Voice-over Intro Rod Temperton Interview/Rod Temperton Interview (口白)歌词-Michael Jackson
Rod Temperton Interview (口白)
Michael Jackson
Off the Wall (疯狂)
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Michael Jackson - Rod Temperton Interview (口白)
Songwriter Rod Temperton reflects
on his first experience with writing
for Michael.
Well, back in 1979, I was working in
New York on an album for Heatwave
with Phil Ramone.
And one night, Quincy called the studio
and asked me if I could write sth. for
Michael Jackson. He was gonna do
Michael's first solo album.
So I said," okay, I will do my best to do
one song."
Cuz we were working in the studio from
10 in the morning till it's 3 or 4 the following morning.
So in the end I wrote 3 songs in order for
Michael and Quincy to choose one song
to become the album.
And they booked the studio in Los Angeles
at the weekends when I wasn't working.
And I flew in over the weekends to
cut the tracks.
At that point, I still haven't met Michael, Michael wouldn't come to the studio then.
And the following week I came back
again, the following weekend,
to do the vocals with Michael.
We did all the backgrounds and all
three tracks on the Saturday afternoon.
And then on the Sunday afternoon, we did all the 3 lead vocal tracks.
And Michael was amazing because he stayed up for whole of that Saturday night
to learn the lyrics off so that he wouldn't
have to read them off the paper.
It's kinda interesting I do remember the
very first session for Off the Wall that I
did this was on the Saturday that they
flew me in from New York,
On this Saturday afternoon, and Quincy
had said to me on the phone a couple
of days before, asked me what kind of musicians
I needed to record the tracks.
So, I said," well, two guitar players, a keyboard player, and drums, bass."
And I arrived that afternoon, came from
the airport directly to the studio.
Quincy met me at the door, basically, took me in the main studio room where all the
musicians were getting ready to play.
and said, "here is Rod hit-it."
And now, this was really my first session
outside my own bound.
Because I'dn't you know been playing
music and been in Heatwave for 3 or 4
years, and so, it's very used to that kind of
situation dealing with picked-up musicians
in the studio making those albums maybe,
but not with the situation where I was you know just
walking and called, meeting a whole bunch
of people I never knew, although they are
very famous names in the business.
And that, you know, I particularly remember
when, the first term day to that album,
Jerry Hey came in with all the
home players and I felt really inadequate
you know working in with my little notes of what I wanted them to do. and..
But it was one of those things where,
you were in a situation where the,
you put in the rheme there, everybody
was looking at you and it's sign that "you say something or get out of that."
Fortunately, I **my mouth and said something, so,well, you know,
we worked out nicely and we came away with the next exciting album.
And I said to Quincy at the end of
the session which song do you choose
for, do you want for the record.
He said he wanted all three.
What was you the title track Off the Wall,
a song called Burn this Disco Out ?
I knew that I could tell from Michael that
his, the melodies he would sing on
atempo songs, it was very
rhythmically driven.
And so I tried to write melodies that's
with short notes, and had a lot of short
notes to give him some staccato rhythmic
things he could do.
I think the Off the Wall the title song gives you the best example of that "~~"you know
that kind of melody rather than
really long note, long line melodies.
And the other thing I knew from
his previous records is that he loved
harmony work.
and you know, that's really the sight of me
that I would have brought from Heatwave
because Heatwave was very harmonically
driving group and so I kinda mixed
the harmony segments of my music
with this new idea of the short notes
melodies for Michael, and came out
with the Off the Wall and
Burn This Disco Out.
