Jasper Dailey - who was he?

[Camus]

I can't find anything on the net about Jasper Dailey.  Who was he?

[JohnMill]

Well if you have TSS boxset there is actually a very nice biography on him in the booklet.  According to the bio he was basically a photographer who specialized in taking candid photographs and was allowed access inside of the recording studio.  Brian was friends with Jasper and ended up writing and producing three songs for him one of which was "Teeter Totter Love"

[Camus]

Thanks. 

I only have the single CD release of SMiLE, my boxset hasn't arrived yet.  I'm keen to hear the uh, uniqueness of his voice first hand when my boxset finally gets here.

[tygerbug]

It's ..... um ... well, it sure is a track that appears on the TSS boxset, that's for sure.

[37!ws]

Sure sounds different from his "Stella By Starlight" vocal, though!

[LeeDempsey]

Sure sounds different from his "Stella By Starlight" vocal, though!

After I reported it to be Jasper in ESQ wayyyyy back in the '90s (based on incorrect second-hand information), it was subsequently determined that the vocalist on "Stella" and "How Deep is the Ocean" isn't Jasper, but is the orchestral arranger Dick Reynolds, who had arranged the tracks on that session (as he did with side 2 of the Beach Boys' Christmas Album, and many Four Freshmen LPs).

Lee

[Steve Mayo]

yeah..that got me also...i received a tape in the late '80's and was told they were the japer sessions. came fom someone "high up" the insider chain so i believed it also.

[pobbard]

yeah..that got me also...i received a tape in the late '80's and was told they were the japer sessions. came fom someone "high up" the insider chain so i believed it also.

I'm not alone in saying that I kind of dig "Teeter Totter Love". I guess I should track down the other tracks, even if they don't boast Mr. Dailey's vocals.

[guitarfool2002]

Is it accurate that Brian was in the process of learning more about the ins-and-outs of arranging and orchestration from Dick Reynolds, around the time of the Christmas album and these two recordings of standards? I may be wrong, but I seem to remember reading somewhere that the two songs which Reynolds sang were like "exercises" for Brian to work on his orchestration skills. If that is the case, was it Brian's decision or was it coming from Capitol?

Again, I may be totally wrong but I figured this would be the thread to ask.

[Cam Mott]

http://www.angelfire.com/mn/smileshop/historyjasper.html