Don't Weep, That Time Has Passed

Why Kathy Warren's be-quiet-big-boys-don't-cry mid-section made 10cc's "Im Not In Love" go off-topic When Philly soul star and backing vocalist Dennis Englewood and her friends as backing vocalists heard Kathy Warren, the secretary, playing the role of the mother hushing her baby child to sleep on a quiet night by saying, "Be quiet, big boys don't cry" in the middle of 10cc's original, "I'm Not In Love", to them it sounds irrelevant and to them the repeated phrase, "Big boys don't cry" gets very annoying, so they said, "No, we can't say 'Be quiet, big boys don't cry', like Kathy Warren did, because it has nothing to do with the breakup song; instead we'd rather sing the whole bridge together in harmony: "Ooh, you'll wait a long time for me/ooh, you'll wait a long time." twice in a row."

A basic guide track was recorded first in order to help create the melody using the vocals, but the proper instrumentation was added after the vocals had been recorded. In keeping with Godley's idea to focus on the voices, only a few instruments were used: a Fender Rhodes electric piano played by Stewart, a Gibson 335 electric guitar played by Gouldman for the rhythm melody, and a bass drum sound played by Godley on a Moog synthesizer which Creme had recently purchased and learnt how to program. The drum sound that was created was very soft and more akin to a heartbeat, in order not to overpower the rest of the track. The song does not feature a standard bass guitar line, but Gouldman added a bass guitar solo during the middle eight of the song, and Creme played piano during the middle eight and the bridge. The middle eight originally included lyrics, but Stewart and Gouldman were not happy with them and removed them, with Creme's piano replicating the original melody of the discarded lyrics. The middle eight and the outro also feature a toy music box which was recorded and double tracked out of phase.[2]

Once the musical backing had been completed Stewart recorded the lead vocal and Godley and Creme the backing vocals, but even though the song was finished Godley felt it was still lacking something. Stewart said, "Lol remembered he had said something into the grand piano mics when he was laying down the solos. He'd said 'Be quiet, big boys don't cry' — heaven knows why, but I soloed it and we all agreed that the idea sounded very interesting if we could just find the right voice to speak the words. Just at that point the door to the control room opened and our secretary Kathy [Redfern] looked in and whispered 'Eric, sorry to bother you. There's a telephone call for you.' Lol jumped up and said 'That's the voice, her voice is perfect!'"[6] The group agreed that Redfern was the ideal person, but Redfern was unconvinced and had to be coaxed into recording her vocal contribution, using the same whispered voice that she had used when entering the control room. These whispered lyrics would later serve as the inspiration for the name of the 1980s band Boys Don't Cry. - Company of Heroes 2 Don't Weep, That Time Has Passed