Bachman Turner Overdrive - You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet 1974 Video Sound HQ

UCRs top 100 classic rock songs list brings us to #65: Bachman-Turner Overdrive "YOU AIN'T SEEN NOTHING YET"

Record-label folk usually take a lot of flack for interfering in the creative process, but Bachman-Turner Overdrive's entry on our Top 100 Classic Rock Songs list may not have been heard by anyone outside the band's inner circle if it weren't for their A&R guy.

Randy Bachman later told Billboard Book of Number One Hits that he never intended for "You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet" to be included on 1974's Not Fragile. Instead, he recorded it on a lark, complete with stammering "Bu-bu-bu-baby" vocals, as a joke and loving tribute to his brother Gary, who actually did have a stutter: "It was basically just an instrumental and I was fooling around," he said. "I wrote the lyrics, out of the blue, and stuttered them through."

When Mercury Records A&R executive Charlie Fach listened to the supposedly finished eight-song version of the album, however, he declared that he "didn't hear that magic thing." (We can't understand why the storming brontosaurus of a title track didn't ring his bell, though.)

Bachman dug out the previously private demo for "You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet," Fach flipped for it, and after an aborted attempt to re-record it without the stutter, agreed to let this track appear on Not Fragile as originally created. When it started getting more attention from radio than the officially released single "Roll on Down the Highway," Fach was forced to give up all resistance.

BTO officially released "You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet" as a single, it soared to No. 1 on the pop chart and became one of their most beloved tunes ever. Since, the track has hovered around the top of recurrent FM playlists, and appeared in a never-ending series of movies and TV shows to this day.