page_title: Wall of Sound
section_title: Others
hierarchical_section_title: Wall of Sound / Legacy and popularity / Others
caption_attribution_description: English: Trade ad for The Walker Brothers's single "Make It Easy on Yourself" (from left to right: Scott, Gary and John Walker). To better adapt it to his respective Wikipedia article, the ad was cropped and cleaned in a graphics editing program. The original can be viewed at the source below.
context_page_description: The Wall of Sound is a music production formula developed by American record producer Phil Spector at Gold Star Studios, in the 1960s, with assistance from engineer Larry Levine and the conglomerate of session musicians later known as "the Wrecking Crew". The intention was to exploit the possibilities of studio recording to create an unusually dense orchestral aesthetic that came across well through radios and jukeboxes of the era. Spector explained in 1964: "I was looking for a sound, a sound so strong that if the material was not the greatest, the sound would carry the record. It was a case of augmenting, augmenting. It all fitted together like a jigsaw."
  Critical shorthand usually reduces the Wall of Sound inaccurately to a maximum of noise. Levine recalled how "other engineers" mistakenly thought that the process was "turning up all the faders to get full saturation, but all that achieved was distortion." To attain the Wall of Sound, Spector's arrangements called for large ensembles, with multiple instruments doubling or tripling many of the parts to create a fuller, richer tone.
context_section_description: One of the earliest groups outside of Spector's talent pool to adopt the Wall of Sound approach was The Walker Brothers, who worked with British producer Johnny Franz in the mid-1960s to record grandly arranged ballads such as "Make It Easy On Yourself" and "The Sun Ain't Gonna Shine (Anymore)", both of which were No. 1 hits in the United Kingdom.
  In 1973, British band Wizzard revived the Wall of Sound in three of their hits "See My Baby Jive", "Angel Fingers" and "I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday". Bruce Springsteen also emulated the Wall of Sound in his recording of "Born to Run" (1975).
  Spector's Wall of Sound is distinct from what's typically characterized as a "wall of sound", according to author Matthew Bannister. During the 1980s, "Jangle and drone plus reverberation create[d] a contemporary equivalent of Spector's 'Wall of Sound' – a massive, ringing, cavernous noise and a device used by many indie groups: Flying Nun, from Sneaky Feelings' Send You to Straitjacket Fits and the JPS Experience". He cites 1960s psychedelic and garage rock such as the Byrds' "Eight Miles High" (1966) as a primary musical influence on the movement.
caption: The Walker Brothers recorded "The Sun Ain't Gonna Shine (Anymore)" (1966), an existential ballad influenced by Spector's Wall of Sound[29]
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