Donn Landee

... doesn't get royalties from any of the songs that he has writing credit to, and this is one of them.

Of course, produced by Ted Templeman and engineered by the, and legendary Donn Landee.

On the charts, it hit the Billboard Hot 100 at 15, in Canada, 28.

Became Van Halen's first Top 20 hit.

The song was wrote in one afternoon in the studio, uh-

Nice

... with, again, Ted Templeman and Donn Landee, uh, present.

Uh, Eddie said the original version was much more complicated and much longer, but through the process of the day, they just obviously decided to trim the fat and make the song a little stronger.

He had great instincts, you know.

And he'd also watched Donn Landee, and he'd wa- who, God rest his soul, passed away a couple months ago.

Yeah.

I was in the studio with Michael McDonald the day after, um, Donn Landee passed away, and, and Michael was the one that told me, "Man, man, Donn just passed away last night." It was one with sad...

But Donn is one of the greatest engineers that America's ever had.

Um, you know, along with Tom Dowd and Al Schmitt, and, you know, and all those guys used to, were...

They, they know how to do that, still have personality, but not the amount of personality that Ed has, where the squeal and the thing and the merne, you know?

Mm-hmm.