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The Best Of Everything
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Running Time 4:03
Performers Tom Petty (Vocal), Tom Petty (Guitar), Mike/Michael Campbell (Guitars), Ben(mont) (M.) Tench(, III) (Piano), Stan Lynch (Drums), Ron Blair (Bass Guitar), Richard Manuel (Harmony Vocal), Jim Keltner (Percussion), Garth (Eric) Hudson (Organ), Gary Chang (Synthesizer), Jerry Hey (Horn Conductor), Jerry Hey (Horn Arranger), Tom Petty (Produced By), Jimmy Iovine (Produced By), Robbie (Jaime Robert) Robertson (Klegerman) (Produced By), Don Smith (Engineered By), Don Smith (Mixed By), Shelly Yakus (Engineered By), Shelly Yakus (Mixed By), Alan (Bugs) Weidel (2nd Engineer), Joel Fein (Additional Engineer)
CommentsRecorded at: Sound City, Van Nuys, CA and The Village Recorder, Los Angeles, CA. Mixed at: Gone Gator One, Los Angeles, CA (MCA Records) "We cut the track for Hard Promises and it didn't make the album," Petty says. It laid around for a while and then Robbie Robertson called wanting to know if I had a song he could have for this Scorsese movie, 'The King of Comedy.' I said I had this ballad and I played it for him and he really liked it. He said, 'Do you mind if I edit it and do some overdubs?' I trusted Robbie, being such a fan. He took it away. Robbie wouldn't let me in the studio! One night I was across the hall in another studio and I ran into him. I said, 'What are you doing?' 'Well I'm actually working on your stuff.' When I got a break I walked over and went in and he rushed me out of the room saying, 'Don't take this the wrong way, but I don't want you here.' I guess he thought I might steer things a different way. I thought, okay, fair enough, I'll see what he does. "Then when he called me to come down and hear it. I may have even given him a weird impression because I was so stunned by it I didn't know what to say. I loved it, but it was so strange to me to hear those horns. But that started me thinking, 'Horns is interesting, I never would have thought of horns with this band.' I wanted to try to figure out how to do that. "Robbie is a very talented guy and to get Richard Manuel, one of my all time favorite singers, to sing that brought a tear to my eye. Just beautiful. The song never got used on the movie soundtrack because Warner Bros. and MCA were at each other's throats and MCA wouldn't allow Warners to use my track. It was given back to me. I played it for Nick Lowe when we were on tour and he thought it was incredible, fantastic. That's when I started thinking of the whole Southern Accents concept, and that this could work really well as the end of the album."
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Playback (1995)
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers

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2008-08-18