Chasin the Sky...?

[♩♬🐸 Billy C ♯♫♩🐇]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=99lI61rZD_s&feature=related

Any info on this song ,well, besides that it was written by Randy Bishop and was off a soundtrack, of course! I kinda like it...  The guitar sounds much better than anything on 85, and I like the synth parts around 2:47-2:53. Was Brian on this? I think I hear him...

[Andrew G. Doe]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=99lI61rZD_s&feature=related

Any info on this song ,well, besides that it was written by Randy Bishop and was off a soundtrack, of course! I kinda like it...  The guitar sounds much better than anything on 85, and I like the synth parts around 2:47-2:53. Was Brian on this? I think I hear him...

Vocals recorded early 1984 at Caribou, the first session post Dennis. Reportedly all the band are correct and present.

[Beach Boy]

Carl's voice is incredible on that one!

[Dancing Bear]

Great vocals, adequate production, boring song.

[Aegir]

Great vocals, adequate production, boring song.

I agree completely. Carl's voice right before the fadeout is amazing.

[♩♬🐸 Billy C ♯♫♩🐇]

Who was the producer? Man, I would've loved an album full of songs that sounded like this.

[Andrew G. Doe]

Spencer Proffer

[dogear]

who also produced Peter Noone's album "One Of The Glory Boys" for Bruce's shortlived Johnston label in 1982, but with far worse results.

[♩♬🐸 Billy C ♯♫♩🐇]

http://morlingmanor.com/biography.html

Interestingly, he produced Tina Turner in 1975...

[Mr. Wilson]

I think he was a drummer also.. canadian..??...Mason Profit..??

[Eric Aniversario]

Does anyone else get a Christmas vibe when listening to this song?

[MBE]

The Tina Turner LP Acid Queen was half Ike and Tina and that half was produced by Ike. That had the RnB sound I love them for, the Proffer stuf was much more pop. Kind of like a cross between the Ike and Tina and the 80's Tina Turner stuff. This was their second to last LP together

[Awesoman]

Does anyone else get a Christmas vibe when listening to this song?

Nope.

[Eric Aniversario]

Does anyone else get a Christmas vibe when listening to this song?

Nope.

[c-man]

Does anyone else get a Christmas vibe when listening to this song?

Nope.

Eric...did you hear it for the first time one Christmas season?  That might explain it...happens to me all the time.  I associate songs or albums with the time of year I originally heard them, rather than when they were released or what the subject matter is. 

[Aegir]

That makes alot of sense - Pet Sounds is the only Beach Boys album that reminds me of the beach, because I used to listen to it all the time at my beach house at night, looking out the window into the ocean.

[Eric Aniversario]

Does anyone else get a Christmas vibe when listening to this song?

Nope.

Eric...did you hear it for the first time one Christmas season?  That might explain it...happens to me all the time.  I associate songs or albums with the time of year I originally heard them, rather than when they were released or what the subject matter is. 

I'm not sure when I heard it first, but I think it's the bell-like sounds during the intro and the choruses.  I don't think they're really bells, but they sound like bells when I'm listening casually.

[donutbandit]

By the way, Ike Turner died yesterday. Don't know if anyone knew that.

http://www.tmz.com/2007/12/12/ike-turner-has-died/

Chasin' The Sky does absolutely nothing for me. Nothing.

[MBE]

Not to derail the topic but it's odd that I posted about Ike so soon before he died. Regardless of his personal life he was a brilliant musician who really helped define where Rock and Blues were going in the 50s and 60s.

[Eric Aniversario]

Not to derail the topic but it's odd that I posted about Ike so soon before he died. Regardless of his personal life he was a brilliant musician who really helped define where Rock and Blues were going in the 50s and 60s.

I had no idea that he lived in the same town in San Diego that I do...and this is not a very big town.

[MBE]

DId he really? I almost got to see him in St Louis at a homecoming concert he played in September but travel plans got in the way. I remember he got a five star review in the Chicago Sun Times for playing Bluesfesrt in 2002. I didn't know he was going to be there and missed him then too. I just hope I get to see Jerry Lee Lewis in time. He's the only Sun Records guy left I think.

[Custom Machine]

I absolutely love Chasin the Sky - especially the extended vocals on the fade and the great lead vocal by Carl. 

My favorite Spencer Proffer production is Danny Spanos' Hot Cheri.  Randy Bishop was one of 6 writers of that song, released a year before Chasin the Sky.  From the moment I first heard Hot Cheri (you can hear it by going to Danny Spanos' My Space page) I thought it would be a great Beach Boys song, with Carl on lead vocals and a much extended fade of Beach Boys harmony vocals, (similar in length to those done on Chasin the Sky a year later).