When recording Honeysuckle Rose for the album “Ella & Basie”, Ella Fitzgerald started the song in the wrong key, instantly corrected to another wrong key, and then found her spot on the third line. Supposedly, everyone loved it, and that take/session made it onto the album.
It’s Jazz, there are no wrong notes. ;)
I’ll rephrase — they weren’t the notes she was planning 😊
But yes, fair point 👍
It’s funny, thou. I played a bit back in days. And studying music theory does get kinda funky when you realize that pretty much every note goes into every scale. it’s just a matter of taking it far enough.
And clearly it sounds great! 😃🤘
“Oh Comely” by Neutral Milk Hotel has a “holy shit” heard at the very end. It’s an 8+ minute song that Jeff Magnum nailed on what was supposed to just be a sound test before recording.
My favorite is “Stephen’s Last Night in Town” by Ben Folds Five. There’s a rising clarinet part that climbs to a climax with a brief pause at the peak and a phone rings in time and in key in the background during that pause.
The ratio between how much I used to listed to Ben Folds Five and the post 20 years of “not even once” is mind-blowing.
I went to high school with Ben Folds.
Not a favorite per se but in Hey Jude, around the 3 minute mark depending on which one you listen to, you might be able to hear Paul with a “Fucking Hell” because apparently he made a mistake.
Bob Dylan’s 151st Dream and its false start will never not make me laugh.
I’m like that with Green Day’s “Good Riddance” - the two attempts followed by a muffled “f$#k” are brilliant
