Vega-Tables and Wonderful

[Amazing Larry]

Would the key be a deal breaker? Wasn't it labeled as "Wonderful (insert)"?

I think you're thinking of something else, I think.

That's the "mama mama mama" bit, right?

[Cam Mott]

Would the key be a deal breaker? Wasn't it labeled as "Wonderful (insert)"?

I think you're thinking of something else, I think.

You two are right. I didn't remember that correctly at all.

So it seems Brian had a "final" SMiLE version of Wonderful including RWMH and a tag.

Those quotation marks don't mean Brian said the word "final", I mean it as "quote fingers" or whatever.

[Micha]

What do you mean with " "final" "? I mean, there was one more version begun before the recording of Smiley Smile commenced, after the RWMH version, during the Vega-Tables sessions in April 1967, and again it didn't get finished.

[Mr. Cohen]

I'll chime in late and say nice job, Micha. Sounds like something Brian very well could've tried. A few more overdubs on the middle 8 and I see it working perfectly as a trippy interlude.

[Micha]

I'll chime in late and say nice job, Micha. Sounds like something Brian very well could've tried. A few more overdubs on the middle 8 and I see it working perfectly as a trippy interlude.

Thank you very much and a happy new year!

[Julia]

I agree that was a great edit, Micha.

I would love to hear (or probably try to make) a version with the Heroes piano but without the Swedish Frog vocalizations--or mix them lower and include the Cantina verse lyrics (I forget if those are isolated on the box). Do all that and Wonderful could even become a full blown segment of Heroes.

I think the original Wonderful needs something too--it begins and ends way to abruptly and as others said it's too one-note, too "perfect." It needs a "part 2" like Surfs Up has a part 2 where the melody and instrumentation changes. Or a middle 8. I think originally this was going to be He Gives Speeches since they sound so similar and lyrically they work as a boy and girl (different kids, different sides of a relationship?), then it was maybe going to be Look as happens in BWPS, then it was going to be A Wonderful Insert ("mamamamama..." with that Hawaiian twang sound) then maybe the "pork chop chi-iii-father of the man" vocalizations during the Veggie sessions at the end of SMiLE.