The engineer used the stairwell. Roy Halee put a microphone on the eighth floor of the metal stairs at Columbia's studio, sent the snare out of the big theater speakers on the ground floor and recorded what bounced back. He used the same staircase again on Simon and Garfunkel's "Bridge Over Troubled Water."
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The middle section started as a jazzy piano figure Steve Boone had been playing around the studio for weeks. "I think the band was gettin' sick of hearing me play it," Boone said. John thought it sounded like George Gershwin's "An American in Paris," an orchestra imitating traffic.
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Producer Erik Jacobsen killed the ending the band wanted, a loud bang off a kicked Fender Reverb, and spliced in a copy of the last verse and chorus. "That saved the record, really," he said.
The band had other hits, "Do You Believe in Magic,""Daydream" and "Nashville Cats" among them. "Summer in the City" was its only No. 1, and the chorus belonged to the kid brother. "I like to rub that in, as a younger brother," Mark said.
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