Everytime I listen to "Laugh Laugh" by the Beau Brummels I immediately 
cringe waiting for that blown harmonica note in the solo.  I still cannot 
believe they left it that way.  John and Paul singing different words in one 
or two of their songs still baffles me a bit too.

Perry
np:  The Shmenges - Cabbage Rolls & Coffee

> Date: Fri, 20 May 2005 09:12:56 -0400
> From: "Miguel Motta" <motta_m@firn.edu>
> To: <audities@smoe.org>
> Subject: Bum notes
> Message-ID: <000801c55d3d$a4024e90$6fa5c90a@2901145>
>
> This could end up being the silliest of all threads I've proposed... but 
> here goes anyway... This is especially for musicians and music lovers with 
> "golden ears"...
>
> ...Ever picked up on a bum note (or slip in the performance) on a 
> recording and everytime you hear that record you wait for the moment that 
> the mistake happens?...
>
> ...Case in point for me... At the very end of The Monkees' "Daydream 
> Believer" Chip Douglass (bass player on that record) hits one bum note... 
> It occurs when Davy sings the phrase "Cheer up sleepy Jean...." but he 
> recovers nicely... I guess one bum note didn't merit re-recording the 
> phrase for later edit... I remember driving my friends crazy as I pulled 
> the record player needle back time and time again to that part and ask 
> them..."Did you hear that?... There it is! The bum note!"... They'd stare 
> at me as if I were crazy...
>
> Another related one is the guitar solo in BTO's "Taking Care of Business" 
> ... to my ears, to the day of the recording, Bachman should've taken the 
> time to tune his guitar better as the solo sounds a bit out-of-tune... 
> small qualm... but can't avoid hearing that to this day... LOL... I 
> remember a musician once was quoted as saying... "I like to leave my 
> mistakes on the recordings 'cuz they're like scars on fine leather"...
>
> Finally one interesting one is Peter Noone's vocal flub on "Leaning on a 
> Lampost"... Listen closely and you'll hear him improvise some gibberish at 
> a certain point of the song... I'm amazed he didn't burst out into 
> laughter and cause an outtake...
>
> Like I said... silly but perhaps interesting to some...
>
> Cheers,
>
> Miguel