SMiLE Sessions that were not on the 2011 boxset?
Dan Lega:
We do have the one Jasper Dailey song, "Teeter Totter Love," on the big SMiLE Sessions box set.
Ian:
Right….as far as I know the rest are missing.
WillJC:
Sessions didn't happen on 8/24, 9/12, 11/8, 11/11, 2/2, or 2/16. Those are all mistakes. Some of this is kinda confusing the way the gang worked, though... A lot of the above dates represent overdub work on existing tapes and can't be viewed as isolated recordings in a vacuum. Like, for example, nothing of Heroes and Villains from February '67 is gone (unless vocal parts were replaced later) - the dates just represent continuing work on things we've already heard, such as the four chants being recorded across several days on a reel only dated 2/20. I'll answer the other questions as best I can.
1) The 8-track master for Good Vibrations with the vocals is missing. But if something's in a mono mix, we've also heard what they did, so the result of that day's work isn't missing.
2) A November 8 date for Surf's Up came from a mistake in Capitol's files.
3) All of that vegetable chanting stuff comes from the November 4 "Psychodelic Sounds" reel. The promo skit with Hal Blaine was definitely November 16.
4) The session on December 15 involved vocals for Cabin Essence and Wonderful, Brian's piano/vocal version of Surf's Up, and You're Welcome, in that order. Nothing was cancelled. "Ball and Mitt" was noted on the tracksheet where the guys chucked around a baseball in the studio for a few minutes in the middle of doing You're Welcome.
5) Basically what I said at the top. The session on Feb 15 did run over midnight into Feb 16, but that happens a lot and cataloguing gets complicated when you start trying to acknowledge those as date changes. The "Piano Bit" version of Bicycle Rider was recorded after Prelude to Fade before heading home.
6) Child vocals were recorded Oct 12 and/or 13, Dec 2, and Dec 6, according to Capitol's files. There were three completely different vocal arrangements of the chorus recorded, each one wiping over the last, and the 8-track master is missing, except for a partial safety copy with only 4 of 8 tracks patched across (in the same boat as Good Vibrations). The "whoa child" piano section in E was most likely recorded April 4.
7) I think the 2/12 and 2/17 dates for Jasper sessions might be questionable, but then again I'm not sure where they came from. All of the Jasper tapes are sadly missing. The only thing currently known to exist is the Teeter Totter Love acetate from Jasper's family that was used on the box.
No Wind Chimes vocals were erased or are missing.
Julia:
Thanks Will!
mike s:
Quote from: WillJC on July 27, 2025, 09:54:23 AM
No Wind Chimes vocals were erased or are missing.
So we'll hopefully finally get to hear that amazing section that Vosse mentioned..?
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