Sweet Emotion

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Written by: Steven Tyler, Tom Hamilton
Produced by: Jack Douglas
Released: April '75 on Columbia
Charts: 8 weeks
Top spot: No. 36

As the sessions for Toys in the Attic reached the eleventh hour at the Record Plant in New York, producer Douglas called out for ideas. Bassist Hamilton resurrected a riff that had been germinating for several years, and it was outfitted with bass marimba and Joe Perry's voice-box recitation of the song title. A few months later, Aerosmith had their first Top Forty single.

Appears on: Toys in the Attic (Sony)

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