songs "takin' Care Of Business", "Let It Ride" and "Roll On Down The Highway" are good too.
The National Stuttering Association (or whatever they call themselves) apparently awarded this song the best stuttering song of all time, beating out such other famous stuttering songs as Bennie and the Jets, My Generation by the Who, and many others.
😂
BTO is one of the best live party-bands ever... they never failed to just shred the stage...
They have sooooo many great songs! And yes. We wore the best clothes in the 70’s. I miss it so much.
“Taking Care of Business” is a BTO must!
That haunting sound of that lead guitar is special to me. It takes me right back to when i was 10 years old and this was all over the radio.
It burst on to the scene in 1974. #1 in 22 countries!
Great pick fellas Randy Bachman and Fred Turner were a great duo Randy left the Guess Who and started this band. Too many awesome tunes to mention but definitely worth a dive!
Huge rabbit hole here guys. Randy Bachman was the lead guitarist and major songwriter in the Guess Who. Growing up in Winnipeg Randy learned from Lenny Breaux, a noted jazz/rock guitarist. BTO is known for hard rocking songs but they also have some very jazzy tunes. Blue Collar and Looking Out For #1 mainly. BTO was huge in the 70's.
My hometown boys from Winnipeg, Canada 🇨🇦
Randy Bachman the vocalist and guitarist on this song was also in The Guess Who who wrote American Woman.
He left the Guess Who and started BTO.
This song started out as a bit of a joke with the stuttering as one of Randy 's brothers stuttered. Management heard the song and thought it would be a hit and it was.
Other BTO songs
Blue Collar
Not Fragile
Taking Care of Business
Looking out for number one
Hey You
Cheers
As a person who stutters I always hated this song but over the years I learned to love it.
RANDY STILL KILLING IT AT 80 YO! OHHH CANADA! ^..^🍁
One of those classic hooks you never forget! I've heard it a million times, but I've never once seen the band.
Already many years on You Tube
@@love-vy1ry I don't doubt that but let me check my Search history...NOPE, no Bachman Turner Overdrive! 🤣
Great Reaction! "Let it Ride" is a must!
These guys have got some real bangers so don’t quit on them.
Randy Bachman is the singer/songwriter/guitarist that had previously been in The Guess Who (American Woman, These Eyes, No Sugar Tonight) and Turner is the bass player.
BTO was a great radio friendly rock band. Short, catchy songs played right into radios idea of music at the time. Takes nothing away from their music, and the multiple styles they mastered.
Fun fact: I remember reading an article sometime in or around the late 90's, that more people tried to pass themselves off as Randy Bachman than any other famous/semi-famous person. Many people know the name but not the face, so people were going around using his name to get free drinks, or comps/special treatment at establishments. I just remember that little fact in that article cracked me up and always stuck with me.
A blast from the past! Takes me way back
They did write some catchy tunes and monopolized the radio for a few years.
It makes me think of summer...
They are from my home Province of Manitoba, Canada. Also from Manitoba are The Guess Who, Neil Young who spent his teenage years here and started his first band (The Squires), Monty Hall from Let’s Make a Deal, and Winnie the Pooh who was named after the capital city, Winnipeg.
Another killer band/song out of Manitoba, Queen City Kids/Dance!
@@sw7833 The Crash Test Dummies
I have worked with Jack Richardson (the producer of the Guess Who) and Randy Bachman and I had radio shows over the same years and talked on occasion, too!
This was the sound track to the summer of 1974!
These guys are HARD! Check out “Taking Care of Business”
We called this stuff “Wheatfield Soul”
Peace - from British Columbia, Canada!
Love your channel!
Randy Bachman -- a tremendously talented songwriter and lead guitarist.
Thanks guys! 🎉 Great reaction!! I think you’ll like “Let it Ride” and “Roll on down the highway” too!
Love me some BTO! Love the 70's PERIOD! Thanks guys! 🙌💞
YES!!!!! one of my favorite jams of all time!🔥🔥🔥
Singer/Guitarist is Randy Bachman and the Bass player is Fred Turner. The Drummer is Robbie Bachman, Randy's little brother.
Let it Ride, Blue Collar, 4 Wheel Drive and Not Fragile are some good tunes from BTO.
The lead singer Randy Bachman and his brother [the bass player] were band members. Originally the song was meant to be recorded with normal vocals. So while they were screwing around in the studio Randy decided to add the stutter to tease his brother. A record exec happen to walk by and said "That's a Hit!" So it was recorded and released that way. A joke that exploded into a hit.
Two guitars, bass, and drums. Just as God intended.
When I was living in Hawaii back in the 80's, a local radio station created a montage of rock songs that had stuttering. It included, among others:
"Ain't Seen Nothing Yet"
"My Generation,"
"Benny and the Jets"
"My Sharona"
"Bad to the Bone"
Saw them in concert.
Tore the house down.
Very loud.
Many hits…enjoy the ride.
Yeah! Let it Ride!
Let It Ride is my favorite BTO song. Came out when I was in high school. Blue Collar is another great BTO song, more low key than most of their hits but worth a listen.
THANK YOU for simply LISTENING and NOT pausing the song/video a ton of times! I love y'all's channel because y'all play the song or video and allow the vibe to sink in and wash over you...a witnessing, if you will! MUCH LOVE AND MAD RESPECT FROM NOLA BABY! ^..^⚜🎺🎷🥁🎭🥃🍺🦐🦞🦀☕🐊
HOORAY - BTO!!! This one made my day, Guys!! They have so many GREAT TUNES!! ENJOY!!
Let it Ride...Fred Turner on lead vocals for this, and Roll on Down the Hiway...Randy sang in this one and Taking Care of Business... Great Band!!!
Love BTO ❤️ Randy is fire 🔥 Taking care of business has to be next. Great reaction as usual guys and Peace out 🙏 ✌️ ☮️
All the best Randy from your Good Friend Mark Sr from Maple 🍁 Grove Mn USA 🎉
Their BEST track on this album, is "Let it Ride". HYPE!!!!!!!
Seen them in concert back in the day (70’s) was a teenager and loved them
My girl friend at the time took this one to heart we have been married for 44 years - she still plays it at times and takes it to heart
I saw Randy and the band perform last summer. Still touring with his band and his son Tal. Also saw him with Burton Cummings a few years ago. They did BTO, BURTON stuff and The Guess Who. Amazing
Great song by Randy Bachman who used to be in The Guess Who “ from Canada!👍💚💚💚
I saw them in concert in 1974. I was leaning on the stage!! They had many hits and the concert was awesome. They were known as BTO. I was 14 at the time!!❤
Love love love this song!!
These guys are from my hometown of Vancouver, Canada. Randy Bachman actually has a son named Tal and he has a band. He had a one hit wonder in the late 90s called She's So High that is underrated. For that era, the song was pretty good.
Let it Ride is my favorite by them.
BTO was very popular in the 70's. "Let It Ride", "Takin' Care of Business", etc..!
Randy Bachman, creator of the guitar riff of "American Woman" when he was with the Guess Who, he left the group to form BTO and got two of his brothers Robbie and Tim and to join him along Fred Turner
This was the first concert I saw back in 1979 in Iowa!!
Oh my, you need to listen to their other hits! Love this group! They were my group in the late 1969s.
So many memories of my first love when I was in high school in Australia. Haven’t heard this for years. Still a great song!!
One of my all time favorite tunes! From the album "Not Fragile" a great album from 1974! You might want to give the title cut Not Fragile a listen to, it has a great bass line and it rocks!
Fun song ! Stuttering never sounded so good . Randy Bachman sang on this one , their bass player is Fred Turner who has one of the powerful voices ever in rock music . Check out their song " Blue Collar " very cool jazzy / rock song . Good reaction down memory lane
Saturday Afternoon public skating, 1976 , this album was on repeat in every hockey rink on Canada
An absolute classic !! 👍🏽👍🏽
2 of them are brothers. think it's lead singer and drummer. Keep on rocking 🥁🎸
Three of them were brothers when the band formed and through their first two albums, which included such hit songs as Let it Ride and Takin' Care of Business. Brother Tim left the band and was replaced by the great guitar player in this video, Blair Thornton. So the band started out as 3 Bachman brothers and Turner, the bass player with a killer voice. Named after a trucker magazine, Overdrive.
Still have the LP. Great song.
Another great song choice. Enjoyed y'all's reaction as always.
From back in the days when they didn’t even bother trying to sync the sound track with the video. Canadian gold!
3 Bachman brothers Randy, Robbie & Tim, Fred Turner. Make up BTO my hometown band.
Bachman Turner Overdrive sounds like a law firm!😂
Yeah BTO.
Great rabbit hole of good music
On this song you have
Randy Bachman. Lead vocals/ guitar
FC Turner. Bass / vocals
Rob Bachman. Drums / vocals
Blair Thornton. Lead guitar/ vocals
The Lead Singer on this one, Randy Bachman was one of the founding members of the Guess Who (American Woman) and then split over issues of Lifestyle (Randy was a Mormon) to form Brave Belt which morphed into Bachman Turner Overdrive. Randy would later leave this band and form Union (1 Album) and then do solo stuff and reunion tours with the Guess Who & Bachman Turner Overdrive. The drummer is brother Robbie Bachman and another Brother Tim played guitar on the first 2 albums. Fred Turner is the other big guy in the video (thus Bachman-Turner)
Great reaction Gentlemen. Nice to hear BTO again. A lot of great tunes from that band.
Saw them once in Columbus Oh at Valley Dale Ballroom. Fkn rocking show.
One of my FAVORITES!
I'm from Atlanta & this song makes me think of the old rock station 96-Rock (96.1 on the radio). Every week they would let listeners submit a 6-pack of request songs & if they picked that listener's list, they'd play it during that Friday's rush-hour. The ONLY reason I ever knew of this song is because whoever won had picked 6 songs with the theme of them all having stuttering in them. LOL. So it was this song, George Thorogood's "Bad to the Bone", Elton John's "Bennie & the Jets", The Who's "My Generation", David Bowie's "Changes" & I 'think' the last 1 was The Knack's "My Sharona".
All their songs were awesome 👏
The stutter was a joke by Randy Bachman to his brother who did stutter.Cool band with Randy singing lead on some songs,and Fred Turner singing and playing bass on some songs.Try Let It Ride to hear Fred singing lead.Thanks guys for this one.
Saw them live in the mid-70's, definitely one of the best concerts. Check, out Let it Ride ...
They were WAAY ahead of their time....
They were exactly of their time. They broke no new ground.They played great, straight ahead, fun rock.
Canadian bands get so little recognition but we have so many talented musicians! Check out Trooper: Here For A Good Time, Two for the Show and Santa Maria... oh and Raise a Little Hell, of course!
This old lady loves you guys!
Such a banger from way back!! Must hear Taking Care of Business!!
Randy Bachman is the singer and guitarist his brother on drums and then Turner plays the base
That drummer workin OVERTIME.
Randy Bachman played guitar in the 70's in a band called The Guess Who, along with Fred Turner on bass. When the band broke up, Randy formed a band called Bachman Turner Overdrive with Fred Turner bass, Tim Bachman guitar, and Robbie Bachman drums who had a studder in 1973. When doing a sound check, Randy wanted to make Robbie laugh, so he started playing and singing this song, making up words as he went along. When he took the album without this song, to Charlie Fach the producer, he told them they needed a bigger song so Fred said hey how about the joke song, Randy played it Charlie loved it and it was their only #1 hit.
Loved this song when it came out ❤️🇬🇧
Good tune! I was a teenager when this was popular.
Led Zeppelin “ over the hills and far away “ epic song
Over the years (in my 60s now) I got about 10 or so speeding tickets. I can say that half of them I got when I was listening to BTO!
Chicago, Dobbie brothers, Allman brothers are bands to investigate- huge hits , big hits from all of them
This song and The Who's "My Generation" both use stuttering to great effect. Maybe, also, David Bowie's "Ch- Ch- Ch- Ch- Changes" but that one seems a lot more regular and consistent, where those others really sound wild and unpredictable. I'm also amazed at how perfectly this video matches the studio recording. Obviously, they filmed this as a music video and not at a real concert, but they seem like they are really playing the song and not pantomiming and lip-synching. So, if they are really playing the song, they matched the studio recording perfectly.
Lead singer, drummer, and guitarist 🎸 were brothers (Bachman), Turner was the bassist
I believe BTO the lead singer, dedicated to his brother who was a stutter. It did very well which they were surprised by it on the charts
Randy's son Tal had a hit with " Shes so high" theres definitely talent in the family 😉
Randy Bachman was an original member of the iconic Canadian band, the Guess Who. There biggest hit was American Woman later covered by Lenny Kravitz. This would be a great song for you to do a reaction too! Appreciate you, gentlemen!
Great band with many hits . Cheers eh!
Oh this is a Banger!! IMO!! Love your reactions!!
Yes the music in the 70s was great and I was a teenager
Ever Heard of Pablo's Cruise !!!! Listen to Them Also , You Will Like !💗👌. These Guys are Great ! I graduated in 1974. Partied on the Rhine River , Germany to This . Tunes Were Absolutely Great 💗👌. Wore Mini- Skirts 💯 (Jack's Wife)
They had three big hits: this song, "Taking Care of Business (Everyday)" used in FEDEX ads and "Roll on Down The Highway"
Check out "Let it Ride" by BTO. Turner is singing on that one and its awesome!
BTO didn’t eff around🤘❤️