People's attitudes about the song have changed when they learn the history behind it." "We've had a lot of fun with the song," Fraser said.
"I only learned about that from reading (Randy's) book."įraser said the Stuttering Foundation deliberately delved into rock music to further the public's preoccupation on stuttering following the success of the Oscar-winning feature film The King's Speech. "It never crossed my mind," said Gary, who used to manage BTO before he found his niche as one of Winnipeg's most successful real estate agents.
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"It is, of course, an honour when someone singles out a song for an 'award' or 'recognition' of any kind," Randy Bachman said in an email exchange with the Free Press.īachman's brother, Gary, said he loved the song the first time he heard it and hadn't realized Randy was imitating him. The song won a Juno Award for best-selling single of 1974. The song was later released as a single and reached the top spot on Billboard's Hot 100 singles chart and the Canadian RPM chart the week of Nov. The label rejected it in favour of Bachman's original version. When the record label was looking for a song to fill out the band's 1974 third album, Not Fragile, Bachman offered a non-stuttering version of You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet.
Randy Bachman has said he wrote the song as a joke for his brother, Gary, and never intended it to be released. "People who stutter frown on that kind of thing because they think it's being done in jest, but when they learn it involves a real person it shows a human connection to the struggles faced by those who stutter." 1 on the charts and it was about a real person. Randy Bachman says he never intended his Juno award-winning stuttering song to get any airtime.įoundation president Jane Fraser said while there have been many popular rock songs that employ stuttering, only Bachman's reached No. TREVOR LUSH / WINNIPEG FREE PRESS ARCHIVES
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