How's About A Little Bit Of Info On This Song?

[Disney Boy (1985)]

Just heard this for the first time today - catchy!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ciWtDeGv2WU

What's the history behind it anyone?

[Mendota Heights]

Title: How's About A Little Bit Of Your Sweet Lovin'
Written by: B. Wilson - Love - Rovell - Altbach
Recording dates: 11/15 & 12/4/77, 11/29/79
Lead singer: M. Love
Artist: Celebration

[The Shift]

I first heard it on the Celebration album back in the 70s. That was Mike's side project which featured various BBs and BBs sidesmen. I'm under the impression that the BBs played it live quite a bit at the time.

A comment below the vid spells it out: ":"MIU" outtake that was finsihed up for Celebration's 2nd album. Thanks for uploading this version."

 

[Disney Boy (1985)]

Title: How's About A Little Bit Of Your Sweet Lovin'
Written by: B. Wilson - Love - Rovell - Altbach
Recording dates: 11/15 & 12/4/77, 11/29/79
Lead singer: M. Love

Yes, I meant more: was it ever intended for an album? If so, which one? If not, was it just a bit of studio fun?

[Mendota Heights]

Released on Celebration's Celebration album released February 21st, 1979.

I have the vinyl at home.

[Disney Boy (1985)]

Released on Celebration's Celebration album released February 21st, 1979.

I have the vinyl at home.

That then is something I've got to look into obtaining sharpish!

[Jay]

While we're on the subject of wanting information on unreleased stuff, I just heard a song a few months ago that really knocked me out. I believe it's called Go And Get That Girl.  I'd heard of the song before, but only heard the actual song just recently. I've seen it listed on some boots of the unreleased Christmas album from the 1970's. It doesn't seem to have ANYTHING to do with Christmas though.  Any info on it would be much appreciated.

[Mike's Beard]

Typical MIU cheese, would have fit nicely on the album.

[Mendota Heights]

While we're on the subject of wanting information on unreleased stuff, I just heard a song a few months ago that really knocked me out. I believe it's called Go And Get That Girl.  I'd heard of the song before, but only heard the actual song just recently. I've seen it listed on some boots of the unreleased Christmas album from the 1970's. It doesn't seem to have ANYTHING to do with Christmas though.  Any info on it would be much appreciated.

Go and get that girl is also on the Celebration album.

[Nicko1234]

While we're on the subject of wanting information on unreleased stuff, I just heard a song a few months ago that really knocked me out. I believe it's called Go And Get That Girl.  I'd heard of the song before, but only heard the actual song just recently. I've seen it listed on some boots of the unreleased Christmas album from the 1970's. It doesn't seem to have ANYTHING to do with Christmas though.  Any info on it would be much appreciated.

This was on the Celebration album also and was sung by Dave Robinson if I recall correctly. It wasn`t written by any of The Beach Boys.

The version recorded by the group had Carl on lead vocals and the lyrics were given a minor rewrite with the Christmas references being crowbarred in.

[Disney Boy (1985)]

While we're on the subject of wanting information on unreleased stuff, I just heard a song a few months ago that really knocked me out. I believe it's called Go And Get That Girl.  I'd heard of the song before, but only heard the actual song just recently. I've seen it listed on some boots of the unreleased Christmas album from the 1970's. It doesn't seem to have ANYTHING to do with Christmas though.  Any info on it would be much appreciated.

There's a very brief mention of Xmas shoehorned in near the start of the song (''Her love will make you feel like Xmas day''). It's way better than almost anything else from the Christmas sessions, but yet it was left off the 'Ultimate Christmas' CD. I can only assume because of it's not very Christmas-y, although Christmas Day - another superior track from the sessions - was left in the vaults also so who knows?

[Smilin Ed H]

While we're on the subject of wanting information on unreleased stuff, I just heard a song a few months ago that really knocked me out. I believe it's called Go And Get That Girl.  I'd heard of the song before, but only heard the actual song just recently. I've seen it listed on some boots of the unreleased Christmas album from the 1970's. It doesn't seem to have ANYTHING to do with Christmas though.  Any info on it would be much appreciated.

There's a very brief mention of Xmas shoehorned in near the start of the song (''Her love will make you feel like Xmas day''). It's way better than almost anything else from the Christmas sessions, but yet it was left off the 'Ultimate Christmas' CD. I can only assume because of it's not very Christmas-y, although Christmas Day - another superior track from the sessions - was left in the vaults also so who knows?

It's also better than most of what's on MIU.

[oldsurferdude]

How's about this song being a big pile of 100% pure embarrassment?

[EgoHanger1966]

What's so embarrassing about it? It's a normal, catchy pop song with simple lyrics. The board's precious "Love You" has subject matter far more silly and embarrassing than here.

[SMiLE Brian]

To be fair, OSD doesn't like Love You much either.

[Andrew G. Doe]

From the Bellagio 10452 site:

California Feeling
projected release date ? summer 1978
Recorded November  & December1977 except *  fall 1976
Produced by Alan Jardine & Ron Altbach except *, Brian Wilson
Executive producer: Brian Wilson
Match Point Of Our Love - Pitter Patter - Sweet Sunday Kinda Love - Belles Of Paris - My Diane*: She's Got Rhythm - Our Team - Hey Little Tomboy* - Kona Coast - Won'tcha Come Out Tonight - How's About A Little Bit Of Your Sweet Lovin'
 
Merry Christmas From The Beach Boys
projected release date November/December 1978
Recorded November & December 1977 except * August-September 1970, ** 1970 (basic track),
§ 1974 (basic track), # November 1974, + January-May 1976, ++ January-May 1976 (basic track),
‡ fall 1976 (basic track), ^ November 1977
Produced by Alan Jardine & Ron Altbach except * Terry Jacks, **, §, +, ++ and ‡  , Brian Wilson, ^ Dennis Wilson
Christmastime Is Here Again++ - Child Of Winter# - Winter Symphony§ - Michael Row The Boat Ashore+ - Seasons In The Sun*: Morning Christmas^ - Christmas Day  - Go And Get That Girl - Santa's On His Way**- I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa‡ - Xmas Carol Medley  
 
  In April 1977, The Beach Boys signed an $8 million deal with Caribou Records. Unbeknownst to them, they still owed Reprise one more album and, when this inconvenient fact was pointed out, sought to redress the problem by decamping to the Maharishi International University in Fairfield, Iowa and recording a new album… or rather, Mike & Alan did. Brian went along for the ride, Carl paid a fleeting visit and Dennis never left Los Angeles.
 
  Now, for the longest time, it was accepted that the band recorded the seasonal set first and when that was (rightly) rejected, they reworked some of the tracks into another album, California Feeling (which evolved into M.I.U. Album), but research into the sessions held at MIU reveals that songs from both albums were recorded in tandem, often at the same session, and that the California Feeling album was assembled at the end of 1997 back in Los Angeles. Confusing, to say the least.
 
Whatever, as was now the custom, the album(s) comprised new recordings bolstered by tracks from the vaults: California Feeling recycled "My Diane" and "Hey Little Tomboy" from the New Album project and "Bells Of Christmas" and "Melekalikimaka" became "Belles of Paris" and "Kona Coast", while for Merry Christmas..., "Seasons In The Sun" and "H.E.L.P Is On The Way" from 1970 were pressed into service (the latter reworked as "Santa's On His Way"), as were the 15 Big Ones outtakes "Michael Rowed The Boat Ashore" and "Peggy Sue", transformed via a new lyric into "Christmastime Is Here Again" while "I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa" used a 1976 track known as "Hey There Moma". The ultra-rare 1974 45 A side "Child Of Winter" underwent an insipid remix, and an instrumental track from the same year became "Winter Symphony". The new material was in general uninspired, with the shining exception of Dennis' shimmering "Morning Christmas", far and away the best track on the album - and not even recorded at MIU !  The 1998 release Ultimate Christmas, a compilation of the 1963 album and the 1977 sessions, included "Christmastime Is Here Again", the original 45 mix of "Child Of Winter", "Winter Symphony",  "Morning Christmas", "I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa" and album outtakes "Bells Of Christmas", "Melekalikimaka" (aka "Kona Christmas") and "Santa's Got An Airplane", otherwise 1969's "Loop De Loop" with a seasonal lyric. "Go And Get That Girl" turned up, re-recorded, on the eponymous second album by Celebration. California Feeling, curiously titled for a song Brian insisted not be included, was slated for a summer release, eventually coming out in the fall as M.I.U. Album (after a brief existence as Winds Of Change) with "Our Team" and "How's About…" replaced by a completely new recording of "Come Go With Me" and the 15 Big Ones outtake "Peggy Sue.  "Our Team" was eventually released on the 1993 box set, while "How's About…" turned up on Celebration in a form so similar to the Beach Boys version that one wonders…
Possibility of release: the brighter moments of Merry Christmas... have been: California Feeling can easily be reconstructed by anyone with a CD burner and the right bootlegs.

[Jim V.]

So..."How's About A Little Bit" was recorded in 1977 during the M.I.U. sessions and what ended up on the Celebration album is close to what The Beach Boys recorded, according to AGD. But the Beach Boys version I've heard was a bit faster than the Celebration version. Doesn't really sound like the same recording(s) to me. Was that version from the Keepin' The Summer Alive sessions? Or is the KTSA version just a reworking of the M.I.U. version?

[smile-holland]

Now, for the longest time, it was accepted that the band recorded the seasonal set first and when that was (rightly) rejected, they reworked some of the tracks into another album, California Feeling (which evolved into M.I.U. Album), but research into the sessions held at MIU reveals that songs from both albums were recorded in tandem, often at the same session, and that the California Feeling album was assembled at the end of 1997 back in Los Angeles. Confusing, to say the least.
 

that would be a typo, right?

[Andrew G. Doe]

No. They had a TARDIS.

[Jim V.]

So the video for this one, is this indeed the M.I.U. era version or is it the KTSA version? Because as I said earlier, the version on Celebration's album doesn't really sound like this one, but supposedly that one might basically be what The Beach Boys recorded (according to the Bellagio website). So my guess it KTSA era. However, I'm sure somebody like Andrew Doe would know better?