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Post by Sheriff John Stone on Apr 17, 2023 19:59:31 GMT
APRIL 16 Beach Boys Today! enters the UK charts. It will peak at #6
And this is my favourite track from the album (and my favourite cover by the Boys): "I'm So Young". Doo-wop for ever! I like "I'm So Young", but it's not a favorite of mine on the Today! album. I mean, it's a good song, and Brian turned it into a Beach Boys' song, and Brian's vocal is tremendous. I've always been a little surprised that Brian would choose another slower song/cover (they already had one cover in "Do You Wanna Dance") for an album project that already had enough slower ballads.
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Post by jk on Apr 20, 2023 20:05:24 GMT
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20 "Friends", a chart entry this week in 1968, would be used to demonstrate 3/4 time at Berklee College
I'm endlessly fascinated by the way the final wordless ascending line is repeated in reverse in everything but rhythm. Oddly, it sounds benign on the way up but a little sinister on the way down, as in "We've been friends now for so many years if you know what's good for you." That final distorted guitar chord sounds almost like a threat!
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Post by jk on Apr 22, 2023 17:05:29 GMT
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22 Glen Travis Campbell, session musician and Brian's first onstage replacement, born 1936 in Delight, Arkansas
Remembering Glen Campbell on his day of birth: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wichita_Lineman
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Post by Sheriff John Stone on Apr 23, 2023 11:58:14 GMT
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22 Glen Travis Campbell, session musician and Brian's first onstage replacement, born 1936 in Delight, Arkansas
I like to put on Glen Campbell's greatest hits or one of his live CDs and really enjoy his singing and playing. The songwriting wasn't too bad either! I noticed that Al De Lory (oddly spelled differently - and incorrectly - at the bottom of the 45) was the producer on Glen's early hit records. Al De Lory was, of course, a member of The Wrecking Crew, playing keyboards on many Phil Spector and Beach Boys' recordings.
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Post by jk on May 2, 2023 9:32:03 GMT
MAY 2 Tony Asher, Brian's lyricist on most of the songs on Pet Sounds, born 1939 in London, UK
Happy 84th birthday, Mr Asher.
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Post by Sheriff John Stone on May 2, 2023 11:05:57 GMT
MAY 2 Tony Asher, Brian's lyricist on most of the songs on Pet Sounds, born 1939 in London, UK
Happy 84th birthday, Mr Asher. After collaborating on arguably the greatest album of all-time, it's hard to believe (well, I guess not really...it's Brian Wilson) that Tony and Brian never did another one in the ensuing 57 years. Hard to top I guess...
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Post by Kapitan on May 2, 2023 11:48:20 GMT
After collaborating on arguably the greatest album of all-time, it's hard to believe (well, I guess not really...it's Brian Wilson) that Tony and Brian never did another one in the ensuing 57 years. Hard to top I guess... Not another album, no, but in the '90s, at least two more songs: "Everything I Need" and "This Isn't Love."
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Post by jk on May 3, 2023 11:44:02 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 you go...
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Post by jk on May 7, 2023 12:45:06 GMT
MAY 7 "Sloop John B" reaches the number 3 spot
I felt I had to post this stunning recreation of the guitar and bass parts:
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Post by Sheriff John Stone on May 9, 2023 23:01:44 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 you go... I'm surprised this one didn't surface during Brian's solo career. It would with Al.
I do like the title - "The Song Of The Gold Diggers". It could have a double meaning.
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Post by Sheriff John Stone on May 9, 2023 23:04:21 GMT
MAY 7 "Sloop John B" reaches the number 3 spot
Not many better records in The Beach Boys' vast catalogue.
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Post by Kapitan on May 10, 2023 12:03:57 GMT
It's a day late and not on the calendar, but if this website is to be believed, yesterday marked the 25th anniversary of Brian Wilson's first solo show. The 6-song setlist was to promote Imagination, and took place at the Cultural Arts Center in St. Charles, Illinois.
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Post by jk on May 11, 2023 11:02:12 GMT
MAY 11 "I Get Around" released in the US in 1964 backed with one of the greatest B-sides ever, "Don't Worry, Baby" This must surely vie with "Penny Lane" b/w "Strawberry Fields Forever" as the last word in double-siders. I still recall my first hearing of "IGA" in '64 -- much like "Please Please Me" a year earlier, it did things no one else had done before! In hindsight, the start does make you feel it was originally preceded by something. Eternal thanks to Mike for convincing Brian to ditch the projected slow introduction and dive straight in!
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Post by Kapitan on May 11, 2023 11:28:10 GMT
MAY 11 "I Get Around" released in the US in 1964 backed with one of the greatest B-sides ever, "Don't Worry, Baby" This must surely vie with "Penny Lane" b/w "Strawberry Fields Forever" as the last word in double-siders. I still recall my first hearing of "IGA" in '64 -- much like "Please Please Me" a year earlier, it did things no one else had done before! In hindsight, the start does make you feel it was originally preceded by something. Eternal thanks to Mike for convincing Brian to ditch the projected slow introduction and dive straight in! Agreed, a great decision. And illustrative of how small arrangement choices can make a big difference. Sometimes, the song is the song: you've got the verses, the chorus, it's fine, and belaboring every little option is a tedious and pretentious waste of time. (Hence an approach like Bob Dylan's, where you assemble the musicians and just go.) But sometimes, those little choices change the level of the song. This is one of those. And sure enough, this is one of the more amazing double-sided singles ever.
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Post by jk on May 21, 2023 9:10:57 GMT
MAY 21 In 1965 the Boys feature on the cover of Time magazine along with The Supremes and other acts
To name them all: The Shindig Dancers, The Beach Boys, Petula Clark, Trini Lopez, Herman of Herman's Hermits, The Righteous Brothers and The Supremes.
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