Solo Brian Wilson: dipping into archives
Toby:
Quote from: Luther on January 08, 2006, 06:03:39 PM
Keep it up, all. So is "A Friend Like You" the only really new track on GIOMH? What about the others?
Basically, yes... the title track was originally done for Imagination.
punkinhead:
BW 88-
melt away- i could sware that it was from early 86-87.
there's so many i thought was from 79.
Imagination-
Where has love been?- from the Paley era?
Peter Reum:
Good melodies are timeless. Lyrical ideas may or may not be. There are a number of composers who write meoldies and them stash them away for another time.
The fact that Brian's melodies are recycled is not new. He did it with I Do and County Fair for example. Another example would be the conversion of Sharon Marie's tune Thinkin' 'Bout You Baby to Darlin' then back to its old lyrics on the Spring album. In essence, he's been doing it forever.
Wirestone:
This is a complex question. I think it's tough to say that Brian ever specifically writes for an album these days -- he goes through prolific periods, which produce songs for albums that span years.
For instance, he composed prolifically in the mid-80s -- that's where Love and Mercy came from, for instance. Also Don't Let Her Know She's an Angel and so on. I actually put together a Web site lisitng all of Brian's solo songs, released and un, so I'm reasonably informaed.
But album for album:
Brian Wilson 88
Love And Mercy (had been written in mid-80s)
Walkin the Line (had already been written and recorded with Gary Usher in the mid-80s)
Little Children (dates from the 70s)
Rio Grande (Night Bloomin Jasmine dates from the early 80s, also uses River Song exerpts)
Imagination
Your Imagination (In its bridge, uses a riff from Wilson/Paley Mary Anne)
She Says that She Needs Me (60s vintage song. This was also cut for the 88 album)
Where Has Love Been (mid-90s Wilson/Paley collab)
Cry (written at least two years before the CD came out; I read about it in Breakaway newslaeter in 95 or 96)
Keep an Eye on Summer
Let Him Run Wild (both BB remakes)
Happy Days (uses "My Solution" from 70-ish)
GIOMH
Sould Searchin (90s Paley)
You've Touched Me (based on 80s Usher collab, but with new bridge sections)
Gettin in Over My Head (90s Paley)
City Blues (early 80s)
Desert Drive (90s Paley)
Make a Wish (Sweet Insanity, early 90s)
Rainbow Eyes (ditto)
Saturday Morning in the City (Smile era tune, demoed up in the 80s, elaborated in mid 90s with Paley)
Fairy Tale (late 80s tune rewritten for SI as "Save the Day)
DLHKSAA (mid 80s)
The Waltz (late 80s collab with Parks, rewritten for SI as "The Waltz")
"How Could We Still Be Dancin" was written post-Imagination and intended for its follow-up, so in a way it was written for GIOMH.
Toby:
"Saturday Morning in the City (Smile era tune, demoed up in the 80s, elaborated in mid 90s with Paley)"
I wouldn't call SMITC a "Smile era tune" - it's just a small fragment of the melody which comes from the Smile "All Day" section.
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