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 ==Recording==
-The song was recorded live, with no overdubs, on April 15th, 1993 by Dale Johnson, then a student at Loyola Marymount University enrolled in a music recording/sound engineering class.  Dale Johnson wrote:
+From ''The Blue Album'''s Deluxe Edition liner notes:
+The band subsequently had a fortunate run in with one Dale Johnson, then a student at Layola Marymount, who was taking a class in music recording and sound engineering. Dale had a class recording project coming up, so a plan was hatched to get the band to record with Dale for his project. The song was recorded live on [[April 15]], 1993 with no overdubs. The track was later delegated to the [[DGC Rarities Vol. 1]] album, a move which took convincing from A&R man Todd Sullivan; they were concerned that their "rarity" might not be up to snuff sonically. Todd reminded them that the feel was amazing, and the world had to hear this recording. Dale Johnson recalls: "I guess the guys were happy with the LMU version of 'Jamie,' but I never entirely was completely satisfied. I mean, there's only so much you can do with a live take and only a few hours! Rivers seemed to be really amazed when I told him I only got a B+ on the project. 'But it's gonna be on a CD, man...!' I remember [[Matt Sharp|Matt]] being really adamant that they would do the recording project with me, but that they had to own the master. Smart boys, they were, and I agreed to  it. I just really wanted to be credited with the recording."
-"I was the LMU student that brought Weezer into the studio and engineered the version of "Jamie" that appears on ''[[DGC Rarities, Vol. 1]]''. I saw Weezer for the first time in the early spring of 1993 when I did the sound for them at an in-store at Rhino Records in Santa Monica. I had worked there for a bit and had become familiar with them thru my friends Rachel Haden and Kerry Murphy, who had booked the show there that night.
+Matt Sharp has also written a song for Jamie, which Rivers helped him record called "[[Mrs. Young]]".  Jamie is currently an attorney at the law firm of Ziffren, Brittenham, Branca, Fischer, Gilbert-Lurie, Stiffelman, Cook, Johnson, Lande & Wolf LLP in Los Angeles, California.
-So, I asked them to do the recording assignment which was a live to 2 track version of "Jamie". I still have the shitty copy of the original 8-track demo that was dubbed on the back of a Grant Lee Buffalo sampler cassette somewhere in my closet (this would be the Rivers-only demo mentioned earlier in the History -karl). I hooked them up with another classmate of mine named Sharon when she didn't have a band lined up at the last minute.  I tried to get her [[that dog.]] (who was the other band I really wanted to record) but they couldn't get it together in time so I figured the Weezer guys would be down with coming back for a second time.
+This is one of the few officially-released recordings featuring [[Jason Cropper]], before being replaced by [[Brian Bell]]. The band recorded the song with the intention of it being their first 7".  For some reason, it was never released, leaving ''[[The Blue Album]]'' to be their first-ever release.
-Anyways, I guess the guys were happy with the LMU version of "Jamie", but I never entirely was completely satisfied.  I mean, only so much you can do with a live take and only a few hours! Rivers seemed to be really completely amazed when I told him I only got a B+ on the project.  "But it's gonna be on a CD, man....!" I remember Matt being really adamant that they would do the recording project with me, but that they had to own the master. Smart boys they were, and I agreed to it, I just really wanted to be credited with the recording."''
+The song was re-released on various [[Buddy Holly]] singles later that year, and again in 1995 as an acoustic radio session on the [[Say It Ain't So]] single.
-Six takes were recorded, with the final one being the master.
 From the ''[[DGC Rarities, Vol. 1]]'' liner notes: