3 of the bandmembers (Godley, Creme, Gouldman) each sang each note and awwww-ed at long as they could, the 4th member (Stewart), recorded it on mixtapes and made tape loops of it, which resulted in a wall of sound wit over 600 voices, which he could play as an actual instrument. This trick was never done before and in a time without digital recordings, this is a masterpiece.
Eric Stewart (the singer) wrote this "Tongue in Cheek" song in response to his wife's constantly telling him that he didn't tell her that he loved her enough times.....In reality, he loved her very much. The band searched high and low looking for the perfect voice to say the words "Big Boys Don't Cry" when their secretary/telephonist/tea maker etc. popped her head around the door while they were recording this, to tell them that they'd got a phone call and they all instantly knew that her voice was the exact voice that they were looking for.
@@algee8415 Yeah....Eric is still married to his wife Gloria after well over 50 years now....but I suspect that it won't last as it's " Just a Silly Phase He's going through."
1975 - the year I graduated year 12. And now there are generations of people who are hearing this sound for the first time. Just as I did way back when.
I'm no music expert but I heard that they sampled their individual voices over a hundred times to get that sound you liked so much. Great reaction! 'Dreadlock Holiday' is another good song by 10cc.
3 of them singing "ahhh" to get 624 voices. All without synths or computers. Watch 'The making of 10cc's I'm Not In Love' on youtube to find out how it was all done.
It was made before digital samplers were available (the Fairlight CMI was introduced in 1979), even if the mellotron (analog recording tape sampler) was already there. They recorded multiple voice notes on a multi track tape recorder, then replayed it while using the studio console as a keyboard, with the console level sliders.
@@psalmsurfer1 Just check out the credits of the song, there ain't any vocoder there. In the video, the keyboard player just has a mic, but it isn't connected to the keyboard.
I loved this song so much back in the day. That voice you’re struggling to identify I won’t explain, as I’m sure many have already. But, it’s one of many aspects of the recording that appealed to so many people. Thank you for reacting to this wonderful song.
I keep your picture Upon the wall. It hides the nasty stain That's lying there. That's my favorite line. Love this song. Am so glad I grew up in a time that this was the norm on the radio....
I love the way you perceive and experience the sounds you hear, your cooking analogies and what you see with your ears. Seeing sound even tasting it is not alien to me. Don't change the way you perceive new sound, I love it, you obviously are open to the new felt experiences and are not one to limit yourself. As well as the music you're a joy to watch. Thanks
Love your facial reactions to this wonderful song. FYI the young lady who says "big boys don't cry..." was the receptionist at the Strawberry Studios near Manchester where the track was recorded.
Most people say the singer is in denial about being in love. I agree with that. Loved your reaction to this special song. Parts of this song is like you're being suspended in air while giving you a rush.
Went to see 10CC in Plymouth when this song was released, in a jam packed theatre and 10CC were fantastic. The lead singer was awesome! Saw 10CC in Exeter some 40 years later, and they were every bit as good. Such a wonderful love song (even though it’s about not being in love!) and a tune too die for😎👍
Theres a great video on the making of this song and it's incredible what they did to create the sound you're describing. The talent and skill required to do this with the technology of the time is mind boggling. Great review!
They spent years doing this song, developing new sound technology. About the same time as Queen did Bohemian Rapsoďy. A very innovative time. "Big Boys Don't Cry" was whispered by their administration assistant
THE Floating AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHSSSS are ''''64 thousand voices'''' tape over dubs of them just singing AHHHHH that was repeated to an equivalent of 64 thousand voices to get that surreal sound ..
Thank you for your reaction, loveth!! You are on a roll with your reactions these days!! Great reaction to a beautiful song!! Keep up the great work!! Please add "Love Is Like Oxygen" by The Sweet to your list of songs to get to one day!!!
The thing if, he really is very much in love. He says it, just not directly. He says he'd like to see her, he keeps her picture on his wall and won't give it back. He's saying one thing but means the opposite.
Check out the documentary on the making of IM NOT IN LOVE it explains everything and how difficult it was to make these Angelic sounds . basically The human voice and Extra extra large loops of audiotape were involved In an extraordinary way 🇬🇧
live vey had a backgorund tape running of v continious aaaaggghhhhhhsssssss, n v rest of background vocals wre done live by v band, got about 4 singers.
Great statement about the song being like a motion picture, I was a teenager in the mid-late 70s, and I also used to say those classic rock songs were like mini Motion Pictures.
Eric is singing ,do you mean all the background voices, yeah, they spent a long time on them. Actually there is a video where they explain how they made this song!
What I was told, the sound you are asking about. It's all the band members singing, and the producer layered the voices over and over again. This is before sampling...
They sampled themselves, recording each of them separately singing various notes. Those were put onto tape loops, which were fed into the sound board. Then they all sat in the control booth together, each controlling the faders for his own voice, bringing different notes in and out.
You're hearing synth/fairlights. The song is basically about a guy who's in denial about being in love. The more he denies it, the more pathetically obvious it is that he's a goner. Just found your channel, I'll check out the rest of it.
They spent three weeks doing the vocal overdubs using tape loops, three of them did the ahhhh's in a chromatic scale to fit the chords, over 600 voices, Eric Stewart did the lead vocal in one take and played the fender rhodes through leslie speakers for that swirling sound, the other sounds are the human voice at half speed, a childs music box which I think was miked above the drum set but no drums as the bass drum sound is a moog sound, other worldly and utterly unique it blew me away in 75 and still does
@@ThisBlowsChunks There was no such thing as a Synclavier or Fairlight or any samplers at all in 1975. They recorded their own voices hundreds of times onto 12 foot long recording tape loops. Those inventions you're talking about wouldn't come for several years.
It voices. in 1975, Keyboard could not do that. It was voices layered on top of one in another. The Studio engineer just used faders to bring them in and out.
Love your description of _the sound._ You nailed it with the spice added to something you're cooking, it adds something eerily uplifting to the whole composition. On the same song suject I recommend you to react to Betty Davis "Anti love song".
Written by Eric Stewart and Graham Gouldman, Stewart came up with the idea for the song after his wife of eight years asked him why he didn't say "I love you" more often.
multi layed tracked vocals dne manually took em a long time to record it, its a masterpiece!. ur cute grl. cheers frm way dwn sth. aslo a hit wit 'dreadlock holiday' n ' things we do 4 love' n rubber bullets.
Ignore what you see on the video, what you're hearing is the studio work, with a video showing over it. The sounds are all from the studio, and that soundscape is the sound of -- literally -- 624 voices recorded on tape and then "played" on the mixing board by raising and lowering faders. They would have tried to approximate it on stage, including using a synth, but whatever they did in this video, is not what you're hearing. There's no synth in the original soundtrack.
There is a video called 'the making of I'm not in love ' that goes through the whole process, well worth checking out. It was originally a sort of bossa nova thing!
I adore this song because he IS IN LOVE with her, and is fooling himself...or TRYING to fool himself. He's using her picture to hide a nasty stain, so she can't have it back!? Yeah right! She can't have it back because he NEEDS to look at it! This is how a lot of men feel...unfortunately. Don't fight it... flow with it😊.
You can’t take the mans words to seriously in the song he says he is not in love but actually is madly in love and is lying to himself and her trying to not get caught up in his feelings he says the picture of her on his wall is only to cover a nasty stain that’s just an excuse for why he won’t give it back because he wants to keep it and he says in the beginning this is just phase I’m going through sure buddy I think you need to look into the deeper meaning of the song and his intention not just his shallow words.
The keyboardist might be using a vocoder attachment that inputs into the keyboard and outputs the vocal effect thru an amp/pa system..or sampled like someone else mentioned...Chromeo uses a vocoder in their music
I keep your picture up on the wall. It hides a nasty stain that's lying there. So don't you ask me to give it back I know you know it doesn't mean that much to me I'm not in love
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I always feel like I'm floating on clouds when I hear this song. It's one of my top 20 songs of all time for sure. Thanks for your reaction.
and also....he's very much in love. LOL That's the irony of the song.
this song stands the test of time! it sounds better now than it did when it first came out! it's a masterpiece!
3 of the bandmembers (Godley, Creme, Gouldman) each sang each note and awwww-ed at long as they could, the 4th member (Stewart), recorded it on mixtapes and made tape loops of it, which resulted in a wall of sound wit over 600 voices, which he could play as an actual instrument. This trick was never done before and in a time without digital recordings, this is a masterpiece.
Eric Stewart (the singer) wrote this "Tongue in Cheek" song in response to his wife's constantly telling him that he didn't tell her that he loved her enough times.....In reality, he loved her very much. The band searched high and low looking for the perfect voice to say the words "Big Boys Don't Cry" when their secretary/telephonist/tea maker etc. popped her head around the door while they were recording this, to tell them that they'd got a phone call and they all instantly knew that her voice was the exact voice that they were looking for.
His smirks give it away.
@@algee8415 Yeah....Eric is still married to his wife Gloria after well over 50 years now....but I suspect that it won't last as it's " Just a Silly Phase He's going through."
1975 - the year I graduated year 12. And now there are generations of people who are hearing this sound for the first time. Just as I did way back when.
thats the point this guy is head over heels in love
He's clearly IN LOVE!! 🎶💖🔥
I'm no music expert but I heard that they sampled their individual voices over a hundred times to get that sound you liked so much. Great reaction! 'Dreadlock Holiday' is another good song by 10cc.
3 of them singing "ahhh" to get 624 voices. All without synths or computers. Watch 'The making of 10cc's I'm Not In Love' on youtube to find out how it was all done.
It was made before digital samplers were available (the Fairlight CMI was introduced in 1979), even if the mellotron (analog recording tape sampler) was already there. They recorded multiple voice notes on a multi track tape recorder, then replayed it while using the studio console as a keyboard, with the console level sliders.
ruclips.net/video/3oxe4mlsQos/видео.html
@@chucku00 I thought it might have been a vocoder in the video
@@psalmsurfer1 Just check out the credits of the song, there ain't any vocoder there. In the video, the keyboard player just has a mic, but it isn't connected to the keyboard.
They were miming their own record for Top of the Pops. Someone in the group made Eric laugh, and he tried to hide it. It is a wonderful song.
Multi track & multi layered vocalisations.
He's in self-denial & he's definitely in.
Think out of the box.
I loved this song so much back in the day. That voice you’re struggling to identify I won’t explain, as I’m sure many have already. But, it’s one of many aspects of the recording that appealed to so many people. Thank you for reacting to this wonderful song.
That "Sound" was 264 voices created by 3 guy?s of the group......so excellent!!!!!
If that song doesn't rip your heart out, you have no soul!
I keep your picture
Upon the wall.
It hides the nasty stain
That's lying there.
That's my favorite line. Love this song. Am so glad I grew up in a time that this was the norm on the radio....
He says one thing but means another.
I love the way you perceive and experience the sounds you hear, your cooking analogies and what you see with your ears. Seeing sound even tasting it is not alien to me. Don't change the way you perceive new sound, I love it, you obviously are open to the new felt experiences and are not one to limit yourself. As well as the music you're a joy to watch. Thanks
Wow, thank you!
Definitely one of the most beautiful, meaningful songs I've ever heard. Brings back a lot of great memories.
Glad you enjoyed it
Me too .
From France. 👍👍👍
There’s a RUclips video of the recording of this song . It will explain to you that sound that everyone has loved for nearly 50 years
The whole point of the song is that he's so much in love, he's whipped! That's why it sounds so dreamy and romantic.
Well said....I know I was the first time I heard it.
I have every 10CC album. I love their music !!!
It`s the combination of voice and instruments including a quality PA sound technician.Great piece of creation.
Couldn't agree more!
Love your facial reactions to this wonderful song. FYI the young lady who says "big boys don't cry..." was the receptionist at the Strawberry Studios near Manchester where the track was recorded.
Self denial is the message. He is in love.
Most people say the singer is in denial about being in love. I agree with that.
Loved your reaction to this special song.
Parts of this song is like you're being suspended in air while giving you a rush.
Very pretty song! Nice reaction Loveth! 😊🌹
Went to see 10CC in Plymouth when this song was released, in a jam packed theatre and 10CC were fantastic. The lead singer was awesome! Saw 10CC in Exeter some 40 years later, and they were every bit as good. Such a wonderful love song (even though it’s about not being in love!) and a tune too die for😎👍
you can say that again
Theres a great video on the making of this song and it's incredible what they did to create the sound you're describing. The talent and skill required to do this with the technology of the time is mind boggling. Great review!
Very special song from the 70's❤
Just having 10 cc playing in the back group while your busy makes you smile
They spent years doing this song, developing new sound technology. About the same time as Queen did Bohemian Rapsoďy. A very innovative time. "Big Boys Don't Cry" was whispered by their administration assistant
is a cosmic song!!!!!!!!!!!!
Loveth: The point is... the more he protests, the more obvious it is that he is deceiving himself!
THE Floating AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHSSSS are ''''64 thousand voices'''' tape over dubs of them just singing AHHHHH that was repeated to an equivalent of 64 thousand voices to get that surreal sound ..
he keeps her picture on the wall to cover the stain, nah, he's in love, he's whooped
Perfection . Great song and the production was amazing for that period.
That sound in the background is the whole band voice caring on through out the whole song it's amazing how they can do it so well
The song is actually the guy contradicting himself into believing he's not feeling the emotion of love the words say it all.
Thank you for your reaction, loveth!! You are on a roll with your reactions these days!! Great reaction to a beautiful song!! Keep up the great work!! Please add "Love Is Like Oxygen" by The Sweet to your list of songs to get to one day!!!
Yes they each recorded their own voice and put it together to get that sound.
As Shakespeare once said ... "Methinks thee protests too much!"
What a lovely reaction. So pure.
Amo questa canzone amo Eric Stewart
The thing if, he really is very much in love. He says it, just not directly. He says he'd like to see her, he keeps her picture on his wall and won't give it back. He's saying one thing but means the opposite.
WOW Brilliant How it looksi My Ear
Just a masterpiece.
From France.
I was too distracted by your beauty to even listen to the song.
1975 remember when it was released.. haunting I have often wondered how many men have been through this and now occasionally wonder what if ?
Check out the documentary on the making of IM NOT IN LOVE it explains everything and how difficult it was to make these Angelic sounds . basically The human voice and Extra extra large loops of audiotape were involved In an extraordinary way 🇬🇧
live vey had a backgorund tape running of v continious aaaaggghhhhhhsssssss, n v rest of background vocals wre done live by v band, got about 4 singers.
That is a Mellotron. A keyboard instrument that plays tapes of recorded strings horns or voices.
Great statement about the song being like a motion picture, I was a teenager in the mid-late 70s, and I also used to say those classic rock songs were like mini Motion Pictures.
You could see that the singer was having a tough time stiffling a laugh at his lyrical contradictions hehe
back in 70s my drive in song don't come knocken hahaha
Eric is singing ,do you mean all the background voices, yeah, they spent a long time on them. Actually there is a video where they explain how they made this song!
as someone said: tongue in cheek - i say 'melancholy' - sad decisions in life
What I was told, the sound you are asking about. It's all the band members singing, and the producer layered the voices over and over again. This is before sampling...
They sampled themselves, recording each of them separately singing various notes. Those were put onto tape loops, which were fed into the sound board. Then they all sat in the control booth together, each controlling the faders for his own voice, bringing different notes in and out.
Ready for the flip side, “The Things We Do For Love” by 10CC next, if you please.
You are so right about being in love in this life. What would life be without love?
You're hearing synth/fairlights. The song is basically about a guy who's in denial about being in love. The more he denies it, the more pathetically obvious it is that he's a goner. Just found your channel, I'll check out the rest of it.
They spent three weeks doing the vocal overdubs using tape loops, three of them did the ahhhh's in a chromatic scale to fit the chords, over 600 voices, Eric Stewart did the lead vocal in one take and played the fender rhodes through leslie speakers for that swirling sound, the other sounds are the human voice at half speed, a childs music box which I think was miked above the drum set but no drums as the bass drum sound is a moog sound, other worldly and utterly unique it blew me away in 75 and still does
Its all vocals
Vocals, yes, but sampled into a Synclavier, unless my friend who was hanging with the band was just jerking my chain. Anything's possible.
@@ThisBlowsChunks sorry your wrong
@@ThisBlowsChunks There was no such thing as a Synclavier or Fairlight or any samplers at all in 1975. They recorded their own voices hundreds of times onto 12 foot long recording tape loops. Those inventions you're talking about wouldn't come for several years.
It’s my favourite denial song.
Hahahaha. I was seven in 75. This song haunts me.
He is in love..read between the lines 😀
It voices. in 1975, Keyboard could not do that. It was voices layered on top of one in another. The Studio engineer just used faders to bring them in and out.
Love your description of _the sound._ You nailed it with the spice added to something you're cooking, it adds something eerily uplifting to the whole composition.
On the same song suject I recommend you to react to Betty Davis "Anti love song".
Oh I am such a luck boy . Back in the day I saw them live . Twice
A good album ,, Dreadlock Holiday By 10 CC,🌷☮️🌟
Written by Eric Stewart and Graham Gouldman, Stewart came up with the idea for the song after his wife of eight years asked him why he didn't say "I love you" more often.
Best love song, very romantic, hi from France
Lovely ❤
The background "voices" are simply the members on a tape loop dubbed over and over so it sounds like a choir.
It’s thousands of mixes f their voices repeated, like an angelic choir - all male.
multi layed tracked vocals dne manually took em a long time to record it, its a masterpiece!. ur cute grl. cheers frm way dwn sth. aslo a hit wit 'dreadlock holiday' n ' things we do 4 love' n rubber bullets.
The backing is made up from vocal harmonies, excellent song.
Watch their live version video and you will see what sound is!!!
UNE AUTRE EPOQUE !!!
First attempt at layering...
Tape tracks and a tape loop made hundreds of voices...
Ignore what you see on the video, what you're hearing is the studio work, with a video showing over it. The sounds are all from the studio, and that soundscape is the sound of -- literally -- 624 voices recorded on tape and then "played" on the mixing board by raising and lowering faders.
They would have tried to approximate it on stage, including using a synth, but whatever they did in this video, is not what you're hearing. There's no synth in the original soundtrack.
There is a video called 'the making of I'm not in love ' that goes through the whole process, well worth checking out. It was originally a sort of bossa nova thing!
they are real voices.
Oh, it's so clear go me he IS in love....
HE IS IN LOVE, he's just denying it.
Those are real voices recorded over and over. The keyboard that could sound like that won’t be invented for another 10 years or so.
There is a viseo that explains how they made this recording.
🤗
He's in love, but does not want to accept that fact even by telling his girl friend.
Check out the video of how the song wae recorded😮
Their voices sampled and over dubbed, so it sounds like an instrument.
It's all about their being in denial...
He's denying he's in love when he is.
Dig it*...
I adore this song because he IS IN LOVE with her, and is fooling himself...or TRYING to fool himself. He's using her picture to hide a nasty stain, so she can't have it back!? Yeah right! She can't have it back because he NEEDS to look at it! This is how a lot of men feel...unfortunately. Don't fight it... flow with it😊.
Yeah…And how did that messy stain get on the wall? Did he throw some food in frustration or anger… or what?
Don't say that...I'm one of those persons who "ins't in love".
Spoiler alert: he's painfully and irretrievably in love with her.
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That was a bad cut and I was only 7 years old! Soothing!
You can’t take the mans words to seriously in the song he says he is not in love but actually is madly in love and is lying to himself and her trying to not get caught up in his feelings he says the picture of her on his wall is only to cover a nasty stain that’s just an excuse for why he won’t give it back because he wants to keep it and he says in the beginning this is just phase I’m going through sure buddy I think you need to look into the deeper meaning of the song and his intention not just his shallow words.
The keyboardist might be using a vocoder attachment that inputs into the keyboard and outputs the vocal effect thru an amp/pa system..or sampled like someone else mentioned...Chromeo uses a vocoder in their music
You’re not getting it, he is in love but he’s in denial
How they recorded it: ruclips.net/video/3oxe4mlsQos/видео.html
Thanks, you have a great energy. But, respectfully, I think you misinterpreted the lyrics.
I keep your picture up on the wall. It hides a nasty stain that's lying there. So don't you ask me to give it back I know you know it doesn't mean that much to me
I'm not in love
yeah right, that’s was the picture 😂 but he was dying inside