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A Record Is Made -with Sweat and Soul Teen Beat iiiimilll i i -y mmmmmmmmm 6-C FRIDAY, MAY 20, 1966 BY LORAINE ALTERMAN Fr Press Tmd Wrlttr Emotion filled the control room at Golden World Records out on West Davison. Driving, big beat sounds were coming through the four speakers hanging on the wall above the big glass panel. On the other side of the glass, Edwin Starr was singing full of soul. Along with the studio musicians was his own group of five, scattered Some Colleges Will Accept Students BY ERNEST T. MARSHALL around the big soundproof room trumpet player, bass, sax, drums and guitar.

In the control room, Bob D' Orleans (chief recording engineer) pushed his fist into the air in time with the beat. Al Kent and Richard Morris (co-producers for the session) jumped around, danced, shook their heads in time. Suddenly Bob jumped up from the control board. Something was wrong Dpt. of Guidance and Counseling Dorroit pubiic scnooii Loralne What college or colleges will accept students with R.

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Also write the American Association of Junior Colleges, 1315 16th N.W., Washington D.C. 20036 for information about two-year colleges. The College Admissions Center, 610 Church Evans-ton, 111. 60201, will provide college placement services for a small fee. search 1 I-cates that the student who does well In high school is likely to do well in college, you may be a late bloomer.

Preparation for college should begin with the drums. The drummer was inside a baffle a padded wood partition to keep the sound in one place so it isn't picked up on other mikes but the drums were not right. "Got a billfold?" Bob asked. "Tape -it to the drum." Edwin and the others started again and this time the drum sound was softer. Now they made it.

After two hours of rehearsing like this Edwin Starr was ready to start taping. A record was in the process i of being made. But it was 10 hours later and five songs more before they were finished. And the record still was days away. You probably think it's a pretty simple thing to make a record.

Like an artist just has to walk into the studio, open his mouth in song, and pow! it's down on tape. But, that's not the way it is. A lot of hard work by a lot of people you don't hear too much about goes into getting that sound onto records. tat Marshall in the early TUNE IN appeal, says, 'Stop Her On Sight' appealed to teens and adults. Fellows are looking for girls and girls for fellows." Freo Pres Photo by LES POOSCH THE VOICE of Edwin Starr fills the studio at Detroit's Golden World as he gets his sounds on tape n-ith J.

J. Barnes swinging on piano and Tyrone Hite on drums. Edwin, aiming for songs with universal TTDODs mmmt.i.ai i i nmn wiiwm. g-Mjaw W'jM'Wf jtywtmMm.mmium i mi -lA' -f And, for the record company a lot of anguish goes Into wondering whether that record Is going to be a hit because hits are the things that pay the rent. For a company like Detroit's Golden World, 50,000 records sold starts bringing in the profits.

This firm is about two years old, but they've only had their own studio for a little over a year. Before that, president and founder of Golden World, Joanne Bratton, used to take her artists to Chicago or New York to record. In January, 1964 the company had its first big hit, "Romeo and Juliet" by the Reflections. It made the top 10 nationally and Joanne decided it was time to get a studio together. Rhythm and Blues IN COLOR years of school, with curiosity sparked by able teachers; with help from guidance counselors; and with the encouragement of understanding parent.

In spite of mounting enrollment, quite a number of accredited colleges in the United States are glad to take average students as long as they have taken the proper preparatory courses and give evidence of a real desire to learn. These schools are listed in American Universities and Colleges published by the American Counsel on Education. Several of these schools are located in Michigan. Non-recommended students or students with averages below a may be required to take entrance examinations. Usually the CEEB Scholastic Aptitude Test or ACT Program are required in this case.

College Placement, Iowa and Reading Diagnostic Tests also are administered by several colleges. Here are just some Michigan colleges you might consider: Albion; Alma; Andrews University Aquinas Calvin Central Michigan University: Detroit Institute of Technology; Ferris State; Hillsdale; Hope Kalamazoo College Western Michigan University; Madonna; Michigan Lutheran; Michigan Tech; Northern Michigan University; Olivet; and Spring Arbor College. Wllir r---lffll Edwin Writes BOB D'ORLEANS works at the control board adjusting the level of sounds coming through amplifiers from the studio. "I cut no sessions without Bob. He's my hit maker," says Edwin.

"1 DON'T LIKE the opening thing. It doesn't mean anything. It's nothing that would catch my ear," says Bob D'Orleans, left, to Edwin as they stand in the control room next to the tape machine. His Songs SATURDAY 7:30 P.M. mm jockeys.

Will it be a hit, this record, that so much thought and soul and plain hard work went into? And if it is, who made it a hit? I asked Edwin. The song writers, the musicians, the producers, the arrangers, the engineers? "The public," he answered. "By the records they buy." SO How would you like to watch a recording session at Golden World Records? You can be in on the excitement at the home of Edwin Starr, J. J. Barnes, The San Remo Golden Strings and the Holidays.

Just tell Teen Beat on a postcard "Why I want to see a recording session." Six of the best cards will win. Teen Beat will notify winners and arrange a date to take them to Golden World. Mail your cards to Record Session, Teen Beat, Box 828, Detroit 48231, including your name and phone number. on a single track tape that would be used for the record. Golden World sends its tapes to Columbia Custom Pressings to be made into records and it will be another seven to 10 days before It gets into the hands of the disc mm I talked to Edwin inside that studio.

He's been singing and writing songs for Golden World for a year. "Double Soul," "Back Streets," "Stop Her on Sight." and the current "Headline News" are Starr written and recorded. Edwin wrote "Oh How Happy" for the Shades of Blue and looks at that as his real test as a songwriter since he didn't record it himself. "If I do the performance and sing, too, then I say maybe it's not the materia but th performance," explained Edwin. "I try to do something that's universal.

Most of my records appeal to teens but that's not intentional." On the day I was there Edwin cut six original numbers. With him were his own group, Victor Stubblefield on trumpet; Julius Roberts on bass; Gus Hawkins, leader and tenor sax; Tyrone Hite, drums, and Anthony Hawkins on guitar. I left them In the studio and went into the control room. This room is loaded with panels filled with all kinds of buttons and dials by which the engineer controls the sound, so that the proper sound levels and tones get through onto the tape. The engineer has to know what he can get out of a certain sound mechanically.

He's a key man and said Edwin, of D'Orleans, "I cut no sessions without him. That's my hit maker." Prior to the recording session, Edwin had planned it with Kent and Morris, two of Golden World's top producers. The producer is the Before actually putting anything down on tape, the day I was there, Edwin, Al, Richard and Bob worked with the musicians nearly two hours to get the effect they wanted. "I don't like the opening thing," Bob said. "It doesn't mean anything.

It's nothing that would catch my ear." So they ran through it until they got the right kind of sound. "Right," as far as sound goes is hard to define. It's a thing the producer and en-gineeriave to feel. Something that's musically right may not sound right in the control room. The producer had to think like the people buying the records and in the case of pop music it's teens and try to guess what they'll dig.

Even when the tape started rolling the musicians had to go over things again and again. There's nothing easy about recording. Occasionally you only have to do one take and it's perfect for the record. But more often the musicians do several. Then There Is the, Mixing Finally when everything was on tape and the musicians were through, the engineer and producer had to mix another two hours of hard listening for each song, for mixing means working with the four tracks to get each at the right level.

It often takes five to eight mixes to adjust the levels. Finally the mix was right and the four tracks were put man who plans what the song should sound like on record. He gets it from the writer and envisions it sounding a certain way. Like the horns should come in here with a blah, blah, blah, or the drummer should clang the cymbals there. Then he works with an arranger who writes out the parts for the musicians.

(Contrary to popular belief, rock 'n' roll musicians can read music). The producer is th man with an Idea and he's got to get that idea across to the arrangers, the artists and the engineer. The 4-Track System Most recordings today are done on the four track system. This means that the tape is divided into four different parts. The vocalist goes on one part or track, the rhythm perhaps on the second, the horns on the third and background voices on the fourth.

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