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Post by jk on Apr 26, 2024 8:30:35 GMT
APRIL 26 Inside Pop, the "Leonard Bernstein documentary" in which Brian performs "Surf's Up", aired in 1967 For Brian, go to 49:57:
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Post by Sheriff John Stone on Apr 26, 2024 11:20:34 GMT
APRIL 26 Inside Pop, the "Leonard Bernstein documentary" in which Brian performs "Surf's Up", aired in 1967 Leonard Bernstein at a Beatles' concert in 1965:
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Post by jk on Apr 27, 2024 11:51:26 GMT
APRIL 27 The "unhip" Beach Boys jam onstage with The Grateful Dead in 1971. Dylan: "They're fucking good, man"
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Post by Sheriff John Stone on Apr 27, 2024 12:11:32 GMT
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Post by jk on Apr 29, 2024 20:34:56 GMT
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Post by Kapitan on Apr 29, 2024 20:43:25 GMT
And that is what we call "lying." (All 12 tracks completed...ready to be rush-released at a moment's notice...)
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Post by jk on Apr 30, 2024 8:20:30 GMT
APRIL 30 Issued as a Brian Wilson solo single, "Caroline No" tops out at #32
I remember hearing the 45 on the radio at the time. It failed to chart in the UK -- maybe everyone was waiting to buy the album:
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Post by Sheriff John Stone on Apr 30, 2024 11:19:45 GMT
If I'm reading this - and the article - correctly (and I stand to be corrected), it wasn't Brian who personally told Altham about there being 12 SMiLE songs completed, but it came from a "rough draft" of the SMiLE album cover, which raises the question - how did that rough draft of an album cover...get out there? I guess that's a rhetorical question. Obviously somebody at Capitol - or with The Beach Boys - leaked it. I kinda wish it was Brian who personally said "12 songs". That would've added some more credence to the album being 12 stand-alone songs, which is what I believe anyway.
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Post by Sheriff John Stone on Apr 30, 2024 11:32:10 GMT
APRIL 30 Issued as a Brian Wilson solo single, "Caroline No" tops out at #32
One of the most scatter-brained, confounding, frankly stupid moves by Capitol Records and the group. Why? Just Why? For a group with so much baggage (including the lead singer/ex-lyricist's fragile ego), why go there? I won't say the record bombed but it debuted at #37 and peaked at #32 which was then considered disappointing for a BW/BB record. Jeez, talk about saturating the market and trying to milk a group for everything they could get out of them. I'm trying to think of another situation where a member of a group, especially a "major" member, released a solo record simultaneously while the group was releasing singles/an album, and the member releasing the solo record is not even pursuing a solo project/career.
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Post by jk on May 2, 2024 14:15:05 GMT
MAY 2 Tony Asher, Brian's lyricist on most of the songs on Pet Sounds, born 1939 in London, UK
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Post by lonelysummer on May 3, 2024 2:04:52 GMT
One of the most scatter-brained, confounding, frankly stupid moves by Capitol Records and the group. Why? Just Why? For a group with so much baggage (including the lead singer/ex-lyricist's fragile ego), why go there? I won't say the record bombed but it debuted at #37 and peaked at #32 which was then considered disappointing for a BW/BB record. Jeez, talk about saturating the market and trying to milk a group for everything they could get out of them. I'm trying to think of another situation where a member of a group, especially a "major" member, released a solo record simultaneously while the group was releasing singles/an album, and the member releasing the solo record is not even pursuing a solo project/career. dave death of a clown davies
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Post by jk on May 3, 2024 10:44:58 GMT
MAY 3 "Song Of The Gold Diggers", a rewrite of Foster's "Oh! Susannah", penned by 9-year-old Brian this day in 1952
Here.
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Post by Sheriff John Stone on May 3, 2024 12:04:45 GMT
One of the most scatter-brained, confounding, frankly stupid moves by Capitol Records and the group. Why? Just Why? For a group with so much baggage (including the lead singer/ex-lyricist's fragile ego), why go there? I won't say the record bombed but it debuted at #37 and peaked at #32 which was then considered disappointing for a BW/BB record. Jeez, talk about saturating the market and trying to milk a group for everything they could get out of them. I'm trying to think of another situation where a member of a group, especially a "major" member, released a solo record simultaneously while the group was releasing singles/an album, and the member releasing the solo record is not even pursuing a solo project/career. dave death of a clown davies Good one! And that does count, Dave was definitely a "major" member of the band. But, I guess I was referring to more of THE major member, more like Ray Davies or Paul Simon or Mick Jagger or Frankie Valli or someone who was more the main songwriter or face of the group. Also, what was strange about "Caroline No" was that it was already recorded and released as a Beach Boys' song, then "turned into" a Brian Wilson solo release. "Death Of A Clown" eventually ended up on The Kinks' next album, Something Else By The Kinks, but what if it would've been plucked from that album and released simultaneously as a Dave Davies' solo record?
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Post by Kapitan on May 3, 2024 12:16:29 GMT
You know, Sheriff John Stone, while I've long-since known that "Caroline, No" was released as a Brian Wilson single, I don't know that I'd ever really given the timing of it all very much thought. However, I think you've got the order backwards. The single was released in March 1966 in the US (and April in the UK), while the album was released in May (and June). That doesn't change the strangeness of the exact same recording being released both as a solo single and a band album track within just a few months, just the details.
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Post by Sheriff John Stone on May 3, 2024 12:26:40 GMT
You know, Sheriff John Stone , while I've long-since known that "Caroline, No" was released as a Brian Wilson single, I don't know that I'd ever really given the timing of it all very much thought. However, I think you've got the order backwards. The single was released in March 1966 in the US (and April in the UK), while the album was released in May (and June). That doesn't change the strangeness of the exact same recording being released both as a solo single and a band album track within just a few months, just the details. Excellent point. The release of "Caroline No" did precede Pet Sounds by a month or two. I stand corrected on that.
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