WCSX Classic Cuts : You Ain’t Seen Nothing Yet
WCSX Classic Cuts
Bachman-Turner Overdrive: “You Ain’t Seen Nothing Yet”
The Hook: Never meant for public consumption, it became the band’s biggest hit.
Album: Not Fragile
Year: 1974
Writer: Randy Bachman
Stats: Topped the Billboard Hot 100
Background: “You Ain’t Seen Nothing Yet” was a song BTO initially recorded to get the proper sound levels for the rest of their Not Fragile album, then finished as a kind of a joke track that they never expected was going to see the light of day. Things changed when the head of their record label didn’t hear a hit on the album and asked them if they had anything else. Bachman says he tried to re-do his stuttered vocal, “but it sounded too much like Frank Sinatra,” so they kept the original. He explains why he stuttered and why he thinks it became such a big song.
Randy Bachman on why he stuttered on BTO’s “You An’t Seen Nothing Yet,” and why he thinks the song became a hit. OC:…goofing around :28
“We had a brother, Gary, who used to manage us, and he stuttered and stammered all his life. And I figure, ‘Well, this song is not going to be on the album, so I’ll just sing it like Gary and I’ll send it to him and he’ll have his own tape of us, his brothers, doing this song where I’m singing like he talks and no one else in the world will have it.’ But what I think people heard in that song was some carefree rock and roll and some fun. I mean, it was just a total spontaneous goofing around.”
