Bobby Harden - Just Because He Loved Her

One of those near-perfect Nashville Generation-Two recordings (most likely germanium consoles, tube processing, Ampex 440 decks) from 1971, this is the late Bobby Harden of the Harden Trio, produced and engineered by Jim Malloy for MEGA in the spring of that year, most likely at RCA Studio B, with Lloyd Green on steel.

I finally found a perfect copy of the Mega 45 on eBay last week, and spent all afternoon getting the Garrard turntable and RIAA pre-amp back into prime condition after years of non-use.

The result is exactly the way it sounded as my test cart for much of the '70's. With a quick ID over the short intro...like "WQYK, Tampa, conducting equipment tests," I'd start this at the studio and, since it had no stop cue, it would play all night while I was at the transmitter or traveling between. It fit seamlessly on a 2.5min cart.

Here's the totally unaltered 1971 recording of Just Because He Loved Her by Bobby Harden, from the MEGA single. A bit of bass and hi EQ and you'll hear, once again, things totally lost to the thump and lisp generation of today.

This is the fifth copy of this record I have purchased. Women "borrow" it. It is a very haunting song, too. There were hundreds of them...then.

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• Harden
• trio
• mega
• jim
• malloy
• Nashville
• country
• 1971

[Jruus1]

Nice I really like the Harden Trio's music :)