“Let the Music Do the Talking” by Aerosmith

"Let the Music Do the Talking" was Joe Perry's song before it was Aerosmith's. He left the band in 1979, formed the Joe Perry Project with Ralph Morman singing, and cut it in 1980 as the title song of their first album. When Perry and Brad Whitford rejoined in 1984, Steven Tyler and company wanted it for Done With Mirrors.

They recut it in 1985 with Tyler singing mostly new words and about a minute shaved off, and this version is credited to all five of them. Ted Templeman produced and Jeff Hendrickson engineered and mixed; Perry and Whitford play the electric guitars, Tom Hamilton and Joey Kramer the bass and drums, and Tyler adds piano and harmonica. Released as a single just before the album, it climbed to 18 on the Mainstream Rock Tracks chart.

Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.