First recorded in 1935–40
First recorded in 1965–70
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Davis further objected to music producer David Foster’s insistence on an elaborate backing remix for the song, having fallen in love with the first rough cut, which had been recorded live on set.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 22, 2026
But I’ve seen the episodes of the season in rough cut and while they differ from the novels, they’re really great fun to watch and I enjoyed them thoroughly.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 29, 2025
I've seen one rough cut for Season 2.
From Salon ● Feb. 20, 2025
It would include "rough cut natural Scottish stone" and steel of an ochre colour to "pick up on the colours of the landscape".
From BBC ● Oct. 16, 2023
“Which I doubt;” His voice was oddly and beautifully rough cut, as some small boys’ voices are.
From "Nine Stories" by J. D. Salinger
To read these unpublished dream songs 60 years later feels like finding treasure and acknowledging that you like the rough-cut gems as much as the polished ones.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 3, 2025
The rough-cut sandstone church, with its bright red doors and stained-glass windows, was built in 1904 to house the state’s oldest Methodist congregation, and occupies a prominent corner lot a few blocks north of downtown.
From Slate ● Jul. 13, 2023
Yet in a rough-cut monumental stone figure from a century later, he makes a very different effect: he’s a loin-clothed, sunken-cheeked giant wielding an earth-clearing ax.
From New York Times ● Jan. 19, 2023
But this hearty bowl — brimming with big, rough-cut vegetables and hunks of chuck, shank, tenderloin and rib — enveloped me like a security blanket nonetheless.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 7, 2022
Ser Amory had no ladders, but the holdfast walls were rough-cut and unmortared, easy to climb, and there seemed to be no end to the foes.
From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin
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