WCSX Classic Cuts : I Can See for Miles
WCSX Classic Cuts
The Who: “I Can See for Miles”
The Hook: Harmonies for miles.
Album: The Who Sell Out
Year: 1967
Writer: Pete Townshend
Stats: The Who’s only Top 10 single in the U.S., it peaked at number-nine on the Billboard Hot 100.
Background: “I Can See for Miles” was one of the most elaborately crafted songs in the Who’s early catalog. Singer Roger Daltrey recalls the recording sessions.
Who singer Roger Daltrey on recording “I Can See for Miles.” OC:…know why. :23
“’I Can See for Miles’ was born in the studio at CBS in the spring of ’67 and I remember it vividly. We spent an afternoon doing the backing track and then we spent a whole day and a half laying on the vocal backing. We put hundreds and hundreds of harmonies on it and it was wonderful fun doing it. We were very much into harmonies and backing vocals back then, which we kind of got out of later on, I don’t know why.”
