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Post by jk on Mar 1, 2024 10:56:17 GMT
MARCH 1 "Cool, Cool Water" and "Wouldn't It Be Nice" taped for the Boys' first David Frost Show appearance in 1971
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Post by Sheriff John Stone on Mar 1, 2024 12:19:04 GMT
MARCH 1 "Cool, Cool Water" and "Wouldn't It Be Nice" taped for the Boys' first David Frost Show appearance in 1971 I'm glad the video of the performance (May 7, 1971) survived.
Interesting. "Cool, Cool Water" was released as a single in March 1971. It was the...current...single, but the next single, "Long Promised Road" would be released about two weeks later (May 24, 1971). "Wouldn't It Be Nice" was a curious choice. At least they went with an all-timer. Maybe they wanted to showcase or take advantage of bringing the whole band along for the TV appearance.
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Post by jk on Mar 3, 2024 11:20:21 GMT
MARCH 3 Alan's composition "California Saga: California" released in the UK in 1973. It will peak at #37
With thanks to Mr French-Pounce:
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Post by Sheriff John Stone on Mar 3, 2024 11:30:01 GMT
MARCH 3 Alan's composition "California Saga: California" released in the UK in 1973. It will peak at #37
With thanks to Mr French-Pounce: The single version is superior to the album version. Much more going on. The record, the 45 shows the time at 3:59 (is that what 3.59 means?) but the video posted clocks in at 3:15. Hmm...
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Post by jk on Mar 3, 2024 14:47:23 GMT
It reminds me of the mix-up in the liner notes of 15 Big Ones, on which Jules Jacob shares clarinet duties with Dennis Dreith on "It's O.K." and "Had To Phone Ya". Curiously, the album credits have them playing clavinets (or maybe sharing one, lol) on "It's O.K." and on both occasions Jacob is misspelt Jacobs. Maybe the credits were originally written out by hand or on a dodgy typewriter and were misread. Still, it's most curious that it got carried over to the CD twofer release (the album's wiki gets it right).
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Post by jk on Mar 4, 2024 11:58:29 GMT
MARCH 4 "I Can Hear Music", a Carl production, enters the UK charts in 1969. It will top out at #10 One of Carl's finest hours in my book, if only for that priceless wail 15 seconds in:
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Post by Sheriff John Stone on Mar 4, 2024 12:18:46 GMT
MARCH 4 "I Can Hear Music", a Carl production, enters the UK charts in 1969. It will top out at #10 One of Carl's finest hours in my book, if only for that priceless wail 15 seconds in: The discrepancy between the Beach Boys' popularity in the U.S. and the U.K. is something that isn't discussed often, but it is amazing. In the U.K., "Do it Again" went to #1 - a #1 song! "I Can Hear Music" went to #10 - a Top Ten hit. And, "Breakaway" went to #6 - another Top Ten hit. Any way you look at it, that's pretty impressive.
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Post by Kapitan on Mar 4, 2024 12:30:34 GMT
One of Carl's finest hours in my book, if only for that priceless wail 15 seconds in: The discrepancy between the Beach Boys' popularity in the U.S. and the U.K. is something that isn't discussed often, but it is amazing. In the U.K., "Do it Again" went to #1 - a #1 song! "I Can Hear Music" went to #10 - a Top Ten hit. And, "Breakaway" went to #6 - another Top Ten hit. Any way you look at it, that's pretty impressive. It isn't just that the music has charted differently, either: it has had consequences for fans, too. It seems the Beach Boys (M&B) have more often brought different kinds of shows to the UK than the US, theater shows sometimes with strings, etc., citing the UK audiences' deeper appreciation for the artistic side. Yet, I'd say it may well be a self-fulfilling prophecy. If you do more state fairs and festivals of fun-and-sun hits in one place and more "serious" music in the other, you're leaning into those stereotypes. (That said, I've never tallied theater tours or plus-strings shows. I could be corrected. But the guys themselves have certainly also mentioned that difference in interviews, too.)
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Post by jk on Mar 5, 2024 22:02:21 GMT
MARCH 5 Brian produces the first single by The Honeys (Ginger, Diane and Marilyn) in 1963 ([released] April 8th)
They seem to have flipped it in Europe, relegating "Shoot The Curl" to the B-side. I definitely recall hearing in the early 1960s a rocked-up version of "Swanee River" featuring female singers, so it must have been this one: I also recall the NME included it in a column of songs devoted to music largely on the Decca, London and Brunswick labels, so Capitol must have been part of that group at the time (indeed, see here).
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Post by Sheriff John Stone on Mar 6, 2024 11:58:46 GMT
MARCH 5 Brian produces the first single by The Honeys (Ginger, Diane and Marilyn) in 1963 ([released] April 8th)
They seem to have flipped it in Europe, relegating "Shoot The Curl" to the B-side. I definitely recall hearing in the early 1960s a rocked-up version of "Swanee River" featuring female singers, so it must have been this one: Brian must've had a thing for "Swanee River", huh? I think I prefer The Honeys' version over The Beach Boys' version.
Obviously, in 1963 Brian had a thing for 15 year-old Marilyn Rovell, too. Many times when discussing The Honeys, it is written/said that Brian was producing his wife/wife's group, but in reality, Marilyn was only his girlfriend for all of those early Honeys' records.
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Post by jk on Mar 9, 2024 20:21:08 GMT
MARCH 9 Wild Honey, a back-to-basics democratic production, peaks at #24 (this and next week) in 1968 A few years back, Dutch TV weatherman Gerrit Hiemstra, who's since moved on, was featured in a newspaper profile that gave his tastes in music as "Motown and The Beach Boys". That makes dedicating a song to him very easy indeed!
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Post by jk on Mar 10, 2024 11:20:04 GMT
MARCH 10 In this very early morning session Don Randi (?) suggests a staccato approach to the break in "God Only Knows" [this day in 1966]
Here, just after 3:10: I've questioned it for some reason but it seems pretty clear it is Don Randi who suggests playing that passage staccato...
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Post by jk on Mar 11, 2024 11:52:26 GMT
MARCH 11 Finally released across the Atlantic, Surfer Girl makes a belated entry in the UK album charts in 1967
And as a way of making amends for largely ignoring "Catch A Wave" in the "Strange World" thread, here is it in glorious mono, Maureen, Alan, David and all: I always thought Hal Blaine played the cymbal swells -- not sure where I got that idea from...
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Post by jk on Mar 12, 2024 12:57:16 GMT
MARCH 12 Live versions of "Surfin' USA" and "Fun, Fun, Fun" videotaped for The Steve Allen Show in 1964
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Post by Sheriff John Stone on Mar 12, 2024 13:32:48 GMT
MARCH 11 Finally released across the Atlantic, Surfer Girl makes a belated entry in the UK album charts in 1967
Any idea what caused the Surfer Girl album to all of a sudden spike on the UK album charts? The popularity of "Good Vibrations"?
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