By Robb_K (66.81.194.97) on Monday, March 22, 2004 - 03:44 am:

When I first heard "This Heart Of Mine", "I'll Come Running" and "So Much Love In My Heart" by the Artistics, I wondered if they had signed with Motown Records. Seeing them on Okeh, i wasn't surprised to see that Barrett Strong wrote the songs, and Sonny Sanders arranged them. However, I knew that Carl Davis was the executive producer. And, Gerald Sims was listed as co-producer, so I assumed that at least the vocals were recorded in Chicago, as were Carl Davis' other productions of Chicago artists. But, I couldn't help thinking the strings were recorded by those same session players from The Detroit Symphony Orchestra that recorded for Motown; and the horns sounded suspiciously like "The Motown Brass". I know that several Chicago producers brought Detroit session players to Chicago to record periodically. Did they do that for those songs?

By acooolcat (203.69.208.9) on Monday, March 22, 2004 - 06:33 am:

Hi Robb
They also did a great version of Marvin's "Get My Hands On Some Loving."
Graham

By dvdmike (65.208.234.61) on Monday, March 22, 2004 - 07:56 am:

As far as I know, the entire productions were done in Chicago, Columbia Recording Studios at 630 N. McClurg Ct.

By Davie Gordon (213.18.222.35) on Monday, March 22, 2004 - 01:19 pm:

We're talking about Okeh records here - as they were part of Columbia they'd have to have been recorded at CBS owned studios as Columbia had
a union agreement under which all Columbia group
sessions had to be recorded at at the label's own
studios. The horns and strings must've been from
Chicago - it would be far too expensive to bring
them in from Detroit.

Barrett Strong was based in Chicago at the time
- he was signed to VeeJay.

Davie

By dvdmike (65.208.234.61) on Monday, March 22, 2004 - 01:42 pm:

The strings were arranged by either Sonny Sanders, Johnny Pate or Riley Hampton.

By Eli (68.236.53.71) on Monday, March 22, 2004 - 01:52 pm:

Regarding the CBC(Columbia) union regulatiuon,
when we first started to do work for CBS, they would send on of their engineers down to Sigma as a compromise, and let me tell you, the results were pathetic!!
The drums sounded as though they were recorded from two blocks away, and everything else was in a pool of mud!
So as OUR compromise, we said that he could still come to the session, and wil still get his union wage, but he would have to just hang out and say nothing or just go and do something and come back later, thats how bad it was.

You should have heard Ronnie Dysons tracks with the "CBS touch..simply awful and thats an understatement!!!